U.K. Is First Country to Approve Moderna’s Omicron-Targeted COVID Vaccine
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A COVID-19 booster that’s targeted to the Omicron variant will be available soon — and it’s already been approved in Britain.The U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency was the first to give t…
Learn MoreMonkeypox May Get New Name to Curb Stigma
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Monkeypox could soon get a new name.The World Health Organization announced Friday that it plans to rename the condition to eliminate any derogatory or racist connotations, a decision in alignment with current…
Learn MoreUnpaid Time Off Work Rose 50% During Pandemic
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. workers without paid leave lost out on an estimated $28 billion in wages during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.The analysis showed that the greatest increases in u…
Learn MoreCOVID Vaccine Safe for Pregnant Women: Study
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The most popular COVID-19 vaccines are safe to use in pregnancy, a large, new Canadian study has concluded.About 4% of pregnant women given an mRNA vaccine had a significant health event within a week of their…
Learn MorePoliovirus Discovered in NYC Wastewater
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — State and local health officials have detected the poliovirus in New York City’s wastewater, a finding that indicates the virus has spread widely since first being discovered in the wastewater of a neighbori…
Learn MoreThree At-Home COVID-19 Tests Needed to Confirm Negative Result, FDA Says
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — People who test at home after being exposed to COVID-19 should take the test three, not two, times to make sure they are not infected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.
In issuing its ne…
Learn MoreLos CDC relajan las directrices sobre el distanciamiento social
JUEVES, 11 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) de EE. UU. anunciaron el jueves que habían relajado sus recomendaciones sobre el distanciamiento social para la COVID-19, a medida que e…
Learn MorePoliovirus Discovered in NYC Wastewater
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — State and local health officials have detected the poliovirus in New York City’s wastewater, a finding that indicates the virus has spread widely since first being discovered in the wastewater of a neighboring…
Learn MoreSymptoms Linger for Some Children After Acute COVID-19, MIS-C
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — At least two months after hospitalization with acute COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), more than 25 percent experience persistent symptoms or activity impairment, according to …
Learn MoreCOVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Are Safe in Pregnancy
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have a good safety profile in pregnancy, according to a study published online Aug. 11 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Manish Sadarangani, D.Phil., from the BC Children’s Hospital…
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