US officials say risk of locally acquired malaria remains low as number of cases nationwide jumps to seven

US officials say risk of locally acquired malaria remains low as number of cases nationwide jumps to seven

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Barrington Sanders, a Miami-Dade mosquito control inspector, sprays a pesticide to kill adult mosquitoes on June 29, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images US public health officials say the risk of locally transmitted malaria remains low in the country seven new cases in … Read more

Medicare will allow drug companies to publicly discuss drug price negotiations

Medicare will allow drug companies to publicly discuss drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Hundreds of 1199SEIU health workers staged a rally and sit-in to block 3rd Avenue, where some were arrested. They were protesting health care cuts in Gov. Kathy Hochuls’ Medicare budget. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images Medicare said Friday it will allow drug companies to … Read more

More than $200 billion in Covid loans could be stolen by fraudsters, watchdog says

More than 0 billion in Covid loans could be stolen by fraudsters, watchdog says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE (L-R) Kevin Chambers, director of anti-fraud, COVID-19, Department of Justice; Hannibal “Mike” Ware, Inspector General, Small Business Administration; Michael Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee; and Roy D. Dotson Jr., Acting Special Agent in Charge, National Coordinator for Pandemic Fraud Enforcement, United States Secret … Read more

Walgreens cuts earnings forecast due to lower consumer spending and drop in demand for health care due to Covid

Walgreens cuts earnings forecast due to lower consumer spending and drop in demand for health care due to Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People approach a Walgreens pharmacy on March 9, 2023 in New York City. Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Walgreens cut its full-year profit guidance on Tuesday after missing Wall Street expectations for the fiscal third quarter due to lower consumer spending and a … Read more

Drugmakers want Supreme Court to block Medicare drug price negotiations

Drugmakers want Supreme Court to block Medicare drug price negotiations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmaceutical CEOs testify before the Senate Finance Committee on “Drug Prices in America: A Prescription for Change, Part II” on February 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. From left to right are Richard A. Gonzalez, Chairman and CEO of AbbVie Inc; Pascal Soriot, CEO and Managing Director … Read more

Biden should nominate Mandy Cohen to lead the CDC

Biden should nominate Mandy Cohen to lead the CDC

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, speaks at a news conference Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at the Emergency Center in Raleigh, NC, to encourage parents of young children to get the Covid-19 Vaccine. Bryan Anderson | AP President … Read more

House Democrats pressure Walmart, Costco, Kroger to sell abortion pill mifepristone

House Democrats pressure Walmart, Costco, Kroger to sell abortion pill mifepristone

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, packets of mifepristone pills are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Democratic lawmakers called on Thursday walmart, Costco, KrogerSafeway and Health Mart to publicly commit to selling prescription abortion pills mifepristone … Read more

A million people have lost Medicaid coverage since the pandemic protections expired

A million people have lost Medicaid coverage since the pandemic protections expired

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 testing site in New York, the United States, on March 29, 2022. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images At least 1 million people have been kicked out of Medicaid since … Read more

FDA advisers to consider whether Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi should get full approval

FDA advisers to consider whether Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi should get full approval

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE [The stream is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you don’t see a player above at that time.] A panel of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration is meeting Friday to make a recommendation on whether the Alzheimer’s … Read more

FDA advisors recommend AstraZeneca antibodies to protect infants against RSV

FDA advisors recommend AstraZeneca antibodies to protect infants against RSV

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Drawn by Nami | A moment | Getty Images A panel of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Thursday that the antibody nirsevimab be approved for use to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virusthe leading cause of hospitalization in newborns. If nirsevimab … Read more

Lawmakers worry that Medicare’s Alzheimer’s plan won’t provide access to new treatments

Lawmakers worry that Medicare’s Alzheimer’s plan won’t provide access to new treatments

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) speaks alongside U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg after touring the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during a news conference at the Port of Long Beach on January 11, 2022 in Long Beach, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty … Read more

FDA approves Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults

FDA approves Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Luis Alvarez | Digital Vision | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine it developed on Wednesday Pfizer which protects adults age 60 and older from respiratory syncytial virusa common pathogen that kills and hospitalizes thousands of elderly people each year. Pfizer said … Read more

Scientists propose long definition of Covid based on key symptoms in major study

Scientists propose long definition of Covid based on key symptoms in major study

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE South_Agency | E+ | Getty Images The scientists it funds the federal government have proposed a definition long covid based on symptoms found in a large study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The definition is based on 12 symptoms that most … Read more

CDC urges mpox vaccination among high-risk people to prevent summer surge

CDC urges mpox vaccination among high-risk people to prevent summer surge

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Bottle of booster vaccine against MPXV smallpox and monkeypox. Angelp | Istock | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday urged gay men and other individuals at high risk of mpox to get fully vaccinated to prevent a summer resurgence of the … Read more

A universal flu vaccine based on mRNA technology will be tested by the National Institutes of Health

A universal flu vaccine based on mRNA technology will be tested by the National Institutes of Health

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman receives a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination center in Antwerp, Belgium, on February 1, 2022. Johanna Geron | Reuters Patients are now being enrolled in an early phase clinical trial to test a universal flu vaccine based … Read more

The WHO says the outbreak of mppox, the largest in history, is no longer a global health threat

The WHO says the outbreak of mppox, the largest in history, is no longer a global health threat

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pharmacist Uchita Parikh prepares a dose of Jynneos monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic opened today by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library on August 3, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The World … Read more

The public health emergency due to covid in the US is ending, leaving behind a devastated healthcare system

The public health emergency due to covid in the US is ending, leaving behind a devastated healthcare system

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign outside a hospital advertises testing for COVID-19 on November 19, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images USA public health emergency stated in response to COVID-19 ends Thursday more than three years after the pandemic began. The The Biden administrationThe decision … Read more

FDA advisors recommend selling birth control pills without a prescription

FDA advisors recommend selling birth control pills without a prescription

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Opill oral contraceptive Source: Perrigo Panel from experts who advises Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Wednesday that the agency allow women to get birth control pills without a prescription for the first time. The Commission was asked whether the advantages of the sale HRA Pharma‘s … Read more

Jury finds Gilead Sciences did not infringe government patents on HIV prevention treatment

Jury finds Gilead Sciences did not infringe government patents on HIV prevention treatment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The logo of pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences is seen in Oceanside, California, on April 29, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters A Delaware jury acquitted him Tuesday Gilead Sciences allegations by the US government that it infringed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s patents on … Read more

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will resign in June

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will resign in June

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky leaves after testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on the All Hazards Preparedness Act in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday, May 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | … Read more

After the public health emergency ends, the CDC will have less data to track Covid and new variants

After the public health emergency ends, the CDC will have less data to track Covid and new variants

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People walk past a Covid-19 testing site in Times Square on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will have less data to track the spread COVID-19 and new versions in … Read more

WHO declares end of global public health emergency due to Covid

WHO declares end of global public health emergency due to Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 20, 2021. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization declared on Friday that the spread of Covid-19 is no longer a global public health emergency. … Read more

CVS beats earnings and revenue but lowers profit outlook

CVS beats earnings and revenue but lowers profit outlook

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE CVS location in New York, USA on Thursday, February 9, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images CVS Health on Thursday reported first-quarter results that beat expectations for profit and revenue, but the company lowered its full-year profit guidance due to costs related to recent … Read more

Gilead Sciences is battling the US government in court over a patent to prevent HIV

Gilead Sciences is battling the US government in court over a patent to prevent HIV

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Gilead Sciences logo displayed on a laptop screen and medical pills are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on October 18, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Gilead Sciences and the US government faced … Read more

On May 11, Biden will end the covid vaccine mandates for federal workers and international travelers

On May 11, Biden will end the covid vaccine mandates for federal workers and international travelers

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Passengers wearing protective masks receive nasal swabs from nurses at a COVID-19 testing site inside Terminal B at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration will end its covid-19 vaccine mandates for federal … Read more

Bipartisan attorneys general urge Medicare to cover Alzheimer’s treatment

Bipartisan attorneys general urge Medicare to cover Alzheimer’s treatment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Alzheimer’s drug LEQEMBI is seen in this undated photo of a handout obtained by Reuters on January 20, 2023. Eisai | via Reuters Democratic and Republican attorneys general in nearly half of US states are urging Medicare to provide unlimited coverage for Alzheimer’s antibody treatment, … Read more

Alzheimer’s patients may wait years to get treated with new drugs, putting them at risk of more severe disease

Alzheimer’s patients may wait years to get treated with new drugs, putting them at risk of more severe disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Juanmonino | E+ | Getty Images Seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will face major hurdles to get treated even if promising new drugs roll out more broadly in the coming years, putting them at risk of developing more severe disease as they wait months or perhaps … Read more

Eli Lilly says the obesity drug tirzepatide has resulted in weight loss of up to 34 pounds

Eli Lilly says the obesity drug tirzepatide has resulted in weight loss of up to 34 pounds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist displays a box of Mounjaro, an injectable tirzepatide drug used to treat type 2 diabetes and manufactured by Lilly, at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 29, 2023. George Frey | Reuters Patients who took Eli Lillyweight loss medicine tirzepatide lost up … Read more

Eli Lilly misses earnings but raises full-year guidance

Eli Lilly misses earnings but raises full-year guidance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical bottles and syringes are seen with the Eli Lilly and company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 10, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Eli LillyFirst-quarter profit on Thursday missed expectations, … Read more

Alzheimer’s disease: Medicare will cover Leqembi for all patients if FDA approves drug, CMS chief says

Alzheimer’s disease: Medicare will cover Leqembi for all patients if FDA approves drug, CMS chief says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Chiquita Brooks-LaSure testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, April 15, 2021, during a hearing on her nomination to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington. Caroline Brehman | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Medicare will cover the … Read more

Vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic says the Mpox outbreak was a call to prepare for smallpox

Vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic says the Mpox outbreak was a call to prepare for smallpox

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California on August 9, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Manufacturer mpox the vaccine is looking for ways to dramatically increase its production capacity … Read more

The CEOs of Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi will testify before the Senate about lowering insulin prices

The CEOs of Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi will testify before the Senate about lowering insulin prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE This photo shows an insulin pen from Novo Nordisk on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | News Getty Images | Getty Images Management of three pharmaceutical companies that control 90% of the world insulin trg will testify before the Senate Health Committee on … Read more

The Senate legislation would cap insulin at $35 a month for people with private insurance

The Senate legislation would cap insulin at  a month for people with private insurance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, insulin pens manufactured by Novo Nordisk are shown on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Bipartisan Senate legislation introduced Friday would cap the price of insulin at $35 a month for people with private insurance. The billprepared by … Read more

Supreme Court postpones ruling on mifepristone abortion restrictions until at least Friday

Supreme Court postpones ruling on mifepristone abortion restrictions until at least Friday

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Demonstrators protest in support of abortion rights outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 15, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order Wednesday allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market without … Read more

Anti-abortion group asks Supreme Court to uphold mifepristone restrictions

Anti-abortion group asks Supreme Court to uphold mifepristone restrictions

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Anti-abortion protesters celebrate outside the United States Supreme Court as the court ruled in the abortion case Dobbs v. Women’s Health and overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters An anti-abortion group urged the Supreme … Read more

FDA allows additional micron covid vaccinations for the elderly and people with weak immune systems

FDA allows additional micron covid vaccinations for the elderly and people with weak immune systems

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sylvester Fisher receives a flu shot from pharmacist Patricia Pernal during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on September 9, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. The vaccines were offered at the event along with pneumonia vaccines and the … Read more

Supreme Court temporarily blocks abortion pill restrictions

Supreme Court temporarily blocks abortion pill restrictions

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Abortion rights advocates gather in front of the US Supreme Court on April 14, 2023 in Washington to speak out against restrictions on the use of the abortion pill. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked … Read more

