MORE: Scientists are working on combo flu and COVID-19 shot, but don't expect one this fall In addition to Pfizer, pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Novavax have announced plans to work on a combo shot. Moderna said it anticipates starting clinical trials on a single-dose vaccine...
The FDA has authorized the Healgen Rapid Check COVID-19/Flu A&B Antigen test for over-the-counter use.Healgen.com Similar to other virus test kits on the market, the Healgen product entails using a nasal swab sample to detect if it shows the presence of proteins from SARS-CoV-2 (the...
COVID-19 testingINFLUENZAMedical News in Brief In late February, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an Emergency Use Authorization to an at-home diagnostic test that identifies SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as influenza strains A a...
The Healgen test is the first combined home COVID and flu test authorized to be marketed outside emergency use. "As we enter this year's annual flu season with respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 on many of our minds, our ability to detect these pathogens effectively and efficiently can...
While some of the excess mortality reported in the ILI group may be attributable to COVID-19, a question arises: do we have to consider this observation as a result of a random sequence of events or a potential relationship between the two viruses play a role? A cooperation mechanism ...
Similar to other virus test kits on the market, the Healgen product entails using a nasal swab sample to detect if it shows the presence of proteins from SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) or influenza A and B (the two most common flu strains). At-home test results for bo...
Similar to other virus test kits on the market, the Healgen product entails using a nasal swab sample to detect if it shows the presence of proteins from SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) or influenza A and B (the two most common flu strains). At-home test results for bo...
mRNA flu vaccine, which would be one vaccine that wouldn't necessarily need to change year-to-year," Amiji says of the experimental universal flu shot. "That gives us this opportunity to say, if you could create auniversal flu vaccine, why not create that together with the COVID booster...
A two-in-one COVID and flu vaccine could be animportant public health toolto increase vaccine coverage against these two important diseases. Beyond protecting individuals' health, this would have flow-on benefits for the economy and our health system. ...
MOSCOW, January 14. /TASS/. The Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Healthcare Ministry plans to begin clinical trials of a combined vaccine against the coronavirus and flu in the middle of 2022, Center’s Director Alexander Gintsburg told TASS on Th...