The US has officially adopted recommendations for the updated Covid vaccines, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday – paving the way to offer Covid vaccines to more than half of children in the US who were unable to access them while the recommendations were in limbo. Yet the delays, and the announcement itself, compound …
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The updated COVID-19 vaccine has arrived at large pharmacies in Chicago and is available to those who meet the federal Food and Drug Administration’s new, restrictive guidelines. Everyone else — including some young children — is likely to get access to the shot in the city but might have to wait a few more weeks. Doctors and medical experts say …
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025 NIH-funded clinical trial shows potential to simplify treatment for early syphilis. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the three-injection regimen used by many clinicians in the United States and elsewhere. These findings …
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Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images It felt like there was a collective sigh of relief when a study, published this week, suggested 10,000 steps a day isn’t the health utopia we had all been led to believe. The news that we only had to reach 7,000 steps was enough to quite literally stop us in our fervent …
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Dozens of restaurant goers in Wisconsin had the sort of meal you wouldn’t ever forget. A recent case report details how they were accidentally fed food made with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary ingredient in cannabis responsible for getting you high. Local health officials described the sitcom-like shenanigans in a report published Thursday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. …
Read More »The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social media platform X that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, Utah, were dismissed at her …
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