Month: May 2021

CNN Films' "Race for the Vaccine," produced and narrated by Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, traces the world-changing discoveries of the vaccines against Covid-19. Watch Saturday, May 15 at 9 p.m. ET. That will give the New York City mom time, she says, to see how the first groups of children as young as 12 respond to Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. It will also give her time to consult a pediatrician and then -- the hard part -- convince her husband, who has refused to get the shot himself, to let their child be vaccinated if Rodriguez indeed decides to go that route. "I'm going to be honest, I'm not going to rush it," said Rodriguez, 52, who lives in the Bronx and has been fully vaccinated for two weeks. "I want to see how other children are responding." The...

Photo: Irina Marwan (Getty Images) Certain food dyes may play a role in triggering symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), new research, done in mice, suggests. The study found that yellow and red food dye could trigger chronic gut inflammation in mice, but only if their immune systems were already dysfunctional. The findings will need to be further investigated, but they could carry some important implications for the treatment and management of IBD patients, whose symptoms are often triggered by specific foods and drinks. People with IBD develop prolonged episodes of gut inflammation, which can lead to recurrent flare-ups of symptoms like diarrhea, fever, and painful cramps. The exact causes of IBD are still a mystery, but it’s known that genetics and an imbalanced immune syst...

EAST GARDEN CITY, Long Island (WABC) -- A CVS employee is facing charges after police say he was found in possession of fraudulent vaccine cards on Long Island. The arrest happened around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday in East Garden City, where police on a drug trafficking investigation spotted a man sitting in a gray Mazda with the engine running. The man, 21-year-old Zachary Honig, exited the vehicle when officers approached, and after they asked him for ID, they spotted brass knuckles in the car when he opened the passenger side door. Inside the vehicle, they found a controlled substance and 62 COVID-19 vaccination cards. They said eight of them were fill out, with only the "name" section blank. The other 54 were blank. Some were dated for last week, while others were dated 30 days ahead. Autho...

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The guidance means that millions of fully vaccinated Americans can begin returning to pre-pandemic activities, including in-person school and work, which many have eschewed since last March. The country is seeing the lowest number of new daily cases it has had in eight months, and deaths have decreased from a high of about 3,000 per day on average in January, to about 600 per day, as many of the most vulnerable, including the elderly, have been inoculated.