David Bennett Sr, the 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart, has died. He passed away yesterday, according to a statement from the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), Baltimore, where the transplant was performed. Bennett received the transplant on January 7 and […]
Israel has detected its first polio case since 1989 in a 4-year-old boy in Jerusalem, according to an announcement from the country’s Ministry of Health. The child wasn’t vaccinated against polio as part of routine vaccinations that children receive in Israel, the ministry said. The source of the disease in this case […]
Attacks on hospitals, ambulances and other health care facilities in Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent days and the country is running short of vital medical supplies, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The U.N. agency confirmed on Monday that at least nine people had died in 16 […]
Pfizer aims to have an Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine ready by March. Assuming it gains approval, it will mark the first revision of its messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine Comirnaty since the initial Emergency Use Authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Dec. 11, 2020. The variant-specific booster will […]
The official global COVID-19 death toll passed 6 million on Monday, marking another grim milestone as the pandemic enters its third year. The U.S. has reported the highest number of deaths by far, with more than 958,000 total deaths as of Monday morning, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. […]
As much of the country prepares to ditch their masks, mingle more closely, and return to ”normal,” not everyone can board that train. Connie Taylor Connie Taylor, 60, from Nashville, is as tired as the next person of the COVID-cautious routines. “It’s getting old,” she said recently. Despite that, she […]
France — During a round-table discussion at the French Senate, specialists in infectious disease and epidemiology presented their thoughts on what might happen after the Omicron wave passes. Will COVID become an endemic disease, or will new, worrisome variants emerge? Using various types of data, the experts shared their views which, […]
The currently available two-dose COVID-19 vaccines were not effective in preventing symptomatic disease caused by the Omicron variant, as determined on the basis of data from more than 800,000 Omicron-infected individuals. Early laboratory data suggested a substantially lower neutralizing antibody response to the Omicron variant compared to both the original […]
De acuerdo a un estudio realizado por el Grupo de Investigación en Infecciones Respiratorias del Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (ISS) del Hospital La Fe de Valencia, en colaboración con psiquiatras de la Universitat de València, se descubrió nueva evidencia que señala que una de las principales secuelas de la COVID persistente, duran un tiempo más prologado aún […]
Once the genetic sequence for SARS-CoV-2 was released in January 2020, every country in the world rapidly developed molecular tests to identify the novel coronavirus using PCR. There has since been an explosion in the availability of kits for testing, both for professional labs and at-home users. SARS-CoV-2 components N […]
