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(MedPage Today) -- Young and middle-age adults who had at least one dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine were less likely to die of any cause in the following 4 years compared with those who weren't vaccinated, a nationwide French cohort study found...

More Health Workers Came in to Work With COVID as the Pandemic Wore On

(MedPage Today) -- Presenteeism -- showing up for work while sick -- increased in frequency from 2020 to 2024 among healthcare workers with COVID-19, particularly those with minimal to moderate patient contact, according to an observational...

Sleepy Donald? ‘Full House’ Star Has Cancer; $10M COVID Vaccine Settlement

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. As President Trump fights off questions about his health and energy levels, he appeared to doze off several times during a televised cabinet meeting on Tuesday...

Chairman of CDC’s Vaccine Panel Leaves for New HHS Job

(MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has replaced the head of his controversial vaccine advisory committee, federal officials announced Monday. Martin Kulldorff, PhD, is leaving the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...

Bond Set for Congresswoman Accused of Stealing $5M in COVID Funds

(MedPage Today) -- A federal judge in Miami set a $60,000 bond Tuesday for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.), who made her first appearance in court on charges of conspiring to steal $5 million in federal disaster funds meant to slow the...

Hitler’s Micropenis? Football Star Gets Liver Transplant; Benefits for Vax Refusers

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. DNA research revealed that Adolf Hitler had Kallmann syndrome, a rare sexual disorder affecting the development of sex organs during puberty; about one in 10 males...

Physician Mental Health Challenges Not a New Problem, Analysis Shows

(MedPage Today) -- More than one in 10 early- and mid-career physicians sought care for mental health or substance use (MHSU) in Ontario each year across nearly 2 decades of visits analyzed. Among nearly 30,000 physicians, the proportion with...

Conflicting COVID Shot Advice Likely to Push Vaccine Uptake Even Lower, Experts Warn

(MedPage Today) -- More than three-quarters of American adults didn't get a COVID shot last season, a figure that healthcare experts warn could rise this year amid new U.S. government recommendations. The COVID vaccine was initially popular. About...

COVID Infection Leads to More Heart Issues for Kids Than Vaccine

(MedPage Today) -- Children and adolescents had higher risks of rare vascular and inflammatory diseases after a first COVID-19 diagnosis, as well as a higher risk of rare myocarditis or pericarditis after a first COVID vaccine, but the risk after...

Pfizer COVID Vaccine Sales Tumble After Government Guidance on the Shots Narrows

(MedPage Today) -- The fall COVID-19 vaccine season is starting slowly for Pfizer, with U.S. sales of its Comirnaty shots sinking 25% after federal regulators narrowed recommendations on who should get them. Approval of updated shots also came...

COVID in Pregnancy Linked to Kids’ Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

(MedPage Today) -- Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection in utero was associated with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental diagnoses among children by age 3 years, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among over 800 children exposed to maternal...

Large Review Backs Safety, Effectiveness of COVID, Flu, and RSV Shots

(MedPage Today) -- Immunization against COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza effectively and safely reduced the risk of severe outcomes in people of all ages, according to a systematic review of 511 studies. Among adults...

Doctors Muffled as Florida Moves to End Decades of Childhood Vaccination Mandates

(MedPage Today) -- SARASOTA, Fla. -- Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the decision, including doctors, are afraid...

Despite the Hoopla, Vaccines Should Be in Reach This Cough-and-Cold Season

(MedPage Today) -- For people whose autumn agenda includes getting vaccinated against respiratory diseases -- COVID, flu, and, for some, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- this year may be surprisingly routine. Following several confusing...

Mask Mandates Are All Over the Map

(MedPage Today) -- As the nation enters respiratory virus season, mask mandate policies in healthcare settings are all over the map. In California's San Francisco Bay Area, county public health agencies next door to each other have adopted different...

Cancer Study Links COVID Shots to Longer Survival

(MedPage Today) -- BERLIN -- Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients starting immunotherapy were nearly twice as likely to be alive 3 years later if they got a COVID-19 vaccine around the time of treatment, a researcher reported here. Retrospective...

First-Trimester COVID Vaccination Not Linked to Major Birth Defects

(MedPage Today) -- Fetal exposure to maternal COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in the first trimester of pregnancy wasn't linked to an increased risk of 75 major congenital malformations (MCMs), according to a large French cohort study of pregnant women...

CDC Expands Access to COVID Shots for Pregnant Women

(MedPage Today) -- The CDC appears to have quietly expanded access to COVID shots for pregnant women. The agency's adult immunization schedule now recommends shared clinical decision-making under the "pregnancy" column. That's a change from even...

COVID Vaccines Still Effective Against Severe Outcomes, VA Study Suggests

(MedPage Today) -- Receipt of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine was associated with decreased risks of severe outcomes, according to an observational cohort study of U.S. veterans. Looking at COVID-associated outcomes in nearly 300,000 veterans at...

Mask Mandates Return; Unusual GLP-1 Side Effects; Calcium Supplements and Dementia

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Several California counties will require healthcare workers, and in some cases patients, to mask up during the upcoming respiratory virus season. (San Francisco...