Dec 03, 2020

Speeded-up timeline for Pfizer, Moderna vaccines spurs ACIP action The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted overwhelmingly to recommend that health care personnel (HCP)...

Dec 02, 2020

Brandon Hudgins works the main floor at Fleet Feet, a running-shoe store chain, for more than 30 hours a week. He chats with customers, measuring their feet and dashing in and out of the storage area ...

Dec 02, 2020

Cormay Caine misses a full day of work and drives more than 130 miles round trip to take five of her children to their pediatrician. The Sartell, Minnesota, clinic where their doctor used to work clos...

Dec 02, 2020

[protected-iframe id="0819b1891a8ef55f75c3b214fd512fee" height="188" width="100%" /] Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. [khn_slabs slabs="951773"] Tests for the coronavirus are...

Dec 02, 2020

April 16 was a big day for Moderna, a Massachusetts biotech company on the verge of becoming a front-runner in the U.S. government’s race for a coronavirus vaccine. It had received roughly half ...

Dec 02, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with diabetes hospitalized with COVID-19, the risk for intubation is increased more than fivefold for those with diabetic retinopathy, according ...

Dec 02, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients presenting with chilblain-like lesions during the COVID-19 pandemic have histologic and biologic patterns of type I interferonopathy, according to a ...

Dec 02, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The rate of thromboembolism is high in patients with COVID-19 and is associated with increased odds of mortality, according to a review published online Nov. ...

Dec 02, 2020

If approved, first injections could be given before the holidays Moderna, Inc. announced it is requesting an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA for its mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, making mRN...

Dec 01, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For adults with severe COVID-19 pneumonia, no significant differences are seen in clinical status or mortality for those receiving convalescent plasma versus ...

Dec 01, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) occurs more often among Black and Hispanic children than White children, according to a research letter ...

Dec 01, 2020

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge in patients requiring intensive care throughout the United States. “Early in the pandemic, US healthcare systems worked to increase the n...

Nov 30, 2020

No efficacy in Covid-19 pneumonia Convalescent plasma did not show benefit over placebo in the treatment of patients with severe Covid-19, according to the results of a double-blind, placebo-contro...

Nov 30, 2020

Seroprevalence below 10% in most states in late September per CDC As of September, SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence across much of the United States remained below 10%, with the highest seroprevalence of ...

Nov 29, 2020

The notice from the federal health insurance marketplace grabbed Andrew Schenker’s attention: ACT NOW: YOU’RE AT RISK OF LOSING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE STARTING JANUARY 1, 2021. As he read the not...

Nov 29, 2020

A mom of eight boys, Kim Gudgeon was at her wits’ end when she called her family doctor in suburban Chicago to schedule a sick visit for increasingly fussy, 1-year-old Bryce. He had been up at ni...

Nov 29, 2020

[UPDATED at 2:30 p.m. ET] DENVER — In March, Claire Tripeny was watching her dream job fall apart. She’d been working as an intensive care nurse at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, ...

Nov 27, 2020

This time it fails as a prophylaxis Yet another study fails to find a place for hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19, this time as postexposure prophylaxis or preemptive therapy.In a clust...

Nov 26, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can detect COVID-19 on chest X-rays with similar performance to that of a consensus of thoracic radiologists, acc...

Nov 26, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine could start being distributed in the United States "soon after" a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meets on...