Latest Coronavirus News

• hMPV: Is There Cause for Concern? Reports of rising hMPV infections in China have attracted media attention, but experts say the virus poses low pandemic risk owing to widespread immunity.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Reducing Risk, One Mask at a Time: What the Science Says Could masks create a comeback as we move beyond COVID-19? Here are the latest insights into their impact and effectiveness on public health.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Drug Shortages: Does Canada Manage Them Better? Oncology drugs tend to “percolate to the top” of shortage lists that prioritize drugs of concern, said expert.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Drugmakers to Raise US Prices on Over 250 Medicines Starting Jan. 1 Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers Squibb's cancer cell therapies and...
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2024
• China Steps Up Monitoring Of Emerging Respiratory Diseases China's diseases control authority said on Friday that it was piloting a monitoring system for pneumonia of unknown origin, with cases of some respiratory diseases expected...
  Reuters Health Information, December 27, 2024
• COVID-19 Takes a Greater Toll on Kidneys Than Pneumonia A cohort study identified a link between COVID-19 and a faster decline in kidney function, especially following hospitalization, in contrast to pneumonia.
  Medscape Medical News, December 26, 2024
• US FDA Revokes Authorization for Four COVID Antibody Drugs The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revoked the emergency use authorization for four COVID-19 antibody-based drugs, including those from Eli Lilly and...
  Reuters Health Information, December 23, 2024
• Younger People and Long COVID: Underreported, Undertreated Long COVID appears to be more prevalent in young and middle-aged adults and may not be taken as seriously as in other age groups, resulting in compromised lives.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2024
• Management of Children and Adolescents With Long COVID At a recent congress in Berlin, Germany, clinicians were updated as to recent findings on post-COVID syndromes among children and adolescents.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2024
• US Sees Rise in Life Expectancy After Pandemic Decline COVID-19 continues to retreat from being a top cause of death in the US, and in turn, life expectancy last year rebounded further toward pre-pandemic longevity.
  WebMD Health News, December 23, 2024
• ACR 2024 Post-Exertional Malaise in Fatiguing Diseases: What to Know A new finding of post-exertional malaise in 20% of people with fibromyalgia might be an overestimate, but when post-exertional malaise is present, extreme caution is needed around prescribing exercise.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• When Kids See the World Differently: Insights Into AIWS Children who experience visual distortions and illusions should be examined for this rare neurologic condition.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2024
• What’s Behind Wild State-by-State Variations in Long COVID? New data show significant state and regional variations in long COVID rates, and experts think they know why.
  Medscape Medical News, December 17, 2024
• Alert Self-Replicating mRNA Vaccine for COVID Prevention Europe has approved two drugs for preventing COVID-19 infection: a monoclonal antibody and a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2024
• Your Guide to COVID Vaccines for 2024-2025 As of December 2, according to the CDC, just 19.7% of the US adult population and 9.4% of children had gotten the updated vaccine.
  WebMD Health News, December 11, 2024
• The Push for Off-Label Rx to Treat Long COVID: What Works? Vocal patient advocates and researchers argue that certain drugs could help long COVID sufferers via off-label use. Some have already seen positive results.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2024
• BCG Vaccine May Protect Against Long COVID Symptoms A clinical trial with long-term follow-up found that administering BCG vaccine during the active phase of COVID-19 appeared to offer protection against long COVID symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2024
• New Data: The Most Promising Treatments for Long COVID A collection of common and new medications is showing good results against the constellation of symptoms that individualize long COVID. Here’s the latest.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2024
• How 'Make America Healthy Again' May Have Found Its Moment Within days of Donald Trump’s election victory, healthcare entrepreneur Calley Means turned to social media to crowdsource advice.
  KFF Health News, November 27, 2024
• Trump Chooses US COVID Policy Critic Bhattacharya to Lead NIH President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Stanford academic and U.S. COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the country's top...
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2024