Month: September 2021

The highly infectious variant of Covid-19 has contributed to a rise in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States. View original article Contributor: Víctor Manuel Ramos

Q. I am a 20-year-old old college soccer player who last week landed directly on my knee and felt a pop. I went to the team physician who thought my … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Championed by doctors and conservative radio hosts alike, monoclonal antibodies for Covid are in high demand — even from those who don’t want a vaccine. View original article Contributor: Benjamin Mueller

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee voted unanimously Friday to recommend booster doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those over age 65 and those at higher risk of exposure to the virus, including healthcare, frontline and essential workers, under emergency use authorization, but stopped short of recommending boosters for the general population. (Boosters … Read more

Troy Johnston swears he wanted to play by the rules. Johnston, who owns the Texas-based vaping company VaporSalon, tried to follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) guidelines for selling e-cigarette products, which required all manufacturers to file paperwork known as premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) by Sept. 9, 2020. In these applications, companies … Read more

The retired transplant surgeon recently accepted a position with a consulting company View original article Contributor: Lenny Bernstein

In June, the United States purchased 500 million vaccine doses to be distributed by Covax, the World Health Organization-backed initiative to share doses around the globe. View original article Contributor: Tyler Pager

The scheme was one of the more unsavory sides of the case against a half-dozen manufacturers of pelvic mesh including Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson. View original article Contributor: Matthew Goldstein