FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Top U.S. health officials have reportedly warned the White House to curtail its plans to offer COVID-19 booster shots to Americans later this month. Leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both toldContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A new coronavirus variant called Mu that may be able to evade existing antibodies, including those from vaccines, is under close watch by U.S. health officials. The variant hasn’t taken extensive hold in the United States at this point, but the U.S. NationalContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — An ongoing study of more than 6 million Americans found no serious side effects linked to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. “These results from our safety surveillance are reassuring,” said Dr. Nicola Klein, director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, Calif. SheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Opposition is mounting among U.S. and international health experts against President Joe Biden’s push to make COVID-19 booster shots available later this month. The scientific evidence simply isn’t there to support booster shots, and those doses would be better used in the armsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — As the school year gets underway across the United States, new data shows that coronavirus cases among children are climbing. Since the pandemic began, children have represented 14.8% of total cases, but for the week ending Aug. 26, that percentage jumped to 22.4%,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 care is likely to get more expensive for Americans with the expiration of insurers’ temporary waivers on costs associated with treating the illness. Earlier in the pandemic, patients didn’t have their normal co-payments or deductibles for emergency room visits or hospital staysContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Smaller packages of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine that could be available this fall might improve vaccine access and reduce the number of wasted doses, government documents show. The Pfizer vaccine has been available in two packages, one with 450 doses and another with 1,170,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Just because you didn’t have a significant reaction after your COVID-19 shot doesn’t mean it’s not working, researchers say. “It wasn’t known if a lack of symptoms following vaccination or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection would indicate a less-than-adequate antibody response in people who receivedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a key advisory panel meeting on coronavirus booster shots on Sept. 17, a mere three days before the Biden administration plans to begin offering third shots for Americans. While the public session could add clarityContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Purdue Pharma was dissolved on Wednesday and the Sackler family will pay $4.5 billion under a bankruptcy settlement that will end thousands of lawsuits brought against the company over the United States’ opioid crisis. Purdue was the maker of the highly addictive painkillerContinue Reading