Within the next few weeks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to recommend a plan for immunocompromised Americans to get a COVID-19 booster shot, a senior government official familiar with the agency’s planning told ABC News on Thursday. The plan is expected by early September, if not sooner, the government official said. The
I remember being in the grocery store and overhearing someone speak to a friend who looked to be pretty far along in her pregnancy. “You look great! Do you know what you’re having, or will it be a surprise?” A child, I thought. The pregnancy will result in a child. “We’re going to be surprised,”
The sepsis ‘postcode lottery’: Figures reveal the 28 NHS trusts where more patients than expected are dying from the ‘silent killer’ Deaths from sepsis at Tameside and Glossop are 38% higher than expected In real terms, 517 patients died there – well above the 373 deaths anticipated NHS denies excess deaths are necessarily avoidable and
Like cartographers completing a map, investigators have identified multiple new subtypes of the most common childhood cancer—research that will likely improve the diagnosis and treatment of high-risk patients. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists led the study, which appears as an advance online publication today in the journal Nature Genetics. Researchers used integrated genomic analysis,