HHS received a list of 100 ways it could better prepare for and respond to public health emergencies such as pandemics.
Plaque growth can lead to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other life-threatening cardiovascular events for as long as 1 year.
Post-exertional malaise, or exercise intolerance, was seen in 36% of those with long COVID.
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The agency told vaccine makers that COVID-19 vaccines used in the US starting in fall 2025 should be based on JN.1 lineage strains, preferably the LP.8.1 strain.
The United States has been in a "protracted health crisis" for decades, the researchers say.
The group weighed considerations about newer variants and raised concerns that a strain recommendation might interface with the FDA's new proposed COVID vaccine framework.
A total of 11% of RSV patients experienced a cardiac event, abnormal heart rhythm, heart failure, or ischemic heart disease.
The ARTIC 2.0 project will expand use of a low-cost, real-time genome sequencing technique used to detect COVID-19 variants to conduct surveillance on a wider variety of pathogens.
The VIP piece poses a number of questions to the FDA in light of the new rules.
Moderna's combination vaccine was intended for adults 50 and older.
Newly announced rules that limit the use of COVID vaccines suggest that federal officials are opposed to open discussion and transparency.
More than half of participants had lung abnormality imaging at baseline.
The study authors say antibiotic stewardship strategies are needed for patients who have nonsevere COVID-19 but are still sick enough to be admitted to the hospital.