The Supreme Court has been asked to block a ruling that threatens access to mifepristone for abortion

The Supreme Court has been asked to block a ruling that threatens access to mifepristone for abortion

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, packets of mifepristone pills are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Abortion pill distributor Danco Laboratories asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block an order that threatens access to mifepristone. … Read more

Key court decision does not restrict access to abortion pills in 17 states, Washington State AG says

Key court decision does not restrict access to abortion pills in 17 states, Washington State AG says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of two drugs used in medical abortion, is shown at a women’s reproductive clinic that provides legal medical abortion services in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images The abortion pill mifepristone will remain fully … Read more

US appeals court allows abortion pills mifepristone to remain on market but blocks delivery by mail

US appeals court allows abortion pills mifepristone to remain on market but blocks delivery by mail

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this 2018 photo, mifepristone and misoprostol pills are available at the Carafem medical abortion clinic in Skokie, Illinois. Erin Hooley | News Tribune | Getty Images A federal appeals court has allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the US market for now, but … Read more

Anti-abortion group says appeals court lacks power to block Texas abortion pill decision

Anti-abortion group says appeals court lacks power to block Texas abortion pill decision

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Matthew Kacsmaryk, deputy counsel at First Liberty Institute, answers questions during a nomination hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, on Dec. 13, 2017, in a video photo. Reuters An anti-abortion group at the center of a legal battle over the abortion pill … Read more

New York and California are stockpiling the alternative abortion pill misoprostol

New York and California are stockpiling the alternative abortion pill misoprostol

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Misoprostol pills, used to terminate early pregnancies, are displayed at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 12, 2022. George Frey | Reuters New York and California are stockpiling huge quantities of the alternative abortion drug if a federal judge’s order ending the Food and Drug … Read more

Justice Department asks judge to clarify legality of abortion pill mifepristone after battle with court rulings

Justice Department asks judge to clarify legality of abortion pill mifepristone after battle with court rulings

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this 2018 photo, mifepristone and misoprostol pills are available at the Carafem medical abortion clinic in Skokie, Illinois. Erin Hooley | News Tribune | Getty Images The Biden administration asked a federal judge on Monday to clarify how it should respond to his order to … Read more

Justice Department asks appeals court to keep abortion pill mifepristone on the market while litigation plays out

Justice Department asks appeals court to keep abortion pill mifepristone on the market while litigation plays out

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at the New Mexico Women’s Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, U.S., on January 13, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to … Read more

Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults should be monitored for Guillain-Barre nervous system condition, scientists say

Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults should be monitored for Guillain-Barre nervous system condition, scientists say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a flu vaccine before giving it to a local resident in Los Angeles, the United States, on December 17, 2022. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images People receiving PfizerThe RSV vaccine for older adults should be monitored for Guillain-Barre syndrome after two … Read more

Idaho prohibits adults from helping minors cross state lines to obtain abortions without parental consent

Idaho prohibits adults from helping minors cross state lines to obtain abortions without parental consent

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Idaho Governor Brad Little speaks on the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC, at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a law Wednesday that would ban adults … Read more

Millions will begin losing Medicaid coverage as the Covid safety net is dismantled

Millions will begin losing Medicaid coverage as the Covid safety net is dismantled

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Hundreds of 1199SEIU health workers staged a rally and sit-in to block 3rd Avenue, where some were arrested. They were protesting health care cuts in Gov. Kathy Hochuls’ Medicare budget. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images US states will begin excluding as many as 15 … Read more

The Biden administration has appealed a Texas court decision ending free Obamacare preventive care coverage

The Biden administration has appealed a Texas court decision ending free Obamacare preventive care coverage

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Members of the media ask questions of U.S. President Joe Biden as he walks to the Marine One helicopter to depart for a trip to Mississippi to view tornado damage from the White House in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Biden … Read more

A judge has struck down Obamacare’s coverage for preventive care for cancer, diabetes, HIV and other diseases

A judge has struck down Obamacare’s coverage for preventive care for cancer, diabetes, HIV and other diseases

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A doctor examines an MRI and looks for a brain tumor or stroke in a patient. Choochin | Istock | Getty Images A federal judge on Thursday struck down an Obamacare mandate that required most private health insurance plans to cover preventive care, such as certain … Read more

Dueling court cases in Washington state and Texas could decide the legality of abortion pills

Dueling court cases in Washington state and Texas could decide the legality of abortion pills

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Two federal judges will soon issue rulings in a battle that could dramatically affect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In Washington state, U.S. Judge Thomas Rice is weighing whether to overturn federal mifepristone regulations that make access difficult even where abortion is legal. He is … Read more

FDA approves over-the-counter sale of opioid overdose rescue drug Narcan Nasal Spray

FDA approves over-the-counter sale of opioid overdose rescue drug Narcan Nasal Spray

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the sale of over-the-counter Narcan nasal spray to reverse opioid overdoses, a decision that promises to significantly expand access to the life-saving treatment. The FDA’s decision means people will be able to buy the 4-milligram nasal spray in … Read more

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel defends five-fold increase in covid vaccine prices during Senate grilling

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel defends five-fold increase in covid vaccine prices during Senate grilling

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Modern Chief Executive Stephane Bancel on Wednesday defended the company’s plans to raise the price of its Covid-19 vaccines fivefold, fending off pressure at a Senate hearing to scrap the increase while defending his compensation. Moderna plans to raise the list price of its vaccine by … Read more

Watch live: Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel testifies before Senate on Covid vaccine price hike

Watch live: Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel testifies before Senate on Covid vaccine price hike

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE (The hearing will begin at 10:00 a.m. ET. Refresh the page if the video does not automatically play at that time.) Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel testified before the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday about the cost of the company’s vaccine against covid-19. The Boston biotech company … Read more

The potentially deadly fungus candida auris is spreading at an “alarming rate,” the CDC says

The potentially deadly fungus candida auris is spreading at an “alarming rate,” the CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The fungus, which is often drug-resistant, has spread throughout US healthcare facilities at an “alarming rate”, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Candida auris is an emerging fungus that is serious and potentially fatal to hospitalized patients, especially those with multiple medical conditions. … Read more

Texas judge could invoke Comstock Act of 1873 to invalidate delivery of mifepristone abortion pills by mail

Texas judge could invoke Comstock Act of 1873 to invalidate delivery of mifepristone abortion pills by mail

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A US judge in Texas may try to invoke an obscure 19th-century law called the Comstock Act to quash delivery of the abortion pill mifepristone by mail. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. Northern District of Texas heard oral arguments last Wednesday in a closely watched … Read more

Biden signs legislation to declassify some intelligence on the origins of the Covid pandemic

Biden signs legislation to declassify some intelligence on the origins of the Covid pandemic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE President Joe Biden on Monday signed legislation requiring the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to release information about possible links between a laboratory in China and the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. Parliament and Senate passed the law unanimously earlier this month. The effort … Read more

Abortion pill fight: Read transcript of Texas court hearing on fate of mifepristone

Abortion pill fight: Read transcript of Texas court hearing on fate of mifepristone

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Abortion rights advocates gather outside the J Marvin Jones Federal Building and courthouse in Amarillo, Texas on March 15, 2023. Moises Avila | AFP | Getty Images A federal judge in Texas this week heard arguments for the first time in a closely watched case challenging … Read more

A US judge in Texas will soon rule on the abortion pill mifepristone. Here’s what can happen

A US judge in Texas will soon rule on the abortion pill mifepristone.  Here’s what can happen

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine wants Judge Kacsmaryk to overturn the FDA’s medical approval of mifepristone, which would effectively ban the abortion pill in the US. Senate Judiciary Committee | YouTube A Texas judge is about to issue a key ruling in a closely watched case … Read more

Senate Democrats urge Walmart, Costco, Albertsons and Kroger to sell abortion pills mifepristone

Senate Democrats urge Walmart, Costco, Albertsons and Kroger to sell abortion pills mifepristone

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this 2018 photo, mifepristone and misoprostol pills are available at the Carafem medical abortion clinic in Skokie, Illinois. Erin Hooley | News Tribune | Getty Images Senate Democrats urged Walmart, Costco, The Albertsons and Kroger sell prescription abortion pills mifepristone and clearly tell customers how … Read more

Citing ‘death threats’, Texas judge asks lawyers to hush up news of abortion pill legality hearing

Citing ‘death threats’, Texas judge asks lawyers to hush up news of abortion pill legality hearing

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A federal judge presiding over a key case that could decide the future of the abortion pill in the US has cited death threats and harassing phone calls, asked lawyers not to release the date of the key hearing and told them that “less advertising better.” … Read more

A judge has announced the date of the abortion pill hearing after being criticized by the media for secrecy

A judge has announced the date of the abortion pill hearing after being criticized by the media for secrecy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A federal judge in Texas has publicly disclosed that he has scheduled a hearing in the case of is trying to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone after it was criticized by the media for trying to keep the procedure … Read more

Veterans Health will cover Leqembi Alzheimer’s treatment for some patients

Veterans Health will cover Leqembi Alzheimer’s treatment for some patients

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Health Care Administration will take care Eisai and BiogenAlzheimer’s treatment Leqembi for some patients, the companies said Monday. In a statement, Eisai said veterans in the early stages of the disease who meet VHA criteria are eligible for Leqembi coverage. The company did not provide … Read more

North Carolina lawmakers step in to defend abortion pill restrictions in case of FDA power testing

North Carolina lawmakers step in to defend abortion pill restrictions in case of FDA power testing

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Boxes of the drug Mifepristone, used to induce a medical abortion, are readied for patients at a Planned Parenthood health center in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal judge on Friday allowed North Carolina lawmakers to defend restrictions on the … Read more

House votes unanimously to declassify intelligence on origins of Covid pandemic and send bill to Biden

House votes unanimously to declassify intelligence on origins of Covid pandemic and send bill to Biden

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit of a World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origin of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on February 3, 2021. Thomas Peter Reuters The House of Representatives … Read more

Biden’s budget would cap monthly insulin prices at $35 for people with private insurance

Biden’s budget would cap monthly insulin prices at  for people with private insurance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman who had type 1 diabetes since she was a teenager shows her insulin for injection on March 2, 2023 in New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images President Joe Biden The federal budget proposal would cap insulin prices at $35 a month for people … Read more

California will not renew $54 million contract with Walgreens over birth control pill policy

California will not renew  million contract with Walgreens over birth control pill policy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Walgreens store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images California will not renew a $54 million contract with Walgreens due to the drugstore chain’s decision not to sell the abortion pill in some states … Read more

Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s treatment with solanezumab failed to slow disease progression

Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s treatment with solanezumab failed to slow disease progression

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly said on Wednesday it would halt development of its Alzheimer’s treatment candidate solanezumab after the antibody failed to slow the disease’s progression. The failure of solanezumab is a blow to efforts to treat Alzheimer’s disease in people who are in the very early stages … Read more

Florida state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks

Florida state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, speaks with Dr. Audrey (R) before having an abortion at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2022. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images Florida state lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation … Read more

Republican states say the FDA has no authority to override state bans on abortion pills

Republican states say the FDA has no authority to override state bans on abortion pills

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Boxes of Mifepristone, a drug used to induce medical abortion, are readied for patients at a Planned Parenthood health center in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration’s authority to approve drugs does not override state bans on abortion … Read more

California governor says state won’t do business with Walgreens over stance on abortion pills

California governor says state won’t do business with Walgreens over stance on abortion pills

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE California Governor Gavin Newsom successfully defeated a recall attempt in California last year. When asked if he was preparing to run for president, Newsom insisted that was not the case. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images California Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state will no … Read more

The FDA will review Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi with a full approval decision expected in early July

