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If hand sanitizer gets into the eyes, it can "result in serious injury, including severe irritation and damage to the surface of the eye," the FDA said in a notice Tuesday.

Shares in Moderna Inc. dropped at least 5% as trading opened Monday after a delay in the decision to approve the COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents ages 12-17.

Artnaturals is voluntarily recalling 10 lots of its 8-oz. Scent Free Hand Sanitizer after ont manufacturing lot was exposed to impurities out of an abundance of caution," according to the recall notice.

A federal judge has rejected a bid by pilots to block Southwest Airlines from imposing a vaccine mandate, saying the airline is within its power to require vaccination as a safety measure.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson discusses the impact COVID vaccine mandates have had.

Walmart issued a recall for The Better Homes & Gardens Lavender & Chamomile Essential Oil Infused Aromatherapy Room Spray with Gemstones after a sample tested positive for Burkholderia pseudomallei, "which causes melioidosis, a condition that is difficult to diagnose and can be fatal," according to the recall notice posted by CPSC.

Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and chairman of Moderna, discussed a new COVID-19 therapeutic and booster shots during an exclusive interview on Tuesday, noting that there could be a "continuous need for boosting” every year similar “to what we do with the flu vaccine.”

U.S. health regulators significantly widened the nation’s Covid-19 booster campaign, clearing use of extra doses of Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson vaccines and also saying people can get a shot that is different from what they had previously received.

The USDA says the industry has succeeded in reducing the level of salmonella contamination found in poultry plants in recent years, but that hasn't translated into the reduction in illnesses the agency wants to see.

Cleveland Clinic patients currently on the waiting list to receive an organ transplant from a deceased donor have until Nov. 1 to meet the new policy. Patients who do not meet the vaccination deadline will be made inactive on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waitlist.

Seafood distributed by Northeast Seafood Products of Denver, Colorado has been recalled after people reported becoming sick from eating a variety of raw and cooked seafood in restaurants and grocery stores.

Drugmaker Merck asked federal health officials Monday to greenlight its experimental pill against COVID-19, which could make history as the first oral antiviral medicine to treat the harrowing virus.

People who both had COVID-19 and are vaccinated don’t need to rush to get the boosters now rolling out across the U.S., health experts say.

The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that approximately 72% of the two largest insurers in each state and Washington D.C., or 102 health plans, are no longer waiving out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatment, while another 10% of plans will phase out waivers by the end of October and another 12% will phase out waivers by the end of 2021.

AstraZeneca, the drugmaker that developed one of the first COVID-19 vaccines, has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize the emergency use of a first-of-a-kind antibody treatment to prevent the disease.

Benzene is a chemical that can cause certain types of cancer in humans. Likewise, studies show that acetaldehyde may also cause cancer in consumers.

Sweden and Denmark said on Wednesday they will pause the use of Moderna's (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine for younger age groups after reports of possible rare side effects, such as myocarditis.

Per the UCHealth vaccination mandate, employees across the state were required to get inoculated by Oct. 1, unless they were given a religious or medical exemption.

The cost of similar Covid-19 treatments can vary by tens of thousands of dollars a patient, even within the same hospital, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of pricing data that indicates pandemic care hasn’t escaped the complex economics of the U.S. health system.