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	health Daily update ⋅ June 18, 2021
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	TIME For HIV/AIDS Survivors, COVID-19 Reawakened Old Trauma—And Renewed Calls for Change TIME Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted a rare lung infection among five otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles, Calif. Though they didn't know it at the time, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Unpaid Caregivers Were Already Struggling. It's Only Gotten Worse During The Pandemic NPR Two-thirds of survey respondents who identified as unpaid caregivers said they experienced mental health challenges during the pandemic, such as symptoms of anxiety or depression, or suicidal thoughts. Only one-third of people ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Sickle cell scientist fights for a cure for herself and others CNN (CNN) Lakiea Bailey has tried to hide the pain and breathlessness she feels from her disease for most of her life. As a child, she missed weeks out of every school year because of sickle cell -- a painful, genetic disease that's believed to impact 100,000 ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Let PCPs Guide Post-COVID Care, CDC Staff Urges MedPage Today When it comes to diagnosing post-COVID conditions (or so-called long COVID), Michael Saag, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, referred to the first line of an old Buffalo Springfield song in a call with clinicians on Thursday. "There's something ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Hopeful Dads Can Relax About COVID Vax: No Link to Infertility MedPage Today But there's no reason to worry about significant adverse impacts on male fertility, said study co-author Ranjith Ramasamy, MD, of the University of Miami Health System, in an interview with MedPage Today. "People should not be concerned. The vaccines are ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Many 'High-Risk' Americans Unconcerned About Skin Cancer: Poll U.S. News & World Report By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, June 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It's long been known the sun's rays can cause skin cancer. But a new poll shows that only about 30% of American adults say they're concerned about developing ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Man Refusing COVID Vaccine Later Needs Lung Transplant WebMD June 18, 2021 -- A Texas man who declined the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year contracted the coronavirus and needed a double lung transplant to survive. Now he's speaking up and encouraging others to learn from his experience by getting vaccinated. Flag as irrelevant
	The Atlantic Expect the Unexpected From the Delta Variant The Atlantic This much is clear: The coronavirus is becoming more transmissible. Ever since the virus emerged in China, it has been gaining mutations that help it spread more easily among humans. The Alpha variant, first detected in the United Kingdom last year, is 50 ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Life-saving CF drug Kaftrio 'powerful and brilliant' BBC News image captionFriday is Wear Yellow Day to raise awareness of cystic fibrosis. Last year's announcement that "life-saver" drug Kaftrio was to be made available on the NHS was "mind-blowing" for thousands of people with cystic fibrosis. This included Charlie ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Covid: Disruption to surgery 'will affect millions' BBC News Disruption to surgery in England and Wales during the pandemic will continue to affect millions of patients for many years, researchers say. Hospitals completed 1.5 million fewer surgical procedures in 2020 than would be expected from trends in previous ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Weird gadget may cure hiccups, early study suggests Livescience.com A simple device could be the solution to a deeply annoying problem that's plagued humanity for millennia: the hiccups. When a bout of hiccups strikes, the brain stem shoots signals to the diaphragm that cause the muscle to contract and pull a gulp of air into ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Latest data on immune response to COVID-19 reinforces need for vaccination Medical Xpress New research has found that previous infection, whether it was symptomatic or asymptomatic, does not necessarily protect you long-term from COVID-19, particularly against new Variants of Concern. The preprint study was led by University of Oxford, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Miami Herald Is it better to get immunity from catching COVID — or vaccines? What science shows Miami Herald Research shows both coronavirus infection and vaccination offers immunity that can protect people from getting sick again. But by how much and for how long remains unclear — a scientific gap that only time could fill. Regardless ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Could Fish Oil Supplements Help Fight Depression? U.S. News & World Report Borsini said it's been known that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids have anti-depressant and anti-inflammatory effects, but exactly how that happens has been unclear. "Our study has helped shine ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress The data that explains why England is facing four more weeks of lockdown Medical Xpress UK prime minister Boris Johnson announced on June 14 that the fourth and final stage of England's lockdown easing, due to take place on June 21, would be delayed by four weeks. Now scheduled for July 19 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Should COVID vaccines be compulsory for care home staff? Experts debate Medical Xpress Mandating vaccination would increase vaccine uptake in care home workers, but it would be a significant intrusion into individual freedom. Is it ethically justifiable? Yes—Professor Dominic Wilkinson. In the early phase of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Pfizer's COVID Vaccine In Teens And Myocarditis: What You Need To Know NPR CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a White House briefing Friday that there have been more than 300 cases of heart inflammation