The FDA will review Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi with a full approval decision expected in early July

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Andrew Brookes | Image Source | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration will decide whether to give full approval Eisaiand BiogenAlzheimer’s treatment Leqembi by July 6, the companies said on Monday. Leqembi is an antibody treatment that targets the brain plaques associated with the mind-robbing … Read more

FDA advisors recommend GSK’s RSV vaccine for older adults, but flag potential safety risks

FDA advisors recommend GSK’s RSV vaccine for older adults, but flag potential safety risks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker prepares a flu vaccine before giving it to a local resident in Los Angeles, the United States, on December 17, 2022. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images An independent board of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration made the recommendation Wednesday GlaxoSmithKline’s … Read more

Lilly to cut insulin prices by 70%, cap prices at $35 a month for people with private insurance

Lilly to cut insulin prices by 70%, cap prices at  a month for people with private insurance

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Drug manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co. said Wednesday that it would cut the prices of the most commonly prescribed insulins by 70% and cap monthly prices at $35 a month at certain retail pharmacies for people with private insurance. Lilly said it will list its Lispro … Read more

FDA advisors recommend Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults, despite potential risks of Guillain-Barre

FDA advisors recommend Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults, despite potential risks of Guillain-Barre

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Blood sample for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) test. Jarun011 | Istock | Getty Images Independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for adults 60 and older despite safety concerns after two vaccinated people developed a rare neurological disorder. Although … Read more

Watch live: Biden warns of GOP plans to limit access to health care

Watch live: Biden warns of GOP plans to limit access to health care

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE (The stream is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. ET. Refresh the page if you don’t see the video above at that time.) US President Joe Biden will sharply criticize Republican policy in a Tuesday afternoon speech in Virginia Beach, where he will point out the … Read more

Op-ed: DEA and FDA rules increase Adderall shortages

Op-ed: DEA and FDA rules increase Adderall shortages

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Adderall XR 30mg Tablets by Shire Plc. JB Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images Josh Disbrow is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Aytu BioPharma, which makes a competing ADHD drug called Adzenys XR-ODT. A nationwide Adderall shortage which makes many sufferers struggle to manage … Read more

Democratic attorneys general are suing the FDA to lift all remaining restrictions on abortion pills

Democratic attorneys general are suing the FDA to lift all remaining restrictions on abortion pills

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A coalition of a dozen Democratic attorneys general sued the Food and Drug Administration on Friday to force the agency to drop all remaining restrictions on the abortion pill, the latest in a growing series of legal battles over access to the drug. The attorney general’s … Read more

The FDA says Guillain-Barre syndrome is a possible risk of Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for older adults

The FDA says Guillain-Barre syndrome is a possible risk of Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for older adults

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE This 1981 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an electron micrograph of respiratory syncytial virus, also known as RSV. CDC via AP The Food and Drug Administration sees a possible risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome in PfizerRSV vaccine for older adults … Read more

Medicare is rejecting the Alzheimer’s Association’s request for unlimited coverage of treatments like Leqembi

Medicare is rejecting the Alzheimer’s Association’s request for unlimited coverage of treatments like Leqembi

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medicare will not provide broader coverage of the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi until it receives more evidence that the treatment is reasonable and necessary, according to the federal agency that runs the program for the elderly. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has rejected the Alzheimer’s … Read more

Moderna misses earnings as costs rise due to excess production capacity, lower demand for covid vaccines

Moderna misses earnings as costs rise due to excess production capacity, lower demand for covid vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A vial of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants is shown at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, on September 8, 2022. Hannah Beier | Reuters Modern on Thursday missed expectations for fourth-quarter profit as costs rose due to … Read more

West Virginia is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit to overturn state restrictions on abortion pills

West Virginia is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit to overturn state restrictions on abortion pills

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE West Virginia’s attorney general is urging a judge to throw out a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s restrictions on abortion pills. State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Tuesday asked a federal court in the Southern District of West Virginia to throw out a lawsuit filed … Read more

CDC advisors recommend mpox vaccine for at-risk adults in future outbreaks

CDC advisors recommend mpox vaccine for at-risk adults in future outbreaks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Vials of JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine are prepared at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California on August 9, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Independent advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday unanimously recommended giving two doses of … Read more

The flu shot was 68 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations in children this season, but it was less protective for the elderly this season

The flu shot was 68 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations in children this season, but it was less protective for the elderly this season

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Paquita Bonillo, 84, receives her fourth dose of the covid-19 flu vaccine in the garden of the Feixa Llarga Nursing Home on September 26, 2022 in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Zowy Voeten | Getty Images The flu vaccine was 68 percent effective in preventing hospitalizations in children, but … Read more

Pfizer’s RSV vaccine that protects infants could receive FDA approval this summer

Pfizer’s RSV vaccine that protects infants could receive FDA approval this summer

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images PfizerHis vaccine, which protects infants against respiratory syncytial virus, could receive Food and Drug Administration approval by the end of this summer. Pfizer said Tuesday that the FDA is fast-tracking the vaccine. The agency is expected to make … Read more

Senators urge Medicare to offer broad coverage of Alzheimer’s disease treatment as public pressure mounts

Senators urge Medicare to offer broad coverage of Alzheimer’s disease treatment as public pressure mounts

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE US senators on Friday called on Medicare to offer broad coverage of Alzheimer’s treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration, warning that current restrictions cost patients valuable time as their disease progresses. “Given the progressive nature of this terminal illness, we encourage you to take … Read more

Maker of promising Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi expects full FDA approval this summer, expanded Medicare coverage

Maker of promising Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi expects full FDA approval this summer, expanded Medicare coverage

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Tek Image/Science Photo Library | Scientific Photo Library | Getty Images Japanese drugmaker Eisai expects the Food and Drug Administration to fully approve its Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi this summer, which would expand Medicare access to the expensive new antibody. US CEO Ivan Cheung said the FDA, … Read more

FDA advisors recommend using the over-the-counter opioid overdose rescue treatment Narcan

FDA advisors recommend using the over-the-counter opioid overdose rescue treatment Narcan

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended on Wednesday the use of the over-the-counter nasal spray Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, which would significantly expand access to the life-saving treatment. Emergent biosolutionsNarcan is the most commonly sold opioid overdose medication. The FDA is … Read more

The CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bancel, will testify before the Senate next month about the increase in the price of the covid vaccine

The CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bancel, will testify before the Senate next month about the increase in the price of the covid vaccine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Modern CEO Stephane Bancel will testify before the Senate Health Committee in March about the company’s plans to raise the price of its COVID-19 the vaccine. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the health committee, confirmed in a statement Wednesday that Bancel will appear at a … Read more

The GOP is asking Fauci and dozens of health officials to testify in an investigation into the origins of Covid

The GOP is asking Fauci and dozens of health officials to testify in an investigation into the origins of Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Republicans in the House of Representatives called on the former chief medical adviser to the White House, Dr. Anthony to testify before Congress when they launch a new investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. GOP leaders of the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic … Read more

A judge has extended the deadline in a lawsuit seeking to withdraw the abortion pill mifepristone from the U.S. until February 24

A judge has extended the deadline in a lawsuit seeking to withdraw the abortion pill mifepristone from the U.S. until February 24

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A federal judge in Texas has extended until Feb. 24 a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of an abortion drug. On Thursday, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered one of the companies that make the pill, Danco Laboratories, to state its opposition to … Read more

The state of emergency due to covid in the US ends on May 11. HHS officials say what to expect

The state of emergency due to covid in the US ends on May 11.  HHS officials say what to expect

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People walk past a COVID-19 testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News | Getty Images The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs explained on Thursday what will change and stay the same when the three-year public health emergency … Read more

Biden’s proposal to cap all insulin prices at $35 a month has little chance of passing Congress

Biden’s proposal to cap all insulin prices at  a month has little chance of passing Congress

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on February 7, 2023 Pool | Getty Images President Joe Biden used the bully pulpit during his State of the Union address this week to call for a blanket cap … Read more

Hispanic dialysis patients face 40% higher risk of staph infection than whites, CDC says

Hispanic dialysis patients face 40% higher risk of staph infection than whites, CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A COVID-19 patient on a ventilator rests while his blood goes through a kidney dialysis machine (L) on the intensive care unit (ICU) floor of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center on April 21, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images Hispanic dialysis patients … Read more

The US plans to stop buying public covid vaccines this fall. Here’s what that means

The US plans to stop buying public covid vaccines this fall.  Here’s what that means

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist delivers a COVID-19 booster dose to a CVS store in Chicago in October. Antonio Perez | News Tribune | Getty Images The US will stop buying discounted covid vaccines for the entire country and shift vaccine distribution to the private market in early fall, … Read more

GOP attorneys general warn CVS, Walgreens against mailing abortion pills in their states

GOP attorneys general warn CVS, Walgreens against mailing abortion pills in their states

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and misoprostol, two drugs used in medical abortion, are seen at a female reproductive clinic that provides legal medical abortion services in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images Republican attorneys general in 20 states warned … Read more

The end of the covid health emergency will not slow the FDA’s approval of vaccines and treatments

The end of the covid health emergency will not slow the FDA’s approval of vaccines and treatments

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Vials and a medical syringe shown in front of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) logo. FDA finds vaccine for COVID-19. Pavlo Gončar | LightRocket | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that the end of the public health emergency this … Read more

Due to the Covid pandemic, Pfizer’s revenue in 2022 reached a record $100 billion

Due to the Covid pandemic, Pfizer’s revenue in 2022 reached a record 0 billion

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Empty vials of Pfizer-BioNTech’s children’s vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are displayed at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., on May 19, 2022. Hannah Beier | Reuters Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s profits reached a record $100 billion last year, with … Read more

Pfizer expects 2023 sales to drop as much as 33% from record 2022

Pfizer expects 2023 sales to drop as much as 33% from record 2022

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Vials of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are shown before use at a mobile vaccine clinic in Valparaiso, Chile, on January 3, 2022. Rodrigo Garrido | Reuters Pfizer on Tuesday issued sales guidance of $67 billion to $71 billion for 2023, down from … Read more

Enrollment in Obamacare will open this spring for people who will lose Medicaid after the pandemic coverage ends

Enrollment in Obamacare will open this spring for people who will lose Medicaid after the pandemic coverage ends

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An Obamacare sign is seen outside a leading insurance agency that offers plans under the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) on January 28, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Millions of people in the US are at risk of losing Medicaid … Read more

WHO says Covid remains global emergency, but pandemic could be coming to an end in 2023

WHO says Covid remains global emergency, but pandemic could be coming to an end in 2023

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at an ACANU briefing on global health issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 14, 2022. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization said on … Read more

CDC Urges People With Weak Immune Systems To Take Extra Precautions After Covid Subspecies Exclude Evusheld

CDC Urges People With Weak Immune Systems To Take Extra Precautions After Covid Subspecies Exclude Evusheld

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday urged people with weak immune systems to take extra precautions to avoid Covid after dominant subtypes of omicron eliminated a key antibody treatment. Those precautions include wearing a high-quality mask and social distancing when indoor crowds cannot … Read more

The FDA proposal would allow gay men in monogamous relationships to donate blood

The FDA proposal would allow gay men in monogamous relationships to donate blood

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A nurse fills tubes with blood for testing during an American Red Cross blood drive in Fullerton, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. Paul Bersebach | Medianews Group | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration proposed new guidelines Friday that would no longer require gay and … Read more

FDA withdraws Evusheld covid antibody treatment because it is not effective against 93% of subvariants

FDA withdraws Evusheld covid antibody treatment because it is not effective against 93% of subvariants

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Evusheld injection (tixagevimab and cilgavimab), a new drug for COVID-19 that people can take before symptoms appear. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Chris Sweda | News Tribune | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday withdrew the approval for AstraZeneca‘s Evusheld, … Read more

