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The FDA Expands Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Dose for All Adults
The FDA endorsed a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for all Americans over the age ... Read more
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U.S. Drug Overdoses Rose Sharply Last Year
The Covid-19 pandemic undoubtedly increased the number of Americans that died from overdoses. Provisional CDC data estimate that a record ... Read more
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Epidemiologists Warn of Covid-19 Winter Surge
The United States’ Covid-19 case numbers declined in September and October, but in the last two weeks the tide has ... Read more
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Pfizer’s Antiviral Pill Will Be Sold to Dozens of Poor Nations at a Discount
Pfizer will allow its oral antiviral medication for Covid-19 to be sold at lower prices in 95 developing countries around ... Read more
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Researchers Find Two New Symptoms Associated with Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest of all common cancers because it is difficult to detect and challenging to ... Read more
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Black Men Less Likely to Get Follow-Up MRI in Prostate Cancer Screening
A new study published in JAMA Network Open found that Black men are less likely to get follow-up MRI following ... Read more
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Pfizer Asks FDA to Approve Boosters For All Adults
Pfizer has asked the FDA to approve its booster Covid-19 vaccine for all eligible persons 18 years and older. It ... Read more
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Merck’s Covid Pill Approved in the UK
Merck achieved something unprecedented when the United Kingdom announced that it was authorizing the company’s antiviral pill to be used ... Read more
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Some Americans Will Have Medical Debt Wiped From Credit
The three major credit reporting companies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, will no longer include paid medical debt in their credit ... read more
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Natural Gas Used to Heat Homes Contains Some Harmful Chemicals
A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has found that several dangerous cancer-causing chemicals are present ... read more
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Uterine Cancer Claims Many Black Lives
Instances of endometrial cancer, also known as uterine cancer, are on the rise, especially among Black women. Cancer of the ... read more
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Babies and Toddlers Get COVID-19 Shots
The CDC has approved Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines for America’s youngest citizens. Children as young as six months will ... read more
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