In a unanimous vote, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday recommended that the agency grant emergency use of booster shots of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. The FDA is expected to make a decision within days that will help guide the 15 million Americans who have received the Johnson &… read on > read on >
All international travelers who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will be able to enter the United States beginning Nov. 8, an official at the White House told The New York Times. The announcement came on the heels of news on Wednesday that the United States would reopen its land borders to fully vaccinated travelers… read on > read on >
FRIDAY, Oct. 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Mandy Marquardt spends her days training and racing furiously around a velodrome. She’s a track sprint cyclist, and by age 16, she already was winning medals in junior events when a routine checkup revealed high blood glucose. Follow-up tests discovered Type 1 diabetes. The diagnosis prompted… read on > read on >
A shot at winning $1 million did nothing to budge the number of people who got the COVID-19 jab. According to a new study, lotteries in 19 states designed to encourage people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 did not alter the rate of those who got the shot. In fact, vaccination rates were the same… read on > read on >
The National Health Service Corps will receive $100 million to help tackle the U.S. health care worker shortage, the White House announced Thursday. That’s a five-fold increase in funding from previous years for a program that helps find primary care doctors for communities that struggle to recruit and keep them, according to the U.S. Department… read on > read on >
Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized after developing sepsis that was triggered by a urological infection. Sepsis occurs when the body has an extreme response to an infection, and it can be life-threatening. Infections that can trigger sepsis most often start in the lung, urinary tract, skin or gastrointestinal tract. Without timely treatment, sepsis… read on > read on >
The tell-tale sign of Lyme disease is its bulls-eye rash, but that might be harder to spot in Black people, who are often diagnosed with more advanced disease than white people are, new research suggests. The first sign of Lyme disease looks different on darker skin, and these differences are not usually reflected in images… read on > read on >
Americans’ increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods is putting their health at risk, researchers warn. Ultra-processed foods are ready-to-eat or heat, include additives, and contain little, if any, whole foods. They include frozen pizza, soda, fast food, sweets, salty snacks, canned soup and most breakfast cereals. Previous research has shown that eating ultra-processed foods is associated… read on > read on >
FRIDAY, Oct. 15, 2021 Even as large numbers of U.S. nurses leave their jobs due to the stress of the pandemic, there’s been a big uptick in applications to nursing schools, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing says. Enrollment in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral nursing programs increased 5.6% from 2019 to 2020, with just… read on > read on >
In some heartening news on the vaccine front, two-thirds of American parents of children ages 5 to 11 plan to get their youngsters vaccinated when COVID-19 shots are approved for that age group, a new survey shows. “While we’re encouraged to see that a majority of parents intend to vaccinate their children against COVID-19 once… read on > read on >
