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Omicron Problem For Doctors: How To Know What To Prescribe : Rashtra News Omicron Variant: Omicron has the potential to soon comprise a bigger share of the Covid cases.The omicron variant presents a new problem for doctors: Some drugs may work better than others, but knowing what to prescribe will hinge on quickly figuring out

Home Test to Treat program is closing April 16. Patients have limited options for testing and getting treatment with Paxlovid.

/PRNewswire/ -- MaximBio, a leading innovator in next-generation healthcare diagnostic technologies, is pleased to announce that it has been granted a second...

NIH Home Test to Treat program offers free COVID and flu tests, telehealth, and treatments nationwide, revolutionizing healthcare accessibility with innovative at-home solutions.

The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, an NIH program launched three years ago to improve COVID-19 diagnostics, has awarded $9 million to support the first Indigenous-led Tribal Data Repository in the U.S.“It's an absolutely beautiful way for not only respecting tribal data sovereignty, but also operationalizing that respect and giving us the exact resources

The project will be led by Native scientists to help improve health in tribal communities. The project, called Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Tribal Data Repository (TDR): Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interventions, and Innovations (D4I),  is a secure NIH data hub for the use of anonymized Indigenous data in health research.

GHTC responded to Senator Bill Cassidys (R-LA) request for information (RFI) on modernizing the National Institutes of Health (NIH), highlighting the important globally facing work NIH does, including the success of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Fogarty International Center, and more.

This Viewpoint discusses the National Institutes of Health initiative that focuses on research that reduces preventable maternal mortality, decreases severe mat

From Dominican and Puerto Rican to Mexican heritage, the choices made in confronting the virus are as diverse as the cultures represented in a new national study of COVID-19 patterns led by Duke University School of Medicine.  

Two new COVID variants—known as Pirola and Eris—are being monitored by health authorities. COVID tests that are currently available should still detect these new variants, due to the test's original design that factored in mutations to the virus. The COVID tests that have been in use over the last few years should still work to detect new variants, assuming they aren’t expired.