West Virginia Gov. Justice vetoes bill that would have loosened school vaccine policies
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice broke with the GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country’s strictest school vaccination policies (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Everest Medicines Announces Financial Results for Full Year Ended December 31, 2023
SHANGHAI, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK, "Everest", or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, clinical development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative medicines and vaccines, today announced its financial... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: ERN Source Type: news
West Virginia Gov. Justice breaks with GOP Legislature to veto bill rolling back school vaccine rule
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice broke with the GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country’s strictest school vaccination policies (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Why this Maryland biotech furloughed 130 workers in Michigan
The U.S. government's ordering of an anthrax vaccine is necessary for the company to continue operating that facility. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sara Gilgore Source Type: news
COVID-Cautious Americans Feel Abandoned
For all of 2020, Alex, a 28-year-old living in New York, followed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 guidance “religiously.” Then, in 2021, something began to shift. That spring, the CDC said it was okay for vaccinated people to ditch their masks in most places. But people were clearly still getting sick—including Alex, who got COVID-19 for the first time in late 2021 and later developed Long COVID symptoms.
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“There was this reckoning moment where it was like, ‘Maybe the CDC is not being totally honest with...
Source: TIME: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Dr Reddy's to promote, distribute Sanofi vaccine brands in India
The announcement comes a day after Sanofi Healthcare India announced a separate partnership with Cipla to boost access to Sanofi's central nervous system medications across India. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Interventions that will increase and sustain the uptake of vaccines in low- and middle-income countries
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 (Source: Cochrane News and Events)
Source: Cochrane News and Events - March 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Paolo Rosati Source Type: news
Want to stop needle phobia in adults? Make shots less painful for kids
According to the CDC, about one in four adults has a fear of needles. Many of those people say the phobia started when they were kids. For some people, the fear of needles is strong enough that they avoid getting important treatments, vaccines or tests. That poses a serious problem for public health. Researchers have helped develop a five step plan to help prevent what they call "needless pain" for kids getting injections or their blood drawn. Guest host Tom Dreisbach talks with Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, who works with a team to implement the plan at his own hospital. Friedrichsdorf to...
Source: NPR Health and Science - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tom Dreisbach Source Type: news
I'm a doctor who knows Covid is usually little worse than a cold - but I'd still fork out £99 for the new private jab. And my reasons will convince you too...
I've had the jab for free as a frontline NHS worker, but otherwise I'd be logging on to the Boots website and booking the vaccine as soon as possible, writes Professor Rob Galloway. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Smallpox may be gone but U.S. should better prepare for its return, report says
Nearly 5 decades after the last documented case, smallpox remains the only human disease that has been officially eradicated. But a
new report
concludes that the United States can do much to strengthen its ability to respond if the dreaded disease resurfaces, whether naturally, through a lab “leak” of the responsible virus, or from an act of terrorism.
The authors of the smallpox report, however, do not offer a recommendation on the long-running debate over whether the only two labs that still hold samples of variola, the smallpox virus, should destroy them for safety reasons—that issue was outside th...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 26, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Annual Two-Dose SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Campaign Beneficial
TUESDAY, March 26, 2024 -- Annual administration of a second dose of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine five months after the initial dose results in fewer hospitalizations and deaths, according to a study published... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 26, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Why Are So Many Young People Getting Cancer? It ’s Complicated
Just this month, two young, high-profile public figures announced that they have cancer. First, Olivia Munn, 43, disclosed that she was treated for breast cancer after catching it early. Days later, Kate Middleton, 42, announced she has been receiving treatment for an unspecified form of cancer.
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Their diagnoses spotlight a troubling trend: both in the U.S. and around the world, cancer diagnoses are growing more common among adults younger than 50. By 2030, one recent study estimated, the number of these early-onset cancer diagnoses could increase by roughly 30% worldwide&md...
Source: TIME: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Boots to offer Covid vaccines in England for nearly £100 a jab
Pharmacy to offer Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to those not eligible for NHS booster shot from next weekBoots is to offer Covid vaccinations for almost £100 a shot, making it the latest provider to sell the jabs to those not eligible for a booster through the NHS.The company has confirmed it will offer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to healthy customers in England aged 12 and over from next week, at a cost of £98.95 a jab.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 26, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Boots Business Retail industry Health Society Coronavirus Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news
South Sudan: Urgent Vaccination Campaign Needed to Halt Deadly Measles Outbreak
[MSF] A measles crisis is mounting in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state, just as health authorities struggle to overcome a yellow fever outbreak. Since February, seven deaths among children under five and 460 cases have been recorded as of 24 March in three health facilities in Yambio and Nzara counties; 90 per cent of these children had never been vaccinated against the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 26, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Aid and Assistance East Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa NGOs and Civil Society South Sudan Source Type: news
Boots to start selling Covid vaccines privately... at almost £100 a pop! Huge shake-up of jab roll-out sees chemists offer top-up doses to all over-12s
Under a huge shake-up to the scheme, from April 1 the high street chain will sell single-dose Pfizer vaccines at 52 stores in England, at an eye-watering cost of £98.95. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