FDA advisors recommend replacing the original covid vaccine with bivalent omicron vaccines for all doses

FDA advisors recommend replacing the original covid vaccine with bivalent omicron vaccines for all doses

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A new COVID-19 booster that includes protection for Omicron at AltaMed Health Services in South Gate on Thursday, October 6, 2022. Sarah Reingewirtz | MediaNews Group | Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images An independent advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration recommended on … Read more

The FDA found no risk of stroke in elderly people given the Pfizer pacemaker after an extensive review

The FDA found no risk of stroke in elderly people given the Pfizer pacemaker after an extensive review

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A nurse fills syringes for patients as they receive a booster shot against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination clinic in Southfield, Michigan on September 29, 2021. Emily Elconin | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration found no indication that seniors face an increased … Read more

Omicron booster vaccines provide some protection against mild illness from sub-variants of Covid XBB, CDC says

Omicron booster vaccines provide some protection against mild illness from sub-variants of Covid XBB, CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizerand ModernAccording to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Omicron booster vaccines reduced the risk of mild disease from the XBB family of subtypes by about 48% compared to people who did not receive the vaccine. A CDC study released Wednesday provides … Read more

Abortion pill maker GenBioPro is suing West Virginia, claiming FDA rules preempt the state

Abortion pill maker GenBioPro is suing West Virginia, claiming FDA rules preempt the state

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Abortion pill maker GenBioPro on Wednesday sought to overturn West Virginia’s abortion ban because it restricts access to the drug, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of West Virginia, claims that the … Read more

The FDA is proposing new limits on lead in baby food to reduce potential health risks to children

The FDA is proposing new limits on lead in baby food to reduce potential health risks to children

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jgi/jamie Grill | Tetra images | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration proposed new restrictions on lead in baby food on Tuesday to reduce exposure to the toxin that can harm children’s development. Lead restrictions apply to processed foods consumed by children under the age … Read more

FDA’s authority to approve drugs faces major challenge in lawsuit seeking to pull abortion pills from US market

FDA’s authority to approve drugs faces major challenge in lawsuit seeking to pull abortion pills from US market

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and misoprostol, two drugs used in medical abortion, are seen at a female reproductive clinic that provides legal medical abortion services in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration is clashing … Read more

The FDA says the covid vaccines will likely receive an annual update, but most people will only need one dose

The FDA says the covid vaccines will likely receive an annual update, but most people will only need one dose

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has prepared a plan for future vaccination against Covid-19. In a document released Monday, the FDA said the vaccines will likely need an annual update as the virus continues to evolve. The agency would select a … Read more

Moderna says the RSV vaccine is 84% ​​effective at preventing the disease in older adults

Moderna says the RSV vaccine is 84% ​​effective at preventing the disease in older adults

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman receives a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination center in Antwerp, Belgium, on February 1, 2022. Johanna Geron | Reuters Moderna said Tuesday that its vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus is effective in preventing the disease in older … Read more

CDC says ‘highly unlikely’ Pfizer booster poses stroke risk to elderly after review

CDC says ‘highly unlikely’ Pfizer booster poses stroke risk to elderly after review

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that it is “highly unlikely” that Pfizer’s micron booster poses a stroke risk to the elderly, after launching an investigation into a preliminary safety concern detected by one of its monitoring systems . CDC, in a statement … Read more

US Uninsured Rate Drops During Covid Pandemic as Medicaid and Obamacare Coverage Expand

US Uninsured Rate Drops During Covid Pandemic as Medicaid and Obamacare Coverage Expand

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The number of people in the US without health insurance has fallen during the Covid-19 pandemic, even as millions of people have lost their employer-sponsored coverage due to layoffs. The U.S. uninsured rate for people younger than 65 fell from 11% in 2019 to 10.5% in … Read more

Nearly 250,000 U.S. Kindergartners Vulnerable to Measles Due to Declining Vaccination Rates, CDC Says

Nearly 250,000 U.S. Kindergartners Vulnerable to Measles Due to Declining Vaccination Rates, CDC Says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly a quarter of a million preschool children are potentially vulnerable to measles because of a drop in vaccination coverage during the pandemic. The CDC found in a report released Thursday that 93% of kindergartners were up … Read more

The Biden administration will select the top 10 drugs for Medicare price negotiations by September

The Biden administration will select the top 10 drugs for Medicare price negotiations by September

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Department of Health and Human Services plans to release a list of 10 Medicare-covered drugs for price negotiations in September, the first stage in a long-awaited push to lower costs for the elderly. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, HHS officials outlined the federal government’s plan to … Read more

Omicron XBB.1.5 has no mutations known to cause human disease, the WHO says

Omicron XBB.1.5 has no mutations known to cause human disease, the WHO says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A man takes a Covid-19 test at a mobile Covid-19 testing site as people line up in Times Square on December 6, 2021 in New York City. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The omicron sub-variant XBB.1.5 does not have any mutations known to … Read more

Biden administration extends public health emergency over covid as highly contagious micron XBB.1.5 spreads

Biden administration extends public health emergency over covid as highly contagious micron XBB.1.5 spreads

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People wearing masks walk next to a testing site for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York, New York, USA, December 12, 2022. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters The Biden administration has extended the Covid-19 public health emergency until April as the highly transmissible micron subspecies raises … Read more

Senator Bernie Sanders urges Moderna not to raise the price of covid-19 vaccines

Senator Bernie Sanders urges Moderna not to raise the price of covid-19 vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged Moderna not to quadruple the price of its Covid-19 vaccine as vaccine distribution moves to the commercial market. In a letter to the CEO of Moderna, Stephan Bancel, Sanders called the price hike “outrageous.” An independent senator from Vermont and … Read more

Most Alzheimer’s patients would pay up to $26,500 a year for the new Leqembi treatment

Most Alzheimer’s patients would pay up to ,500 a year for the new Leqembi treatment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Few seniors with early Alzheimer’s disease will have access to the new Leqembi treatment because of high costs and very limited Medicare coverage. Food and Drug Administration on Friday expedited approval granted Biogen and Eisai’s post-treatment monoclonal antibody seemed to they slightly slow down the progression … Read more

The FDA has approved an Alzheimer’s drug that slowed cognitive decline in a clinical trial

The FDA has approved an Alzheimer’s drug that slowed cognitive decline in a clinical trial

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An MRI image of the brain showing the region of a patient with Alzheimer’s disease. Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted accelerated approval to the Alzheimer’s drug lekanemab, developed by Biogen and Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai. The FDA approval came after clinical … Read more

Omicron XBB.1.5 is growing in the US, although revised CDC data shows slower growth than previously reported

Omicron XBB.1.5 is growing in the US, although revised CDC data shows slower growth than previously reported

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday lowered its estimate of how much of the XBB.1.5 omicron sub-variant is circulating in the US, even as it continues to spread faster than other variants of covid-19. XBB.1.5 accounted for 27.6% of sequenced Covid cases nationally … Read more

CVS and Walgreens will sell mifepristone in pharmacies

CVS and Walgreens will sell mifepristone in pharmacies

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of two drugs used in medical abortion, is shown at a women’s reproductive clinic that provides legal medical abortion services in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images Walgreens and CVS will sell the abortion … Read more

The micron sub-variant XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible variant of covid so far, WHO says

The micron sub-variant XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible variant of covid so far, WHO says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE XBB.1.5 strain, 4 January 2023, Suqian, Jiangsu, China. CANJSKA PHOTOGRAPHY | Future Publishing | Getty Images The micron XBB.1.5 sub-variant currently prevalent in the US is the most infectious variant of covid-19 so far, but it does not appear to make people sicker, according to the … Read more

Omicron’s highly immune variant XBB.1.5 is rapidly becoming dominant in the US, doubling every week

Omicron’s highly immune variant XBB.1.5 is rapidly becoming dominant in the US, doubling every week

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Gilnature | Istock | Getty Images The scientists say the Covid Omicron XBB.1.5 variant is rapidly becoming dominant in the US because it is highly immune evasive and appears to be more effective at binding to cells than related sub-variants. XBB.1.5 now accounts for about 41% … Read more

US and global health officials are concerned about China’s lack of transparency about the Covid outbreak

US and global health officials are concerned about China’s lack of transparency about the Covid outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People receive an inhaled vaccine against COVID-19 at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Bijie, Guizhou province, China, December 29, 2022. CANJSKA PHOTOGRAPHY | Future Publishing | Getty Images US and global health leaders say Beijing is not sharing enough information about the spread … Read more

The US will require air passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid

The US will require air passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Passengers check in at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on December 12, 2022, after China eased restrictions on domestic travel. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid before entering the United States, … Read more

The US has 100 million cases of covid, but more than 200 million Americans have probably had it

The US has 100 million cases of covid, but more than 200 million Americans have probably had it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The US this week saw more than 100 million officially diagnosed and reported cases of Covid-19, but the number of Americans who have actually had the virus since the start of the pandemic is likely more than double that. Covid-19 has easily infected more than 200 … Read more

The Supreme Court has expanded a Trump pandemic immigration rule to allow for faster deportations

The Supreme Court has expanded a Trump pandemic immigration rule to allow for faster deportations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Asylum-seeking migrants from Central America sit next to a vehicle stopped by police after crossing the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, from Mexico on U.S. Route 90 in Honda, Texas, the United States, on June 1, 2022. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters The Supreme Court … Read more

Millions at risk of losing Medicaid this spring due to provision made in $1.7 trillion federal spending bill

Millions at risk of losing Medicaid this spring due to provision made in .7 trillion federal spending bill

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the Covid-19 pandemic could lose their coverage this spring if their state determines they no longer meet the program’s eligibility requirements. Medicaid enrollment rose 30% during the pandemic to more than 83 million people after Congress essentially barred … Read more

Drug overdose deaths among teens rise amid pandemic caused by illegal fentanyl

Drug overdose deaths among teens rise amid pandemic caused by illegal fentanyl

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The number of drug overdose deaths among adolescents is between the Covid-19 pandemicfueled in large part by the banned fentanyl, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The monthly number of drug overdose deaths among youth ages 10 to 19 nearly … Read more

Omicron boosters are 84 percent effective in preventing elderly hospitalizations with Covid, CDC says

Omicron boosters are 84 percent effective in preventing elderly hospitalizations with Covid, CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A new COVID-19 booster that includes protection for Omicron at AltaMed Health Services in South Gate on Thursday, October 6, 2022. Sarah Reingewirtz | MediaNews Group | Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Omicron’s newest boosters are 84 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations for Covid-19 … Read more

Most nursing home residents did not receive an omicron before the expected winter wave of covid

Most nursing home residents did not receive an omicron before the expected winter wave of covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Fewer than 50% of nursing home residents, one of the most vulnerable to severe illness from covid-19 in the country, received the micron pacemaker before the expected wave of infections this winter. The Biden administration has made increased use of resuscitation among nursing home residents a … Read more

The growing obesity crisis in the U.S. prompts the CDC to expand body mass index charts for overweight children

The growing obesity crisis in the U.S. prompts the CDC to expand body mass index charts for overweight children

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new body mass index charts for children on Thursday in response to the growing obesity crisis in the United States. The previous BMI table for children aged 2 to 19, published in 2000, was based on data from … Read more

The Biden administration will once again allow free at-home Covid testing this winter

The Biden administration will once again allow free at-home Covid testing this winter

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE This illustration taken on Jan. 11, 2022 shows COVID-19 self-testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which is providing city residents with four free take-home tests per day. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Biden administration will once again make rapid Covid tests available for … Read more

Study finds that Omicron BQ and XBB sub-variants seriously compromise boosters and nullify antibody treatment

