
Virtual Event: The pandemic’s toll on mental health
Editor’s note: A recording of the event is embedded below. Isolation. Job loss. Anxiety about getting sick. For all the disease and death that the pandemic has caused, it is …
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Editor’s note: A recording of the event is embedded below. Isolation. Job loss. Anxiety about getting sick. For all the disease and death that the pandemic has caused, it is …
Read MoreCould the solution to emerging variants of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, some of which seem to make current vaccines less effective, be more of the current vaccines? While Moderna …
Read MoreThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made headlines last week when it announced that Covid-19 had reduced the average life expectancy of Americans in 2020 by a full year. …
Read MoreInfection fears have never slowed down Rev. Moneka Thompson. For more than 10 years, she’s visited patients hospitalized at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with tuberculosis, chickenpox, and any …
Read MoreOn Wednesday, federal officials quietly opened up access to VaccineFinder, a site that allows the U.S. public to search nationwide for approved Covid-19 vaccine providers. On vaccinefinder.org, users can enter …
Read MoreStatins — among the most successful drugs ever developed — prevent deaths from heart attacks and strokes but have long been dogged by the notion that they also cause muscle …
Read MorePfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine performed as well in the real world as it did in the clinical trial that led to its use, a large study conducted in Israel …
Read MoreModerna is pressing forward with a modified version of its Covid-19 vaccine meant to protect against an emerging strain of the virus, the company said Wednesday, planning to start a …
Read MoreThis week on “The First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with Catherine Mezzacappa and Ruth Faden about the long-standing reluctance to test and administer new vaccines, including those for Covid-19, in …
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