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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 ...
Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
WEBNov 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
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 ...
Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
WEBAug 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 ...
Biosimilar drugs gain ground, but concerns linger about switching
WEBSep 21, 2021 · Biosimilar drugs gain ground in U.S., but concerns linger about when patients can switch. It took years for Elle Moxley to find a drug that controlled the crippling pain and problems caused by ...
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 ...
Transgender health research faces data problem on HIV modeling
WEBJul 30, 2024 · That review estimated HIV prevalence among trans women to be 18.8%. But the U.S. Transgender Population Health survey estimates prevalence to be 6.5% among trans women. The second problem is that ...
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 ...
By the numbers: America’s alcohol-related health problems ... - STAT
WEBJun 27, 2024 · The U.S. saw a 25.5% spike in alcohol-related deaths between 2019 and 2020 — accounting for 3% of all deaths in the first year of the pandemic. The largest increases in alcohol-related deaths ...