MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Swabs that come with at-home rapid antigen COVID-19 tests should be used in the nose and not the throat, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns. It issued the warning on Twitter in response to reports that some people are using swabs intendedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Vaccination is still the best way to protect someone from COVID-19, but new research suggests that immune system activation of T-cells by common colds may offer some cross-protection. The study might also provide a blueprint for a second-generation, universal vaccine that could preventContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The surge of the Omicron variant across the United States has left people scrambling to find at-home COVID-19 test kits. “Tests are in short supply, there’s no doubt about it, because of the sheer volume of people wanting and needing to get tests,”Continue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — As the Omicron variant blankets America and demand for COVID-19 tests climbs, so, too, does price gouging. High prices for over-the-counter antigen tests are being seen around the country, CBS News reported. “The danger in health care is that for any lifesaving productContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A review of cases from 465 U.S. hospitals underscores the protection provided by COVID-19 vaccines. The new review — by researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health — found that vaccinated adults who got breakthrough infections rarely got severely ill. Respiratory failure,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It is the ultimate irony: More COVID-19 treatments exist now than at any other time during the pandemic, but the skyrocketing number of cases from the surging Omicron variant might mean you can’t get them when you need them most. Doctors and healthContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Citing the rapid spread of the Omicron variant and the need for protection against it, U.S. federal health officials are shortening the recommended time between the second dose of the Moderna vaccine and a booster shot from six months down to five. “TheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The final touches are being put on the White House’s plan to deliver 500 million free coronavirus rapid at-home test kits to households across America. The administration will launch a website where people can request the rapid tests, said four people familiar withContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Three people died recently in the United States recently from rabies linked to bats, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. They bring the total number of U.S. rabies cases in 2021 to five. That’s a sharp rise over priorContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue — two widely used rapid at-home COVID tests — may sometimes fail to spot evidence of the Omicron variant in the first days after infection, even when people are carrying substantial levels of the virus, preliminary researchContinue Reading