Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A federal appeals panel on Saturday blocked implementation of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for organizations with 100 or more employees. The three-judge panel for the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals acted on an emergency lawsuit filed by state attorneys general opposing the mandate. In […]
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Key Takeaways Among adults with recently diagnosed Parkinson’s disease, those with concomitant type 2 diabetes had at study entry more severe motor symptoms and a greater overall burden of nonmotor symptoms compared with patients without type 2 diabetes. Patients with both Parkinson’s disease and type 2 diabetes compared with those without type 2 diabetes had at baseline higher rates of […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yoga studio owner David Gross felt relieved after Los Angeles passed a vaccine mandate that is among the strictest in the country, a measure that took effect Monday that requires proof of shots for everyone entering a wide variety of businesses from […]
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has perhaps inspired more conspiracy theories than any other event in recent memory. While other conspiracy theories resulted in vast swathes of misinformation spreading across the internet, most of these theories were limited to the West. The global nature of COVID-19 has resulted in the spread of this information across the world. Study: How conspiracists exploited […]
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Researchers from the University of Sydney and Monash University have made a significant discovery that uncovers what is happening at the molecular level when an organ transplant is recognized as foreign by the immune system. Working in mice, the team identified the precise molecular targets of transplant rejection and showed how this knowledge could potentially be used in the future […]
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Australia is opening up, people are mixing and mingling, ventolin with alcohol and schools are back. But there’s a downside. Sharing our lives with each other again also means sharing our germs. When we look at trends of illnesses in cities coming out of lockdown internationally, one thing is clear. We can expect to see more colds and flu. But […]
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Ever wondered how other people switch up their routines to look after their wellbeing during the winter months? We asked four self-professed early birds and night owls to share the changes they make as the nights draw in. With fewer daylight hours and colder weather to contend with, most of us adapt our routines in some way during the winter […]
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My cough isn’t Covid but people think it is. How can I stop it? DR ELLIE CANNON answers your health queries I have had a chronic seasonal cough for more than ten years and it’s having an increasing impact on my personal and social life. In the current situation with Covid, it makes things embarrassing. The only medication that relieved […]
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(Reuters) – The European Union’s drug regulator said on Thursday it was in discussions with AstraZeneca over possible authorisation of booster doses of the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine, after it already gave the green light to mRNA booster shots. “AstraZeneca is submitting data to us. Actually today they submitted a new package of data that could support an extension to use […]
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – People can get inoculated against COVID-19 and the seasonal influenza at the same time without compromising the vaccines’ effectiveness, a World Health Organization official said on Thursday. “Anybody can get both the vaccines together – there is no decrease in effectiveness of either of the vaccines when given together at one point of time,” Siddhartha Datta, raw […]
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