Enlarge / The US Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland. (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency ) Vaccine-makers Moderna and Pfizer have now both submitted requests for the US Food plus Drug Administration to authorize fourth doses—second boosters—of their COVID-19 vaccines. Pfizer, along with vaccine partner BioNTech, announced Tuesday that they had asked […]
Enlarge / A health care worker treats a patient inside a negative pressure room in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Missouri, on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Spread of COVID-19 within US hospitals hit a record high in January, with more than 3,000 hospital-acquired infections each […]
This is absolutely horrific — and especially so because it truly could happen to anybody. A teenager in New England was forced to undergo multiple amputations after eating a roommate’ s leftover chicken plus noodle dish from the refrigerator — and quickly thereafter developing what is being termed as the “ devastating” case of sepsis. […]
Enlarge / This photomicrograph depicts leukemia cells that contain Epstein Barr virus using an FA staining technique, 1972. Epstein-Barr virus, EBV, is a member of the Herpesvirus family and is one of the most common human viruses. (credit: Getty | CDC) Evidence is mounting that a garden-variety virus that sometimes causes mono in teens is […]
Enlarge / A health care worker prepares to administer Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines at an elementary school vaccination site for children ages 5 to 11. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) Cases of COVID-19 are increasing in children, and they continue to account for an out-sized proportion of infections, according to the most recent data compiled by […]
Last week we got some answers about what was going on with Princess Charlene of Monaco. After recovering from an illness while in South Africa, she had returned home to the small principality. But then she was immediately taken off royal duties and made no public appearances. Her husband, the country’s leader Prince Albert, made a statement explaining […]
Enlarge / Dr. Silvia Gelvez gestures after receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, at Colombia University Clinic in Bogota on February 18, 2021. (credit: Getty | RAUL ARBOLEDA ) As long as there have been vaccines against COVID-19, there have been arguments for why people shouldn’t get those vaccines. One of the […]
Enlarge / COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Madrid on Feb. 26, 2021. (credit: Getty | NurPhoto) Pfizer and BioNTech submitted new COVID-19 vaccine-booster data to the Food and Drug Administration Monday as US officials continue to consider whether to recommend third doses for more Americans. For now, officials have only recommended that some […]
This is a very scary situation! Brandi Glanville is used to having her life play out in public (from her Real Housewives storylines to that infamous cheating scandal). Maybe that’s why she decided to share her recent health scare on social media. Or maybe she was just looking to the internet for answers because the […]
Enlarge / Residents wait in an observation area after receiving Covid-19 vaccines at a vaccination site in Richmond, California on Thursday, April 15, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Cases of COVID-19 are extremely rare among people who are fully vaccinated, according to a new data analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among […]