5 Things We Know and Still Don't Know About COVID, 5 Years After It Appeared A look at a half decade of SARS-CoV-2 Jan 02, 2025
Kidney Decline Faster After Severe COVID vs Other Pneumonia Researchers recommend close kidney function monitoring in hospitalized patients Dec 26, 2024
Higher-Dose Anticoagulation Not a Sure Bet for Hospitalized COVID Patients Large meta-analysis shows conflicting evidence for higher vs lower dosing Dec 24, 2024
Vaccine Injury Claims Spiked During COVID Only 3% of decided claims under countermeasures program were eligible for compensation Dec 24, 2024
Doc Suspected in Mass Killing; Vaccine Injury Claims Spike; Iowa Has First H5N1 Case Health news and commentary gathered by 鶹ý staff Dec 23, 2024
Trump's Picks for Top Health Jobs Not Just Team of Rivals but 'Team of Opponents' Candidates have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another Dec 22, 2024
Public Health Experts Decry Louisiana's Ban on Vaccine Promotion Doctors need to "stand up" for their patients' health, they say Dec 20, 2024
Long COVID Symptoms Improve With Outpatient Intervention Cognitive and behavioral therapy boosted physical function in pragmatic trial Dec 19, 2024
U.S. Deaths Are Down and Life Expectancy Is Up, but Improvements Are Slowing Nearly a year added to estimated lifespan of Americans Dec 19, 2024
Controversial COVID Paper Retracted; USPSTF's Vitamin D Rec; Medical Abortion Pain Health news and commentary gathered by 鶹ý staff Dec 18, 2024
FDA Revokes EUAs of Four COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies Mostly expired drugs are no longer effective against circulating SARS-CoV-2 strains Dec 13, 2024
Masking Policies Show Clear Impact on Hospital-Onset Respiratory Infections Study links lifting and reintroducing masking policies to infection rate changes Dec 10, 2024 video
Fostamatinib Fails to Improve Outcomes in Hypoxemic COVID Patients Drug did not increase oxygen-free days versus placebo in randomized study Dec 06, 2024 video
Psilocybin Cut Depression Symptoms in COVID's Frontline Healthcare Workers Clinicians who received psilocybin had a 21-point drop in MADRS score at day 28 Dec 05, 2024
Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for COVID Billing complexities and patient skepticism partially to blame Dec 05, 2024
ITP Drug Disappoints in Hospitalized COVID Patients With Hypoxemia Number of oxygen-free days lower compared with placebo Dec 04, 2024
Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals Healthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found Nov 27, 2024
Trump Picks Jay Bhattacharya, Who Backed COVID Herd Immunity, as NIH Director Bhattacharya was also a critic of COVID pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates Nov 27, 2024
Increases in Myopia Progression in Kids Tied to the COVID Pandemic Closure of schools and cancelling of activities likely played a role Nov 25, 2024
Trump's FDA Pick Is 鶹ý's Former Top Editor Marty Makary has made a name for himself challenging the medical establishment Nov 22, 2024
What to Know About Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's Potential NIH Pick Stanford professor is most closely associated with the Great Barrington Declaration Nov 20, 2024
Doc Killed After Presentation; Bird Flu Mutations Worrying; Americans Snub COVID Vax Health news and commentary gathered by 鶹ý staff Nov 20, 2024
CDC Advisors Defend Infection Control Draft Guidance HICPAC supports surgical masks for airborne pathogens, sick workers returning after 3 days Nov 18, 2024
Where There's Wildfire Smoke, There's Respiratory Infection We're only just beginning to understand what wildfire smoke is capable of Nov 17, 2024
A Potential Reason Behind COVID Vaccines' Waning Benefit Long-lived plasma cell compartment in the bone marrow may hold the answer, says researcher Nov 15, 2024 video
An Update on Therapeutics for COVID-19 New research focuses on interventions for highest-risk patients Nov 15, 2024
Nurse Suicides High During the Pandemic, but Feared Surge Never Materialized "Hero praise" may have been protective, but a disciplinary pause could also have played a role Nov 15, 2024
Physicians Rarely Disciplined by Medical Boards for Spreading Misinformation Editorialists say sanctions should be rare and discipline may be better left to other agencies Nov 12, 2024
Anti-Vaxxer Gets 5 Years for Encouraging Terrorism During the Pandemic One social media post described "whacking" England's chief medical officer over the head Nov 12, 2024
When's the Best Time to Get Your Flu and COVID Shots? It's important to get vaccinated ahead of the holidays, health officials say Nov 08, 2024
How Trump's Win Affects Healthcare; Uptick in COVID; Pesticides and Prostate Cancer Health news and commentary gathered by 鶹ý staff Nov 06, 2024
Medicare Finalizes Doc Pay Cut; Mask Mandates Return; Top Voter Concerns Health news and commentary gathered by 鶹ý staff Nov 04, 2024
What's Our Capacity for Measuring Hospital Capacity? With respiratory virus season coming, resumed reporting is critical Oct 31, 2024
Ex-Gov. May Face Charges Over COVID; Autism Dx Up 175%; Can Fasting Help Kidneys? Health news and commentary gathered by 鶹ý staff Oct 31, 2024
Old Drugs, New Tricks: The Power of Medication Repurposing COVID highlighted the untapped potential of existing treatments Oct 30, 2024
Ebola-Like Virus Death in the U.S.; Pill Cuts COVID Spread; What Are Healthy Diets? Health news and commentary gathered by 鶹ý staff Oct 29, 2024
Obesity May Raise Risk of Long COVID in Youth Researchers observed dose-response relationship for increasing BMI and long COVID risk Oct 28, 2024
ACIP Backs Extra COVID Vax Dose for Seniors, Pneumococcal Vax for Adults 50 and Up CDC advisors also formalize recommendations on extra COVID vaccine doses in the immunocompromised Oct 23, 2024
