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Afghan dog rescue group dismayed by CDC import ban (CNN) Pen Farthing was on a flight from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Houston when the news broke: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was going to stop missions like his for at least the next year. Farthing was bringing two dogs rescued by US ...
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Can a $110 Million Helmet Unlock the Secrets of the Mind? The promise of a leagues-more-affordable technology that anyone can wear and walk around with is, well, mind-bending. Excited researchers anticipate using the helmets to gain insight into brain aging, mental ...
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Covid vaccine to be compulsory for England care home staff Covid vaccinations are to become compulsory for staff in care homes for older people in England, the BBC has been told. Care staff are expected to be given 16 weeks to have the jab - or face being redeployed away from frontline care or losing their jobs.
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Black Women More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer Our objective was to examine if differences exist in the risk of developing distant metastases after initial breast cancer diagnosis among Black versus white women. Our project began as a follow-up from a previous NIH-funded ...
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BJC HealthCare, Washington U announce COVID-19 vaccine requirements for employees BJC will require employees to be fully vaccinated by Sept. 15. Washington University will require all faculty, staff and trainees to show proof of vaccination by Aug. 30. BJC HealthCare chief clinical ...
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COVID-19 was spreading in the US by December 2019, mounting evidence suggests The virus was already lurking here at least a month before the country's first reported case, according to a new study. Blood sample tubes. (Image credit: Shutterstock). The novel coronavirus may have already arrived in the U.S. by late December 2019, adding ...
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Pockets of Unvaccinated Americans Threaten to Prolong Pandemic Less than 25% of the population is fully vaccinated in at least 482 counties, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by Bloomberg News. Many of these counties are more rural and ...
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CDC labels highly transmissible delta strain a COVID-19 'variant of concern' The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is labeling the highly transmissible delta strain of the coronavirus a "variant of concern" amid growing concerns about the strain fueling outbreaks among unvaccinated people in the United States.
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AHA News: Misguided Masculinity Keeps Many Men From Visiting the Doctor By American Heart Association News, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- It's a cliché that men don't like to visit the doctor. But unlike tropes about refusing to ask for directions or put away their ...
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After COVID, Many Americans Are Struck by New Maladies: Study TUESDAY, June 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Suffering through a case of COVID-19 unleashed a host of other health problems in hundreds of thousands of Americans participating in the largest study yet of the long-term effects of coronavirus infection.
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STDs reach all-time high for sixth consecutive year in the US. Is your state in the top 10? The CDC's data looked at states with the highest cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and congenital syphilis. The following numbers were collected from cases in 2019, the most recent data on file, and show a large increase from the reported 1.4 million ...
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'COVID Toes' Chilblain-like Lesions Not Related to COVID-19 "They do not seem to be the manifestation of systemic inflammatory or autoimmune phenomena. According to our experience, they should not require a SARS-CoV-2-specific molecular or serological test since in all cases in our series they were negative," said ...
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Immunomodulatory Treatment Halts Alzheimer's Disease Progression, Improves Cognition Studies in non-human primates (NHPs) by NYU Grossman School of Medicine researchers have shown how a new type of immunomodulatory therapy can stimulate the activity of immune defense cells and reduce the amount of misshapen proteins, amyloid ...
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Understanding the origins of SARS-CoV-2 Dr. Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has become one of the leading scientific voices calling for a more thorough investigation of SARS-CoV-2's origins. Knowing how this pandemic began can help with ...
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Being vaccinated doesn't mean you must go without a mask. Here's why For more than a year, public health officials have repeatedly told us that masks save lives. They've warned us to keep our distance from our neighbors, who've morphed into disease vectors before our eyes. Now they are telling us that if we're vaccinated, we ...
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8 foods to boost your brain power and keep your mind sharp Need another reason to eat that salad? Studies show that consumption of leafy green vegetables, such as kale, watercress, spinach and collard greens, was associated with slower cognitive decline in older people. And you don't need to go overboard with the ...
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A Better Way to Pay for Health Care Health care is different. Most of us don't know what we're buying, or how much it costs—the fundamental inputs of any market. The seller has substantial informational superiority, coupled with an incentive to oversell to naive consumers—a toxic combination.
