Is the Novavax COVID Vaccine Actually ‘Better’?
Lots of people are hearing about Novavax, the fourth COVID vaccine option in the U.S., for the first time, but it’s been authorized for use as a primary vaccine series…
You Can Throw Away Your COVID Vaccine Card Now
When I got my latest COVID booster—the new one with the updated spike proteins, which we should all make sure to get—the pharmacist asked, as I rolled my sleeve back…
Where to Find a PCR COVID Test (and Why You Need One)
As we stare down September, COVID cases (and hospitalizations) are up everywhere across the country, due to a troubling new variant called Eris. In other words: It’s time to get…
How to Know When (or If) You Need Another COVID Vaccine
What started as a simple recipe for COVID protection—get a jab, come back in three weeks and get another—became a byzantine labyrinth to navigate over the last thirty months. The…
Pfizer To Acquire Cancer Treatment Biotech Firm Seagen For $43 Billion
Pfizer will buy biotech firm Seagen for 43 billion dollars. (Representational)Paris: US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced Monday that it had reached a deal to buy biotech firm Seagen, specializing in…
US Probes Risk Of Stroke From Pfizer Covid Vaccine Booster Dose
US plans to study whether there is any increased risk of stroke from the booster dose.New data from one US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database shows a…
What We Know About Bivalent Boosters for Kids
Photo: sulit.photos (Shutterstock) COVID vaccine boosters were updated this fall: Pfizer for ages 12 and up, Moderna for ages 18 and up. Now, younger kids can join in. The FDA…
This Treatment Protects Immunocompromised People From COVID
Photo: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP (Getty Images) When the CDC was preparing to recommend the new bivalent COVID booster vaccines (speaking of which, most of us should make plans to get one),…
There’s a New COVID Booster You Should Probably Get This Fall
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Updated COVID booster vaccines have now officially been authorized and recommended by the FDA and CDC. There is a Pfizer booster for ages 12 and…
How to Find a COVID Vaccine for Your Young Child
Photo: maxbelchenko (Shutterstock) COVID vaccines have finally been authorized and recommended for kids as young as 6 months old, and little kids across the country are finally able to get…