COVID-19

Study results showed that a lower proportion of participants treated with LAGEVRIO had an acute care visit compared with those who received the placebo.

Data show significantly higher geometric mean titer ratios, meeting prespecified endpoints for superiority against the variant.

Kai Zhao, PhD, director of the Nasal Physiology and Therapeutic Center in the Department of Otolaryngology at Ohio State University College of Medicine, discusses how patients who have experienced a loss of taste and smell following COVID-19 infection may be impacted by this symptom for years without realizing it.

Now we must turn our focus to all recommended vaccinations.

Hispanic and individuals with lower incomes experienced sharper drops, reflecting emerging barriers and exacerbation of long-standing hurdles, analysis results indicate.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than 10.6 million children have tested positive for the virus in the United States.

Paxlovid treats COVID-19 in adults who do not require supplemental oxygen and who are at an increased risk of progression to severe disease.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic saw the rapid hemorrhaging of women from careers in science and medicine, research shows the toxicity experienced by women may be structural in nature.

Data from the phase 2/3 TeenCOVE trial in adolescents met the primary immunogenicity endpoint.

COVID-19 vaccine recommendations have parallel tracks for adults and parallel tracks for children broken down into whether an individual is immunocompromised.

Baricitinib (Olumiant) is indicated for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and COVID-19 in hospitalized adults.

The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted nearly unanimously for an emergency use authorization for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.

Pharmacies can help bring inequities plaguing health care systems to an end to ensure the COVID-19 pandemic does not follow trends of inequity experienced in the HIV pandemic.

The application submission paves the way for a potential decision as early as this month.

Research suggests that individuals receiving a vaccine, such as ones from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, were more vulnerable to infection by new variants.

Using machine learning, they find patterns in electronic health record data to help ascertain which individuals likely have the condition.

Consequences for untreated STEMI patients following the COVID-19 pandemic could include increased mortality, heart failure, and morbidities.

Dong Xu, PhD, MS, curators' distinguished professor at the University of Missouri College of Engineering, discusses how the use of artificial intelligence may help develop new drug therapies targeting multiple disease states.

The vaccine is also credited with saving more than $30 billion in health care costs and more than $40 billion in lost productivity.

Murray Aitken, executive director of IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, discusses the implications of the increase in spending on medicines in the United States in 2021.

Some states are pushing to increase scope of practice, expand programs.

Antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2 1 month after the booster dose were increased compared to before the booster dose in children 5 to 11 years of age.

The Labcorp Seasonal Respiratory Virus RT-PCR DTC Test is the first direct-to-consumer multi-analyte COVID-19 test to be authorized by FDA.

Educate patients about how to purchase and store medical products without hoarding resources.

Individuals who have recovered from the initial disease are in generally poorer health later on compared with the general population, the analysis shows.

Aklilu Tedla, vice president of strategy and business development at Cardinal Health, discusses the cell and gene therapies in the pipeline for approval by the FDA.

Larger increases were typically seen in states with fewer deaths related to COVID-19, lower unemployment among women, analysis finds.

Baricitinib (Olumiant) approved for the treatment of adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who require supplemental oxygen, non-invasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Second analysis indicates that parents of children with food allergies became less anxious during the pandemic.