The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends 26 hours of intensive behavioral intervention for kids 6 and older with a high body mass index.
Public Health
Some experts warn that the bird flu is at least two mutations away from widespread human infection and health systems may see some patients this summer, Medscape reported June 19.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, is calling for health warnings on social media for adolescents.
The FDA is now advising manufacturers to develop the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines using the KP.2 strain for the formula, the agency announced June 13.
Public health and the rest of the healthcare delivery system have long operated in silos in the U.S. While progress was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, stressed that now is the time to build on…
Advertisement
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has proposed a more precise definition of long COVID-19.
The "FLiRT" coronavirus variants account for more than two-thirds of all U.S. cases, according to the CDC's latest variant proportion estimates.
An FDA committee voted unanimously June 5 on the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine makeup, recommending it should be one that targets the monovalent JN.1-lineage.
Long COVID can present more than 200 symptoms, and a positive COVID-19 test is not needed to make a long COVID diagnosis, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The average duration of drug shortages has increased by nearly a full year since 2020, according to a new report from U.S. Pharmacopoeia.