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The company's efforts will include prototype vaccines against Middle East respiratory syndrome, the Ebola and Marburg viruses, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, chikungunya, and dengue. The company has already begun trials for HIV and Zika vaccines, Bloomberg reported.
The White House is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a federal judge who had upheld the Navy Seals' lawsuit against a Defense Department vaccine mandate. Separately, students are suing Santa Clara University over its booster mandate, alleging they experienced side effects.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she anticipates covid being s seasonal virus, and spread more during the colder months. In other pandemic news: half of the people in Houston who died of covid had diabetes, and that it may be causing more diabetes cases among younger people who had covid.
The shrinkage of brain matter was equivalent in size to at least one extra year of aging and as much as a decade. However, “it is possible that it is reversible,” said the lead author of the study, Gwenaëlle Douaud of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Oxford.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo didn't say when the new guidance from the state's department of health would become official and provided few details. But health experts immediately criticized the plan as needlessly putting millions of children in harm's way.
The Food and Drug Administration says it found no safety issues with meat from genetically altered cattle. The CRISPR-edited beef could hit the markets in two years, the FDA estimates.
The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft rule that would kick in by 2027 and impact large vehicles like tractor-trailer trucks and buses that emit toxic pollutants. Other environmental health stories report on asthma, extreme heat, tainted water, and more.
Over 170 million people born in the U.S. before 1996 — when the country banned leaded gas — were exposed to harmful levels of lead during their developmental years, a new study estimates. And that resulted in an average per-person drop in IQ of 2.6 points.
Editorial writers delve into these public health topics.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers weigh in on mask-wearing and also abortion.
AP reports that the invasion is threatening food supply chains to Europe, Africa, and Asia. Reuters reports on Chinese plans for aid supplies to Ukraine. Separately, Hong Kong's covid death rate is the highest in the world, and China's daily case rate is higher than it's been since the pandemic began.
Nearly 1,200 times last fiscal year — or roughly 1 in 7 cases — a medical examiner did not examine a body in person before identifying a cause of death, The Boston Globe reported. That nearly doubled the number of so-called chart reviews from the previous year, the newspaper said. It's all part of an effort to work faster and reduce a backlog of cases.
In other news, a study has shown that a weekly short muscle-strengthening exercise session could add years to your lifespan. And a report details the increased risks pregnant people will experience due to climate change — including exposure to extreme temperatures.
The plan by Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) would cover 90% of mental health service costs to children enrolled in Medicaid. Other reports say firearms killed 12.6 million Americans between 2009 and 2018. Suicides in Kansas and mental health responses to 911 calls are also in the news.
Temporary pandemic emergency changes have made addiction care via telehealth easier, and Medill News Service reports that there's pressure to maintain this type of access. Also: Amazon and Teladoc, a data breach at Ascension Michigan, a rapid test for African swine fever, and more.
L.A. Care, the nation's largest publicly operated health plan, is under fire for delaying care for lots of poor and at-risk members. Meanwhile, Microsoft is nearing a purchase of AI and speech recognition firm Nuance; the nursing home industry is pressing for staff agency regulations; and more.
Hiring rose across nearly all sectors by around 63,500 jobs last month. Media outlets, on the other hand, cover the ongoing health worker shortage, including difficulties in finding therapists. Medical supply shortages of different types are also reported.
An analysis by the Bay Area News Group of the four deadliest weeks of the delta and omicron surges finds that three times more vaccinated people died in the state during the omicron peak than during delta’s heyday. And public health officials in Philadelphia are concerned that vaccination efforts are not reaching enough children.
The plan comes after a demonstration Sunday, where the "People's Convoy" looped the Beltway twice. In other news, the Georgia Senate on Friday passed legislation that would ban any state, local agency or school from requiring anyone to get a covid vaccination.
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