A survey given to Americans in December of 2021 shows whether or not recipients had been infected with COVID-19 before or after vaccination against the virus greatly influenced their opinion of the vaccines. The study is…
A firefighting helicopter crashed in California’s Riverside County while battling a brush fire in the region, the media reported on Monday. According to the Los Angeles-based KABC-TV station, the accident occurred late Sunday night while…
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a significant increase in antibiotic use in US hospitals early in the COVID-19 pandemic, with smaller upticks observed during subsequent COVID-19 surges. The…
New Delhi: With no noticeable symptoms, making it hard to detect until complications arise, blood pressure (BP) is a silent killer increasingly affecting Indians, both young and old, said doctors here. The World Health Organisation…
Two new studies detail COVID-19 transmission in schools, with one finding a low secondary attack rate during two periods in Massachusetts school districts and another tying nearly half of student and staff infections to school contacts in Italy.…
Mahesh Hiranandani In my 30 years of clinical practice, I have witnessed India, a nation struggling with poverty and malnutrition, record the second-highest number of obese children in the world at 1.8 crore in 2020.…
A case report published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report highlights the role of the hospital water environment in the transmission of highly resistant, difficult-to-treat pathogens. The report by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Today, a Brown University–led team reports in JAMA Network Open that older people are at lower risk of adverse events after receipt of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine than the Pfizer/BioNTech version but emphasizes that the overall risk is very…
A new device created by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis can detect SARS-CoV-2 in just one or two breaths and provide results in less than 1 minute. Study results are published in ACS Sensors. The test…
While Pfizer has identified 65 injectable drugs that may be in short supply following extensive tornado damage at its Rocky Mount, North Carolina, plant on July 19, experts say most are available from other suppliers.…
