Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works—just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall. The vaccines currently used in the U.S. still offer strong protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death—especially if people have
Smartphone apps that use artificial intelligence (AI) to spot skin cancer are endangering the public, many of whom trust that these apps are safe to use, experts at the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) have warned. This trust, along with a failure of many such apps to meet the appropriate regulatory standards, is putting users
In rare cases, that can be passed on to others – although it shouldn’t make them ill, particularly if they have already been vaccinated themselves, according to Prof Beate Kampmann, an immunologist and vaccine expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Source link
The number of children in the United States who unintentionally ingested melatonin supplements over the past 10 years has skyrocketed to the point where, as of 2021, melatonin ingestions by children accounted for almost 5% of all poisonings reported to poison control centers in the United States, data from the National Poison Data System (NPDS)
Dennis Matheis will take over as president and CEO of Sentara Healthcare on Sept. 1, the integrated not-for-profit health system announced Friday. Matheis, president of Sentara Health Plans and executive vice president of Sentara Healthcare since 2018, will succeed Howard Kern, who plans to retire by the end of the year. Kern has worked at
New York City — Authorities began offering monkeypox vaccinations this week, but the demand was so high that walk-in appointments had to be cut off. Thirty people have tested positive for orthopoxvirus in New York City as of Thursday, according to NYC Health, adding that “all cases are likely monkeypox.” To curb the outbreak, authorities started
A Supreme Court decision that greenlighted a private health plan’s limited dialysis coverage may set the stage for other insurers to cut pay for kidney care and other treatments Medicare covers. The high court rejected a challenge to an employer health plan’s low reimbursements for dialysis, which the plaintiff argued discourage providers from joining its
By Smitha Mundasad and Philippa RoxbyHealth reporters Image source, Getty Images UK health officials say they have detected the virus that causes polio in a concerning number of sewage samples in London. There have been no recorded cases of people ill with the disease in the UK but doctors are on alert. What is polio
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Medical industry sponsorship of economic evaluations on new treatments are more likely to be found ‘cost-effective’ than independent research across a range of diseases, Lead author of the study Feng Xie, a McMaster University researcher said that cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) are used to set prices and decide if new treatments or
Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, is awarding $21.7 million to fund 48 new research projects at 26 distinguished academic medical institutions in the U.S. that are focused on improving patient outcomes – particularly for people with the most aggressive breast cancers, or who have experienced a recurrence or metastasis. With this
