The FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meetings come less than a month after U.S. regulators authorized Covid booster shots of Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine to a wide ar

Community clinics in California say they haven’t been paid for at least 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses given since January, creating a “massive cash flow problem” for some and complicating efforts t

The singer Justin Bieber is promoting pre-rolled cannabis joints that he calls “Peaches”, the name of a song from an album. He is doing so in association with a Los Angeles-based company, Palms Partne

“What we’ve learned over the last year and a half is that the risk and severity of covid is not equally distributed across the population,” said Jordi Merino, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical

A preprint study stated that 1 in 1,000 recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine could get myocarditis. The study has been withdrawn after a miscalculation overestimated the risk of the heart condition. T

Covax, meanwhile, has fallen short of its targets, delivering just 311 million doses to more than 140 countries as of Sept. 27. The effort has been hamstrung by delays in shipments from a key manufact

The postcard covered with images of syringes beckoned people to attend Vax-Con ’21 to learn “the uncensored truth” about COVID-19 vaccines. Participants traveled from around the country to a Wisconsi

ROCHESTER, Minn. (WEAU) - A Mayo Clinic doctor discussed COVID-19 recovery in a media briefing Thursday afternoon. Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn, a Mayo Clinic occupational medicine specialist, talked about

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US had a high rate of pediatric vaccination. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted regularly scheduled healthcare visits, at which children would typically receive at speci

Drugmaker AstraZeneca has asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the use of its long-acting monoclonal antibody drug therapy for the prevention of COVID-19. The treatment, known as AZD74

Persistence of certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection during pregnancy was associated with a greater risk of preterm birth, underscoring the importance of vaccination, according to a

Almost daily microbiologist Peter Jackson receives emails from people who recovered from COVID-19 only to discover that their health troubles have just begun. Recently, a mother of two in her 30s wro

Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask federal regulators this week to authorize a booster shot of its Covid-19 vaccine, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing officials familiar with the company

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"There doesn't appear to be much research on the benefits of these products, although there is some evidence that caffeine may improve sports performance in some cases. These studies are typically don

Different people taking the same drug can have markedly different responses to the same dose. While many people will get the intended effects, some may get little to no benefit, and others may get unw

More than 4 in 10 Americans aren't sure about or aren't planning on getting a flu shot this year, a new survey found, in a worrying trend public health experts say could exacerbate a worse-than-averag

Ukraine has confirmed a case of polio. The country's health ministry said it had been found in an 18-month-old toddler in Rivne Oblast, near the border with Belarus. It said the youngster had been h

Hello, The FDA Intergovernmental Affairs team would like to bring to your attention the following announcement. FDA In Brief: FDA Warns Firms for Continuing to Market E-cigarette Products After Agency

Introduction The prevalence of dry eye disease (DED) has been estimated to be as high as 50% of the population.1 Systematic literature reviews have detailed the substantial economic liability of DED

New study suggests that aquaporin could be key to repairing corneal defects Scientists provide new evidence that aquaporin 5 (AQP5) induction may promote corneal epithelial regeneration by reactivati

The California Newsroom is a collaboration of NPR and 17 public radio stations across the state. Western wildfires pose a much broader threat to human health than to just those forced to evacuate the

© Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp Two years into the pandemic, we’ve gotten a lot better at tackling the coronavirus at the extremes of infection. We have preventives—including masks, distancing, ventilatio

Some COVID-19 patients have been developing symptoms of diabetes after infection. This has scientists asking if COVID-19 could trigger diabetes. Early findings suggest that the coronavirus could be

Autumn Carver, a mom of three, has been hospitalized with COVID-19 since August. The delta variant that caused a surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States this summer is particularly dangerous for

“In this study, the absence of radiolabeled PH94B in the rodent brain is an encouraging sign that PH94B may have limited circulatory systemic exposure when administered intranasally,” stated Mark Smit

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Israelis who suffered serious side effects after the first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine could be granted a “Green Pass” without receiving a third booster shot, a top health official said Tuesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falcipar

When my daughter returned to school this fall, I sent a care package that was perfect for a college student living through a pandemic. It included cookies, a coffee mug — and a pulse oximeter. A puls

GREAT BARRINGTON — They’ve been vilified this past year over their stance on the COVID-19 lockdowns. Now, one of the three scientists who drafted the Great Barrington Declaration says he worries for h

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A Colorado woman with stage 5 renal failure was months away from getting a new kidney. Now, she and her donor are looking for another hospital after learning UCHealth’s new poli

While world leaders and health officials continue to fight the spread of COVID-19, also known as SARS-CoV-2, doctors and other scientists around the world, including those supported by the Myocarditis

AstraZeneca, the drugmaker that developed one of the first Covid-19 vaccines, has asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the emergency use of a first-of-a-kind antibody treatment to preve

The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a pharmaceutical company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins hospital took in 1951 without her knowledge or consent. The cells tak

The CDC 2020 Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps for 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 2 US territories show self-reported adult obesity prevalence by race, ethnicity, and location. The data comes fr