Study finds that Omicron BQ and XBB sub-variants seriously compromise boosters and nullify antibody treatment

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An injection of Evusheld, a new drug for COVID that people can take before they develop symptoms, in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Chris Sweda | News Tribune | Getty Images The omicron subvariants that have become prevalent in recent months seriously compromise the effectiveness … Read more

Long-term Covid has contributed to more than 3,500 deaths in the U.S. since the pandemic began, the CDC says

Long-term Covid has contributed to more than 3,500 deaths in the U.S. since the pandemic began, the CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People view thousands of white flags representing Americans who have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) placed on the 20-acre National Mall in Washington, the United States, on September 26, 2021. Joshua Roberts | Reuters According to a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease … Read more

Hospitalizations for covid and flu are on the rise across the US, while RSV is retreating in some states

Hospitalizations for covid and flu are on the rise across the US, while RSV is retreating in some states

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical workers treat a patient with Covid-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. Dinner Allison | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hospitalizations for covid and flu are on the rise after the Thanksgiving holiday, while respiratory … Read more

Children as young as 6 months old are now eligible for the omicron Covid vaccine

Children as young as 6 months old are now eligible for the omicron Covid vaccine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Luca Moore, 11 months, receives a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while his mother, Dr. Danielle Smith holds at Northwell Health Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, U.S., on June 22, 2022. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control … Read more

Omicron subtypes that more easily evade immunity cause more than 70% of infections in the US

Omicron subtypes that more easily evade immunity cause more than 70% of infections in the US

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People wait to be tested for the coronavirus (COVID-19) at a pop-up testing site in New York, July 11, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The most immune-evasive omicron subtypes account for more than 70% of new infections in the U.S. so far as millions of Americans … Read more

The House of Representatives will vote on repealing the Pentagon’s mandate on a covid vaccine for US troops

The House of Representatives will vote on repealing the Pentagon’s mandate on a covid vaccine for US troops

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A U.S. Marine receives the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at Camp Foster on April 28, 2021, in Ginowan, Japan. Carl Court | Getty Images The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on a sweeping defense bill that would repeal the Pentagon’s mandate for a Covid-19 … Read more

The FDA is expected to make a decision on the Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023

The FDA is expected to make a decision on the Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide by spring whether to approve Pfizer’s vaccine to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in adults age 60 and older. Pfizer said in a statement Wednesday that the FDA accepted its RSV vaccine candidate for review under … Read more

Omicron boosters are weaker against BQ.1.1 subvariant on the rise in US, study finds

Omicron boosters are weaker against BQ.1.1 subvariant on the rise in US, study finds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An employee takes a syringe with the Biontech and Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine adapted to the Omicron-BA.1 version at the vaccination center in Mainz. Sebastian Christoph Gollnow | dpa | Picture of Alliance | Getty Images Covid-19 vaccines designed to protect against the micron variant trigger a … Read more

Pfizer rejects Moderna’s claim that it copied Covid vaccine, accuses rival of rewriting history

Pfizer rejects Moderna’s claim that it copied Covid vaccine, accuses rival of rewriting history

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizer he rejected the rival’s accusations Modern that its covid-19 vaccine is a copycat, accusing the Boston biotech company of rewriting history to own a technology that had been developed by a field of scientists for years. Pfizer asked a federal court in Massachusetts on Monday … Read more

The CDC encourages people to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid, flu and RSV during the holidays

The CDC encourages people to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid, flu and RSV during the holidays

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday encouraged people to wear masks to reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses this season as Covid, influenza and RSV circulate simultaneously. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters that wearing a mask is one of many everyday precautions … Read more

The Biden administration will end the state of emergency over monkeypox

The Biden administration will end the state of emergency over monkeypox

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People line up for monkeypox vaccinations at the new monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Hollywood, California. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The Biden administration will lift the public health emergency declared in response … Read more

FDA withdraws antibody treatment against covid because it is not effective against dominant variants of omicron

FDA withdraws antibody treatment against covid because it is not effective against dominant variants of omicron

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Eli Lilly and Company’s pharmaceutical manufacturing facility is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey on March 5, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters A key monoclonal antibody used to treat people with weak immune systems who contract covid is no longer approved for use … Read more

Fauci says China has done a poor job of vaccinating the elderly and that their vaccines are not very effective against covid

Fauci says China has done a poor job of vaccinating the elderly and that their vaccines are not very effective against covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to discuss President Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget request for the National Institutes of Health on Capitol … Read more

CDC to test sewage for polio outside New York to see if it’s circulating elsewhere in the country

CDC to test sewage for polio outside New York to see if it’s circulating elsewhere in the country

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The US will expand controls on polio wastewater to communities with low vaccination rates outside the New York metro area after an outbreak paralyzed unvaccinated adults over the summer and raised questions about how widespread the virus is. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said … Read more

Drug overdose deaths among the elderly have more than tripled in two decades

Drug overdose deaths among the elderly have more than tripled in two decades

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Drug and alcohol-related deaths among America’s elderly are on the rise. According to data released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, drug overdose deaths have more than tripled among people 65 and older over the past two decades, while alcohol abuse deaths have increased … Read more

Hospitalizations due to the flu are up nearly 30% as the US enters the holiday season

Hospitalizations due to the flu are up nearly 30% as the US enters the holiday season

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Susana Sanchez, a nurse, gives a flu shot to Loisy Barrera at CVS Pharmacy and MinuteClinic in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The number of hospitalizations due to the flu has increased by almost 30% in a week, as the spread of the respiratory … Read more

US Criticizes China’s Zero Covid Strategy, Says Beijing Needs to Increase Vaccination Among Elderly

US Criticizes China’s Zero Covid Strategy, Says Beijing Needs to Increase Vaccination Among Elderly

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The White House on Monday criticized Beijing’s zero-covid strategy as ineffective and said the Chinese people have the right to peacefully protest. “We have long said that everyone has the right to protest peacefully, here in the United States and elsewhere in the world. That includes … Read more

Omicron boosters are unlikely to be very effective against mild Covid disease, but are likely to prevent hospitalizations, experts say

Omicron boosters are unlikely to be very effective against mild Covid disease, but are likely to prevent hospitalizations, experts say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images New micron Covid boosters are unlikely to be very effective at … Read more

The Omicron BQ Covid variants that pose a threat to immunocompromised people are now prevalent in the US

The Omicron BQ Covid variants that pose a threat to immunocompromised people are now prevalent in the US

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A person receives a test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread in Manhattan, New York, U.S., on December 22, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Omicron BQ subtypes of the coronavirus have become prevalent in the U.S. as … Read more

The CDC and WHO warn that measles poses a growing threat to children as vaccination rates decline worldwide

The CDC and WHO warn that measles poses a growing threat to children as vaccination rates decline worldwide

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE More children around the world are vulnerable to measles as vaccination rates have fallen to their lowest level since 2008, world health leaders warned on Wednesday. According to a report by the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Covid-19 … Read more

The abortion pill is the most common method of terminating a pregnancy in the U.S., according to the CDC

The abortion pill is the most common method of terminating a pregnancy in the U.S., according to the CDC

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Boxes of Mifepristone, a drug used to induce medical abortion, are readied for patients at a Planned Parenthood health center in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The abortion pill is the most common method of terminating a pregnancy in the United States, … Read more

Anthony Fauci says he will fully cooperate with a potential Republican investigation into the origins of Covid

Anthony Fauci says he will fully cooperate with a potential Republican investigation into the origins of Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus during a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images CNBC Health & Science Read CNBC’s latest … Read more

Fauci says he never imagined Covid would kill a million Americans

Fauci says he never imagined Covid would kill a million Americans

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal response to monkeypox on Capitol Hill on September 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images dr. … Read more

Watch live: Dr. Anthony Fauci gives expected final Covid meeting as top health official

Watch live: Dr.  Anthony Fauci gives expected final Covid meeting as top health official

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE [The stream is slated to start at 11:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] dr. Anthony Fauci will give what is expected to be his on Tuesday the last public briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic … Read more

dr. Anthony Fauci, as the White House’s top health official, will likely give the final report on Covid

dr.  Anthony Fauci, as the White House’s top health official, will likely give the final report on Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci addresses the daily press conference at the White House in Washington, Jan. 21, 2021. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters dr. Anthony Fauci will give what is expected to be his last public briefing on the Covid-19 … Read more

A strain of the flu that affects children and the elderly more severely than other strains is currently prevalent in the United States

A strain of the flu that affects children and the elderly more severely than other strains is currently prevalent in the United States

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign advertising flu shots is seen at a Walgreens pharmacy on January 22, 2018 in San Francisco, California. The powerful strain of H3N2 flu has claimed the lives of 74 Californians under the age of 65 since the flu season began last October. Justin Sullivan … Read more

Pfizer says omicron booster is better against new subvariants like BQ.1.1 than old injectables

Pfizer says omicron booster is better against new subvariants like BQ.1.1 than old injectables

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE An employee takes a syringe with the Biontech and Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine adapted to the Omicron-BA.1 version at the vaccination center in Mainz. Sebastian Christoph Gollnow | dpa | Picture of Alliance | Getty Images Pfizer said its omicron booster triggers a stronger immune response against … Read more

Children’s hospitals urge Biden to declare state of emergency in response to ‘unprecedented’ RSV outbreak

Children’s hospitals urge Biden to declare state of emergency in response to ‘unprecedented’ RSV outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Kazuma Seki | Istock | Getty Images Doctors are urging the Biden administration to declare a state of emergency in response to an “alarming increase” in children hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus and flu this season. The Children’s Hospital Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics … Read more

FDA may approve over-the-counter nasal spray, auto-injectors to treat opioid overdoses

FDA may approve over-the-counter nasal spray, auto-injectors to treat opioid overdoses

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Naloxone, packaged with instructions, is one of the items given out by workers at the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition. Amy Davis | The Baltimore Sun | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration indicated Tuesday that it may approve over-the-counter nasal sprays and auto-injectors that prevent … Read more

The world population reaches 8 billion people, with India expected to overtake China as the most populous country

The world population reaches 8 billion people, with India expected to overtake China as the most populous country

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Indian passengers stand and hang on to a train as it departs from a station on the outskirts of New Delhi. Money Sharma | AFP | Getty Images The world’s population hit 8 billion on Tuesday, with India set to overtake China as the most populous … Read more

As flu-related hospitalizations rise in the U.S., the Southeast is hardest hit

As flu-related hospitalizations rise in the U.S., the Southeast is hardest hit

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The number of hospitalizations due to the flu in the United States has risen to a decade, with the Southeast currently the hardest-hit region. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, five out of every 100,000 people in the United States were hospitalized for … Read more

Moderna says that the Covid booster is better against omicron BA.5, triggers an immune response against BQ.1.1

Moderna says that the Covid booster is better against omicron BA.5, triggers an immune response against BQ.1.1

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Moderna’s new Covid booster triggered a stronger immune response against omicron BA.5 and also appears to work against the nascent BQ.1.1 sub-variant, according to the company. Moderna found in clinical trial data released Monday that the new booster triggered five times more anti-omicron BA.5 antibodies than … Read more

US to keep Covid public health emergency in place until at least mid-January

US to keep Covid public health emergency in place until at least mid-January

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra answers questions during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 30 2021. Greg Nash | Pool | Reuters A U.S. public … Read more

US extends public health emergency over Covid until spring 2023, administration official says

US to keep Covid public health emergency in place until at least mid-January

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra answers questions during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 30 2021. Greg Nash | Pool | Reuters The United States … Read more

Antibody treatment-resistant variants of omicron BQ are rapidly becoming prevalent in the US

Antibody treatment-resistant variants of omicron BQ are rapidly becoming prevalent in the US

