COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Getting a third dose of either Pfizer-BioNTech’s or Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine offers a “significant increase” in protection against the Omicron variant in elderly people, according to a Danish study published on Wednesday. The study, published ahead of peer review on medRxiv, investigated the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines that use so-called mRNA technology […]

Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in partnership with colleagues at University College London in the UK have discovered an efficient, simple and inexpensive method of predicting the risk of functional disability in older people. They analyzed data from more than 3,000 over-sixties living in […]

Recent studies indicated that the effectiveness of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines especially the mRNA-1273 (Moderna) and BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccines, against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was high for US veterans who were vaccinated in January and February of 2021. However, the emergence of the Delta variant of concern […]

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Fox News Flash top headlines for December 23 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Two new British studies provide some early hints that the omicron variant of the coronavirus may be milder than the delta version.  Scientists stress that even if the findings of these early studies hold up, any […]

California will require health care workers to get a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday, pledging to make sure hospitals are prepared as a new version of the disease begins to spread throughout the state. California already requires health care workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, a directive that […]

Adding pyrotinib to capecitabine (Xeloda) therapy improved overall survival compared with lapatinib plus capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, according to updated results from the Chinese PHOEBE trial. Researchers found the new drug, an irreversible pan-HER inhibitor developed by Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals and approved in China, cut the risk of death by 31%. […]

India will open its COVID vaccination drive for adolescents and start administering booster doses to its at-risk adult population, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday. The highly-infectious Omicron variant has gained a foothold in the country, and the health ministry has raised concerns about its onward spread. “Omicron is a matter of discussion right […]