Health
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine and treatment drive second-quarter earnings beat
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment pill Paxlovid is seen in boxes, at Misericordia hospital in Grosseto, Italy, February 8, 2022. Jennifer Lorenzini | Reuters Pfizer’s second-quarter revenue and profit beat Wall Street expectations, driven by sales of its Covid-19 vaccine and its antiviral treatment Paxlovid. Pfizer’s revenue grew by 47% to $27.7 billion compared the same […]
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Millions still without sense of smell or taste after Covid-19
Still struggling with your sense of smell after a bout with Covid-19? You’re far from alone. About 5% of patients with confirmed cases of Covid-19 — some 27 million people worldwide — are estimated to have suffered a long-lasting loss of smell or taste, a new analysis suggests. In the analysis published Wednesday in The BMJ (the […]
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U.S. to release 786,000 additional monkeypox vaccine doses as outbreak spreads
The U.S. will make 786,000 additional monkeypox vaccine doses available to local health departments “as soon as possible” after the Food and Drug Administration approved the shots for distribution, the nation’s top health official said on Wednesday. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said the federal government will announce more allocations of the two-dose […]
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WHO recommends gay and bisexual men limit sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox
People line up outside the Test Positive Aware Network nonprofit clinic to receive the monkeypox vaccine in Chicago, Illinois, July 25, 2022 Eric Cox | Reuters The World Health Organization on Wednesday recommended that gay and bisexual men limit their number of sexual partners to protect themselves from monkeypox and help slow transmission of the […]
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Humana beats on earnings, guides higher. But profit-takers are out after recent all-time highs
Perhaps there’s also some disappointment out there that forward guidance wasn’t stronger. Source
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Watch live: Biden speaks about his negative Covid test and the broader pandemic effort
(Biden’s remarks are scheduled to begin at 11:30AM ET. Please refresh the page if the video above isn’t playing by then.) President Joe Biden will deliver remarks in the White House Rose Garden after testing negative for Covid-19 and ending the strict isolation measures he had been following since contracting the coronavirus last week. Biden’s […]
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Gun companies made more than $1 billion from assault weapon sales over a decade, House panel says
Fire arms are seen at the Bobâs Little Sport Gun Shop in the town of Glassboro, New Jersey, United States on May 26, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Major gun manufacturers have made over $1 billion in the last decade selling military-style assault weapons, according to an investigation by the House […]
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As more people report Covid rebounds after Paxlovid, experts insist cases are rare
When Dr. Anthony Fauci got Covid in June, he took Paxlovid, an antiviral drug for people with mild to moderate symptoms whose ages or immune statuses put them at high risk for severe disease. The treatment consists of three pills taken twice daily for five days. Fauci finished the treatment and tested negative for Covid. […]
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Scientists identify likely cause of mysterious children’s liver disease
More than 1,000 children in 35 countries have developed an unidentified type of severe acute hepatitis — or liver inflammation — since the first case was reported in the January 2022. Yanukit Raiva | Eyeem | Getty Images Scientists in the U.K. say they have identified the likely cause of a recent outbreak of mysterious […]
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Allegations of fabricated research undermine key Alzheimer’s theory
Allegations that part of a key 2006 study of Alzheimer’s disease may have been fabricated have rocked the research community, calling into question the validity of the study’s influential results. Science magazine said Thursday that it uncovered evidence that images in the much-cited study, published 16 years ago in the journal Nature, may have been doctored. […]
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