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, omicron subtypes resistant to key antibody treatments will soon account for the majority of new covid infections in the US. According to the CDC, omicron sub-variants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 now account for 44% of new Covid cases, … Read more

The study found that nearly 2% of healthy infants were hospitalized with RSV before their first birthday

The study found that nearly 2% of healthy infants were hospitalized with RSV before their first birthday

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Even healthy babies face a significant risk of hospitalization from respiratory syncytial virus, according to a large European study published Thursday. In a study published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Dutch and British scientists found that 1.8% of healthy babies are hospitalized with RSV before their first … Read more

Unvaccinated babies were more likely to be hospitalized with Covid this summer than most age groups, the CDC says

Unvaccinated babies were more likely to be hospitalized with Covid this summer than most age groups, the CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, infants too young to be vaccinated were hospitalized with Covid-19 more often than any other age group except the elderly during the omicron BA.5 wave this summer. In a report released Thursday, the CDC found that hospitalizations … Read more

Kentucky rejects anti-abortion constitutional amendment in surprising victory for reproductive rights

Kentucky rejects anti-abortion constitutional amendment in surprising victory for reproductive rights

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Counter-protesters hold signs outside a rally urging voters to vote for Amendment 2, which would add a permanent ban on abortion to Kentuckys state constitution, on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky on October 1, 2022. Stephanie Reynolds | AFP | Getty … Read more

Novavax posts third-quarter loss but beats revenue expectations

Novavax posts third-quarter loss but beats revenue expectations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, a silhouette of a man holding a medical syringe and vial is shown in front of the Novavax logo on the screen. Cezary Kowalski Lightrocket | Getty Images Novavax posted an unexpected loss on Thursday but beat Wall Street’s third-quarter revenue expectations. The … Read more

US faces highest rate of flu hospitalizations in decade, with young children and elderly most at risk

US faces highest rate of flu hospitalizations in decade, with young children and elderly most at risk

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. is facing its highest rate of flu-related hospitalizations in more than a decade, with children and the elderly most at risk. Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus have decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic due to mitigation … Read more

Pfizer released more data showing omicron boosters are better than old covid vaccines

Pfizer released more data showing omicron boosters are better than old covid vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine to a man at the Sanford Civic Center. With the emergence of the Omicron variant of covid-19 in many countries, including the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) encouraged all vaccinated adults … Read more

Fauci says US faces pandemic crossroads with still too high covid death toll and emergence of new omicron variants

Fauci says US faces pandemic crossroads with still too high covid death toll and emergence of new omicron variants

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of NIAID, answers questions from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022 in Washington, DC Greg Nash | Pool | … Read more

Moderna shares plummet after Covid vaccine maker cuts 2022 sales outlook

Moderna shares plummet after Covid vaccine maker cuts 2022 sales outlook

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A vial of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants is shown at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, on September 8, 2022. Hannah Beier | Reuters Modern cut 2022 sales guidance for the Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday after beating … Read more

Pfizer CEO unveils 2030 growth plan as company faces up to $18 billion in revenue cuts from generic drugs

Pfizer CEO unveils 2030 growth plan as company faces up to  billion in revenue cuts from generic drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks with the President of the European Commission during a press conference after a visit to monitor the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs on April 23, 2021. Your John | … Read more

Pfizer raises 2022 profit guidance and beats third-quarter expectations

Pfizer raises 2022 profit guidance and beats third-quarter expectations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Vials of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are shown before use at a mobile vaccine clinic in Valparaiso, Chile, on January 3, 2022. Rodrigo Garrido | Reuters Pfizer raised its 2022 profit guidance on Tuesday after posting a strong third quarter that beat … Read more

The company’s data show that the Pfizer RSV vaccine given to pregnant women is effective in protecting newborns

The company’s data show that the Pfizer RSV vaccine given to pregnant women is effective in protecting newborns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pfizer’s vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is highly effective at protecting newborns when mothers are vaccinated late in pregnancy, according to clinical trial data released Tuesday. RSV is a common respiratory virus that generally causes mild cold-like symptoms, but can be dangerous for babies … Read more

A national survey finds that the long covid affects women more than men

A national survey finds that the long covid affects women more than men

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A woman receives a dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a sports stadium during the coronavirus disease pandemic in Vina del Mar, Chile, on April 22, 2021. Rodrigo Garrido | Reuters Long-term Covid is more common among women than men, according to federal data. … Read more

Omicron subtypes resistant to key antibody treatments are increasing in the US every week

Omicron subtypes resistant to key antibody treatments are increasing in the US every week

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two subtypes of omicron that are resistant to key antibody treatments are on the rise in the United States. According to CDC data released Friday, the BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 subvariants now account for 27% of U.S. infections, … Read more

FDA says two studies showing omicron boosters weren’t much better than old covid vaccines too small to draw any conclusions

FDA says two studies showing omicron boosters weren’t much better than old covid vaccines too small to draw any conclusions

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Food and Drug Administration said this week that two studies showing that the new omicron boosters were not that much better than the old vaccines were too small to draw any real conclusions. Scientists at Columbia and Harvard, in two independent studies, found that the … Read more

New Covid boosters are no better than old drugs at neutralizing omicron BA.5, first studies find

New Covid boosters are no better than old drugs at neutralizing omicron BA.5, first studies find

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A new COVID-19 booster that includes protection for Omicron at AltaMed Health Services in South Gate on Thursday, October 6, 2022. Sarah Reingewirtz | MediaNews Group | Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Two studies cast doubt on whether the new omikron BA.5 booster will … Read more

Omicron sub-variants are resistant to key antibody treatments, putting people with weak immune systems at risk of covid

Omicron sub-variants are resistant to key antibody treatments, putting people with weak immune systems at risk of covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Emerging Omicron subvariants are resistant to key antibody treatments for HIV patients, kidney transplant recipients and other people with weakened immune systems, making them especially vulnerable to Covid this winter, the White House warned this week. “With some of the new subvariants emerging, some of the … Read more

People who had mild covid had an increased risk of blood clots, British study finds

People who had mild covid had an increased risk of blood clots, British study finds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A patient receives a test for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Sparrow Laboratories Drive-Thru Services in Lansing, Michigan, on Dec. 27, 2021. Emily Elconin | Reuters People who contracted mild cases of Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic had a higher risk of developing blood … Read more

Clinical trials find ivermectin – a drug once touted by conservatives as a Covid treatment – doesn’t improve recovery much

Clinical trials find ivermectin – a drug once touted by conservatives as a Covid treatment – doesn’t improve recovery much

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Ivermectin, a drug once touted by conservatives as a cure for Covid, does not significantly improve recovery time in people with mild to moderate Covid-19, according to a large clinical trial published in a peer-reviewed journal. People who took ivermectin were cured of covid in 12 … Read more

The CDC is discussing using an oral polio vaccine for the first time in 20 years to stop an outbreak in New York

The CDC is discussing using an oral polio vaccine for the first time in 20 years to stop an outbreak in New York

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering using an oral polio vaccine for the first time in more than 20 years to stop an outbreak in the greater New York metropolitan area that left an adult paralyzed over the summer. “We are discussing the … Read more

Uninsured children will still receive free covid vaccines after the vaccines go on the commercial market

Uninsured children will still receive free covid vaccines after the vaccines go on the commercial market

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A child receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Mayela Lopez | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a major step Wednesday toward ensuring that uninsured children can receive free Covid-19 vaccines after the federal government shifted its … Read more

FDA approves Novavax’s covid vaccines as incentive mix for Pfizer or Moderna

FDA approves Novavax’s covid vaccines as incentive mix for Pfizer or Moderna

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Food and Drug Administration has approved Novavax’s covid boosters for adults in the US, including people who received Pfizer’s or Moderna’s vaccines as the primary series. Approval of Novavax’s booster could significantly increase the role its vaccine plays in the U.S. vaccination effort. Until now, … Read more

Millions at risk of losing health insurance if U.S. ends Covid public health emergency in January

Millions at risk of losing health insurance if U.S. ends Covid public health emergency in January

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2021. Shawn Thew | Pool | Reuters The Biden administration … Read more

People of color face higher risk of flu hospitalization as US faces potentially severe season, CDC says

People of color face higher risk of flu hospitalization as US faces potentially severe season, CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to a large multi-year study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black people are hospitalized for the flu far more often than white Americans. A CDC study released Tuesday looked at flu hospitalizations among adults from 2009 to last year, using data from … Read more

White House covid car urges seniors to get micron pacemaker now – ‘It could literally save your life’

White House covid car urges seniors to get micron pacemaker now – ‘It could literally save your life’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The White House’s top health official issued a stark warning Monday to seniors about the health risks they face this fall and winter from Covid-19. dr. Ashish Jha, head of the White House’s covid task force, said everyone over the age of 50, and especially senior … Read more

Hearing aids are now available over the counter at Walgreens, CVS and Best Buy

Hearing aids are now available over the counter at Walgreens, CVS and Best Buy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jennifer Nealon, director of marketing for Hear Again America, holds hearing aids for sale on October 19, 2021 in Boca Raton, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Millions of Americans with hearing loss can now purchase hearing aids without a prescription or doctor’s exam at Walgreens, … Read more

Omicron BA.5 is declining in the U.S. as emerging variants gain traction, CDC data show

Omicron BA.5 is declining in the U.S. as emerging variants gain traction, CDC data show

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The US is facing at least seven different variants of the omicron as the country heads into winter, when health officials expect a new wave of Covid-19 infections. Although the omicron BA.5 variant remains dominant in the US, it is starting to lose some ground to … Read more

US extends public health emergency over Covid, even as Biden says pandemic is over

US extends public health emergency over Covid, even as Biden says pandemic is over

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 testing site in New York, the United States, on March 29, 2022. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The US has extended the public health emergency due to covidwhich is … Read more

Pfizer Says Omicron Vaccines Significantly Increase Antibodies Against BA.5 Subvariant In Early Human Data

Pfizer Says Omicron Vaccines Significantly Increase Antibodies Against BA.5 Subvariant In Early Human Data

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Pfizer and his German partner BioNTech said Thursday that their new omicron boosters significantly increased protective antibodies against the dominant omicron BA.5 subvariant in adults in the first direct human data made public on the new vaccines. The study … Read more

The WHO is calling for more international help to prevent the spread of Ebola outside Uganda

The WHO is calling for more international help to prevent the spread of Ebola outside Uganda

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The World Health Organization is working with Uganda to prevent the east African country’s deadly Ebola outbreak from spreading to neighboring countries, the head of the world health agency said on Wednesday. Health authorities in Uganda have detected 74 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola in … Read more

The WHO is calling for more international help to prevent the spread of Ebola outside Uganda

The WHO is calling for more international help to prevent the spread of Ebola outside Uganda

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The World Health Organization is working with Uganda to prevent the east African country’s deadly Ebola outbreak from spreading to neighboring countries, the head of the world health agency said on Wednesday. Health authorities in Uganda have detected 74 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola in … Read more

Moderna and Merck will jointly develop a cancer vaccine for patients at high risk of melanoma

Moderna and Merck will jointly develop a cancer vaccine for patients at high risk of melanoma

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pipettes are seen in the Moderna Therapeutics Inc. laboratory. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. Moderna began testing this week Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Modern and Merck will jointly develop and sell a cancer vaccine that is tailored to individual … Read more

The FDA has approved the omicron covid booster vaccines for children 5 years of age

The FDA has approved the omicron covid booster vaccines for children 5 years of age

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Tatiana Perez, 11, receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a vaccination center in San Jose, Costa Rica on January 11, 2022. Mayela Lopez | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved booster shots against the virus targeting … Read more

The risk of death from covid is almost zero for people who are strengthened and treated, says the White House covid czar

