Feds wait for lowered vaccine efficacy to recommend COVID-19 booster shots
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will not be necessary until mRNA vaccines become less effective, federal health officials say. But immunocompromised Americans are potential near-term recipients, they told...
Cognitive decline tied to faster rate of bone loss, fracture risk: study
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
Women who experience cognitive decline may not only have faster bone loss than their peers, but have greater odds of fracturing a bone in the next 10 years — no matter the level of bone loss, investigators...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, July 22
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 22, 2021
JEA Senior Living to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees in its 40 communities … CDC: U.S. life expectancy declines to its lowest level in nearly 20 years … High-risk VA population responds well...
Functional impairment from COVID-19 may persist long after ICU discharge, studies suggest
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 21, 2021
Certain physical and mental health problems persist for years in some hospitalized survivors of acute respiratory diseases, suggesting that disability may be permanent for some severely ill COVID-19 patients...
FDA approves another pneumococcal vaccine that’s effective in older adults
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 21, 2021
Drugmaker Merck is encouraging the use of its new shot, Vaxneuvance, in older adults diagnosed with certain chronic medical conditions or who are immunocompromised.
New Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm has no clinical benefit, panel of medical experts concludes
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 21, 2021
The drug does not improve upon the current standard of care for Alzheimer’s disease, say advisers to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a drug pricing watchdog.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, July 21
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 21, 2021
Providers face legal backlash from vaccine mandates for employees … Large number of U.S. Latinx immigrants have COVID-19-related immigration concerns about testing, treatment … Michigan State developing...
Immune system boost is reason not to skip second COVID-19 shot, study finds
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Liza Berger
Jul 20, 2021
The second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine offers a serious boost to a part of the immune system that provides broad antiviral protection, according to a Stanford University School of Medicine study. This finding...
NIH head says full Pfizer vaccine approval could come this summer
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 20, 2021
Waiting for full federal approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is no reason to delay protection, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Monday, but those still holding out for the end...
Nearly 4 million worldwide likely have young-onset dementia
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Liza Berger
Jul 20, 2021
There are more younger people living with dementia in the world than previously thought, and that number is probably an underestimate. That is a conclusion of a systematic review of 95 studies that included...