Jun 28, 2021

FRIDAY, June 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- India, already hit hard by the Delta variant of COVID-19, has labeled a closely related new variant -- dubbed "Delta Plus" -- as a "variant of concern." But s...

Jun 28, 2021

FRIDAY, June 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Unvaccinated people now account for nearly all COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the United States, federal government figures show. An Associated Pr...

Jun 28, 2021

Five months after her husband died of covid-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children. Nicholas, the baby, who was 1 and almost weaned when his father died, now want...

Jun 25, 2021

THURSDAY, June 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The United States is sending 3 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson' COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil, as that country struggles with a surge in cases and i...

Jun 25, 2021

THURSDAY, June 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccinations will soon be mandatory for staff, clients, and anyone else entering Morgan Stanley's offices in New York City and suburban Westchester...

Jun 25, 2021

THURSDAY, June 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Higher mortality among Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is associated with the hospitals at which Black patients receive care, according to a study...

Jun 25, 2021

CDC concludes vaccine benefit still outweighs risks There is a "likely association" between vaccination with mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines and rare cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young...

Jun 25, 2021

Last week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) posted a Twitter thread asserting that people who have survived a covid-19 infection were unlikely to be reinfected and have better immunity against variants than tho...

Jun 24, 2021

AMA tackles spread of vaccine misinformation online as well as outreach to minorities, evangelicals American Medical Association (AMA) Immediate Past President Susan R. Bailey, MD, testified before t...

Jun 24, 2021

Study suggests potential role for membrane proteins in future vaccines, therapeutics New research suggests a role for proteins other than the spike and nucleocapsid proteins in immune response to the...

Jun 23, 2021

TUESDAY, June 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The United States reached two promising pandemic milestones on Monday: COVID-19 deaths dropped below 300 a day and 150 million Americans are now fully vaccin...

Jun 23, 2021

TUESDAY, June 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccine coverage is 80.0 percent among those aged 65 years and older, while 34.0 percent of those aged 18 to 39 years report having received a COVID...

Jun 23, 2021

French study highlights need for family-centered crisis guidelines While upending visiting policies in intensive care units (ICUs) during the Covid-19 pandemic was necessary to prevent uncontrolled v...

Jun 22, 2021

Self-reported symptoms helped predict hospital demand in early days of the pandemic In the early days of a pandemic, reliable testing and surveillance is hard to come by—but in lieu of more acc...

Jun 22, 2021

Lucien Wiggins, 12, arrived at Tufts Children’s Hospital by ambulance June 7 with chest pains, dizziness and high levels of a protein in his blood that indicated inflammation of his heart. The s...

Jun 21, 2021

30-day mortality was significantly improved compared with untreated patients Antibody therapy with Covid-19 convalescent plasma may confer survival benefits to immunocompromised patients with hematol...

Jun 21, 2021

Black patients hospitalized with Covid-19 more likely to die from the virus than White counterparts Black patients hospitalized with Covid-19 were more likely to die or be discharged to hospice than ...

Jun 21, 2021

Dr. Leora Horwitz treats fewer and fewer covid patients at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. Still, she thinks there are too many. And they almost all have something in common....

Jun 18, 2021

THURSDAY, June 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- CureVac's COVID-19 vaccine was only 47 percent effective in a clinical trial, according to preliminary results released Wednesday that suggest the vaccine m...

Jun 18, 2021

THURSDAY, June 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and six other areas will be downgraded when it expires on Sunday as new daily cases continue to decline, the Japan...