Researchers will use a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, to develop a low-dose, oral COVID antiviral drug that can be administered at home.
Monkeypox can be transmitted via respiratory droplets, but it is not an aerosolized or airborne transmission disease, according to a "Fact Check" published recently by Reuters Health.
Smokers in the United States who received cigarette packs with graphic warning labels hid their packs 38% more often, but stopped hiding their cigarettes when they returned to regular packs without the graphic warning labels.
A new study published in The Lancet estimates that RSV-attributable acute lower respiratory infection was responsible for more than 100,000 deaths in children under five across the globe in 2019.
Los Angeles will ban businesses from selling flavored tobacco products under new restrictions in an attempt to decrease teen vaping.
Baxter International Inc has issued an Urgent Medical Device Correction for the Hillrom Volara System (home care) over a possible risk of oxygen desaturation or barotrauma.