Vaccination

Clinical Decision Support in the Electronic Medical Record to Increase Rates of Influenza Vaccination in a Pediatric Emergency Department

5 hours ago | Pediatric Emergency Care | 3 articles

Objectives Vaccination against influenza has been shown to decrease the morbidity and mortality from the virus; however, rates remain below the Healthy People 2020 target of...
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Coronavirus: Drugs are 'essential' as a vaccine will take YEARS

5 hours ago | Daily Mail

Dr Nick Cammack, head of the Wellcome Trust's Covid-19 Therapeutic Accelerator project into promising therapies, urged caution to those pinning their hopes on a jab being...
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COVID-19 conspiracy theory put forth by Mikovits is demonstrably untrue

7 hours ago | News Medical

What past scientific fraud is at the heart of some current anti-vaccine and anti-COVID-19 conspiracy theories? Read the details in the Commentary "Fake Science: XMRV, COVID-19...
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A vectored vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2

11 hours ago | News Medical | 4 articles

The current pandemic of COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 , a betacoronavirus similar to that which caused the SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV...
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Fauci is 'optimistic' Moderna's coronavirus vaccine will work

12 hours ago | Daily Mail

America's top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, said he is 'cautiously optimistic' that one of several coronavirus vaccines being developed in the US will be ready...
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Artificial Intelligence transforms search for COVID-19 vaccines, cure

13 hours ago | Healio

Developers are using artificial intelligence to help researchers comb through thousands of studies and find relevant COVID-19 information for the development of potential...
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A 'triumph of hope over facts': The rise and fall of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

15 hours ago | Healio

The rise and fall of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as “game-changing” treatments for COVID-19 should come as no surprise to experts who have paid attention to the history...
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Moderna stock surge illustrates how markets are a pump-and-dump scam

20 hours ago | Natural News

Immediately after it was announced that preliminary trials on a new vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus supposedly showed some positive results, Moderna, the company behind the...
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An important new tool for developing COVID-19 treatments, vaccines

20 hours ago | ScienceDaily | 7 articles

Scientists have a new resource to help them better understand COVID-19 as they develop treatments and vaccines.
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Contact tracing app surveillance raising serious privacy concerns

21 hours ago | Natural News | 2 articles

The idea of mandatory vaccines might not be the only attack on personal freedoms to come out of the coronavirus crisis - people around the world must also contend with the idea...
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Pulmonary Complications Common in Surgery Patients With COVID-19

Pneumonia and other pulmonary complications occurred in half of postsurgical patients with perioperative COVID-19 in an international study, and these complications were... Read more ...

Outdoor Light at Night Linked to a Higher Breast Cancer Risk

Women living in towns and cities may be a higher risk of breast cancer as night-time exposure to light from street lamps could raise the risk of the disease by 10 percent... Read more ...

Better Patient Identification can Help Battle COVID-19

Matching patient records from different sources is not only achievable but necessary to stem the tide of the current novel coronavirus pandemic, reports a new study. Read more ...

COVID-19 Risk May Raise in Winter: Study

Covid-19 could be a seasonal illness with a higher risk in winter as researchers have found a one per cent decrease in humidity could increase the number of Covid-19 cases by... Read more ...

Two-metre Distance Helps Reducing COVID-19 Risk Effectively

Keeping at least two-metre distance from other people is significantly more effective at reducing the transmission of COVID-19 than one metre, according to a new study. Read more ...

One in every 16 Irish boys has autism: Crisis worse than COVID-19 and nobody...

According to National Health data released last week, autism incidence among Irish children is now at 4.3%, an 82% rise in five years. One in 16 boys is affected. US rates... Read more ...

COVID-19 Testing Supplies Still Needed, Lawmakers Told

WASHINGTON - Democrats and Republicans alike agreed at a House hearing Tuesday on the importance of ramping up testing for COVID-19, but they couldn't agree on whether the... Read more ...

Dr MICHAEL MOSLEY explains why losing weight could be a life-saver

As we have seen on the news, the Covid-19 virus is very selective about who it kills. Most people, particularly the young, shake it off. But others become extremely ill. Read more ...

Shortages of Hydroxychloroquine for Lupus Patients

More than one-third of U.S. lupus patients who take hydroxychloroquine have struggled to fill prescriptions for the drug during the COVID-19 crisis, a new survey finds. Read more ...

Protests Pose Particular Risks for COVID-19 Transmission

Nationwide protests about racial injustice in the U.S. not only ignited a political powder keg, but could also be sparking increases in COVID-19 transmission just as the... Read more ...