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No Increased Stroke Risk Linked to Pfizer ’s Covid Boosters, Federal Officials Say
An uptick hinted at in surveillance data was a mirage, the officials said.
Source: NYT Health - January 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Elderly Stroke Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns BioNTech SE Pfizer Inc Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Food and Drug Administration Source Type: news

How AI Is Changing Medical Imaging to Improve Patient Care
That doctors can peer into the human body without making a single incision once seemed like a miraculous concept. But medical imaging in radiology has come a long way, and the latest artificial intelligence (AI)-driven techniques are going much further: exploiting the massive computing abilities of AI and machine learning to mine body scans for differences that even the human eye can miss. Imaging in medicine now involves sophisticated ways of analyzing every data point to distinguish disease from health and signal from noise. If the first few decades of radiology were about refining the resolution of the pictures taken of...
Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Innovation sponsorshipblock Source Type: news

FDA Experts Vote to Make All COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters Bivalent
In a unanimous decision, all 21 voting members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine committee recommended that the U.S. start using the same COVID-19 virus strain in all of the COVID-19 vaccines, including primary and booster doses. That means the bivalent booster dose, which targets both the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and the Omicron BA.4/5 strains, would soon become the only type used for all primary shots and boosters. The decision reflects a turning point in the pandemic. Until now, vaccine makers have tried to keep up with constantly evolving variants, but they’ve always been a few step...
Source: TIME: Health - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

CDC to investigate ‘safety signal’ for Pfizer’s updated COVID booster
Federal health officials are investigating whether there is a link between BioNTech BNTX, and Pfizer’s PFE, bivalent COVID-19 booster and stroke in seniors. The Centers and Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said Friday they plan to investigate a…#veteransaffairs #medicaidservices #pfizers #fda #vsd #cdc #vaccines #modernasmrna #medicare #bntx
Source: Reuters: Health - January 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news