By Staff
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 8:02 AM
There is no association between the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and the risk for new-onset seizure, data from a new meta-analysis of six randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials (RCTs) showed.
By Staff
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 6:09 AM
Thousands of Americans believe they suffered legitimate injuries from COVID vaccines but say they've been ignored and dismissed. Click
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By Staff
Monday, May 6, 2024 6:09 AM
The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like covid-19, influenza, and measles.
By Staff
Friday, May 3, 2024 6:09 AM
SARS-CoV-2 viral loads were sharply decreased with metformin, according to a placebo-controlled trial. Click
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By Staff
Friday, May 3, 2024 6:02 AM
BERLIN—To date, mRNA vaccines have had their largest global presence in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Intensive research is underway on many other potential applications for this vaccine technology, which suggests a promising future. Martina Prelog, MD, a pediatric and adolescent medicine specialist at the University Hospital of Würzburg in Germany, reported on the principles, research status, and perspectives for these vaccines at the 25th Travel and Health Forum of the Center for Travel Medicine in Berlin.
By Staff
Thursday, May 2, 2024 8:02 AM
In the first half of 2023, COVID-19 killed 42,670 people in the United States, while the flu killed about half that amount. Yet half as many people received the updated COVID booster as those who got the flu shot—even though COVID is twice as deadly as influenza.
By Staff
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 6:09 AM
The incidence of
new-onset seizures was not significantly different between SARS-CoV-2 vaccine recipients and placebo recipients, a meta-analysis of clinical trial data showed, according to
JAMA Neurology.
By Staff
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 6:09 AM
The appearance of virology researcher Peter Daszak, PhD, whose organization worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to study bat coronaviruses, drew the expected tough questions from House Republicans at a hearing Wednesday, but Democrats weren't letting Daszak off the hook either.
By Staff
Friday, April 26, 2024 8:02 AM
A recent study recorded long COVID was more prevalent in men with type 2 diabetes (T2D) than in matched non-T2D control individuals, whereas the opposite was seen for women with T2D. Overall recorded long COVID rates were similar for men and women with T2D. Younger age, female sex, mixed ethnicity and higher body mass index (BMI) were all associated with a greater likelihood of developing long COVID.
By Staff
Friday, April 26, 2024 6:09 AM
Only myocarditis/pericarditis and seizures occurred at higher rates in adolescents and children vaccinated for COVID-19 when compared with historical rates of those outcomes, according to an analysis of safety data from the FDA's Biologics Effectiveness and Safety (BEST) Initiative.
By Staff
Thursday, April 25, 2024 6:09 AM
People with a history of uveitis were more likely to experience recurrences of the potentially dangerous eye inflammation after vaccination against COVID-19, a retrospective population-based cohort study from South Korea found.
By Staff
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 6:09 AM
A recent study has attempted to untangle taste and olfactory dysfunction 1 year after a COVID-19 infection. Taste dysfunction was gone 1 year after exposure to COVID-19, but smell loss remained for some people, a national cross-sectional study showed.
By Staff
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 8:02 AM
The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.
By Staff
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 6:09 AM
Young children who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated modest changes in developmental screening scores, according to a cohort study of more than 50,000 U.S. children.
By Staff
Monday, April 22, 2024 7:59 AM
Turns out it’s not a Sisyphean task—or at least not impossible, like trying to roll a large boulder up a steep hill over and over again. Some people with deep-rooted beliefs on a wide range of health topics—from COVID vaccination to mental health stigma to foods including genetically modified organisms—could be persuaded to rethink their positions.