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Greece and a handful of other European Union members began vaccinating children aged 5-11 on Wednesday against COVID-19 as governments brace for the holiday season and the spread of the omicron variant. Italy, Spain and Hungary were also among those…

South Korea will prohibit private social gatherings of five or more people nationwide and force restaurants to close at 9 p.m., rolling out the country’s toughest coronavirus restrictions yet as hospitals grapple with the deadliest month of the pandemic. Prime…

(HealthDay)—Immune response may vary with the choice of COVID-19 vaccine used for a third dose or booster following two doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (ChAd) or Pfizer BioNTech BNT162b2 (BNT), according to a study published online Dec. 2 in The Lancet….

LIZ HODGKINSON: My tinnitus has gone at last, but only after I spent £5,000 on hearing aids Standing in a bus queue, I was astonished to hear not just what the person next to me was saying on his phone,…

The risk of cardiovascular disease rises with an increasing burden of perceived stress, financial problems and adverse life events, a major international study with University of Gothenburg researchers as main authors shows. They were able to link the risk of…

The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing infection in most cancer patients, according to a nationwide study of veterans diagnosed with cancer in the past decade. But the researchers found that some vaccinated patients, including those who had received…

Photo: HIMSS Media Given the growing ubiquity of machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare settings, it’s become increasingly important to meet patient needs and engage users.   And as panelists noted during a HIMSS Machine Learning and AI for…

Isis Daniel hadn’t thought much about wine until her friend told her, “You look like you should be drinking wine,” and took her to a wine bar to try a cabernet, prompting her journey to become one of the internet’s…

Fifty-five experts from 16 countries have collaborated on a new consensus statement on the management of achondroplasia (ACH), a genetic disorder that interferes with bone growth and causes dwarfism (short stature). ACH is the most common skeletal dysplasia that is…

Researchers from four academic neurosurgical centers in Japan found that the parietooccipital fissure, which divides the temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes of the brain, acts as an obstacle that may result in less invasion of posterior medial temporal gliomas toward…