Aptitude Awarded Up to $54M BARDA Funding for At-Home Diagnostics
BARDA is partnering with Aptitude Medical Systems to accelerate development of two at-home molecular diagnostic tests for COVID-19 and influenza. ...
Tag: COVID-19
How Are Bivalent COVID Vaccines Stacking Up Against Omicron?
Bivalent COVID vaccines have now been in use for a few months – here’s how they’re stacking up against omicron Vaccines ...
Paxlovid Has Been Free So Far. Next Year, Sticker Shock Awaits.
Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent ...
Study: Cash Incentives and Lotteries Do Little to Increase Adult Vaccinations
Cash transfers had limited outcomes for increasing vaccination efforts among adults, according to research led by Columbia University Mailman School ...
Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Grant Awarded to Virginia Tech Researchers
Complex, ill-structured, and thorny challenges require a convergence of expertise to advance beyond disciplinary boundaries and develop new frameworks for ...
Black Veterans Hospitalized with COVID-19 Less Likely to Receive Treatments Than White Veterans
Black veterans hospitalized with COVID-19 were less likely to receive evidence-based treatments than their white counterparts but did not have ...
Feeling Winded After Your Workout? Long COVID May Reduce Exercise Capacity
We’ve heard about brain fog, fatigue and headache as symptoms of long COVID. Now a new study points to another ...
3 Ways Long COVID Patients’ Lung Function Can Suffer
“I just can’t do what I used to anymore.” As pulmonologists and critical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, ...
Many Children Hospitalized with COVID-19 or MIS-C Have Lingering Complications Months Later
National follow-up study identifies risk factors for a prolonged recovery In one of the largest follow-up studies to date, involving ...
Children Infected with a Mild Case of COVID-19 Can Still Develop Long COVID Symptoms
While research has revealed that children and adults hospitalized with COVID-19 are more susceptible to developing long COVID symptoms, a ...
Long COVID: National Academies’ Panel Examines Long-Term Health Effects of COVID-19
Long COVID is associated with multisystem dysfunction affecting the cerebrovascular, autonomic, peripheral, respiratory, and inflammatory systems, which may be caused ...
Pathogen Crescendo: Brass, Woodwinds Section Emit Respiratory Particles
Just like coughing, sneezing, talking and singing, playing wind instruments can spread respiratory particles that may carry the COVID-19 virus ...
Adverse Events After Simultaneous COVID-19 mRNA Booster, Flu Vaccination
Are systemic reactions more common after simultaneous administration of COVID-19 mRNA booster and seasonal influenza vaccines than after COVID-19 mRNA ...
Tonix Pharmaceuticals Opens Advanced Development Center for Vaccine Programs
Internal Manufacturing Capabilities Expected to Support U.S. Pandemic Preparedness Tonix Pharmaceuticals will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the company’s new ...
Resurgent COVID-19, Flu and Other Viruses are Pushing New Zealand’s Health System to the Limit
As Aotearoa New Zealand heads into the colder winter months, the pressures on our health system and staff are growing ...
Politics and Pandemic Fatigue Doom California’s Covid Vaccine Mandates
In January, progressive California Democrats vowed to adopt the toughest Covid vaccine requirements in the country. Their proposals would have ...
Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the ...
NIH to Further Invest in Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network
Expanded funding will support activieitechnology development and clinical testing of prototype point-of-care systems. The National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and ...
Where is Testing Needed Most During Pandemic Surges? WVU Researchers Develop Machine Learning Prediction Tools
West Virginia University scientists are applying machine learning and geographic data to understand where places with low vaccination rates need ...
BugSeq Awarded BARDA DRIVe Funding to Develop Next-Gen Diagnostics for Any Respiratory RNA Virus
BugSeq Bioinformatics, a biotech company developing next-generation microbiology assays, has entered a public-private partnership with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research ...
