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	health Daily update ⋅ February 21, 2020
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	The New York Times Answers to Travelers' Questions About the Coronavirus The New York Times The coronavirus outbreak that has sickened almost 75,000 in China and killed more than 2,000 worldwide, has upended travel and commerce across the world. In light of the spread of the disease, which has been named COVID-19, would-be travelers to Asia ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR New Research: Bats Harbor Hundreds Of Coronaviruses And Spillovers Aren't Rare NPR Three years ago NPR accompanied disease ecologist Kevin Olival on a field trip to Malaysian Borneo. Olival, who is with the nonprofit research group EcoHealth Alliance, was there to trap bats and collect samples of their body fluids. He and his collaborators ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Drug overdose deaths rise in the West while they drop in the East Washington Post SAN FRANCISCO — Downstairs at the medical examiner's office, the bodies lay side by side on stainless-steel tables and shelves, shrouded and anonymized in white bags, each person identifiable only by a protruding foot that had been toe-tagged. Upstairs ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Study claiming vaping doubles heart attack risk retracted for being 'unreliable' USA TODAY One of the country's best-known tobacco researchers is under fire this week after one of his federally funded vaping studies was retracted and other academics are calling for federal review of some of his other influential anti-vaping research. The retracted ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape First Clinical Evidence of Neuroprotection in Acute Stroke? Medscape LOS ANGELES ― A new potential neuroprotectant agent has been found to be beneficial for patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing endovascular thrombectomy in a large placebo-controlled trial, but only for those patients who did not also receive ... Flag as irrelevant
	Nasdaq RPT-COLUMN-Coronavirus likely to have severe but short-lived economic impact: Kemp Reuters (Repeats Feb. 20 column with no changes. The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters). * Fed Bulletin references (1): tmsnrt.rs/2SIo6Sm. * Fed Bulletin references (2): tmsnrt.rs/2HHGrsu. By John Kemp. LONDON, Feb 20 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox Business AP-NORC Poll: More Americans Worry About Flu Than New Virus The New York Times A wide share of Americans are at least moderately confident in U.S. health officials' ability to handle emerging viruses, and more express concern about catching the flu than catching the new coronavirus, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Poor quality American diet kills sperm count and lowers male testosterone, study says CNN (CNN) If sperm was an animal, science might worry that it's heading toward extinction in Western nations. Total sperm count in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand dropped by up to 60% in the 38 years between 1973 and 2011, research found ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report After Health Care Overhaul, a Drop in Infant Mortality U.S. News & World Report When Krystal Morales had her son three years ago, she didn't expect her health insurance to cover diapers, baby wipes or a car seat. But it does – indirectly. The idea is relatively simple: Pregnant women and parents with young children who have Medicaid ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com How to lose weight, according to a dietitian NBCNews.com The latest stats show that more than 70 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, and while many regain that weight, an important study that tracked successful dieters via the National Weight Control Registry found that over a ten-year period, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News AP-NORC poll: More Americans worry about flu than new virus ABC News A wide share of Americans are at least moderately confident in United States health officials' ability to handle emerging viruses. By. CARLA K. JOHNSON and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press. February 20, 2020, 10:31 AM. 5 min read. Image Icon. Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News UT Austin announces coronavirus 'breakthrough' could help yield vaccine Fox News Researchers at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the University of Texas at Austin claimed to have made a breakthrough in their coronavirus research on Wednesday and said their data could help develop a vaccine. Scientists were able to create a 3D ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women The New York Times The coronavirus that originated in China has spread fear and anxiety around the world. But while the novel virus has largely spared one vulnerable group — children — it appears to pose a particular threat to middle-aged and older adults, particularly men. Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post 4 virus patients from cruise ship moving to Washington state Washington Post SEATTLE — Four Americans who tested positive for the new virus that caused an outbreak China are being sent to a hospital in Spokane, Washington, for treatment, officials said Thursday. The four were passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Good This Season, CDC Says Medscape This season's influenza vaccine effectiveness is 45% overall and 55% in children, according to preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Vaccine effectiveness (VE) was higher against influenza B/Victoria (50%) and ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Wearable 'Brain Stimulator' May Boost Stroke Recovery U.S. News & World Report By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation device worn less than an hour a day can increase activity near stroke-injured areas of the brain, a small, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Quartz Why a Chinese virology lab is unable to quell the coronavirus conspiracy theories around it Quartz A Chinese state-owned virology lab in Wuhan, the epicenter of China's coronavirus epidemic, is finding it extremely hard to quell conspiracy theories proliferating around the institution—a sign of the sharply decreased level of public trust in the government ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Texas mom loses both feet after high-risk pregnancy complication leads to sepsis Fox News A Texas mother is speaking out after she lost both of her feet and part of her left hand to sepsis after suffering a serious pregnancy complication. Callie Colwick, 30, of McKinney, found out she and her husband, Kevin, 30, were expecting their second child in ... Flag as irrelevant
