Heart inflammation risk remains rare after third COVID-19 vaccine dose
Scientists found a third dose of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine poses no more risk of heart inflammation than a second dose.
Everything you need to know about stuffy and runny noses
What's worse than a runny nose? A runny nose and stuffy nose at the same time.
Can you get COVID-19 booster and flu shot at the same time?
With flu season right around the corner in the United States, and Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus still circulating, many people are wondering if they should get their influenza vaccine and the latest COVID-19 booster shot together.
What causes severe COVID symptoms?
Since the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians and scientists worldwide have been working to understand how exactly the virus makes us sick.
That...
COVID-19 surges linked to spike in heart attacks
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, heart attacks were the leading cause of death worldwide but were steadily on the decline.
In a study from Cedars-Sinai,...
Long COVID common in U.S. adults with prior COVID-19 infection
Some people who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 can experience long-term effects from their infection, known as post-COVID conditions (PCC)...
Yale designs new nasal vaccine to fight COVID-19
Intramuscular vaccine shots, which are what most people have received to protect against COVID-19 infection, provide a broad-based immune response throughout the body and...
New evidence on rare blood clots after COVID-19 vaccination
Scientists found new evidence on the risk of developing this very rare blood-clotting condition after COVID-19 vaccination.
COVID-19 virus is becoming less severe, study finds
In a study from Massachusetts General Hospital, scientists examined the severity of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA.2 subvariant (the strain making a re-emergence this fall).
They...
Common cholesterol-lowering drug may lower COVID-19 severity, death risk
Statin drugs lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by slowing down the liver’s production of cholesterol.
They also increase the liver’s ability to remove LDL cholesterol...









