FDA Tells Vaccine Makers to Update Boosters to Target Omicron Subvariants
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it has asked vaccine makers to update their COVID-19 booster shots to target the Omicron subvariants known as BA.4 and BA.5.The two highly contag…
Learn MoreFauci Has ‘Rebound’ COVID After Paxlovid, But Says Drug Kept Him Out of the Hospital
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — After being infected with COVID-19 earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci experienced a rebound after taking the antiviral pill Paxlovid, but he maintained on Wednesday that the drug kept him out of the hospi…
Learn MoreU.S. Orders 105 Million More Pfizer Shots for Fall Booster Campaign
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Anticipating a surge in booster shots this fall, the U.S. government said Wednesday that it is buying an added 105 million more doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The $3.2 billion deal comes at a time when …
Learn MoreHarnessing a Virus to Fight a Killer Brain Tumor in Kids
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A therapy that uses a virus to kill tumor cells can be safely given to children with a rare, incurable form of brain cancer, an early study has found.The study — published June 30 in the New England Journal…
Learn MoreCancer Survivors Face Higher Heart Risks Later
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you survive cancer, you’re more apt to have heart trouble later on, a new study shows.Researchers found that compared to others, cancer survivors had a 42% greater risk of heart disease, most likely due t…
Learn MoreWill You Be Depositing at the ‘Stool Bank’ Someday?
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Banking samples of your own poop in your youth and then transplanting them back when you’re old might be a key to healthy aging, scientists suggest.Stool samples frozen and stored when a person is vital and …
Learn MoreDoctors May Under-Prescribe Pain Meds During Night Shifts
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Under-prescription of pain medications occurs during night shifts, according to a study published online June 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Shoham Choshen-Hillel, Ph.D., from the …
Learn MoreE-Noses Promising for Diagnosing Cancer from Exhaled Breath
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Electronic noses (e-noses) appear to have a relatively high diagnostic accuracy in the detection of cancer from exhaled breath, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online June 29 in …
Learn MoreTwo Doses of BNT162b2 Moderately Effective for 5- to 11-Year-Olds
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For children aged 5 to 11 years, two doses of BNT162b2 provide moderate protection against documented severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and symptomatic COVID-19, accordin…
Learn MoreFeatures of Migraine Identified on Functional MRI
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the amygdala and hippocampus can differentiate patients with migraine from healthy controls (HCs) and patients with tension-type headache (TTH), according …
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