	CTV News UPDATE 2-China finds spike in coronavirus cases in jails, officials fired Reuters ... * Prisons in Shandong, Zhejiang have combined 234 people infected. * 230 people at a women's prison in Hubei also infected. * Prison officials sacked for failing to contain virus (Adds bullet points, total number of Hubei prison cases, dismissal of Hubei ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Flu Season That's Sickened 26 Million May Be at Its Peak HealthDay By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- It's been overshadowed by the new coronavirus outbreak in China, but this year's flu season could be near its peak after surging throughout the United States for months. Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com New coronavirus may spread through poop Livescience.com The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which has now infected nearly 76,000 people, spreads mostly through respiratory droplets and contact with infected patients. But new research suggests that it can also spread through feces. There are currently more cases ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Can AI flag disease outbreaks faster than humans? Not quite ABC News BOSTON -- Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors in warning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? In a narrow sense, yes. But what the humans lacked in sheer speed, they more than made up in finesse. Early warnings of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post In rough US flu season for kids, vaccine working OK so far Washington Post NEW YORK — It may end up being a bad flu season for kids, but early signs suggest the vaccine is working OK. The vaccine has been more than 50% effective in preventing flu illness severe enough to send a child to the doctor's office, the U.S. Centers for ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR After The Diamond Princess Cruise, Coming Home To A Life In Isolation NPR What's it like living with a coronavirus infection, isolated in a biocontainment unit? For Carl Goldman, diagnosed this week in Nebraska, his condition doesn't feel any different than a typical cold, he tells NPR's Noel King. But the treatment is unusual: Doctors ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com This season's flu shot 45 percent effective, an improvement over last season's vaccine NBCNews.com A first look at how well the flu vaccine is working suggests it's better than last season's shot — so far. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that the overall effectiveness of the shot in the current flu season is 45 percent. The CDC ... Flag as irrelevant
	FierceBiotech MIT's AI researchers find a new antibiotic in an old drug FierceBiotech Dubbed halicin—after the thinking machine in "2001: A Space Odyssey"—the compound from researchers at MIT was shown to be incredibly effective against strains of Clostridium difficile, Acinetobacter baumannii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Church at centre of South Korea coronavirus outbreak sits silent as infections surge Reuters DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) - Usually teeming with thousands of worshippers, the church at the centre of South Korea's largest coronavirus outbreak was shuttered and silent on Friday, surrounded by empty streets. A woman wearing a mask to prevent ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN This season's flu shot offers 'substantial protection' in a season tough on children CNN (CNN) The flu season is still in full swing and it's likely to continue for several more weeks, and if you haven't gotten a flu shot yet, you should, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu is widespread across the US. The vaccine ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News China's count of new virus cases drops, deaths exceed 2200 ABC News China has reported another fall in new virus cases as health officials expressed continued optimism over containment of the outbreak that has caused more than 2,200 deaths but has grown elsewhere. By. KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press. February 21 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Six coronavirus cases discovered in north Italy, hundreds to be tested Reuters MILAN (Reuters) - Six people have tested positive in Italy for coronavirus, the northern Lombardy region said on Friday, in the first known cases of local transmission of the potentially deadly illness in the country. This video file cannot be played.(Error Code: ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET Acupuncture: Everything you need to know before you try it CNET Acupuncture is an ancient practice that involves inserting thin needles into the skin in strategic areas. Getty Images. In the world of modern wellness, there's a spectrum that most popular trends fall under -- you have the "woo-woo" on one end and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Artificial Intelligence Model Identifies 'Amazing' Antibiotic Candidate Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have harnessed a machine-learning algorithm to identify a new antibiotic compound that, in laboratory tests, killed many of the world's most challenging disease-causing bacteria, including some ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay AHA News: Research Opens New Avenues to Reduce Foot, Toe Amputations HealthDay THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Emerging research may help doctors devise better ways to prevent some of the tens of thousands of amputations unrelated to traumatic injury that occur in the U.S. each year. Diabetes is the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Despite a 'double-barreled' flu season, the vaccine is mostly doing its job Livescience.com Despite a weird flu season, this year's flu shot