Health & Wellness
COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Americas triple in 2021
Compared to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was “undoubtedly worse” for the Americas, where infections and deaths tripled, the top UN...
Omicron: School closures must be ‘avoided whenever possible’
COVID-19 cases are spiking all over the world, but the Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday that despite the rise...
WHO lists 9th COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
The World Health Organization (WHO) approved on Friday the Covovax vaccine for emergency use listing (EUL), elevating to nine the number of immunizations approved to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The vaccine is produced by the Serum...
HIPAA Violations: 6 Tips for Preventing Them
The US healthcare industry is unfortunately not immune to HIPAA violations. In 2020 there have already been 421 reported violations, and several investigations are...
COVID-19: Don’t underestimate Omicron
The Omicron variant is “probably” now present in most of the world’s countries and it would be a mistake to dismiss the COVID-19 strain...
More than half a billion people pushed into extreme poverty due to health care costs
New evidence compiled by the World Health Organization and the World Bank shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to halt two decades of...
COVID-19: WHO says countries can now use one or two courses of the Janssen vaccine
Countries “can now consider” using one or two courses of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, otherwise known as the Johnson & Johnson, or J&J shot, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday.
The one-dose schedule...
Growth Hormone and Peptide Therapy: What You Need to Know
This form of treatment targets multiple systems in the body with short chains of amino acids called peptides. In contrast to recombinant HGH (rhGH),...
WHO: Omicron could have ‘major impact’, but no definitive answers yet
Features of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron, including the extent to which it will spread, and the sheer number of mutations, suggest that it could have a major impact on the course of...
Omicron: Don’t panic but prepare for likely spread
As scientists continue to investigate the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged countries not to panic but to...