Volunteers with Queer Disability Aid – who are living with disabilities themselves – provide help calling doctors, pet sitting, raising funds for mobility supports, grocery shopping, laundry, and other errands.
Zohran Mamdani's health proposals, a win for Medicare recipients, and low Covid levels round out this week's dose of health news.
Some leading vaccine scientists are calling for more resources to research vaccine safety and support people with claims of injury — and asking Kennedy to step up.
The evidence that vaccines are beneficial remains overwhelming. Vaccines to prevent RSV in people 60 and older are performing admirably. And a Stanford study found vaccination against shingles reduced the risk of dementia.
Here's a Q&A with Dr. Maureen Miller, a researcher for the study, which found that in one year, vaccine uptake rose from 44% to 76% in target communities.
A new Covid variant has been detected in international travelers who arrived to New York City airports.
Pregnant women who contracted Covid-19 were more likely to become severely ill and to be hospitalized than non-pregnant women of the same age and demographics.
Here's the latest on New York public health from Your Local Epidemiologist New York.
The FDA will encourage new clinical trials on the widely used vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults. The requirements could cost drugmakers tens of millions of dollars and are likely to leave boosters largely out of reach for hundreds of millions of Americans this fall.
The abrupt cancellation of funds sent state Department of Public Health leaders scrambling to understand the impact and inform contractors, including many community organizations, to stop work immediately.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the amount of respiratory illness causing people to seek health care is low nationwide and in Georgia.
In a Q&A, one of the project’s principal investigators describes the 'devastating' termination of grant funding for research that was nearing completion.
Five years after the Covid pandemic arrived, the narrative that the U.S. should have had fewer virus control measures has gained momentum. Here are six questions for assessing the response.
Flu and RSV are on their way down as winter turns to spring, but wastewater data are showing higher levels of Covid.
Flu cases appear to be decreasing, while RSV and Covid-19 infections may be increasing.
In the U.S. public health system, local and state health departments collect and own the data rather than the federal government. With uncertainties surrounding federal data sharing, this provides a sort of firewall.
State wastewater sites in the metro Atlanta area and eastern Georgia show rising levels of flu and Covid virus over the past two weeks, as does the percentage of emergency department visits for the illnesses.
Other respiratory diseases of concern, like Covid and RSV, also appear to be spreading slower than a few weeks ago.
Navigating and getting care for Long Covid can be overwhelming. However, many New York clinics and hospitals are on the leading edge of understanding and treating it.
Many schools used federal Covid aid on longstanding, costly needs like new curriculum materials and buildings, a federal report says.