The risk of death from covid is almost zero for people who are strengthened and treated, says the White House covid czar

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People who are up-to-date on their vaccines and receive treatment when they have breakthrough infections face almost no risk of dying from Covid-19, a top health official said on Tuesday. dr. Ashish Jha, head of the White House task force on covid, said that the United … Read more

The U.S. pursues several subversions of the omicron, but the new boosters should offer protection, the White House says

The U.S. pursues several subversions of the omicron, but the new boosters should offer protection, the White House says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The US is tracking several omicron sub-variants of the coronavirus that more easily evade immunity, but new booster vaccinations should protect against them, a top health official said on Tuesday. Health officials are closely monitoring the subvariants because they make many treatments ineffective, said Dr. Ashish … Read more

Polio virus has been found in Brooklyn and Queens sewage, New York health officials say

Polio virus has been found in Brooklyn and Queens sewage, New York health officials say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Polio virus particle, computer illustration. Katerina Kon | Scientific Photo Library | Getty Images New York Governor Kathy Hochul has extended a state of emergency declared in response to the spread of polio after sewage tested positive in Brooklyn and Queens. Hochul said the disaster emergency … Read more

The FDA has approved the first vaccine to prevent pertussis in newborns by giving the mother an injection during pregnancy

The FDA has approved the first vaccine to prevent pertussis in newborns by giving the mother an injection during pregnancy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Signs are seen outside the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland on August 29, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a vaccine for use in the third trimester of pregnancy to prevent whooping cough in … Read more

Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths among US seniors in 2021, health officials say

Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths among US seniors in 2021, health officials say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths and nearly 700,000 hospitalizations among adult Medicare recipients in 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a new report released Friday. According to an HHS report, the reduction in vaccination hospitalizations has saved more than $16 … Read more

US to screen people arriving from Uganda for Ebola as east African nation battles outbreak

US to screen people arriving from Uganda for Ebola as east African nation battles outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Doctors walk into the Ebola isolation ward of the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital in Mubende, Uganda, Thursday, September 29, 2022. Hajarah Nalwadda | AP Federal officials said Thursday that travelers will be diverted and screened for Ebola at five designated airports if they traveled to Uganda … Read more

How polio remerged in New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed

How polio remerged in New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A research assistant prepares a PCR reaction for polio at a lab at Queens College on August 25, 2022, in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images When a young adult in a New York City suburb visited an emergency department in June … Read more

Eradication of monkeypox in the U.S. is unlikely because the virus could spread indefinitely, the CDC says

Eradication of monkeypox in the U.S. is unlikely because the virus could spread indefinitely, the CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the monkeypox virus is unlikely to be eliminated from the United States in the near future. The CDC said in a technical summary that the outbreak is slowing as vaccine availability … Read more

Ohio reports the third U.S. death of a person with monkeypox who had an underlying medical condition

Ohio reports the third U.S. death of a person with monkeypox who had an underlying medical condition

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A Northwell Health staff member holds a monkeypox vaccine in Cherry Grove, Fire Island, New York, where monkeypox vaccines were administered on July 14, 2022. James Carbone | Newsday | Getty Images Health authorities in Ohio have reported the death of an adult man who had … Read more

A single dose of the monkeypox vaccine provides some protection against infection, the CDC says

A single dose of the monkeypox vaccine provides some protection against infection, the CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Los Angeles, CA – August 10: Luis Garcia, registered nurse, prepares the monkeypox vaccine at St. Mary’s Children and Family Center. John’s Well on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images People at risk for monkeypox … Read more

The NIH study confirms that the covid vaccination is associated with a slight increase in the menstrual cycle

The NIH study confirms that the covid vaccination is associated with a slight increase in the menstrual cycle

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Covid-19 vaccination is associated with a slight increase in the length … Read more

Biogen to pay $900 million to settle allegations it paid kickbacks to doctors to prescribe multiple sclerosis drugs

Biogen to pay 0 million to settle allegations it paid kickbacks to doctors to prescribe multiple sclerosis drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Biogen facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brian Snyder | Reuters Biogen will pay $900 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the company gave kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe its drugs, the Justice Department said Monday. Michael Bawduniak, a former Biogen employee turned whistleblower, sued … Read more

Pfizer Asks FDA to Approve Omicron Covid-19 Booster Vaccines for Children 5-11 Years Old

Pfizer Asks FDA to Approve Omicron Covid-19 Booster Vaccines for Children 5-11 Years Old

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Jack Wasserman, 6, receives a Pfizer-BioNTech booster vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., on May 19, 2022. Hannah Beier | Reuters Pfizer on Monday asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its new boosted Covid vaccines targeting the omicron BA.5 sub-variant … Read more

Moderna asks FDA to approve omikron Covid boosters for children as young as 6

Moderna asks FDA to approve omikron Covid boosters for children as young as 6

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Following CDC approval to vaccinate children ages 6 months to 5 years, 4-year-old Eleanor Kahn sits with her father, Alex, as nurse Jillian Mercer administers Moderna’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego . , California, USA, 21 June 2022. Mike Blake … Read more

The WHO warns that the ability to identify new variants of covid is decreasing as testing declines

The WHO warns that the ability to identify new variants of covid is decreasing as testing declines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, ai chief for emerging diseases and zoonoses at the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a press conference on the coronavirus situation at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization warned on … Read more

CDC official says U.S. monkeypox outbreak is slowing

CDC official says U.S. monkeypox outbreak is slowing

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Monkeypox continues to spread across the U.S., but the rate of new cases has slowed in the past few weeks, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the virus is still spreading rapidly in some regions of the US, the … Read more

Los Angeles is investigating the death of a person who had monkeypox

Los Angeles is investigating the death of a person who had monkeypox

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a dose of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California on August 9, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Los Angeles is investigating the death of a person who had monkeypox, the county … Read more

HIV-positive people who have monkeypox are more likely to be hospitalized, CDC study says

HIV-positive people who have monkeypox are more likely to be hospitalized, CDC study says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People living with HIV who have monkeypox are hospitalized more than twice as often as other patients diagnosed with the fast-spreading virus, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. In a report released Thursday, the CDC found that 38% of the nearly 2,000 … Read more

U.S. monkeypox outbreak is easing as vaccines become more available, health officials say

U.S. monkeypox outbreak is easing as vaccines become more available, health officials say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to White House health officials, the U.S. monkeypox outbreak is slowing as vaccines have become more widely available and the general public has become more aware of what steps individuals can take to reduce their risk of infection. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy head of the White … Read more

New York is eliminating the mandatory use of masks on subways, buses and other mass transit

New York is eliminating the mandatory use of masks on subways, buses and other mass transit

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE New Yorkers are no longer required to wear masks on public transportation, Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Cases of covid and hospitalizations have dropped dramatically in New York and across the state since the peak of the omicron surge last winter. This is breaking news. Check … Read more

People who have recently contracted covid can wait months to get an omicron booster, top health official says

People who have recently contracted covid can wait months to get an omicron booster, top health official says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People walk past a Covid-19 testing site in Times Square on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News | Getty Images People who have recently contracted the virus can wait a few months to get a new micron booster, the White … Read more

Omicron boosters should provide better protection against infections and serious illnesses, US health officials say

Omicron boosters should provide better protection against infections and serious illnesses, US health officials say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE U.S. health officials expect the new omicron boosters to provide better protection against infection and serious illness this fall because the new vaccines now match the prevailing version of the coronavirus. The new Omicron vaccinations represent a milestone in the pandemic that will help the US … Read more

New omicron boosters are now available, but it is unclear how effective they will be

New omicron boosters are now available, but it is unclear how effective they will be

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The United States this week approved the first major overhaul of Covid-19 vaccines to stem an expected wave of infections and hospitalizations this fall. However, it is not clear how much protection the new booster shots will provide. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers … Read more

CDC panel recommends new micron Covid boosters with vaccines set to begin next week

CDC panel recommends new micron Covid boosters with vaccines set to begin next week

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Independent Committee on Vaccines has recommended reformulated booster vaccines that target the latest omicron subtypes. The commission voted 13-1 Thursday in favor of the injections after reviewing available data on safety and effectiveness in … Read more

U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths

U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing for another wave of Covid cases. Over the … Read more

FDA approves covid booster vaccines targeting omicron variant BA.5

FDA approves covid booster vaccines targeting omicron variant BA.5

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Medical staff prepare a booster dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination center in Brussels, Belgium, on January 5, 2022. Yves Herman | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration has approved Covid-19 booster vaccines targeting the omicron BA.5 sub-variant as the US prepares … Read more

The CDC is cautiously optimistic that the monkeypox outbreak may be slowing as cases decline in major cities

The CDC is cautiously optimistic that the monkeypox outbreak may be slowing as cases decline in major cities

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is cautiously optimistic that the U.S. is slowing the spread of monkeypox, as new cases fall in several major cities. “We look at this with cautious optimism, and we really hope that many of our harm reduction messages and … Read more

A dog in France has monkeypox, which worries scientists that we won’t be able to eradicate the virus if it spreads to more animals

A dog in France has monkeypox, which worries scientists that we won’t be able to eradicate the virus if it spreads to more animals

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Monkeypox virus, illustration. Thom Leach | Scientific Photo Library | Getty Images In 2003, 47 people in six Midwestern states contracted monkeypox from domestic prairie dogs that were infected after being housed with rodents imported from Ghana, Africa. Today’s outbreak, which has already infected more than … Read more

US to provide 50,000 monkeypox vaccines for Pride and other high-gay events

US to provide 50,000 monkeypox vaccines for Pride and other high-gay events

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The United States will provide 50,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine specifically for large gay and bisexual events to better reach the community most at risk right now, health officials said Thursday. dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said communities … Read more

Children’s polio vaccination rates are dangerously low in some New York communities, increasing the risk of an outbreak

Children’s polio vaccination rates are dangerously low in some New York communities, increasing the risk of an outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Nurse Lydia Fulton prepares to administer the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and the vaccine used to prevent diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and polio at a pediatric primary care clinic in Minneapolis, MN. Courtney Perry | The Washington Post | Getty Images The polio vaccination rate … Read more

CDC Director Walensky will reorganize the agency after admitting that the response to the Covid pandemic has failed

CDC Director Walensky will reorganize the agency after admitting that the response to the Covid pandemic has failed

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; speaks during a hearing on the federal response to COVID on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. Joe Raedle | Getty Images CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is reorganizing the … Read more

Monkeypox cases jump 20% in past week to 35,000 in 92 countries, WHO says

Monkeypox cases jump 20% in past week to 35,000 in 92 countries, WHO says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Monkey goats continue to spread throughout the world according to the World Health Organization, the number of cases has jumped by 20% in the last week. The number of infections has increased by nearly 7,500 to more than 35,000 cases in 92 countries, but almost all … Read more

Polio has been circulating in the New York area for months and poses an ongoing risk to the unvaccinated, the CDC says

Polio has been circulating in the New York area for months and poses an ongoing risk to the unvaccinated, the CDC says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, polio circulates locally in the New York metropolitan area for months after an individual has imported the virus from abroad. An unvaccinated young adult in Rockland County, a suburb of New York, contracted polio in June and … Read more

Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers over drug prices

Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers over drug prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A pharmacist collects drugs for prescriptions at the pharmacy. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Medicare is poised to renegotiate the prices of some of its most expensive drugs in a historic expansion of its power that could cut costs for many seniors as well … Read more

CDC eases Covid guidelines as US has more tools to fight the virus and prevent people from entering the hospital

CDC eases Covid guidelines as US has more tools to fight the virus and prevent people from entering the hospital

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A sign outside a hospital advertises testing for COVID-19 on November 19, 2021 in New York City. On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisors voted unanimously to recommend a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine for all adults in the United … Read more

