Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine reduces the risk of omicron infection by 31% among children age 5-11 and by 59% among children age 12-15, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New Press Ganey research shows nearly 90% of Americans want drug and device manufacturers to offer online provider directories. But meeting consumer needs is easier said than done.
More than 18 million people died during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, which is more than would have been expected from past trends, researchers found.
The new phenomenon involves intragenomic rearrangements in which segments of various lengths of the untranslated region at the proximal 5’ end of the virus, in particular the 5’-leader sequence, are duplicated and translocated into the coding portion o…
The large health insurer Anthem intends to become Elevance Health, Inc. in a major rebranding designed to focus the company on “whole health” of customers and patients.
The worst of the pandemic is behind us, experts told Forbes, in part because the first two years provided valuable tools for the continued fight against both Covid and future disease epidemics.