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Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
WEBFeb 2, 2021 · The interval between Moderna doses is 28 days; for the Pfizer vaccine, it’s 21 days. Each dose of Pfizer’s contains 30 micrograms of vaccine. Moderna went with a much larger dose of vaccine ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
WEBJul 26, 2019 · Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) on social media in the ...
Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why. I n a speech earlier this year, former President Trump was mocking President Biden’s ability to walk through ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
WEBAug 4, 2021 · A meta-analysis of such studies concluded that the average annual death rate from such errors in the first decade of the 2000s was in the neighborhood of 250,000. That’s more than enough to make ...
Under new rules, patients can now access all their health ... - STAT
WEBOct 6, 2022 · The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got their health data back. Under ...
Two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020
WEBJun 9, 2021 · More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows. STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ corporate PAC spending ...
There's no autism epidemic. It's an autism diagnosis epidemic - STAT
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · No. The increase in the autism rate recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention represent an autism diagnosis epidemic. Writing in the weekly journal MMWR, CDC researchers ...
The history of OxyContin, told through Purdue Pharma documents …
WEBJune 15, 1993 to April 15, 1994: Purdue conducted a clinical trial in elderly patients with osteoarthritis to test the safety and efficacy of OxyContin. It enrolled 133 patients, but only 63 ...
Covid overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in U.S
WEBSep 20, 2021 · Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history. Volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a ...