Pfizer said Wednesday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine may offer important protection against the new omicron variant even though the initial two doses appear significantly less effective. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said that while two doses may not be protective enough to prevent infection, lab tests showed a booster increased by 25-fold people’s levels of virus-fighting antibodies against the omicron variant.
BERLIN – Center-left leader Olaf Scholz on Wednesday became Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, opening a new era for the European Union’s most populous nation and largest economy after Angela Merkel’s 16-year tenure.
The annual “Five Places of Christmas” was hosted Dec. 4, with The Warkentin House, Carriage Factory Gallery, Kauffman Museum and Goerz House at Bethel College opening their doors to visitors for free.
On Dec. 3 students at the 21st Century Walton Rural Center took a little walk from school to downtown, honoring a tradition that is decades old.
Dear Doctors: A friend who is 74 years old had an episode recently where she suddenly sounded as though she had dementia. Her physician diagnosed it as an effect of a UTI. Can you talk about how UTIs in older people can mimic dementia? Also, why do they affect more women than men?
Just more than a decade ago Patty Anderson Meier created a unique coffee shop — Mojos. She took over a space once dubbed "Bubberts" on the campus of Bethel College.
Hahn receives Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor designation Hannah Hahn, CRPC®, a financial advisor with Ironstone Wealth Advisors, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC, in Newton has achieved the professional designation of Chartered Retirement Planning CounselorSM (CRPC®) through The Hahn College of Financial Planning. Hahn successfully completed the rigorous requirements that include course work and a series of examinations that cover pre-and post-retirement needs, asset management, estate planning and the entire retirement planning process using models and techniques from real client situations.
NEW YORK – From big Wall Street banks to corner grocery stores, all private employers in New York City will have to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the mayor announced Monday in the most sweeping vaccine mandate of any state or big city in the U.S.
Isolation. Anxiety. Uncertainty. The stresses of the coronavirus pandemic have taken a toll on Americans of all ages, but a new poll finds that teens and young adults have faced some of the heaviest struggles as they come of age during a time of extreme turmoil.
NEW YORK – Regulators are asking questions about the deal to bring Donald Trump’s new social media company to the stock market, one that has attracted both legions of fans of the former president and people looking to make a quick profit.