Search

CDC endorses more traditional Novavax COVID shot for adults 07/19/2022 06:46pm • U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax -- a more traditional kind of vaccine, health officials said Tuesday. Regulators authorized the nation’s first so-called protein vaccine against COVID-19 last week, but the final hurd Jan. 6 panel chairman has COVID, prime-time hearing still on 07/19/2022 12:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee, has tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its prime-time hearing on Thursday, according to a spokesman for the panel. Thompson, D-Miss., announced Tuesday that he tested positive for the virus on UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100 07/19/2022 12:20pm • LONDON (AP) — British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials said Tuesday. Britain's Health Security Agency said while the epidemic is expanding, the majority Scars of COVID persist for sickest survivors, their families 07/19/2022 12:03pm • Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on the pulse oximeter that he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19. Months after being warned that her partner might never hold his daughter, Vanessa smiles as the England soars as Euro 2022 deals with heatwave 07/19/2022 11:30am • LONDON (AP) — The record numbers of fans at the Women's European Championship have been treated to a star showing from host side England, even as they've had to contend with a record-breaking heatwave. The rest day Tuesday between the end of the group stage and England playing Spain in the first o WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double 07/19/2022 07:20am • LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalization rates have also doubled, although intensive care admissions have remained low. In a statement on Authorities in south China apologize over COVID-19 break-ins 07/19/2022 03:11am • BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China have apologized for breaking into the homes of people who had been taken to a quarantine hotel in the latest example of heavy-handed virus-prevention measures that have sparked a rare public backlash. State media said that 84 homes in an apartment comp Scars of COVID persist for sickest survivors, families 07/19/2022 01:04am • Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on the pulse oximeter that he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19. The 41-year-old father of six spent five months hospitalized a four-hour drive away from the Rapid antigen COVID at-home tests available for people who are blind, have low vision 07/18/2022 09:37pm • People who have low vision or are blind can place two orders for free, accessible at-home COVID-19 tests to be delivered to them by the U.S. Postal Service. The Biden-Harris administration launched the new initiative a few weeks ago to expand the availability of testing options that are more acce Chronic fatigue syndrome: Symptoms and treatments 07/18/2022 07:40am • In our busy lives there's little room for extreme exhaustion; however, for those diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome that is their daily reality. Chronic fatigue syndrome, also referred to as myalgic encephalomyelitis, is a little understood and complicated illness. Its hallmark symptom i World Health Organization declares Marburg outbreak in Ghana 07/17/2022 03:35pm • BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared Ghana’s first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month. The disease, a very infectious hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Eb Philipsen wins Tour stage, Vingegaard keeps lead, Roglic out 07/17/2022 12:52pm • CARCASSONNE, France (AP) — Jasper Philipsen of Belgium braved a heat wave to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France in a sprint on Sunday as Jonas Vingegaard kept the leader's yellow jersey. Primož Roglič, the 2020 runner-up and a key teammate for Vingegaard, abandoned the race before the star Studying the effects of long COVID 07/17/2022 09:27am • Since contracting COVID-19 back in January 2021, Ken Todd has never made a full recovery, making him one of the millions who suffer from "long COVID." "In everyday conversation people say, 'Hey, how are you?' Or in emails, 'Hi, hope all is well.' And those conversations and those questions ar South Korean capital celebrates 1st Pride parade in 3 years 07/16/2022 08:14am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of gay rights supporters marched under heavy police guard in the South Korean capital on Saturday as they celebrated the city’s first major Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus. Police were on alert because church-backed counterprotesters rallie Boost now or wait? Many wonder how best to ride out COVID's next wave 07/16/2022 08:00am • Gwyneth Paige didn't want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at first. With her health issues — hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma — she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer. "At that point, I didn't care if the vaccine killed me," she sai