Preventive Medicine News

In updated guidance, the CDC said it is safe for fully vaccinated people to travel.

Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday that their COVID-19 vaccine was highly protective among children aged 12 to 15 years in a phase 3 trial.

A team of investigators who traveled to China did not find conclusive evidence of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, although they said humans were “likely to very likely” exposed through an intermediary animal host.

An exhaled breath test that uses high-pressure photon ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry accurately identified patients with lung cancer, according to recent data in JAMA Network Open.

As COVID-19 cases begin to rise again, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, pleaded with Americans to “just please hold on a little while longer” and “get vaccinated when you can.”

In a revised estimate, AstraZeneca said in a news release Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate demonstrated an overall efficacy of 76% against symptomatic disease in a phase 3 trial conducted mostly in the United States.

Many women receive conflicting information on their diet while breastfeeding children with food allergy, according to research published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced that the “balance of benefits and harms cannot be determined” in screening asymptomatic adults older than 50 years for hearing loss.

Last April, clinicians in London reported a cluster of eight children in 10 days who developed hyperinflammatory shock with multiorgan involvement, which they described in The Lancet as being similar to Kawasaki disease shock syndrome.

United States residents in counties with fewer primary care physicians to serve their population could potentially see sizeable increases in life expectancy with the addition of more PCPs, researchers wrote.