Jgi/jamie Grill | Tetra Images | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration proposed new limits Tuesday on lead in baby food, in an effort to reduce exposure to a toxin that can impair childhood de...
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AT&T Throws Off Cash as Earnings Top Expectations
AT&T ‘s fourth-quarter earnings beat Wall Street’s estimates. A key metric for the wireless company also came in higher than expected. For AT&T (ticker: T), the driver this earnings season is...
FDA says most people probably need only one annual vaccine shot
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has laid out a road map for what Covid-19 vaccination may look like moving forward. In a briefing document published Monday, the FDA sai...
mRNA Covid Shots Safe And Effective In Children Ages 5-11, Large Study Finds—Though Vaccine Uptake Remains Low
Topline mRNA Covid vaccines, such as Pfizer and Moderna shots, are effective at preventing infection and severe illness and have low rates of serious side effects in young children, according to a stu...
New reports show travel risks around the world
From catching Covid-19 to getting caught in a blizzard, traveling can be risky business these days. But just how risky often depends on the destination — and how you define the risks. Safest cities: p...
Moderna says RSV vaccine is 84% effective at preventing disease in older adults
Moderna on Tuesday said its vaccine targeting respiratory syncytial virus is effective at preventing disease in older adults. The vaccine was 83.7% effective at preventing lower respiratory tract dise...
a full recovery not expected this year
Singapore is welcoming them back, but a full return of Chinese tourists isn’t likely in 2023, Singapore Tourism Board executives said at a press conference Tuesday. Singapore Tourism Board’...
Pfizer Covid booster likely doesn’t carry seniors’ stroke risk: CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said it is “very unlikely” the Pfizer omicron booster carries a risk of stroke for seniors after it launched an investigation into ...
U.S. uninsured rate fell during Covid pandemic, Medicaid, Obamacare coverage grew
The number of people in the U.S. without health insurance declined during the Covid-19 pandemic even as millions of people lost coverage through their employers due to layoffs. The uninsured rate in t...
Why Singapore isn’t singling China out
Singapore’s Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung told Parliament Monday that the government is not imposing new restrictions on travelers from China because limited flight capacity, combined with its...
250,000 kindergarteners are vulnerable due to drop in vaccination rate
Nearly a quarter of a million kindergartners are potentially vulnerable to measles due to a dip in vaccination coverage during the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Not discriminatory to Chinese travelers
South Korea on Tuesday hit back at claims that its Covid rules for Chinese travelers are “discriminatory,” saying more than half of its imported cases are coming from China. In a response ...
Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson issues correction warning
Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson is telling investors to brace for a winter downdraft. He warns S&P 500 is vulnerable to a 23% drop — bringing it to 3,000. “Even though a majority of insti...
Bernie Sanders urges Moderna not to hike vaccine price
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Moderna not to quadruple the price of its Covid-19 vaccine once distribution of the shots moves to the commercial market. In a letter to Moderna CEO Stephane Bance...
Chinese are angry at South Korea and Japan
Travel restrictions launched in the wake of China’s border reopening may be affecting where people there are booking trips. But it’s not out of spite, said several Chinese travelers who sp...
Patients would pay up to $26,500 per year for Leqembi
Few seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will have access to the new treatment Leqembi due to its high cost and very limited coverage by Medicare. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday gr...
Conspiracy Theorists Attack Jimmy Fallon’s XBB.1.5 Covid-19 Song
Jimmy Fallon, seen here backstage at the new musical based on the film “Almost Famous,” recently … [+] performed a song and dance on The Tonight Show about the XBB.1.5 subvariant of ...
CVS and Walgreens will sell mifepristone in pharmacies
Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, ...
Omicron XBB.1.5 is most transmissible subvariant, WHO says
XBB.1.5 strain, January 4, 2023, Suqian, Jiangsu, China. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant that’s currently dominating the U.S. is the most contagious versi...
omicron XBB.1.5 is immune evasive, binds better to cells
Gilnature | Istock | Getty Images The Covid omicron XBB.1.5 variant is rapidly becoming dominant in the U.S. because it is highly immune evasive and appears more effective at binding to cells than rel...
U.S., global health officials worry about China transparency on virus spread
U.S. and global health leaders say Beijing is not sharing enough information about the spread of Covid-19 in China, leaving the international community in the dark about the scale and severity of the ...
U.S. to require passengers to test negative for Covid
The Biden administration will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid before entering the U.S. as concern grows that widespread transmission of the virus in the worl...
Lemons, peaches and TCM bought as protection from virus
Farmers sort and package lemons at a workshop on November 24, 2020 in Neijiang, Sichuan Province of China. Huang Zhenghua | Visual China Group | Getty Images Covid cases in China saw a spike following...
Pack these snacks, says nutritionist
Travelers have a host of pathogens to dodge this winter, including the “tripledemic” of infections caused by Covid-19, flu and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). But there are steps people...
Millions at risk of losing Medicaid in the spring under $1.7 trillion federal spending bill
Millions of people who enrolled in the Medicaid public health insurance program during the Covid pandemic could lose their coverage in the spring if their state determines they no longer meet the prog...
Recession Threatens Europe’s Auto Makers But Hopes For A Mild Downturn Revive
Digital generated image of financial line charts falling down because of coronavirus COVID-19 on … [+] blue background. getty Who’d be a shareholder in a European automotive manufacturer? It’s n...
Pfizer and Moderna Shares Break Out. Here’s the Trade.
Drug stocks have been on fire lately, and over the past few weeks, the two leading covid-19 vaccine makers, Pfizer (PFE) – Get Free Report and Moderna (MRNA) – Get Free Report, have surg...
Getting More Exercise—‘The More Exercise The Better’—Cuts Risk Of Severe Covid, Study Finds
Topline Getting more exercise can help cut the risk of severe Covid-19, hospitalization and death, according to a study published Thursday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, which suggest...
Is MERS Coronavirus Really A Concern At The 2022 World Cup?
The 2022 World Cup has brought many travelers to Qatar. Are concerns about the so-called “camel flu” … [+] justified?(Photo by Visionhaus/Getty Images) Visionhaus/Getty Images Concer...
BQ, XBB omicron subvariants pose serious threat to boosters
Evusheld injection, a new COVID treatment that people can take before becoming symptomatic, in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Chris Sweda | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The omicron subvariant...
China’s Zero-Covid Policy Succeeded—Until It Didn’t. Here’s What Went Wrong And What Experts Think Could Happen Next.
Topline China announced it was relaxing some of its strictest Covid restrictions on Wednesday, a major policy shift that suggests Beijing is preparing to abandon its zero-Covid strategy in favor of le...