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Has Trump been trying out his own dodgy medical advice? It would explain a few things | Arwa Mahdawi
The president has announced he is taking hydroxychloroquine to fight coronavirus. Perhaps he has also been injecting bleach in front of Fox NewsHow is Donald Trump still alive? Seriously, it defies science. The man reportedly drinks12 Diet Cokes a day, appears to exist purely onBig Macs and doesn ’t do any exercise because he thinks thehuman body is like a battery and working out depletes it. On top of all this, it turns out the 73-year-old is popping pills with potentially fatal side-effects for reasons that make no medical sense.Welearned on Monday that the president has been taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Arwa Mahdawi Tags: Donald Trump Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science US news World news Source Type: news
Next Phase of NIH Preprint Pilot Launching Soon
Last month, the National Library of Medicine (NLM)announced plans to extend its NIH Preprint Pilot in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed beyond COVID-19 to encompass all preprints reporting on NIH-funded research. The second phase of the pilot, launching later this month, will include preprints supported by an NIH award, contract, or intramural program and posted to aneligible preprint server on or after January 1, 2023.In preparation for the launch of this second phase, we have updated PMC and PubMed site features to help users of these databases incorporate the increased volume of preprints into their discovery workflows. S...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 10, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Second Phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot Launched
Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of the second phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot with the addition of more than 700 new preprint records to PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed. This second phase expands the scope of the Pilot to include preprints resulting from all NIH-funded research. Eligible preprints are those acknowledging direct support of an NIH award or authored by NIH staff and posted to bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, or Research Square, on or after January 1, 2023. NLM will automatically include the full text of the preprint (as license terms allow) and associated citation information in PMC and PubMed, respectiv...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 30, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Firefighters Next in Line for Vaccine
By JOHN HANNA and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal advisory panel recommended Sunday that people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers should be next in line for COVID-19 shots, while a second vaccine began rolling out to hospitals as the nation works to get the coronavirus pandemic under control.
The two developments came amid a vaccination program that began only in the last week and has given initial shots to about 556,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 21, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Medicine Source Type: news
To Get Kids Vaccinated, Schools Offer Money and More
In Anderson, S.C., high school students received $100 if they got vaccinated against COVID-19. In Phoenix, school leaders are giving out $100 gift cards. In Los Angeles, students have the chance to win gift cards or free prom and homecoming tickets if they get the jab.
And in the nation’s largest school district, New York City, children as young as 5 could get paid for getting a COVID-19 vaccination, another example of the lengths to which schools are going as they strive for normalcy after nearly two years of pandemic-disrupted education.
Like everything involving schools during the pandemic, from mask mandates to r...
Source: TIME: Health - November 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katie Reilly Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Education nationpod Source Type: news
Why Schools Are Offering Money, and More, to Get Kids Vaccinated
In Anderson, S.C., high school students received $100 if they got vaccinated against COVID-19. In Phoenix, school leaders are giving out $100 gift cards. In Los Angeles, students have the chance to win gift cards or free prom and homecoming tickets if they get the jab.
And in the nation’s largest school district, New York City, children as young as 5 could get paid for getting a COVID-19 vaccination, another example of the lengths to which schools are going as they strive for normalcy after nearly two years of pandemic-disrupted education.
Like everything involving schools during the pandemic, from mask mandates to r...
Source: TIME: Health - November 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katie Reilly Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Education nationpod Source Type: news
Pfizer to Supply U.S. with Additional 100M Vaccines Doses
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a second agreement.
The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31.
Pfizer already has a contract to supply the government with 100 million doses of its vaccine, which requires two doses per patient.
Under the nearly $2 billion deal announced Wednesday, the companies will deliver at least 70 million additional doses by June 30, with the remaining 30 million to be delivered no later tha...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 23, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Medicine Source Type: news
U.S. Vaccinations Ramp Up as Second COVID-19 Shot Nears
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds more U.S. hospitals are set to begin vaccinating their workers Tuesday as federal regulators issued a positive review of a second COVID-19 vaccine shot needed to boost the nation’s largest vaccination campaign.
The Food and Drug Administration said in documents posted online that its initial review confirmed the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health, bringing the shot to the cusp of U.S. authorization.
A panel of outside experts will offer their recommendation Thursday, with a final FDA d...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 15, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Hospital Medicine Source Type: news
Vice President Pence, Wife Karen, Surgeon General get COVID-19 Vaccines
By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence was vaccinated for COVID-19 on Friday in a live-television event aimed at reassuring Americans the vaccine is safe.
In remarks after his shot, Pence called the speed with which the vaccine was developed “a medical miracle.”
“The American people can be confident: we have one and perhaps within hours two” safe vaccines,” Pence said, referring to expected FDA approval for Moderna’s vaccine. Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine was the first to be approved. “Building confidence in the vaccine is what brings us here t...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 18, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Source Type: news
‘Will You Help Save My Brother?’: The Scramble to Find Covid-19 Plasma Donors
A doctor stricken with Covid-19 was running out of options. His family mounted a search for a donor whose plasma might help.
Source: NYT Health - April 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Audra D. S. Burch and Amy Harmon Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Blood Donation Tests (Medical) Food and Drug Administration Source Type: news
Efficacy of Remdesivir in COVID-19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained health care systems across the globe, necessitating drastic public health measures and prompting a fervent search for effective treatments. The experimental antiviral drug remdesivir (manufactured by Gilead) was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration in May 2020 for patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19. At the time, there had been 2 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that had compared a 10-day course of remdesivir with placebo. The first, by Wang and colleagues, failed to show benefit but recruited only 237 patients and m...
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - August 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
U.S. Population-Based background incidence rates of medical conditions for use in safety assessment of COVID-19 vaccines
Vaccine. 2021 May 14:S0264-410X(21)00578-8. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.05.016. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a devastating impact on global health, and has resulted in an unprecedented, international collaborative effort to develop vaccines to control the outbreak, protect human lives, and avoid further social and economic disruption. Mass vaccination campaigns are underway in multiple countries and are expected worldwide once more vaccine becomes available. Some early candidate vaccines use novel platforms, such as mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles, and rela...
Source: Vaccine - June 5, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Diane Gubernot Amelia Jazwa Manette Niu Jane Baumblatt Julianne Gee Pedro Moro Jonathan Duffy Theresa Harrington Michael M McNeil Karen Broder John Su Satoshi Kamidani Christine K Olson Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos Tom Shimabukuro Richard Forshee Steven Ande Source Type: research
MRI for all: Cheap portable scanners aim to revolutionize medical imaging
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The patient, a man in his 70s with a shock of silver hair, lies in the neuro intensive care unit (neuro ICU) at Yale New Haven Hospital. Looking at him, you’d never know that a few days earlier a tumor was removed from his pituitary gland. The operation didn’t leave a mark because, as is standard, surgeons reached the tumor through his nose. He chats cheerfully with a pair of research associates who have come to check his progress with a new and potentially revolutionary device they are testing.
The cylind...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - February 23, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
‘ This Is A Tremendous Moment ’ : Massachusetts Hospitals Expect COVID Vaccine To Arrive Monday
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - December 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Covid-19 Boston, MA Featured Health Syndicated Local Boston Medical Center Coronavirus Coronavirus Vaccine Paul Burton Source Type: news
