July 21, 2020 Posted By Categories Gary Schwitzer is the founder of HealthNewsReview.org and has been its publisher for 14 years. He has been a health care journalist for 47 years. He tweets as @garyschwitzer or as @HealthNewsRevu. Before I even turned on my computer yesterday, the BBC had blared this headline about a trial… Read More »
“It’s been going on since February, so you need to sleep sometime, right? At least, I can’t just go on and on and on. We work sometimes 15, 16 hours a day. I’m not going to lie and say that’s every day, because that’s just not sustainable, at least not for me, anyway. Most of… Read More »
The widespread interruption of routine immunization programs around the world during the coronavirus pandemic is putting 80 million children under 1 year old at risk of contracting deadly, vaccine-preventable diseases, according to a report Friday by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The groups surveyed 129 poor and middle-income countries and… Read More »
Everyone has been told to remain at home to avoid spreading the infection. You should only leave your home to go food or medicine shopping, for medical help, traveling to and from work – where absolutely necessary – and for one form of exercise every day. More than 55,000 people in the UK have tested… Read More »
Experiments in rhesus macaques show that changing the mode of administration of an existing vaccine yields “amazing” results in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). Share on PinterestDelivering the TB vaccine intravenously rather than intradermally may prove significantly more effective. Globally, TB is one of the top 10 causes of death and the leading cause of… Read More »