The updated COVID-19 vaccines can reduce the risk of symptomatic infection by 54% among healthy adults, according to early estimates from the CDC.
Category: Public Health
Security guard injured in shooting at Kansas City hospital
A security guard at University Health Hospital-Kansas City (Mo.) was shot while escorting a discharged patient out of the building to a parking lot on Feb. 2. During a confrontation between the two, the patient was able to wrestle the guard’s gun away …
Possibility of Wildlife-to-Human Crossover Heightens Concern About Chronic Wasting Disease
A response is ramping up to a potential spillover of the neurological disease to humans from deer, elk, and other animals.
Possibility of Wildlife-to-Human Crossover Heightens Concern About Chronic Wasting Disease
A response is ramping up to a potential spillover of the neurological disease to humans from deer, elk, and other animals.
KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: The Struggle Over Who Gets the Last Word
As science skepticism pervades politics, the Supreme Court will soon consider two cases that seek to define the power of “experts.” Meanwhile, abortion opponents are laying out plans for how Donald Trump, if reelected as president, could effectively curtail abortion even in states where it remains legal. Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Samantha Liss, who reported and wrote the latest KFF Health News-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about a husband and wife who got billed for preventive care that should have been fully covered.
FDA issues warning on contaminated copycat eye drops
The FDA Is warning consumers not to purchase copycat eye drops from online retailers due to the potential risk of infection.
US syphilis rates soar: 10 states where they're highest
More than 207,000 syphilis cases were reported in the U.S. in 2022, the greatest number of cases since 1950 and an 80% jump since 2018, the CDC said in its annual report on sexually transmitted infection trends.
Surge in Syphilis Cases Leads Some Providers to Ration Penicillin
Injectable penicillin is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only treatment considered safe for pregnant people with the disease. But as rates of syphilis increase across the U.S., a shortage of the injectable has prompted some public health agencies to ration it.
Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in California, reversing decades-long trend
Santa Clara County in Northern California saw a 19% increase in tuberculosis cases between 2022 and 2023. It’s a trend that is also happening statewide, The Mercury News reported Jan. 30.
Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in California, reversing decades-long trend
Santa Clara County in Northern California saw a 19% increase in tuberculosis cases between 2022 and 2023. It’s a trend that is also happening statewide, The Mercury News reported Jan. 30.
