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Pfizer reports loss as COVID-19 revenues shrink
Pfizer reported Tuesday a loss following a sharp fall in the sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic from pandemic peaks.
Oct 31, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting, some highlights
The annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America was held this year from Oct. 11 to 15 in Boston and attracted participants from around the world, including scientists, physicians, and other health care professionals.
Oct 31, 2023
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Medical research
New discovery concerning receptors used by coronaviruses to enter human cells
The SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID-19 can cause severe acute respiratory syndrome, contrasting with other coronaviruses that were known to cause mild seasonal colds prior to its emergence in 2019. This raises the ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New method identifies children most at risk for severe RSV infection
Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, among others, have developed a prognostic model that identifies the children most at risk of severe RSV infection. The study, published in The Lancet Digital Health, can show which ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Medications
Shortage of shots that protect babies against RSV prompts CDC alert
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Child care centers unlikely source for COVID-19 transmission, study finds
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Can you get COVID-19 and the flu at the same time?
Influenza, COVID-19, the common cold and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are among the respiratory viruses that will be circulating this fall and winter seasons. These highly contagious viruses cause similar symptoms, making ...
Oct 20, 2023
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Health
The new vaccines and you: Americans better armed than ever against the winter blechs
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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Vaccination
IDSA: Maternal RSVpreF vaccine would cut clinical, economic burden
Maternal vaccination with a bivalent stabilized prefusion F subunit respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine (RSVpreF) is projected to reduce the clinical and economic burden of RSV lower respiratory tract illness (LRTI) ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Health
Public knowledge varies greatly on flu and COVID-19, surveys show
There is wide variability in what the U.S. public knows about the seasonal flu and COVID-19, but some facts are much more strongly associated with an individual's vaccination behavior.
Oct 12, 2023
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