FDA approves updated Novavax Covid vaccine as Pfizer, Moderna shots roll out in U.S.

FDA approves updated Novavax Covid vaccine as Pfizer, Moderna shots roll out in U.S.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A vial labelled “Novavax V COVID-19 Vaccine” is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Novavax‘s updated Covid vaccine under emergency use, putting the shot on track to roll out weeks after new … Read more

FDA approves updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna as hospitalizations rise

FDA approves updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna as hospitalizations rise

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer … 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

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

The FDA is considering temporarily importing cancer drugs from unapproved companies to reduce shortages in the US

The FDA is considering temporarily importing cancer drugs from unapproved companies to reduce shortages in the US

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE WINDSOR, DNE – MAY 8: Registered pharmacy technician Dawn Deslippe carefully labels Diane’s dose of carboplatin, one of two chemotherapy drugs she will receive this visit. Each step of the process involves verification by at least two people. The hospital now makes its own chemotherapy drugs … 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

The abortion pill mifepristone is banned or restricted in some states despite the Supreme Court decision

The abortion pill mifepristone is banned or restricted in some states despite the Supreme Court decision

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 The abortion pill mifepristone is banned or restricted to varying degrees in 27 countries despite a Supreme Court a decision … 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

Abortion-legal states point appeals court to Texas mifepristone ruling

Abortion-legal states point appeals court to Texas mifepristone ruling

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 the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, U.S., on December 13, 2017, in a video photo. Reuters Attorneys general for nearly half of the US … 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

22 attorneys general say abortion pill withdrawal from US would have ‘devastating consequences’

22 attorneys general say abortion pill withdrawal from US would have ‘devastating consequences’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C., argued Friday that an attempt to pull the abortion pill from the U.S. market would have “devastating consequences” for women. The filing in federal district court in Texas is in response to a lawsuit by anti-abortion doctors who … 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

Applying successfully for Social Security Disability is difficult. Applying as a long-term covid patient is even more difficult

Applying successfully for Social Security Disability is difficult.  Applying as a long-term covid patient is even more difficult

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Residents take PCR tests for Covid-19 at a testing site run by the Centers for Disease Control, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and eTrueNorth on January 5, 2022 in Washington, DC. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Christopher Perry got sick in July 2021, … 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

Long Covid Financial Devastation: $8,000 in Credit Card Debt, Ruined Retirement Plans

Long Covid Financial Devastation: ,000 in Credit Card Debt, Ruined Retirement Plans

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO LOSE WEIGHT: CLICK HERE Teresa Harding Source: Teresa Harding It took three months for Teresa Harding to open the letter of resignation. “I couldn’t watch it,” Harding, 47, said. She worked at a pain management center in Lexington, Kentucky for seven years. “I enjoyed my colleagues and our patients. “It … 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 …