Pandemics
Most Alzheimer’s patients would pay up to $26,500 per year for new treatment Leqembi
Few seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will have access to the new treatment Leqembi due to its high cost and very limited coverage by Medicare. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted accelerated approval to Biogen and Eisai’s monoclonal antibody after the treatment appeared to modestly slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in clinical […]
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Successfully applying for Social Security disability is difficult. Applying as a long Covid patient is even trickier
Residents drop off Covid-19 PCR tests at a testing site run by the Centers for Disease Control, Federal Emergency Management Agency and eTrueNorth in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2022. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Christopher Perry got sick in July 2021, he thought he just had a bad cold. But after […]
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Fda approves Alzheimer’s drug that slowed cognitive decrease in medical demo
MRI picture of mind showing region of Alzheimer affected individual. Getty Illustrations or photos The Food items and Drug Administration on Friday granted accelerated approval for the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, formulated by Biogen and the Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai. The FDA’s approval will come immediately after scientific trial benefits published in November indicated that lecanemab […]
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Omicron XBB.1.5 is rising in U.S. though revised CDC data shows slower increase than previously reported
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday revised downward its estimate of how much the omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant is circulating across the U.S., though it continues to spread at a faster pace than other versions of Covid-19. XBB.1.5 made up 27.6% of sequenced Covid cases nationally for the week ending Jan. 7 compared […]
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CVS and Walgreens will provide mifepristone in pharmacies
Mifepristone (Mifeprex), a single of the two medicines used in a treatment abortion, is exhibited at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which supplies authorized medicine abortion expert services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Photographs Walgreens and CVS will promote the abortion pill mifepristone following the Foodstuff […]
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XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant is the most transmissible version of Covid yet, WHO says
XBB.1.5 strain, January 4, 2023, Suqian, Jiangsu, China. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant that’s currently dominating the U.S. is the most contagious version of Covid-19 yet, but it doesn’t appear to make people sicker, according to the World Health Organization. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, said […]
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Highly immune evasive omicron XBB.1.5 variant is quickly becoming dominant in U.S. as it doubles weekly
Gilnature | Istock | Getty Images The Covid Omicron XBB.1.5 variant is rapidly becoming dominant in the U.S. because it is highly immune evasive and appears more effective at binding to cells than related subvariants, scientists say. XBB.1.5 now represents about 41% of new cases nationwide in the U.S., nearly doubling in prevalence over the […]
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U.S. and global health officials are worried about lack of transparency from China on Covid outbreak
People receive inhaled COVID-19 vaccine at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Bijie, Guizhou province, China, December 29, 2022. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images U.S. and global health leaders say Beijing is not sharing enough information about the spread of Covid-19 in China, leaving the international community in the dark about […]
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U.S. will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid
Travelers check in at Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport in on Dec. 12, 2022, after China relaxed domestic travel restrictions. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid before entering the U.S., a federal health official said on Wednesday. All travelers two […]
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U.S. documents 100 million Covid situations, but extra than 200 million Us residents have almost certainly experienced it
The U.S. recorded more than 100 million formally identified and reported Covid-19 cases this week, but the selection of Us residents who’ve actually had the virus considering the fact that the beginning of the pandemic is possibly more than twice as substantial. Covid-19 has quickly contaminated more than 200 million in the U.S. by yourself […]
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