The FDA has expanded the approval of the monkeypox vaccine to increase the range of doses by five times

The FDA has expanded the approval of the monkeypox vaccine to increase the range of doses by five times

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a dose of Bavarian Nordic A/S Jynneos monkeypox vaccine at a vaccination site in West Hollywood, California, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Jill Connelly | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday expanded its approval of the monkeypox vaccine … Read more

Novavax Cuts Estimated 2022 Revenue in Half, Stock Tanks in After-hours Trading

Novavax Cuts Estimated 2022 Revenue in Half, Stock Tanks in After-hours Trading

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, a silhouette of a man holding a medical syringe and vial is shown in front of the Novavax logo on the screen. Cezary Kowalski Lightrocket | Getty Images Novavax on Monday sharply cut its full-year revenue guidance as sales of its Covid-19 vaccine … Read more

New York polio case ‘tip of iceberg’, hundreds more could be infected, health official says

New York polio case ‘tip of iceberg’, hundreds more could be infected, health official says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Hundreds more people could have polio after an adult in suburban New York contracted the virus and suffered paralysis last month, the state’s top health official said this week. New York State Health Commissioner Mary Bassett warned that a confirmed case of polio in an unvaccinated … Read more

The CDC estimates that 1.7 million gay and bisexual men are most at risk for monkeypox

CDC Director Walensky will reorganize the agency after admitting that the response to the Covid pandemic has failed

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 1.7 million men who have sex with men are currently most at risk for monkeypox. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters Thursday that gay and bisexual men who are HIV positive or take drugs called PREP … Read more

The Biden administration will declare the monkeypox outbreak a US public health emergency

The Biden administration will declare the monkeypox outbreak a US public health emergency

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People protest during a rally calling for greater government action to combat the spread of monkeypox in Foley Square on July 21, 2022 in New York City. Jeenah Moon | Getty Images The Biden administration will declare monkeypox a public health emergency as the U.S. outbreak … Read more

Polio found in sewage samples outside New York City suggests it’s spreading in the community, health officials say

Polio found in sewage samples outside New York City suggests it’s spreading in the community, health officials say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Polio virus particle, computer illustration. Katerina Kon | Scientific Photo Library | Getty Images Polio has been found in wastewater samples taken from two counties outside New York, suggesting the virus is spreading in the community, state health officials say. Wastewater samples taken from two different … Read more

Biden will sign an executive order to help defray the costs of women traveling for abortions

Biden will sign an executive order to help defray the costs of women traveling for abortions

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Boxes of Mifepristone, a drug used to induce medical abortion, are readied for patients at a Planned Parenthood health center in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters American president Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday to help defray the costs … Read more

Moderna’s second-quarter earnings beat expectations, but it writes off $500 million in expiring covid vaccinations

Moderna’s second-quarter earnings beat expectations, but it writes off 0 million in expiring covid vaccinations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Illustration of a vial of the Moderna vaccine for the treatment of the coronavirus. Marcos Del Mazo | Lightrocket | Getty Images Modern on Wednesday reported second-quarter results that beat expectations for profits and revenue, driven by $4.5 billion in sales of its Covid-19 vaccine, but … Read more

Biden names team to manage U.S. monkeypox response as outbreak spreads

Biden names team to manage U.S. monkeypox response as outbreak spreads

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Duane Rinde, 57, of Oakland Park, receives a monkeypox vaccine administered by nurse Joel Ramos at Latinos Salud in Wilton Manors, Fla., Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Al Diaz | Miami Herald | News Tribune | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Tuesday named a team of … Read more

The US provided 171 million covid micron vaccines before the fall vaccination campaign

The US provided 171 million covid micron vaccines before the fall vaccination campaign

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs has provided 171 million … Read more

Health secretary urges Congress, states to do more to help contain monkeypox outbreak

Health secretary urges Congress, states to do more to help contain monkeypox outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People wait in line for the monkeypox vaccine at the Balboa Sports Center in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on July 27, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images The US health secretary said Thursday that the federal government needs help from Congress … Read more

Pfizer’s Covid vaccine and treatment boosted second-quarter earnings

Pfizer’s Covid vaccine and treatment boosted second-quarter earnings

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Paxlovid tablets for the treatment of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in boxes at the Misericordia Hospital in Grosseto, Italy, on February 8, 2022. Jennifer Lorenzini | Reuters Pfizer’s second-quarter revenue and profit beat Wall Street expectations, helped by sales of its Covid-19 vaccine and antiviral drug … Read more

US to issue 786,000 additional doses of monkeypox vaccine as outbreak spreads

US to issue 786,000 additional doses of monkeypox vaccine as outbreak spreads

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The United States will make 786,000 additional doses of monkeypox vaccine available to local health departments “as soon as possible” after the Food and Drug Administration approves the distribution of vaccinations, the country’s top health official said Wednesday. Health and Social Affairs Minister Xavier Beccerra said … Read more

The WHO recommends that homosexual and bisexual men limit sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox

The WHO recommends that homosexual and bisexual men limit sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE People line up outside the nonprofit Test Positive Aware Network clinic to receive the monkeypox vaccine in Chicago, Illinois, on July 25, 2022. Eric Cox | Reuters The World Health Organization on Wednesday recommended that gay and bisexual men limit the number of sexual partners they … Read more

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the rapidly spreading monkeypox epidemic a global health emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the rapidly spreading monkeypox epidemic a global health emergency

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pavlo Gončar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The World Health Organization has launched the highest level of alert for a growing outbreak of monkeypox, declaring the virus a public health emergency of international concern. The rare designation means the WHO now views the outbreak as a … Read more

The Biden administration is considering a public health emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak

The Biden administration is considering a public health emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The Biden administration is considering declaring a public health emergency in response to a growing monkeypox outbreak, a senior White House health official said Friday. dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s covid response coordinator, said the administration is looking into how declaring a public health emergency … Read more

Polio case confirmed in New York state, health workers told to look for more infections

Polio case confirmed in New York state, health workers told to look for more infections

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Polio virus, illustration. Each viral particle consists of a protein coat surrounding a nucleus containing the RNA genetic material. This virus infects children and causes poliomyelitis or polio. Roger Harris/Science Photo Library | Scientific Photo Library | Getty Images The New York State Department of Health … Read more

CDC committee unanimously recommends Novavax Covid-19 vaccine for adults

Novavax Cuts Estimated 2022 Revenue in Half, Stock Tanks in After-hours Trading

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, a silhouette of a man holding a medical syringe and vial is shown in front of the Novavax logo on the screen. Cezary Kowalski Lightrocket | Getty Images Recommended by independent consultants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Novavaxtwo-dose Covid-19 vaccine … Read more

CDC expects monkeypox outbreak to grow as total cases top 1,400 and vaccine demand outstrips supply

CDC expects monkeypox outbreak to grow as total cases top 1,400 and vaccine demand outstrips supply

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A person arrives for a monkeypox vaccination at Northwell Health Immediate Care Center in Fire Island-Cherry Grove, New York, U.S., on July 15, 2022. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed more than 1,400 monkeypox infections in 44 US states … Read more

Biden could declare a public health emergency to expand abortion access, but it would face a tremendous legal fight

Biden could declare a public health emergency to expand abortion access, but it would face a tremendous legal fight

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on reproductive rights as Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra listens during an event at the Roosevelt Room of the White House on July 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images President Joe Biden is … Read more

Texas is suing to stop Biden from requiring doctors to provide emergency abortions

Texas is suing to stop Biden from requiring doctors to provide emergency abortions

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on President Joe Biden’s proposal to overturn a Trump-era immigration policy that forced migrants to stay in Mexico to await hearings in the United States regarding their asylum … Read more

The FDA has approved the Novavax Covid vaccine for adults as the first new vaccination in the US in more than a year

The FDA has approved the Novavax Covid vaccine for adults as the first new vaccination in the US in more than a year

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE In this photo, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Novavax logos are visible behind the medical syringe and vials. Pavlo Gončar | LightRocket | Getty Images Food and Drug Administration approved Novavaxthe two-dose vaccine for adults 18 and older is the fourth Covid vaccine to … Read more

Pharmacies risk violating civil rights laws if they deny access to drugs that can be used for abortion, HHS says

Pharmacies risk violating civil rights laws if they deny access to drugs that can be used for abortion, HHS says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Customers wait in line at a Walmart pharmacy in Charlotte, North Carolina. Callaghan O’Hare | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Department of Health and Human Services warned US retail pharmacies on Wednesday that they risk violating the Civil Rights Act if they deny access to abortion … Read more

Hospitalizations due to covid have doubled since May as micron BA.5 sweeps US, but death toll remains low

Hospitalizations due to covid have doubled since May as micron BA.5 sweeps US, but death toll remains low

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 has doubled since early May as an even more transmissible subtype of micron BA.5 has caused a new wave of infections across the country, US health officials said on Tuesday. But the death toll from Covid is still relatively … Read more

Doctors must provide abortions in medical emergencies, regardless of state law, HHS says

Doctors must provide abortions in medical emergencies, regardless of state law, HHS says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the debate on reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 30, 2021. Shawn Thew | Pool | Reuters Doctors are … Read more

U.S. scientists are enrolling nearly 40,000 patients in 4-year $1.2 billion study of long Covid

U.S. scientists are enrolling nearly 40,000 patients in 4-year .2 billion study of long Covid

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at testing site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The National Institutes of Health is rolling out one of the largest studies in the world to understand … Read more

WHO says monkeypox cases in Europe have tripled in two weeks, urgent action needed to limit spread

WHO says monkeypox cases in Europe have tripled in two weeks, urgent action needed to limit spread

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE The World Health Organization warned on Friday that urgent measures are needed to curb the spread of monkeypox in Europe, as cases have tripled in the past two weeks. Europe is the epicenter of the global virus outbreak, accounting for 90% of confirmed cases of monkeypox, … Read more

Women in states that ban abortion will still be able to get abortion pills online from overseas

Women in states that ban abortion will still be able to get abortion pills online from overseas

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Pills of Misoprostol, used to terminate early pregnancies, are displayed in a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. May 12, 2022.  George Frey | Reuters Women in states that ban abortion will still be able to end unwanted pregnancies with prescription abortion pills ordered online from overseas, … Read more

Scientists divided on need for 4th Covid shot after FDA quietly approved another round of boosters

Scientists divided on need for 4th Covid shot after FDA quietly approved another round of boosters

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Cathy Dozal gets her second booster shot against COVID-19 from Vocational nursing student, Patricia Lizardo, at Long Beach City College in Long Beach on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Brittany Murray | Medianews Group | Getty Images Leading U.S. scientists and physicians worry that the FDA and … Read more

No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope of returning to normal

No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope of returning to normal

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senior U.S. health officials have sought to reassure a pandemic weary public that the country … Read more

Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit pandemic high, worrying doctors and parents about long-term impact

Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit pandemic high, worrying doctors and parents about long-term impact

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A respiratory therapist checks on Adrian James, 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and is on a ventilator, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., October 5, 2021. Callaghan O’Hare | Reuters Trisha DeGroot’s 10-year-old daughter, Rainey, returned … Read more

‘We’re heartbroken. We’re overwhelmed’ — U.S. hospitals grapple with delta outbreak as omicron takes root

‘We’re heartbroken. We’re overwhelmed’ — U.S. hospitals grapple with delta outbreak as omicron takes root

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Dr. Ulrika Wigert, a family practice physician, checks on Brittany Kolkhorst, a patient who has just been admitted into the hospital with Covid-19, at CentraCare Sauk Centre Hospital in Sauk Centre, Minn., on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Jenn Ackerman | The Washington Post | Getty Images … Read more

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