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Pockets of unvaccinated Americans threaten to prolong pandemic Many of these counties are more rural and less economically advantaged than the rest of the U.S., and a majority of their voters in the last presidential election chose Donald Trump, according to the analysis of 2,700 U.S. counties.
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CDC: Few Pregnant Women Received COVID Shot Only a little over 10% of pregnant women were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by early May, researchers found. By May 8, 11.1% of pregnant women completed their COVID-19 vaccination series compared with 24.9% of non-pregnant women ages 18-49 ...
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Health experts say India missed early alarm, let deadly coronavirus variant spread Salunke, a former WHO official advising the Maharashtra government, said he alerted some of India's most senior health officials in early March, speaking on the telephone to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's main coronavirus adviser, V.K. Paul ...
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More evidence suggests COVID-19 was in US by Christmas 2019 NEW YORK — A new analysis of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest study to suggest that the new coronavirus popped up in the U.S. in December 2019 — weeks before cases were first recognized by health ...
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Dirty Air in Pregnancy Might Raise Baby's Obesity Risk By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Children may have an increased risk of obesity if their mothers were exposed to high levels of air pollution during pregnancy, researchers say. In a new study, ...
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| India's COVID-19 Outbreak Is Slowing Down Lauren Frayer joins us now from Mumbai. Hi, Lauren. LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: Hi there. DETROW: What are scientists saying? FRAYER: Well, today, the government confirmed 80,000 ...
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'The epidemic was so big': AIDS activists look back at the birth of a movement It was 1985, and his boyfriend Scott was dying of AIDS. The trauma of that time is why his doctor initially withheld that life sentence when Sawyer first found out he was HIV-positive years earlier ...
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What's in a COVID-19 vaccine? Dr. Rupali Limaye, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she directs behavioral and implementation science at the International Vaccine Access Center, said such concerns have existed for previous vaccines as well.
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Children who eat more ultra-processed food gain weight more quickly, study suggests The researchers also found that ultra-processed foods — including frozen pizzas, fizzy drinks, mass-produced bread and some ready-to-eat meals — accounted for a very high proportion of children's diets — more than 60% of calories on average.
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Antidepressants in waterways make crayfish braver and more prone to getting eaten A new study led by the University of Florida suggests that antidepressants that get into waterways are making crayfish too daring at times, putting the freshwater crustaceans at increased risk from predators, with uncertain long-term ecological consequences.
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Connecticut confirms 2 Powassan virus infections: What to know about tick-borne illness Health officials in Connecticut announced the state's first two cases of Powassan virus detected in 2021. The cases, which stem from an infected tick bite, involved patients between 50-79 years of age who fell ill during the third week of April and required ...
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Boston Globe draws mixed reactions with piece on 'downside of ditching masks' The Globe quotes a few infectious disease doctors who have warned of "a resurgence in cases of the common cold and the flu." "But as vaccination rates increase and such precautions ...
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Why good weather did nothing to lift spirits in lockdown Come rain or shine, the weather did nothing to ease or worsen the mental health consequences of COVID-19—according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex. The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic saw more ...
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Oregon reports 7 more COVID-19 related deaths, including Deschutes County's 81st; 314 new cases OHA has relied on a daily U.S. Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) data update to report the number of people who need to receive a COVID-19 vaccination to reach Oregon's goal of vaccinating 70% of people 18 and older.
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New treatment slows Alzheimer's progression in monkeys, researchers claim Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A new treatment triggered immune cells to clear out toxic plaque buildup and slow progression of Alzheimer's disease ...
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The US reaches 600000 Covid-19 deaths as the new, dangerous Delta variant is on the rise The US reached another sobering milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic, with 600,000 lives lost to the disease as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data. While daily deaths have decreased in recent months, hundreds of Americans are still ...
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More evidence suggests COVID-19 was in US by Christmas 2019 NEW YORK (AP) — A new analysis of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest study to suggest that the new coronavirus popped up in the U.S. in December 2019 — weeks before cases were first recognized by ...
