By Ernie Mundell and Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporters TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) It’s a move that could severely limit the number of people taking the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm: Medicare on Tuesday proposed to only cover the cost of the pricey medication for people enrolled in approved clinical trials. A final decision […]

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12 2022 (HealthDay News) Your fingerprints may be more than a surefire way to identify you: New research suggests their patterns may be linked to genes that guide limb development. “People may wonder why our team is working on fingerprints,” said co-senior study author Sijia Wang, a geneticist at the Shanghai Institute of […]

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) The Omicron surge may have peaked in Britain and could be about to do the same in the United States, experts report. That’s because the COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa in mid-November is so contagious that the variant may already be running out of people to infect, […]

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 The record-breaking numbers surrounding the Omicron surge are dizzying, with so many Americans falling prey to the highly infectious COVID-19 variant. The United States reported more than 1.3 million COVID cases on Monday, the highest daily total recorded for any country in the world. The seven-day […]

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) In an effort to keep kids in classrooms, the White House announced Wednesday that 10 million free coronavirus tests will be provided to schools around the country every month while the wildly contagious Omicron variant continues to surge. President Joe Biden has been pushing for months to have schools […]

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) The chance of someone who is covered by Medicaid surviving cancer may depend in part on where they live, a new analysis finds. In states that had lower Medicaid income eligibility limits, cancer survival rates were worse for cancers both in early and late stages compared to states with […]