Month: August 2021

The plan, which is still being developed, would involve administering third shots beginning in mid- to late September, one source added, pending authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration. Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday that the companies have submitted initial data to the FDA to support the use of booster doses for their Covid-19 vaccines. The plan could be announced as soon as this week, though the timing could slide. Until now, federal health officials have said boosters are not needed by the general population. Last week, the FDA authorized third doses for some people who are immunocompromised and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention almost immediately recommended giving those doses. News of the plan for boosters for most Americans was first reported by The ...

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition whereby the body cannot produce enough insulin or the insulin it does produce is not sufficiently processed by the cells. While this may seem harmless, insulin is tasked with regulating blood sugar - the main sugar found in blood. It is vital to maintain a delicate balance of blood sugar as uncontrolled rising glucose is known to affect the skin and cause a variety of skin diseases. In fact, a latest study has found 47 different types of skin diseases caused by high blood sugar. The association between the occurrence of skin diseases and diabetic condition, as shown in several clinical studies, highlights the importance of consistent efforts to track the cutaneous complications of type 2 diabetes. A group of researchers from China and the United St...

Related video above: Pfizer Booster Shot Causes Similar Effects to Second DoseU.S. experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the delta variant spreads across the country.Federal health officials have been actively looking at whether extra shots for the vaccinated would be needed as early as this fall, reviewing case numbers in the U.S. as well as the situation in other countries such as Israel, where preliminary studies suggest the vaccine’s protection against serious illness dropped among those vaccinated in January.An announcement on the U.S. booster recommendation was expected as soon as this week, according...

Freedom Rally at Courthouse Park Sonora, CA — Hundreds were in Courthouse Park in Sonora this afternoon for a “Freedom Rally” where ...

On “Fox News Sunday,” Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said the combination of waning effectiveness and the “nasty” delta variant “means we may need boosters, maybe beginning first with health-care providers, as well as people in nursing homes, and then gradually moving forward” with others, such as older Americans who were among the first to get vaccinated.