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.
By Staff
Friday, April 19, 2024 7:59 AM
Four years ago in the spring of 2020, doctors and patients coined the term “long COVID” to describe a form of the viral infection from which recovery seemed impossible.
By Staff
Friday, April 19, 2024 6:09 AM
Independent reviewers confirmed a causal relationship between the first mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis, and also determined that, more broadly, intramuscular shots can cause a series of shoulder injuries.
By Staff
Thursday, April 18, 2024 8:02 AM
In this video from
Medscape, Dr. Mark Kris discusses counseling fatigue for COVID-19 vaccination.
By Staff
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 8:02 AM
Premature opioid-related deaths doubled in Canada after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, and more than one in four deaths occurred in young adults, a new study suggested.
By Staff
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 8:02 AM
Four years ago in the spring of 2020, physicians and patients coined the term "long COVID" to describe a form of the viral infection from which recovery seemed impossible. (And the old nickname "long-haulers" seems so quaint now.)
By Staff
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 6:09 AM
In part two of this exclusive video interview,
MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Monica Bertagnolli, MD, the 17th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about the day-to-day work at the NIH on pandemic preparedness, the importance of looking for new approaches to testing and the status of long COVID research.
By Staff
Monday, April 15, 2024 8:02 AM
Primary care physicians who served marginalized communities had the highest proportion of patients who were unvaccinated against COVID-19, Canadian data suggested.
By Staff
Friday, April 12, 2024 6:09 AM
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.-Vt.) announced a $10 billion long COVID moonshot proposal, calling for mandatory funding over the next decade to establish a new long COVID research program at NIH. Click
here to read more about it.
By Staff
Friday, April 12, 2024 6:09 AM
The hunt for a signal of excess sudden cardiac deaths among young people after COVID-19 vaccination left Oregon health officials empty-handed, they reported.
By Staff
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 6:09 AM
In hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was associated with greater use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV), but booster vaccination reduced this risk, a retrospective study found.
By Staff
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 6:09 AM
While planned retirement topped the list of reasons for nurses leaving healthcare, failures by employers also played a role, according to a cross-sectional study that analyzed survey data.
By Staff
Monday, April 8, 2024 8:02 AM
Dhaval Desai, MD, was teaching his 4-year-old to ride a bike after another exhausting shift at the hospital during the summer after the first COVID-19 surge. He was putting on a happy face and forcing out a "Yay!" he did not feel. The pandemic had taken its toll, and he just wanted to lie down and be alone. Realizing that he was "scraping to find joy" was when he knew something was wrong.