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Two Connecticut Residents Diagnosed With Tick-Borne Powassan HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two Connecticut residents have been diagnosed with the Powassan virus, a disease carried by ticks that attacks the central nervous system. The Connecticut Department of Public Health ...
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More evidence suggests COVID-19 was in US by Christmas 2019 The analysis is not definitive, and some experts remain skeptical, but federal health officials are increasingly accepting a timeline in which small numbers of COVID-19 infections may have occurred in the U.S. before the world ever became aware of a dangerous ...
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Highly processed foods lead to greater child obesity risk, study finds UPFs make up a large portion of children's diets, researchers discovered. These foods are heavily processed during production. They include frozen pizzas, sodas, some mass-produced packaged bread and some pre-made meals.
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UK COVID-19 Update: Long COVID Funding for GPs, 10 Pandemic Lessons Learned NHS England Chief Executive, Sir Simon Stevens told the NHS Confederation conference that the condition is "one of the major health challenges emerging from the pandemic". Wales is also investing in long COVID care through ...
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An explosion of ticks in Upstate NY is 'worst-case scenario' for Lyme disease Syracuse, N.Y. – In May 2020, New York residents mailed 442 ticks to Upstate Medical University's lab to test for diseases. This May, the lab received 1,548 ticks – more than triple last year's number. "Ticks are exploding," said Saravanan Thangamani, who ...
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Third Dose of COVID Vaccine Boosts Protection in Transplant Recipients By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say an extra dose of two-dose COVID-19 vaccines may improve immune system protection for organ transplant patients, a group that's so far ...
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No masks required for vaccinated people in Hennepin County government buildings The County Board's vote Tuesday follows the lifting of the COVID-19 mask mandate in government buildings by the state, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Ramsey County. Masks still must be worn in health care settings, Metro Transit vehicles and in some school ...
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Despite Odds Stacked Against It, New Mexico's Vaccination Rate Is Near The Top Christina Campos, administrator of the Guadalupe County Hospital, says the community has been hit with several large outbreaks of the virus, most recently in May, which has bolstered vaccination rates. Kirk Siegler / NPR.
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899 people got expired vaccine doses at Times Square site NEW YORK -- Nearly 900 people received expired COVID-19 vaccine doses at a vaccination site in Times Square this month, health officials said Tuesday. The 899 people who received doses of the Pfizer vaccine at ...
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Fewer than 200 new coronavirus cases in Michigan GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan has reported 182 more confirmed coronavirus cases and 26 more virus-related deaths as the trajectory of the state's outbreak continues on a downward trend. Tuesday's update included seven deaths discovered ...
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Many Post-Covid Patients Are Experiencing New Medical Problems, Study Finds Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-Covid health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of long-term symptoms in Covid-19 ...
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How are health experts handling California's reopening? How safe is it for vaccinated Californians to go about mask-free indoors now that it's no longer a state requirement? A good gauge might be to watch what top health experts are doing as California on Tuesday drops its pandemic restrictions on how many ...
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Nearly all Allegheny County seniors at least partially vaccinated against covid, health official says Allegheny County Director of Health Dr. Debra Bogen speaks with Pennsylvania Acting Physician General Dr. Denise Johnson and UPMC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Donald Yealy during a tour of UPMC's testing and vaccination clinic on Pittsburgh's South Side ...
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Diabetes study: American's blood sugar control has gotten worse A major diabetes study has found that in the last 10 years, control of blood sugar among U.S. adults has drastically declined. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted a national study. Their findings appear in the New ...
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Marin sheds most COVID-19 restrictions as state reopens "When the governor announced more than 10 weeks ago that we would be reopening on June 15, frankly as an epidemiologist and infectious disease doctor I was a little skeptical," Dr. Matt Willis, Marin's public health officer, told county supervisors.
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US bans dogs brought in from 100 countries with rabies risk Dogs coming in from those countries already needed proof of rabies vaccination. The ban is being imposed because of a spike in the number of puppies denied entry because they weren't old enough to be fully vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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