Getting vaccinated may be everyone’s best protection against COVID-19. But giving everyone fair access to vaccines will take more than just providing needles and vials, community health experts say. Vaccines have not been reaching everyone equally, statistics show. Overall, Black and Hispanic people have been receiving smaller shares of vaccinations relative to their population and […]
A phase 2 clinical trial whose results were released today in Stem Cells Translational Medicine might point to a way to overcome bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a major cause of death in preterm infants. The study, conducted by researchers at Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University and Asan Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Seoul, evaluates the effectiveness […]
Researchers at Penn Medicine have identified more genetic mutations that strongly predispose younger, otherwise healthy women to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition characterized by weakness of the heart muscle that begins sometime during the final month of pregnancy through five months after delivery. PPCM can cause severe heart failure and often leads to lifelong […]
CDC to meet to discuss J&J vaccine safety Harvard Global Health Institute director Dr. Ashish Jha provides insight on ‘Fox News Live.’ Experts at the European Medicines Agency are preparing to present Tuesday the conclusions of their investigation into possible links between the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and very rare cases of unusual clotting […]
New Delhi imposed a weeklong lockdown Monday night to prevent the collapse of the Indian capital’s health system, which authorities said had been pushed to its limit amid an explosive surge in coronavirus cases. In scenes familiar from surges elsewhere, ambulances catapulted from one hospital to another, trying to find an empty bed over the […]
We all know it’s coming. Old age is a phenomenon we all expect, that is, if we manage to live long enough to see the white hairs popping up. As a human race, we’ve made great strides forward in various fields like medicine, technology, education, and research. Researchers at UCLA have discovered that different parts […]
The U.S. is setting up a $1.7 billion national network to identify and track worrisome coronavirus mutations whose spread could trigger another pandemic wave, the Biden administration announced Friday. White House officials unveiled a strategy that features three components: a major funding boost for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments […]
Health officials from both the US Food & Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Tuesday a temporary pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine over concerns about a potential link to a rare type of blood clot in six women who received the vaccine. The […]
The complex patterns of genetic ancestry uncovered from genomic data in health care systems can provide valuable insights into both genetic and environmental factors underlying many common and rare diseases—insights that are far more targeted and specific than those derived from traditional ethnic or racial labels like Hispanic or Black, according to a team of […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain France is sticking to its plan to give over-55s the Johnson & Johnson vaccine suspended in the US and South Africa over rare blood clots, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Gabriel Attal also reaffirmed the government’s confidence in the AstraZeneca jab as an “essential tool” in the fight against Covid-19, hours […]
