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The first vaccine advisory meeting is set to start after delays
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on vaccination practices, which had been scheduled to be held in February, has been postponed. “ACIP agenda items are always subject to change depending on what Working Groups have ready for consideration,” an official said. The committee’s independent advisors will hear from CDC staff on…
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On top of that, the HHS has been ordered to reduce spending on contracts
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts. The cuts apply to all divisions of HHS, which include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies. “These spending cuts will weaken public health in…
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Many federal health workers are losing their jobs
The US National Institute for Health recently cancelled over a hundred research grants funding HIV and AIDS research in the past few weeks, according to a Nature analysis. The CDC is losing its HIV prevention office as part of the restructuring. The Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Trump and Musk are tearing apart the government
The US Agency for International Development (USCISID) has shut down its website, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Famine Early Warning System Network (Famine early warning system). This comes after Elon Musk, who has been waging a campaign against USCISID, called it a “criminal organisation”. He said he and…
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The FDA fought the e-liquid industry at the Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the approval of flavored e-cigarettes to be sold in the country. The FDA had stopped looking at the marketing of e-cigarettes to children because it concluded that there was no way to allow flavoured e-cigarettes to be sold without harming large numbers of children. According to the…
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The CDC may revise its COVID isolation guidance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is considering dropping its isolation guidance for people with coronavirus, according to a report in the Washington Post. People who test positive for COVID-19 are advised to stay home for at least five days to prevent the spread of the disease. The CDC will advise people not…
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The Progressives feel abandoned by their allies in Israel
The US President Donald Trump’s administration is facing criticism for its response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Department of Health and Human Services said its response “may be insufficient”. Meanwhile, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, “While there has been no confirmed or suspected case…
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There were more asthma sufferers in the emergency room due to the smoke
Asthma-associated emergency room visits were 17% higher than normal during the 19 days of wildfire smoke in late April and early August, according to a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Wildfire smoke led to about 10% more ER visits compared to other times of year. It also had lower…
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There is a warning that the end of the covid emergency is imminent
The US has declared a transition point for the coronavirus pandemic, which will end on May 11. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop tracking community levels of transmission and instead will track overall hospitalisation and death rates. The messaging around “it’s over, we’ve won” is setting us up for a “huge betrayal…
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The example is being set by John Fetterman
US President Joe Biden held a summit on mental health and called it the “defining public health crisis of our time”. “We’re at a moment when more than half of our citizens are experiencing some sort of mental health issue,” he added. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 21…
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Eli Lilly will cap prices for many people with diabetes
Eli Lilly and Co said it will immediately cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin patients who are not covered by the recent Medicare Part D cap. This comes after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that over 37.3 million people have diabetes in the country, of which 25.8 million are adults. The average…
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Life-saving medications are rare for people addicted to opiate drugs
A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report has shown that 107,735 people died of drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending in July 2019. “We continue to see a flattening in overdose deaths… Biden-Harris Administration remains focused on getting more people with addiction connected to the care they need,” the report’s author…
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A recent study suggests that eating lunch with healthy ingredients may help reduce obese people
The Healthy, Hunger- Free Kids Act of 2010 reformed the school lunch program and the National School Breakfast Program, which provided meals to 30 million children. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 20% of children and adolescents age 2-19 are obese, which can lead to lifetime health complications including high…
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Here are some things you can do to make your holiday plans
US’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that people who haven’t had exposure to the virus should test positive for COVID-19 within five days of exposure. The agency added that people should stay in public wearing a mask until at least 10 days after exposure if they have a different viral illness.
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Older adults are especially good candidates to get a COVID booster.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday said the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine “performed well against COVID-19-associated hospitalisation in older adults”, a study found. The study was conducted by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
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A similar plan for Congress was put forward after the 9/11 Inquiry.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a report has said that the government needs to be “more transparent” in its evaluation of clinical research, which was slow in generating useful results on a range of issues, such as optimal vaccine schedules and the evaluation of drugs to mitigate COVID-19 symptoms. The agency also said…
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A VA study shows Paxlovid may help prevent long COVID.
The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 response technical lead for Europe, Maria Van Kerkhove, has said that the largemix of new variants was becoming more difficult for WHO to assess because countries were dialing back on their surveillance. The variants accounted for almost one in three new COVID-19 infections nationwide last week, according to the latest…
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The new Covid-19 models are poised to create a winter surge.
The US has reported its first cases of a new COVID-19 variant that has the same genetic changes as the original Omicron variant that was detected in January, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The new variant, XBB, was found to be three times less likely to be neutralized by…
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People who helped shape science in the 20th century.
Climate scientist and monkeypox watchman Svitlana Krakovska has been appointed as the chair of the World Health Organization’s International Advisory Group on Vaccination against COVID-19. She is a former director of the World Health Organization’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. She has previously served as the chairman of the US Centers for Disease Control…
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The ‘tripledemic’ drives demand and forces drugstores to limit sales of children’s medication.
The US has said that home COVID-19 testing is available on its website but only about 2% of results are reported. The White House said in the first week after it restarted the free home test programme, 11 million households took part. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 1.75 million…
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Children’s hospitals prepare for impact of holiday gatherings amid a vicious season of flu andRSV infections.
US President Joe Biden has said that the COVID-19 pandemic is the country’s “greatest public health emergency in history”. Biden added that his administration will “work tirelessly” to contain COVID-19, which he said “is already causing havoc” in the US. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the total number of cases…
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There is no Pandemic of the Unvaccinated Anymore.
US has the most COVID-19-related deaths in the last three years, making it the country’s third leading cause of death. Around 300 Americans are dying from COVID-19 daily, making it the country’s third-leading cause of death, the US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention said. Only about 14% of eligible Americans have got an updated…
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Drug overdose deaths in the US were at record levels during the Covid-19 vaccine outbreak.
The US reported a 12.5% rise in drug overdose deaths in July compared to the previous year, as per the data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number of drug overdose deaths increased by 50% compared to the same month last year, the data showed. Notably, the US has witnessed…
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Why is the A surging and how are scientists worried?
The total number of coronavirus cases in the US has increased to over 8.2 lakh, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Further, the death toll has crossed 2,00,000, while over 1.5 crore people have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The virus has been responsible for over half of…
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The White House is introducing a new system to keep an eye on overdoses.
Over 81,000 deaths from opioid overdoses were reported in the US in the last 12 months, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. The White House’s National Drug Control Policy Director Rahul Gupta said, “While we continue to see a flattening in overdose deaths…the Biden-Harris Administration remains focused on getting more people with…