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More than 2,200 Americans since 2017 have filed shoulder-injury claims to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, USA Today reports. But a rule change signed last month by then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar would remove shoulder injuries from the program, known as vaccine court.
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The playbook isn't finished, but efforts are intensifying to ensure the Summer Olympics will go on in Japan after last year's postponement. News reports are from Canada, England and India, as well.
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The tracking is relevant because it also might signal when people slip on taking medication aimed at controlling tremors, the research says. News is also on food safety, pay for essential workers, mental health and more.
Plans in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are central to President Joe Biden's covid-relief strategy and aim to help people who lost their jobs after the original enrollment periods.
Internal records were made public in late January after a 2019 Reuters motion to unseal 11 documents. A 2011 update of the popular anti-baldness treatment's label didn't include a warning about suicidal behavior even though the FDA had by then received reports of 10 suicides. Since 2011, the FDA has received reports of another 100 deaths linked to the drug.
The low-cost, reusable respirators could also help people who depend on facial expressions to better do their jobs, like teachers.
Stat and NPR look at the supply-chain issues that have created shortages and forced some rationing in California and could spread to other parts of the country.
A temporary restraining order until a Feb. 17 hearing was issued against Texas' plans to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program. The state had told patients they had until yesterday to find a new health care provider.
President Joe Biden signaled that he is willing to negotiate on who receives relief aid, but that the amount of the checks is firm at $1,400. Meanwhile, House Democrats pushed through a budget resolution that would allow for the package to pass along party lines via reconciliation.
While the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could receive emergency use authorization this month, Novavax is not far behind, with possible government authorization as early as April.
The city's sole vaccination site inoculated just 250 people with second doses Wednesday. In Ohio, nursing home residents are being revaccinated after Walgreens discovered it didn't keep the shots at the correct temperature.
"It's got your date of birth and your first and last name," Sandra Guile of the International Association of Better Business Bureaus told "Good Morning America." "With that information, there are some unsavory individuals out there that [will] try to open up credit cards, buy cell phones, go shopping."
With new cases dropping from January peaks, Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads with Americans to skip gatherings on Super Bowl Sunday to avoid covid spread.
With multiple covid vaccines available, British researchers will study the changes to efficacy of giving one Pfizer dose and one AstraZeneca dose. Current UK and U.S. guidelines say not to interchange the shots.
And in other school news, the city of San Francisco says it will sue its own school district to force it to reopen for in-person learning.
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