is working relatively well to prevent influenza, particularly among children, according to a new report. In the new report, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the flu ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Wearable 'Brain Stimulator' May Boost Stroke Recovery HealthDay By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation device worn less than an hour a day can increase activity near stroke-injured areas of the brain, a small, preliminary study ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Gay Men Underestimate Their Risks From HPV HealthDay THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Young men who have sex with other men don't fully grasp their risk for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, due to a lack of information from health care providers, researchers say. Interviews with men in their ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Hindu New Threats Emerge in Outbreak While China Voices Optimism The New York Times BEIJING — Chinese health officials expressed new optimism Thursday over a deadly virus outbreak while authorities in South Korea's fourth-largest city urged residents to hunker down as fears nagged communities far from the illness' epicenter. Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Machine Learning Used to Discover Powerful New Antibiotic That Can Kill Some of World's Most Dangerous Bacteria Newsweek Researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound using artificial intelligence (AI) which can kill some of the world's most dangerous bacteria. According to a study published in the journal Cell, the compound successfully removed strains of ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Hill Issues with CDC coronavirus test pose challenges for expanded screening The Hill Expanded screening for the coronavirus has been postponed amid issues with a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although the Trump administration had planned to expand screening to various state and local public ... Flag as irrelevant
	WILX-TV Many trans youth avoid revealing gender identity to doctors Reuters (Reuters Health) - Nearly half of transgender teens and young adults say they sometimes hide their gender identity from healthcare providers, a U.S. study finds. The survey of more than 200 transgender youth revealed that most shared their gender identity ... Flag as irrelevant
	TravelPulse The Facts About Traveler Safety Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak TravelPulse The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak originating in Wuhan, China has had an immense impact on travel to begin 2020, with airlines suspending select routes largely due to a lack of demand, cruise lines canceling some itineraries over concerns of potentially ... Flag as irrelevant
	Quartz A Chinese coronavirus expert says some "recovered" patients could still be infectious Quartz A key Chinese respiratory disease expert said that some discharged coronavirus patients could still carry the virus and be infectious, potentially posing another complication to Beijing's efforts to control the epidemic. Zhao Jianping, the head of the coronavirus ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Hill Americans with coronavirus were flown home over CDC objections: report The Hill More than a dozen Americans who had tested positive for coronavirus and were flown home alongside others without the virus were transported despite objections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The Washington Post reported on ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Another HIV Hazard: Higher Risk for COPD HealthDay THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with HIV have higher rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and are diagnosed with the lung disease years earlier than those without HIV, a new study finds. Smoking may be a major ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Study: Big Breakfast Better for Weight Loss MedPage Today The body uses more than twice as much energy to digest breakfast than dinner, a finding that emphasizes the importance of breakfast for weight loss, scientists said. In 16 volunteers who spent 3 days in a lab under carefully monitored conditions, diet-induced ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Research shows new drug helps to preserve brain cells for a time after stroke Medical Xpress After 50 years of research and the testing of over 1,000 drugs, there is new hope for preserving brain cells for a time after stroke. Treating acute ischemic stroke patients with an experimental neuroprotective drug, combined with a surgical procedure to remove ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Times Hong Kong Volunteers Make Homemade Masks to Combat Virus The New York Times HONG KONG — Volunteers from a Hong Kong theater group are turning their backstage skills to helping fight the new virus, sewing reusable protective face masks for those who can't access or afford them. Jo Ngai, a drama lover and founder of the group ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News NHS 'took 18 months to help after suicide attempt' BBC News Poor treatment and aftercare for people who self-harm or attempt suicide is putting their lives at risk, the Royal College of Psychiatrists says. Most patients treated in A&E for self-harm do not receive a full psychosocial assessment from a mental health ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Your brain waves could predict if an antidepressant will work for you Livescience.com For patients seeking relief from depression, it can take months to pin down an effective treatment. But brain wave patterns could potentially help to predict how individual patients would respond to an antidepressant before treatment even begins, according to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine First deaths of cruise ship passengers fuel debate over Japan's handling of quarantine Science Magazine Two Japanese passengers on the cruise ship Diamond Princess have died from their COVID-19 infections, officials reported today, as the debate continued over a video alleging "chaotic conditions" on the ship. The infectious disease expert who posted the ... Flag as irrelevant

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