The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it has approved the emergency use of updated COVID-19 vaccines that more closely target circulating strains, setting the stage for tomorrow's discussion on recommendations by the Centers for Disease…
Seema Sachdeva The small city of North Bay in northeastern Ontario was in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Nearly 300 international students, who had taken admission in various courses in the September/fall…
The UK health authorities began rolling out their winter vaccine schedule for the most medically vulnerable on Monday, brought forward from a planned early October rollout amid concerns around the new COVID variant BA.2.86. The…
In a technical briefing on SARS-CoV-2 variants today, the UK Health Security Agency (HSA) revealed that, of 34 confirmed involving the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant, 28 were from a single outbreak at a nursing home, an early…
COVID-19 and influenza vaccines can be safety administered together, with no significant drop in antibody response, according to a study led by Sheba Medical Center researchers in Israel. The research, published today in JAMA Network Open, involved healthcare…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday sent a health alert to clinicians, warning that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity is rising in parts of the Southeast, which typically predicts the spread of…
A pair of new studies documents initial drops—and, in some cases, rebounds—in cancer diagnoses in Canada and the United States in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Diagnosis rates varied by cancer type In…
Two more lab groups—one from Sweden's Karolinska Institute and the other from Harvard University—have reported results of antibody neutralization lab experiments, which suggest vaccination or previous infection offer some protection against the highly mutated BA.2.86…
Researchers have published new data in the American Journal of Epidemiology showing that COVID-19 led to shortened life expectancies across the United States and exacerbated existing racial disparities compared to 20 high-income peer countries, a phenomenon the authors called…
Shelley Walia There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but it must be taken because conscience tells him it is right. — Martin Luther…
