Moderna plus Pfizer? J&J plus Moderna? There’s a new clinical trial underway to assess the safety and effectiveness of mixing different types of booster shots in adults who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. “Although the vaccines currently authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration offer strong protection against COVID-19, we need to prepare… read on > read on >
It’s a scenario fraught with potential conflict: Moving back home as an adult can be tough – on both the grown children and their parents. But it can also come with opportunities, as long as expectations are established early, say some “boomerang kids” who moved back in with mom and/or dad after reaching adulthood. A… read on > read on >
Ethan Lindenberger knows what it’s like when you have anti-vaxxer parents: At 18, he gained national notoriety when he sought vaccines in defiance of his mother’s fervent wishes. Now, the 20-year-old has some advice for teens facing a similar dilemma posed by the pandemic — how to convince their anti-vaxxer parents to let them get… read on > read on >
The United States will soon be sending millions of coronavirus vaccine doses around the world, including Latin America, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Tuesday. Still, exactly where those doses will go and when they will be delivered to countries that desperately need them was still unclear. “Sometime in the next week to two weeks,… read on > read on >
Women may have different symptoms and are more likely to die after acute aortic dissection than men, a new study finds. Up to 40% of patients die instantly from this spontaneous tear in one of the body’s main arteries, and the risk of death increases about 1% for every hour of delay in diagnosis and… read on > read on >
Human-caused global warming is responsible for more than one-third of heat-related deaths worldwide, but the proportion is much higher in certain countries, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data gathered between 1991 and 2018 from 732 locations in 43 countries. They concluded that 37% of all heat-related deaths in recent summer periods were attributable to… read on > read on >
COVID-19 does not pose a threat to the safety of the United States’ blood supply under existing donor screening guidelines, researchers report. For the study, the investigators reviewed the results of tests for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in nearly 18,000 pools of donated blood, representative of over 257,800 single blood donations that were collected between… read on > read on >
COVID survivors can relax when it comes to vaccination: A new study shows that getting immunized will not worsen any symptoms that linger long after infection, such as breathing difficulties, fatigue and insomnia. The encouraging takeaway is based on a small analysis that looked at how 44 “long-haul” British COVID patients fared after being inoculated… read on > read on >
Breathing in tiny particles of air pollution over a long period of time may put your sense of smell at risk, a new study suggests. Researchers found the risk for loss of smell — a condition called anosmia — was nearly doubled among people with lengthy exposure to this type of air pollution, known as… read on > read on >
Americans flocked to beaches, parks and stadiums over Memorial Day weekend, as new coronavirus cases dropped to levels not seen since March 2020. With more than 40% of the country fully vaccinated and the seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases falling to about 12,000 per day, Americans showed they were eager to embrace post-pandemic life.… read on > read on >
