The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing challenges to a Biden administration vaccine mandate that requires eligible employees in Medicare or Medicaid-funded facilities to get vaccinated or receive an exemption.
Jan 13, 2022
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Entering a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the latest infection surge nationwide comes with many challenges. One of those is for a continued adequate supply of masks, including the often used N95 respirator masks ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Results from a study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), suggest that a common type of N95 respirator can be safely reprocessed to augment supply during future epidemics. Researchers at Beth ...
Jan 6, 2022
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France announced a staggering 332,252 daily virus cases Wednesday, smashing a string of recent records, as hospitals prepared drastic measures to brace for patient surges and the government strained to avoid a new lockdown.
Jan 5, 2022
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France is allowing health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients rather than self-isolate, an extraordinary stopgap measure aimed at easing staff shortages ...
Jan 5, 2022
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed Tuesday to speed up coronavirus vaccine booster shots, secure imported supplies of drugs to treat COVID-19 and reorganize medical facilities to respond to the fast-spreading omicron ...
Jan 4, 2022
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Federal health officials on Thursday pressed nursing home workers to get their booster shots amid a spike in COVID-19 cases among staffers and a concerning lag in booster vaccination for residents and staff.
Dec 30, 2021
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The U.S. government has approved California's overhaul of the nation's largest insurance program for low-income and disabled residents, officials said Wednesday, a decision that among other things allows Medicaid money to ...
Dec 30, 2021
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The Chinese city of Xi'an, where 13 million residents are currently confined to their homes, announced tightened restrictions on Sunday as the country recorded its biggest COVID-19 infection numbers in 21 months.
Dec 26, 2021
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Women in rural India who are poor, uneducated and marry early have the lowest odds of a safe birth such as in a hospital, according to a new study which analyses why for every 100,000 live births in the country's poorer states, ...
Dec 17, 2021
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