MONDAY, Feb. 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — While coronavirus infections in America plunge to levels not seen in months, the country prepares to mark the devastating toll of 500,000 dead so far in the pandemic. The seven-day rolling average is now under 65,000 and the daily death toll is alsoContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Worried or wondering about COVID-19 vaccines? Many Americans are, so experts at Penn State Health are offering some reassuring insight. “People are approaching this vaccine with more hesitation because it was approved quickly, but that really just speaks to how far we haveContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The drug cabozantinib is more effective than two similar drugs, as well as the current standard treatment, in extending the lives of patients with a rare and deadly type of kidney cancer, according to a new study. The cancer is called metastatic papillaryContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There was a double dose of good news Friday from COVID vaccine maker Pfizer: The company said just one dose may provide 85% protection against SARS-CoV-2, and vials of the vaccine might not require ultra-cold storage after all. The latter finding could beContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Only a tiny fraction of the nearly 14 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the first month of vaccinations produced any sort of adverse event, U.S. health officials report. There were 6,994 reports of adverse events following a shot of the COVID vaccineContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Scientists may have uncovered the reason critical medications for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder cause weight gain and diabetes — findings they hope will lead to better drugs. The medications, known as antipsychotics, help control the hallucinations, delusions and confused thoughts that plague peopleContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — After a week of brutal winter storms that stalled the country’s coronavirus vaccination rollout, U.S. health officials said Thursday that vaccination efforts will have to ramp up rapidly as soon as the bad weather ends. “We’re going to just have to make upContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The greatest threat from COVID-19 has been for Black and Hispanic Americans, who are three times more likely to be hospitalized and about twice as likely to die from an infection with the novel coronavirus, compared with white people. Now, street-level community groupsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Children have largely been spared severe COVID-19 infection, and new research hints at why. In the study, children’s immune systems attacked the new coronavirus faster and more aggressively than adults’ immune systems did, the findings showed. The researchers analyzed blood samples from 48Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) — You finally managed to score an appointment to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus and you’re a little nervous about side effects, so taking a painkiller right before you get your shot seems like a smart idea. Not so fast, says the U.S.Continue Reading