insert_link Health & Wellness Biden Administration to send 500 Million Free At-Home COVID Tests Directly to Americans and Ramps up COVID-19 Winter Strategy Fighting the omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million free rapid home-testing kits, increase support for hospitals under strain and redouble vaccination and boosting efforts. At the White House on Tuesday, Biden detailed major changes to his COVID-19 winter plan, his hand forced by the fast-spreading variant, whose properties are not yet fully understood by scientists. Yet his message was clear […] todayDecember 23, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness Here’s what you need to know about the new Covid-19 Omicron Variant South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus last week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. It's unclear where the new variant actually arose, but it was first detected by scientists in South Africa and has now been seen in travelers to Belgium, Botswana, Hong Kong and Israel. Health Minister Joe Phaahla said the variant was […] todayNovember 29, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness On Veterans Day, President Biden Announces New Lung Health Program for Vets HealthDay reports that a new program to help U.S. veterans with lung problems caused by inhaling toxins while deployed was announced on Veterans Day by President Joe Biden. It will also assess the potential connection between cancers and time spent overseas breathing poor air, according to the White House. "We're discovering there is a whole host of lung conditions related to deployment," Dr. Richard Meehan told the Associated Press. He's […] todayNovember 12, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness First Lady Jill Biden Asks Busy Women to Get a Mammogram: ‘Nothing on Your To-Do List Is More Important’ As first lady, an English professor, a mother and a grandmother, Dr. Jill Biden's daily to-do list is likely pretty long. But during Breast Cancer Awareness month, she's taking time to remind women to prioritize their health. "I get it. You're busy. There are kids or grandkids to look after. You have so many things to take care of," Biden, 70, says in a new PSA encouraging women to make […] todayOctober 11, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness Pfizer and Moderna listen to FDA and Expand Covid Vaccine trials for Kids 5 – 11, hoping to get approval this Fall The New York Times reports that at the urging of federal regulators, two coronavirus vaccine makers – Pfizer and Moderna - are expanding the size of their clinical trials for children ages 5 to 11 — a precautionary measure designed to detect rare side effects including heart inflammation problems that turned up in vaccinated people younger than 30. The Food and Drug Administration has indicated to Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna that […] todaySeptember 23, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness FDA unanimously votes to approve Covid Vaccine Boosters – but ONLY for High-Risk Populations – for now A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee voted unanimously Friday to recommend booster doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those over age 65 and those at higher risk of exposure to the virus, including healthcare, frontline and essential workers, under emergency use authorization, but stopped short of recommending boosters for the general population. (Boosters have already been authorized for those with compromised immune systems.) Pfizer-BioNTech had originally requested that […] todaySeptember 20, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple President Biden’s latest Executive Order aims to “Promote Competition” with 72 mostly Tech-related provisions that restore Net Neutrality, make ISP’s offer better choices, boost Right-to-Repair and More On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order meant to promote competition across several areas of the Tech world. The order, which the White House outlined earlier that morning, calls on US agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to implement 72 specific provisions. The topics include restoring net neutrality provisions repealed during the prior administration, codifying “right to repair” rules, and increasing scrutiny of tech […] todayJuly 13, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness America has passed a Pandemic milestone: 1/3 of Americans are Vaccinated Even as the pace of vaccinations falls in the U.S., the country reported passing two milestones on Friday: More than 150 million are now at least partially vaccinated, and more than a third of Americans are fully vaccinated, CDC data released Friday afternoon shows. Data shows about 111 million Americans are fully vaccinated, about 33% of the total population in the U.S., and another 150 million people have received their […] todayMay 10, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness Real-World Data reveals Pfizer vaccine can prevent Transmission Positive and encouraging news on the frontlines of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic: new real-world data suggests that COVID-19 vaccines can prevent transmission of the coronavirus, in addition to protecting against symptomatic disease. The preliminary information from Israel — where more than half the adults have been vaccinated, most with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — showed those who received the vaccine did not develop symptoms or transmit the disease. An […] todayMarch 15, 2021
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