There’s no need for Covid booster doses right now, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health said Friday, as highly transmissible, new variants test the protections of the available vaccines. “Let me tell you where we are: the data is very clear, if you’ve gotten your two shots of Moderna or Pfizer or… Read More: There’s no evidence a Covid booster shot is necessary, says… »
The patient moved into a large assisted living facility in Raleigh, N.C., in 2003. She was younger than most residents, just 73, but her daughter thought it a safer option than remaining in her own home. The woman had been falling so frequently that “she was ending up in the emergency room almost every month,”… Read More: The New Old Age: Where There’s Rarely a Doctor in… »
December 19, 2018 Posted By Categories Joy Victory has been deputy managing editor of HealthNewsReview.org since 2016. She tweets as @thejoyvictory. In 2015, a few months before I started working at HealthNewsReview.org, Cosmopolitan magazine published my article, “Why are so many American women dying in childbirth?” Tired of women getting blamed for the problem, I… Read More: For both health care and health care journalism, there’s something… »
Emily CappielloNov 27 You know you should get a flu shot, but do you know what kind? Yep—there are a bunch, and getting the wrong one could leave you exposed. Image-Point-Fr/Shutterstock Most people go in for a flu shot expecting they’ll get just that: An injection that protects against the flu. As it turns out,… Read More: There’s More Than One Flu Shot: Which Should You Get? »