COVID vaccine myth-busting can work, study suggests
A COVID-19 misinformation-busting messaging intervention that presented a myth followed by a fact among people who had completed the initial...
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US COVID levels may be peaking, CDC data show
Pawel Kacperek / iStock A study yesterday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes an outbreak earlier this year of Neisseria...
Three states take steps to ensure COVID vaccine access
Amid confusion in some states over whether pharmacies can provide COVID shots to residents before they are recommended by a...
In heated Senate committee meeting, RFK Jr says fired CDC chief lied about ouster
"We are the sickest country in the world; that's why we had to fire people at the CDC. They did...
New data: Interferon-alpha nasal spray cuts COVID infections in adult cancer patients by 40%
NIAID / Flickr cc Daily use of an interferon-alpha (IFN-α) nasal spray lowers the risk of COVID-19 infection in adults...
West Coast governors form health alliance to ensure vaccine access
NIAID / Flickr cc Daily use of an interferon-alpha (IFN-α) nasal spray lowers the risk of COVID-19 infection in adults...
Antihistamine nasal spray prevents COVID-19, study finds
Results from a single-center randomized controlled trial published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine show that azelastine, an antihistamine nasal spray...
Metformin may reduce risk of long COVID by 36% in overweight or obese adults
A large UK target trial emulation analysis of data from the COVID-OUT trial suggests that early use of the type...
In the wake of COVID, Osterholm takes on ‘The Big One’ in new book
If you asked most Americans, they'd probably tell you that one global pandemic in a lifetime is one more than...
New antiviral application for COVID-19 preventive drug submitted to FDA
Health officials in Papua New Guinea have confirmed the island nation's first human case of paralytic poliomyelitis, the World Health...