Nearly 90% of babies who had to be hospitalized with COVID-19 had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine while they were pregnant, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings appear in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Babies too...

Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz met in an October 1 vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News that was cordial and heavy on policy discussion — a striking change from the September 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

Gerri Norington, 78, never wanted to be on her own as she grew old. But her first marriage ended in divorce, and her second husband died more than 30 years ago. When a five-year relationship came to a close in 2006, she found herself alone — a situation that has lasted since.

In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically fueled scaremongering that also weakens efforts to...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on September 15 told viewers of NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump built up the Affordable Care Act, even though Trump could have chosen to do the opposite. “Donald Trump had two choices,” Vance, Trump’s running mate, said. “He could...

Cancer incidence trends in 2021 largely returned to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). However, there was little evidence of a rebound in incidence that would account for the decline in diagnoses in 2020, when screening and other medical care was disrupted. One exception was breast cancer, where the researchers did see an uptick in diagnoses of advanced-stage disease in 2021. The study appears September 24, 2024, in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

When pediatrician Eric Ball opened a refrigerator full of childhood vaccines, all the expected shots were there — DTaP, polio, pneumococcal vaccine — except one. “This is where we usually store our COVID vaccines, but we don’t have any right now because they all expired at the end of last year and we had to dispose of them,” said Ball, who is part of a pediatric practice in Orange County, California.

[On September 20], the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved FluMist for self- or caregiver administration. FluMist is approved for the prevention of influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and B in individuals 2 through 49 years of age. FluMist is sprayed into the nose and has been...

Research suggests that millions of adults with long COVID are unable to leave their beds and homes without severe health consequences. Tightening restrictions on telehealth, cross-state licensing laws, and a lack of insurance reimbursement for in-home services — coupled with a dearth of physicians skilled at treating severe long COVID — has left bedbound people unable to access quality medical care.

Adults who use the prescription drug metformin to treat their type 2 diabetes have a lower risk of developing long COVID or dying after a COVID-19 infection than people with diabetes who take other anti-diabetes medications, according to a large study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The...

Children infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can develop a rare, life-threatening complication called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). In MIS‑C, aberrant immune responses cause inflammation throughout the body. But it’s not clear how SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to MIS-C. To gain more insight, a team...

A NIAID study revealed how some variants of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—could evolve. The researchers used cutting-edge technology to examine genes from SARS-CoV-2 in people with and without HIV who also had COVID-19, looking at the different copies of the virus in individuals over time. They found that people with advanced HIV—as defined by reduced numbers of immune cells called CD4+ T cells—had dozens of SARS-CoV-2 variants in their bodies, compared to just one major variant in most people without HIV and people with HIV who had higher numbers of CD4+ T cells.

When Vice President Kamala Harris walked across the debate stage Tuesday night to shake the hand of former President Donald Trump, it was the first time the two had met in person. But that was the rare collegial moment in a face-off otherwise marked by false and sometimes bizarre statements by the former president.

In early August, farmworkers gathered under a pavilion at a park here for a picnic to celebrate Farmworker Appreciation Day. One sign that this year was different from the others was the menu: Beef fajitas, tortillas, pico de gallo, chips, beans — but no chicken. Farms in Colorado had...

If you’ve scrolled through social media posts recently, you might have seen posts announcing “the first person ever diagnosed with COVID-monkey-AIDS-pox” and stating, “This is getting serious guys.” The posts also include a news video from LA-based broadcaster ABC7. Below are two examples of social...

A report by The AIDS Institute found that 21 health insurance providers in 10 states violate rules regarding co-pay accumulator adjustment policies (CAAPs). Specifically, the insurers are not counting co-pay assistance toward enrollees’ deductibles, despite state laws and a federal ruling prohibiting the practice. Failure to enforce laws regarding...

COVID-19 is still here, and unlike the flu, seasonal waves continue to occur in both the summer and winter. This year’s summer wave appears to be on the wane, but in anticipation of the coming winter wave, the federal government will again offer free at-home nasal swab tests by mail.

Trisha Byers left behind one crucial item when she moved to North Carolina last year to be closer to her family after suffering a brain injury: health insurance. In Massachusetts, Byers, 39, was enrolled in Medicaid, the government health program that covers low-income people. But she was ineligible in North Carolina, which had not yet expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act. She said she racked up thousands of dollars in unpaid emergency room bills while uninsured for several months after her move.

The FDA has approved an updated COVID shot for everyone six months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest COVID outbreak sweeping the country, or hold it in reserve for the winter wave?. The new vaccine should provide some protection...

In the lead-up to this year’s Olympics, dozens of professional athletes have been sidelined by long COVID. The disease has a wide spectrum of severity. Elite athletes could be more likely than most people to notice more mild presentations of long COVID, which some experts think is much more widespread than currently acknowledged.