TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s health ministry said on Monday that its panel of experts had agreed to approve manufacturing and sales of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 preventive treatment Evusheld. Evusheld is designed to protect against COVID infection for at least six months, and has been deployed in many countries for people with compromised immune systems who see little or no benefit from […]

Surgical patients who use telehealth services are much more likely to show up for their initial clinic visit or follow-up appointment during the post-surgery period than those who rely on in-person visits only. Research findings were presented at the Scientific Forum of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2022. During the early months of the COVID pandemic, when […]

E-bikes WON’T help you hit exercise goals, study claims E-bikers were 50% less likely to hit weekly exercise targets than normal cyclists  German study was based on fitness data gathered from nearly 2,000 cyclists Experts also found e-bikers were 63% more likely to suffer an accident in a year  Pedal power beats cruising on a e-bike when it comes to hitting your health […]

Maternal mortality in the United States has been rising for several decades, but actions taken at the community level, as well as larger public health initiatives, have the potential to slow this trend, according to experts at a webinar sponsored by the National Institute for Health Care Management. Maternal mortality in the United States increased by 14% from 2018 to […]

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Neil Patrick Harris is getting sentimental on Instagram, and we can’t blame him. In honor of his twins, who he shares with husband David Burtka, turning 12 years old, he shared a sweet side-by-side collage of himself with his arms wrapped around each child. A photo of him and daughter Harper standing on a beach shows just how similar they […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medical providers at Children’s National Hospital in Washington have become the latest targets of social media campaigns harassing U.S. hospitals for the treatments they offer transgender youths. In an audio recording posted Thursday by the conservative Twitter account Libs of TikTok, a Children’s National employee appears to say that the hospital offers gender-affirming hysterectomies to minors. Since […]

You could have the best doctor in the world who’s able to zero in on the exact type of IBS you have and make you feel reassured about treatment. You could also have a super strong registered dietitian, whose brain is like a vast encyclopedia of foods that will and won’t trigger your IBS symptoms. But even if you and […]

In a recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers measured the neutralizing titers of plasma samples against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) new variant of concern (VOC) Omicron's sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 with arginine (Arg)346 mutations. Study: Further humoral immunity evasion of emerging SARS-CoV-2 BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants. Image Credit: Alexyz3d/Shutterstock Background The receptor-binding domain […]

A survey of U.K. parents by Savanta ComRes, commissioned by the King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People’s Mental Health, reported that one in three (34%) parents say they think the rising cost of living could affect the mental health of their children a great deal, while seven in 10 parents (72%) say it could affect it at least […]