Just days after the United States rolled out child-sized doses of Covid-19 vaccine for children younger than 5, the Biden administration has launched a new ad campaign to encourage parents to give their kids the "best protection" against Covid-19: a…
Bacteria, viruses, yeast and parasites in your gut? It may sound like the stuff of nightmares,…
Bacteria, viruses, yeast and parasites in your gut? It may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but this collection of microbes is actually a health necessity, experts say.Called the microbiome, it consists of the millions of organisms that live in…
Social stress such as discrimination and family problems, along with job and money problems, can contribute to premature aging of your immune system, a recent study found. That's a double whammy, as the immune system already deteriorates with age.Immune aging…
Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 appear to escape antibody responses among both people who had previous…
Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 appear to escape antibody responses among both people who had previous Covid-19 infection and those who have been fully vaccinated and boosted, according to new data from researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Florida Department of Health are investigating "one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history," the CDC said Wednesday.The CDC said Thursday there have…
Dr. Sarah Schaffer DeRoo described in one word how she felt after getting her 7-month-old son vaccinated against Covid-19: thrilled.Her active baby boy sat in her lap at a vaccine clinic hosted by Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, while…
Covid-19 vaccines for children younger than 5 are rolling out this week. The US Food and Drug Administration and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on the shots' safety and efficacy. Like with any vaccine, though, it's…
The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are now authorized for emergency use in young…
Abbott has stopped production of EleCare formula in its Sturgis, Michigan, plant after severe…
The antiviral medication Paxlovid appears to be most effective in people whose age or underlying health…
Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital in Rocky Mount, Virginia, is full. It's managing its share of Covid-19 cases, as well as more typical problems for this time of year, like boating accidents. But staffers have also had to care for people…
Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration decided unanimously Tuesday in favor of expanding the emergency use authorization…
(CNN) — Many people dread the blaring sound of an alarm clock, signaling the start of a busy workday. Others wish they weren’t already awake and that the sound had actually woken them up.Waking up many minutes or even hours…
In the late summer of 2020, my colleague Jo Parker, a senior…
Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation. Yet leading mycologist Paul Stamets believes it's time for fans of psilocybin mushrooms to leave such childish slang behind."Let's…
What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find…
What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find a donor match and hope the patient's body doesn't reject the transplanted kidney?The soonest that could happen is in a decade, thanks…
The spread of monkeypox through small virus particles that linger in the air "has not been…
