Childhood vaccination rates dip for 2021–22 school year

Vaccination rates among kindergarten children against potentially deadly diseases such as polio, measles and diphtheria fell in the 2021-2022 school year, extending the previous year’s slide from pre-pandemic levels, a U.S. government study showed on Thursday. The fall in rates for the four most commonly required childhood vaccines reflects the disruption caused by COVID-19 on […]

First lady Jill Biden has 2 cancerous lesions removed

Surgeons removed all cancerous tissue from a small lesion above first lady Jill Biden’s right eye and one on the left side of her chest.  In a memorandum, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the physician to President Biden, said an additional lesion on her left eyelid was being examined. The letter said examinations showed the lesions over her […]

4 healthy diets that could extend your life: study

You can reduce the risk of an early death by nearly 20%, just by eating more foods from four healthy eating patterns, according to researchers who analyzed decades of data collected on more than 119,000 adults. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that people who ate the “highest-quality diets” had 20% lower risk […]

India detects all omicron sub-variants of COVID-19

India has detected the presence of all omicron sub-variants of COVID-19 in the community after testing more than 300 samples since late December, the health ministry said in a statement on Monday. AS COVID RAVAGES CHINA, US EXPANDS TESTING SYSTEM FOR INCOMING TRAVELERS “No mortality or rise in transmission were reported in the areas where […]

FDA accelerates approval for Alzheimer’s drug

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced the fast-tracked approval of an Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows the brain-robbing disease to those with mild impairment. The drug, Leqembi, is the first that’s been convincingly shown to slow the decline in memory and thinking that defines Alzheimer’s by targeting the disease’s underlying biology. The FDA […]