An elevated rate of Bell’s palsy was identified among elderly people after vaccination with a Pfizer booster shot, U.S. regulators said in a new study. The “small but statistically significant elevation” in Bell’s palsy was detected after vaccination with Pfizer’s old booster, which is no longer available in the United States, researchers with the U.S. […]
What if you could look at all the things you do daily—walking from room to room, preparing a presentation at your desk, running up and down stairs to deliver folded laundry, or taking a jog around the block—and know which ones will best help or hurt your brain? A new study attempted to answer that […]
U.S. health officials who spread inflated COVID-19 child death data in public meetings apologized to the source of the false data but not to the public, newly obtained emails show. Drs. Katherine Fleming-Dutra and Sara Oliver, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offered the false data in 2022 while U.S. officials […]
A bill proposed to the Connecticut State Legislature, if passed, will allow minors as young as 12 to receive vaccines without parental consent. Democratic Connecticut state Rep. Kevin Ryan on Tuesday introduced Bill No. 5480, which would amend the state’s current general statute by “allowing children twelve years of age and older to receive a […]
Two peer-reviewed German studies, published three weeks apart, found that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause recipients to produce a type of antibody that is less effective against the virus over time. This type of antibody is classified as IgG4. The first study, published in Science Immunology on Dec. 22 and titled, “Class Switch Toward Non-Inflammatory, Spike-Specific […]
House Republicans on Tuesday introduced legislation to end the COVID-19 public health emergency, coming about three years after it was implemented nationwide. On Jan. 11, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed that it would again extend the health emergency for another 90 days, according to a declaration issued by HHS Secretary […]
Thousands of striking New York City nurses have reached tentative deals with hospitals and will return to work after a three-day walkout over demands to increase nurse-to-patient ratios they said had led to overstretched staff and undercut patient safety. Negotiations ran into the late hours of the night Wednesday before tentative deals were struck with […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday confirmed it has extended the federal COVID-19 state of emergency. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra issued a declaration, saying that “after consultation with public health officials as necessary,” the administration decide to renew the emergency declaration that was first issued in early 2020 under the Trump administration. […]
You may know that being adequately hydrated is important for day-to-day bodily functions such as regulating temperature and maintaining skin health. But drinking enough water is also associated with a significantly lower risk of developing chronic diseases, a lower risk of dying early or lower risk of being biologically older than your chronological age, according […]
