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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Editor’s note: This article has been provided by The Doctors Company, the exclusively endorsed medical malpractice carrier for the Society of Hospital Medicine. The pandemic has raised pressing questions around preventive measures, vaccines, and safe treatment, but it has also obscured

An advisory panel at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for Americans aged 65 and older and for some adults with underlying medical conditions that put them at risk of severe disease. But the panel declined to make the same recommendation — an additional booster after

A panel of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the use of vaccines in the United States has voted to approve third booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in line with the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization Wednesday — with some notable exceptions.  Those groups included among

Ways to reduce the risk of violence from firearms by people with dementia were described during a webinar hosted earlier this week by the BulletPoints Project, an initiative that was authorized and funded by California’s state legislature in collaboration with the University of California. Five million Americans, or 1.6% of the population, have Alzheimer’s dementia

A Santa Barbara County doctor who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is speaking out against the statewide requirement for health care workers to provide proof of vaccination starting Sept. 30. Vaccine Hesitancy Among Medical Professionals Hematologist and oncologist Dr. Mark Abate is one of the few medical practitioners who chose to remain unvaccinated despite the

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late Wednesday granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for a third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for those over the age of 65 and a wide swath of Americans at higher risk for infection.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel could vote on the use of a third shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, an agency official said while kicking off the two-day panel discussion on Wednesday. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting between Sept. 22 to 23 to discuss which

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Remdesivir (Veklury, Gilead) was found to reduce some COVID-19 patients’ risk of hospitalization by 87% in a phase 3 trial, the drug’s manufacturer announced Wednesday in a press release. Cardiologist Robert L. Gottlieb, MD, PhD, from Baylor University Medical Center in

LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) exposure in younger adulthood predicted later cardiovascular events independent of cholesterol in middle age, large observational cohorts showed. Coronary heart disease significantly correlated with cumulative LDL-C (HR 1.57, P=0.01 for trend) as well as time-weighted average LDL (HR 1.69, P<0.001 for trend) across four studies and a median of 16 years of

Vaccinated people can still yield high COVID-19 transmissions, according to a new study that examined the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in a federal prison in Texas were most inmates were vaccinated.  Delta Transmissions In Prison The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report Tuesday on a study about the COVID-19 outbreak among

From testing to treatment, Global Fund HIV services have been hampered by COVID-19. “We’ve been set back by COVID but we’ve seen remarkable resilience, a lot of innovation and creativity,” Siobhan Crowley MD, Head of HIV at the Global Fund, told Medscape Medical News.  Dr Siobhan Crowley “If you consider that 21.9M people are getting

As Alberta struggles with a devastating fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and Premier Jason Kenney faces turmoil within his own caucus, sources have confirmed to CBC News that embattled Health Minister Tyler Shandro will be shuffled out of his portfolio. Jason Copping, the minister of labour and immigration, will become health minister and Shandro

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The U.S. will lift travel restrictions in November for international travelers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including visitors from the U.K. and European Union, according to CNBC. The White House announced Monday that visitors will be required to show proof

The FDA granted accelerated approval to tisotumab vedotin-tftv (Tivdak), a first-in-class drug, for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer, drugmakers Seagen and Genmab announced. Tisotumab vedotin, a tissue factor-directed antibody and microtubule inhibitor conjugate, is indicated for women whose disease progressed on or following chemotherapy. Approval was based on findings from

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, but the official death toll has already surpassed the estimated fatalities from the 1918 influenza outbreak, making it the deadliest health crisis in recent American history.  Influenza Outbreak vs. COVID-19 Pandemic Johns Hopkins University reported on its website Monday that the deaths in the country due to COVID-19

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 has now killed at least 675,000 Americans, a death toll that has surpassed the estimates of the number of Americans who died during the 1918 influenza pandemic, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. Although the raw numbers match,

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech said on Monday their COVID-19 vaccine induced a robust immune response in five- to 11-year-olds, and they plan to ask for authorization to use the vaccine in children in that age range in Canada, the United States, Europe and elsewhere as soon as possible. The companies said the vaccine generated an

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont State Police has its first director of mental health programs to help coordinate and oversee the delivery of mental health services to people who come into contact with state police, officials said. Mourning Fox, who was deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Mental Health for the last four

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. “For me, it is 1972 all over again,” wrote Alan Braid, MD, a Texas physician who knowingly violated the state’s new law banning most abortions after 6 weeks, in a Washington Post editorial. Pfizer announced that a lower dose of its COVID-19 vaccine triggered a robust

When COVID-19 arrived, it quickly became clear that older age was the biggest risk factor for developing severe disease. Indeed, there are few diseases for which age is so clearly the most important risk factor. NHS doctors have seen this daily. There have been over 131,000 UK deaths from COVID-19, but early research (still awaiting

Adjuvant pembrolizumab (Keytruda) following complete melanoma resection could soon move to an earlier stage in the management of high-risk disease, suggest results from KEYNOTE 716. However, the results raise many questions, says an expert invited to discuss the new data. Adjuvant pembrolizumab is already approved in the USA for use in patients with melanoma with

The latest: Union leaders representing thousands of medical workers in Alberta have asked Premier Jason Kenney to deploy the military and Red Cross to shore up a health-care system they say is “collapsing right in front of our eyes,” due to rapidly rising COVID-19 cases. “It’s time to call in the military to help our