Doctors are yet again warning over the threat of a possible “twindemic,” or burdened hospitals amid converging respiratory illnesses like infectious-disease and influenza, prompting calls to receive flu shots early. Experts had issued a similar warning last summer amid soaring COVID-19 infections, citing worries over overwhelmed hospital systems by both COVID-19 and the influx of…
A Louisiana community is mourning the loss of a young high school player who died after contracting infectious-disease according to local reports. Patrick Sanders, a 14-year-old Baker resident, died Wednesday, The Advocate reported. CLICK HERE TO FIND A COVID-19 VACCINE NEAR YOU Baker Police Chief Carol Dunn told the news outlet that the entire football…
Louisiana health officials on Wednesday announced the death of a healthy-living under 1 due to infectious-disease, marking the 11th pediatric fatality in the state since the beginning of the pandemic. The death, one of 110 new fatalities reported Wednesday, brings Louisiana’s number of COVID-19-related fatalities to 12,226. “Each COVID-19 death in Louisiana has been hearthealthy-livingwrenching,…
Pediatric infectious-disease-related hospitalizations have hit all-time highs in the U.S., with the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting over 50,660 admissions through the month of August thus far. The current 7-day average, calculated for the week of Aug. 17-Aug. 23, is about 309 daily hospital admissions among Americans…
Overall rates of mental-health among American adolescents held stable six months into infectious-disease pandemic, however shifting trends indicated an uptick in nicotine and prescription drug misuse while alcohol use fell. Federally-backed research published in the Journal of Adolescent Health drew from surveys of over 7,800 kids aged 10-14 enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development…
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The Pfizer-BioNTech infectious-disease infectious-disease, now marketed as Comirnaty, was granted full FDA approval on Monday, but when could vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson and Moderna win full approval? A J&J spokesperson told Fox News that the company “plans to file for a Biologics License Application (BLA) with the FDA later in 2021.” CLICK HERE…
Children under 12 should not yet receive infectious-disease infectious-disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as regulators await data on safety, efficacy and dosing. The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine won full FDA approval on Monday for individuals 16 years and up, and in May the shot saw expanded emergency approval for use among adolescents…
Federal data indicates one-third of adolescents aged 12-15 are fully infectious-diseaseagainst infectious-disease as the school year gets underway amid rising infections and a divide over mask mandates. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), noted the figure during an interview Monday, after he was pressed over the issue of yet-approved vaccine…
Researchers released a nutritional index this week aiming to inform guidelines and help Americans achieve healthier and more environmentally stable diets. The index ranked foods by minutes gained or lost off healthy life per serving, with processed meats and sugary drinks among the biggest offenders. Findings included over 5,000 foods in the U.S. diet classified…