Health Highlights: Oct. 22, 2021
CDC backs booster shots for Moderna, Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The agency on Thursday gave a thumbs up to decisions made earlier this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, clearing the way for boosters to be administered to millions of Ame…
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Imported onions behind salmonella outbreak in 37 states. The CDC has tracked down the source of a multi-state outbreak of potentially deadly salmonella: imported red, yellow and white onions from Mexico. So far, 652 people have been sickened across …
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In organ transplant breakthrough, a pig’s kidney worked in a human. Doctors in New York City have accomplished a first: Attached a kidney that was grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient, where it functioned normally. Read more
Learn MoreFlu Cases Already Up 23% This Season: Walgreens
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Flu activity in the United States is 23% higher so far this season than in 2020, sales of flu medications at Walgreens suggest.The significant increase shown by the company’s analysis of its own data reflec…
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Biden administration ready to OK mix n’ match COVID vaccinations. Sources are telling media that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will this week approve the use of vaccine booster shots that don’t necessarily match the one initially received. Rea…
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How 1.3 million Americans ended up in conservatorships. Britney Spears’ long struggle to release herself from a conservatorship has shed light on a legal construct that’s meant to help people incapacitated with illness, but is too often abused by tho…
Learn MoreBill Clinton Discharged From Hospital After Recovery From Sepsis
MONDAY, Oct. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Former President Bill Clinton was released from a California hospital on Sunday after being treated for sepsis. Clinton, 75, was admitted for care at the University of California Irvine Medical Center, in Oran…
Learn MoreBill Clinton Expected to Be Discharged From Hospital on Sunday
SUNDAY, Oct. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A spokesperson for former President Bill Clinton said late Saturday that the 75-year-old will be discharged from a California hospital on Sunday, CNN reported. Clinton was hospitalized at the University of Cal…
Learn MoreVaccinated Foreign Travelers Can Enter United States Beginning Nov. 8
FRIDAY, Oct. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) — 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 c…
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