Public Health

Flu vaccination may reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 40%

Scientists from UTHealth Houston found that people who received at least one influenza vaccine were 40% less likely than their non-vaccinated peers to develop...

COVID-19 may be linked to thyroid diseases

Scientists from London Medical Laboratory found that there is a direct link between SARS-CoV-2 and abnormal thyroid function. They found two factors may be at...

Your BMI is linked to death and longer ICU stay for COVID

Scientists from the University of Gothenburg found in patients with COVID-19, a high body mass index (BMI) is associated with an increased risk of...

Vaccination and previous infection may not effectively stop newer COVID-19 subvariants

Scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that newer COVID-19 subvariants are less vulnerable to immunity induced by vaccination and previous infection. The research...

COVID-19 vaccines have prevented 20 million deaths worldwide

Scientists from Imperial College London found that COVID-19 vaccines reduced the potential global death toll during the pandemic by more than half in the...

A third vaccine dose may increase protection from omicron

The mRNA vaccines used against COVID were never designed to battle the omicron variant, a now dominant strain of the coronavirus that recently claimed...

A how-to guide to the latest COVID therapies

More than two years after COVID-19 became a household term, the drugs to treat it are still quite new and often hard to come...

Women more likely to suffer with long COVID, study finds

Scientists from Johnson & Johnson found women are much more likely to suffer from long COVID than men and will experience substantially different symptoms. The...

COVID-19 can rebound after taking oral med Paxlovid

Scientists from University of California San Diego found why COVID-19 can rebound after taking oral med Paxlovid. The research is published in Clinical Infectious Diseases...

The longest known COVID-19 infection is more than 500 days

In a recent study from King’s College London, scientists found that the longest known COVID-19 infection is 505 days. The patient tested positive for COVID-19...