Health
Covid hospitalizations have doubled since May as omicron BA.5 sweeps U.S., but deaths remain low
People hospitalized with Covid-19 have doubled since early May as the even more transmissible omicron BA.5 subvariant has caused another wave of infection across the country, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. But deaths from Covid still remain relatively low given the number of infections right now, the officials said. Dr. Ashish Jha, who coordinates the […]
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WHO to convene second emergency meeting to decide if monkeypox is a global health threat as cases rise to 9,200
Health officer uses a thermal head to detect a monkeypox virus on arriving passengers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia on May 15, 2019. Jepayona Delita | Future Publishing | Getty Images The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it will convene a second emergency meeting next week to decide if monkeypox […]
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Perrigo unit asks FDA to approve first ever over-the-counter birth control pill
A pharmacist holds the compound PiDaNa of the company HRA Pharma in Hamburg, Germany. Daniel Reinhardt | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Perrigo Company said on Monday its unit HRA Pharma has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a daily birth control pill for over-the-counter sale, the first such request for this […]
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Teva lied about opioid role, New York says
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference at the Office of the Attorney General in New York on May 9, 2022, to make an announcement about protecting access to abortion. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images New York’s attorney general on Monday said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries lied to evade […]
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Pregnant Texas woman says unborn baby should count as car passenger after receiving HOV ticket
Emilija Manevska | Moment | Getty Images A pregnant Texas woman said her unborn baby should count as a second passenger in her vehicle after she received a ticket, citing Texas’ penal code in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s being overturned. Brandy Bottone, 32, of Plano, was pulled over June 29 after she drove […]
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U.S. scientists are enrolling nearly 40,000 patients in 4-year $1.2 billion study of long Covid
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at testing site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The National Institutes of Health is rolling out one of the largest studies in the world to understand long Covid in a high-stakes effort to find definitive […]
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Beijing city walks back plan to tighten Covid vaccine requirements — after just one day
Beijing city toned down a plan to require Covid vaccinations to enter some public venues, and maintained that a negative virus test was sufficient. Pictured here is a virus testing site in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s first large-scale attempt to require Covid vaccinations […]
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Theranos ex-COO Sunny Balwani found guilty in all 12 fraud charges 6 months after founder Holmes’ conviction
SAN JOSE, Calif. – In the final chapter of the Theranos saga, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the company’s former chief operating officer and ex-boyfriend of founder Elizabeth Holmes, was found guilty of all 12 criminal fraud charges. Balwani had no reaction as the verdict was read at the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California and […]
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Beijing city tightens Covid vaccine requirements as cases grow nationwide
Chinese cities like Beijing, pictured here on July 6, 2022, require negative virus tests from within the last 72 hours in order to enter most public spaces. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s capital city is set to require Covid vaccinations for entering gyms and some other venues, the […]
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Lesions, headaches, debilitating pain: Gay men with monkeypox share their stories
Computer generated image of multiple monkeypox viruses. Uma Shankar Sharma | Moment | Getty Images Even as Covid-19 restrictions have loosened, for many gay men, an uninvited guest called monkeypox has threatened to spoil long-anticipated festivities. Of the 6,924 confirmed monkeypox cases in the global outbreak, the vast majority have occurred among gay, bisexual and other men […]
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