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Economic burden of long COVID greater on women --studies

Tue, 2024-11-19 17:25 — mike kraft
Two studies describe economic burden, sex differences of long COVID Long COVID can cause substantial economic loss and missed days of work, and it can strike women more often than men—possibly because women have increased expression of an RNA gene implicated in autoimmunity—according to two new studies. CIDRAP

 

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Explainer: Vaccination side effects and what they indicate

Fri, 2024-10-18 17:40 — mike kraft
What Vaccine Side Effects Really Mean And is it bad not to have side effects after a shot? Jamie Ducharme TIME
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Mpox iN Africa: A call for action to prevent the spread.

Mon, 2024-05-13 10:32 — mike kraft

 

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Updated boosters expected t work against the COVID-19 XBB variant

Fri, 2023-08-18 19:13 — mike kraft
‘Eris’ COVID strain leaves vaccine strategy mostly unchanged Welcome to The Hill’s Health Care newsletter{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story ‘Eris’ strain leaves vaccine strategy mostly unchanged The updated COVID-19… emartin The Hill

The updated COVID-19 booster shots were designed to target the XBB variant, and they’ll still likely work just as well against the new dominant strain.

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Mpox cases rise in Africa, new infections reported in Europe

Mon, 2023-05-08 09:18 — mike kraft
Mpox cases rise 7% in Africa as Europe reports 17 new infections Africa has had a 7.4% case increase, with 111 new infections in the most recent 2 weeks. CIDRAP

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More African countries set to approve malaria shot, even before WHO approval

Fri, 2023-04-21 10:53 — mike kraft
More African countries set to approve malaria shot; 20 million doses ready in 2023 African countries are lining up to approve a new vaccine for malaria, with 20 million doses available for them to buy this year, the shot’s manufacturer told Reuters. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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Promising new malaria vaccine for kids receives first approval in Ghana

Fri, 2023-04-14 17:30 — mike kraft
Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana Ghana became the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine for young children that may offer better protection against the disease that kills hundreds of thousands every year. Preliminary results from early testing of the new vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, have suggested the vaccine is far more effective than the only malaria vaccine now authorized for use by the World Health Organization.
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EU drug regulator has not seen signal of possible Pfizer COVID shot stroke link

Thu, 2023-01-19 10:20 — mike kraft
EU drug regulator has not seen signal of possible Pfizer COVID shot stroke link The European Union's drug regulator has not identified any safety signals in the region related to U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech's updated COVID-19 shot, the agency said on Wednesday. Reuters Reuters

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Demand for COVID shots drops in Africa as supply rises

Wed, 2022-05-18 09:35 — mike kraft
When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn't get them. Now they don't want them Demand for COVID shots drops in Africa as supply rises. Edward Mcallister,Cooper Inveen Reuters

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Omicron BA.2 COVID variant has circulated in U.S. for some time--White House

Mon, 2022-03-14 19:14 — mike kraft
White House: Omicron BA.2 COVID variant has circulated in U.S. for some time The White House said on Monday that the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant of COVID-19 had been circulating in the United States for some time, with roughly 35,000 cases at the moment, and more money was needed to help fight it. Reuters Reuters
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