Nov 24, 2020

Use Our Content It can be republished for free. When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the country was in the midst of a dire economic crisis. Twelve years later, his...

Nov 24, 2020

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Office-based visits for behavioral and psychiatric conditions decreased in association with the COVID-19 pandemic, although increases in telemedicine visits o...

Nov 24, 2020

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Higher doses of blood thinners are potentially harmful and have no clear benefits for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a study published online No...

Nov 24, 2020

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Emergency use authorization was issued for baricitinib in combination with remdesivir for hospitalized patients with COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administ...

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Due to disproportionate representation, Black and Hispanic patients bear much of the burden of mortality and morbidity related to COVID-19, according to a stu...

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- On Monday, AstraZeneca announced that late-stage clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine showed it to be 70.4 percent effective, The New York Times reported. ...

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The use of remdesivir currently is not recommended for hospitalized COVID-19 patients because of the lack of evidence for improvement in mortality, need for m...

Nov 24, 2020

MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of two monoclonal antibodies was granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Dru...

Nov 24, 2020

Study suggests delirium may be present without other typical Covid-19 symptoms Delirium is common among elderly patients presenting to Emergency Departments, but it may also be a presenting symptom o...

Nov 24, 2020

Moderna is expected to follow shortly with its EUA submission As expected, Pfizer, Inc., along with partner BioNTech SE, said they were submitting to the FDA for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA...

Nov 24, 2020

Casirivimab/imdevimab authorized for ’mild to moderate’ Covid-19 Casirivimab and imdevimab, a monoclonal antibody combo developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for treatment of mild to moder...

Nov 24, 2020

No live virus detected beyond 9 days in symptomatic patients SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding lasted as long as 83 days in samples from the respiratory tract and 126 days in stool samples in a systematic re...

Nov 24, 2020

Lower dose appears more effective than higher dose in preventing infection, but the ’why’ is unclear Another horse has entered the race — AstraZeneca announced that its Covid-19 vaccine candida...

Nov 23, 2020

Not long after the world learned that President Donald Trump had lost his reelection bid, states began issuing a new round of crackdowns and emergency declarations against the surging coronavirus. Tak...

Nov 23, 2020

The holidays are approaching just as COVID-19 case rates nationwide are increasing at a record-breaking pace, leading to dire warnings from public health experts. The Centers for Disease Control and P...

Nov 23, 2020

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. President-elect Joe Biden is still being blocked from launching his official transition while President ...

Nov 22, 2020

As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I often get questions from friends, colleagues and people I don’t even know about how to...

Nov 22, 2020

The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making...

Nov 20, 2020

The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around the impact of a Biden administration on healthcare in the US. Below are the highlights from the chat. You can read the full transcript ...

Nov 20, 2020

THURSDAY, Nov. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The United States crossed a grim threshold on Wednesday: More than 250,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19. With coronavirus cases on the rise in a...