Germany's BioNTech and US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Thursday announced "positive" results from initial trials of their combined mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 and influenza.
Oct 26, 2023
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Children in child care centers are not spreading COVID-19 at significant rates to caregivers or other children at the center, nor to their households, according to a study led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Demand for a new shot that protects babies against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has outpaced supply, prompting U.S. health officials to recommend the doses be saved for high-risk infants.
Oct 24, 2023
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Why are severe courses of SARS-CoV-2 infection much less common in children and adolescents than in adults? Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have now discovered that ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Last year's "triple-demic" marked the beginning of what may be a new normal: a confluence of respiratory infections—RSV, influenza, and COVID-19—will surge as the weather cools each year.
Oct 16, 2023
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As cold and flu season ramps up, health care experts are once again on high alert for the possibility of a tripledemic, or a surge brought on by the respiratory viruses that cause COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Artificial intelligence, AI, which finds patterns in complex biological data could eventually contribute to the development of individually tailored health care. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed ...
Oct 11, 2023
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In some ways, the link between viruses, vaccines and heart health is simple.
Oct 9, 2023
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Most respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated hospitalizations among seniors aged ≥60 years occur in those aged ≥75 years, and although RSV is less common among seniors, it is associated with more severe disease than ...
Oct 9, 2023
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Fall and winter are a time when highly contagious viruses that cause respiratory illness usually circulate heavily in communities. Because many of these viruses can lead to serious infection, hospitalization and even death, ...
Oct 6, 2023
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