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Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
Feb 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 ...
Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
Nov 13, 2023 · The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1.This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996. “Across ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
Aug 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 ...
The history of OxyContin, told through Purdue Pharma documents …
June 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 ...
Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
Aug 7, 2024 · advertisement. This shifting from topic to topic, with few connections — a pattern of speech called tangentiality — is one of several disjointed and occasionally incoherent verbal habits that ...
3 issues to watch in global health in 2024 - STAT
Dec 22, 2023 · 3 issues to watch in global health in 2024. A s we enter the fifth year of this challenging decade, life finally appears to be inching toward normal — a new normal — on the infectious diseases ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
Jul 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 ...
STAT Biotech: Market-moving coverage of new drug development
Biotech news roundup: Inside the discoveries, personalities, and deals driving drug development in general and biomedical engineering in particular. You’ll find coverage of biotech companies ...
Ransomware attacks on hospitals: Study outlines patient impact
Nov 17, 2023 · During a ransomware attack, that number goes up to 4 out of 100. From 2016 to 2021, we estimate that ransomware attacks killed between 42 and 67 Medicare patients. The true number of deaths caused ...