reported among more than 20 million teens and young adults who have received one of the vaccines made by Moderna or ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News UK records over 10000 virus cases for first time since Feb ABC News LONDON -- The U.K.'s latest surge in coronavirus infections gathered pace Thursday with new confirmed cases rising above 10,000 for the first time in nearly four months as a result of the spread of the more contagious delta variant. Government figures ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress New drug class could treat range of cancers with faulty BRCA genes Medical Xpress Scientists have identified a new class of targeted cancer drugs that offer the potential to treat patients whose tumors have faulty copies of the BRCA cancer genes. The drugs, known as POLQ inhibitors, specifically kill cancer cells with mutations in the BRCA ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth Recent Rains Mean Start of Mosquito Season NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth Mosquitoes are in North Texas and they're bringing disease with them. North Texas cities have detected West Nile virus carrying mosquitoes. Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Flag as irrelevant
	Chattanooga Times Free Press Vaccine fears: Concerns about adverse events and long-term effects of COVD-19 vaccines Chattanooga Times Free Press Nearly 315 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States so far, and 147.8 million Americans are now fully vaccinated under the "most intense safety monitoring" in the nation's history, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ... Flag as irrelevant
	WCVB Boston 'Vaccines are our only way out of this': Expert says US vaccinations needed to avoid more variants WCVB Boston Video above: Are we officially out of the woods with COVID-19? A Massachusetts doctor responds. With the odds stacked against the U.S. reaching the target of 70% of adults partially vaccinated by July 4 — a goal set by President Joe Biden — a vaccine ... Flag as irrelevant
	University of Wisconsin-Madison Vaccination, previous infection, protect against COVID-19 gamma/P.1 variant in animal model University of Wisconsin-Madison In early January 2021, travelers returning to Tokyo, Japan, from Amazonas, Brazil, were screened for COVID-19 at the airport. A few days later, the National Institute of Infectious Disease of Japan announced that the travelers had returned with a new variant of ... Flag as irrelevant
	PEOPLE.com US Health Secretary Says Unvaccinated People Are 'Vulnerable' to Highly Contagious Delta Variant PEOPLE.com "There is evidence that it is more transmissible than the original virus and other variants, and there is evidence that it might be more virulent, which means it makes people sicker and can lead to more hospitalizations," Levine tells PEOPLE. Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report 'MIND' Diet Can Help Preserve Brain in People With MS U.S. News & World Report By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, June 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) – A diet designed to boost brain health appears to benefit people with multiple sclerosis (MS), new research suggests. For the study, a team from Icahn School of ... Flag as irrelevant
	masslive.com Baystate Children's Hospital sees return of respiratory viruses as COVID measures lifted masslive.com SPRINGFIELD — Community mitigation efforts enacted to curb the spread COVID-19 are believed to have reduced the transmission of other respiratory viruses, but those viruses may be making a comeback as safety measures are lifted. The Centers for ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Guinea to declare end to Ebola epidemic Medical Xpress Guinea will announce an end to its Ebola epidemic this weekend, the health minister said Thursday, hailing the rapid response to the second outbreak of the disease in the country. Speaking during a webinar hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), ... Flag as irrelevant
	Madison.com Sickle cell scientist fights for a cure for herself and others Madison.com Lakiea Bailey has tried to hide the pain and breathlessness she feels from her disease for most of her life. As a child, she missed weeks out of every school year because of sickle cell -- a painful, genetic disease that's believed to impact 100,000 Americans. Flag as irrelevant
	STLtoday.com The US must vaccinate most of the country against Covid-19 by winter to avoid more variants, expert says STLtoday.com CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta discusses questions posed by former President Donald Trump while he called into Fox News on the need for young people to get vaccinated. Flag as irrelevant
	NOLA.com Tulane researchers study Lyme disease, with long-term effects of tick-borne illness unclear NOLA.com The uptick in the tick population across the United States is of greater concern than ever. According to the Centers for Disease Control, deer ticks, which can transmit Lyme disease, infected as many as half a million Americans last year with a type of bacterium ... Flag as irrelevant
	Kansas City Star COVID assaults rural Missouri as variants fuel infections in poorly vaccinated areas Kansas City Star Jennifer Stephens wanted to wait. She had heard from friends who got vaccinated: stories of seizures, of others becoming infected even after a shot. Then there was the short suspension of Johnson & Johnson's one-dose vaccine in April to investigate the ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC17News.com These communities remain at high risk for dangerous Covid-19 variants rapidly increasing in US, expert warns ABC17News.com Yet with overall vaccination rates in the US slowing this month when compared to highs in April, health officials are raising awareness about the uneven distribution of vaccines in different parts of the country. "I' ... Flag as irrelevant
	Pharmacy Practice News SARS-CoV-2 Infections Probably Started Earlier in US Pharmacy Practice News By IDSE News Staff A new study supports the idea that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in the United States before public health officials realized, probably as early as December 2019. Researchers tested more than 24,000 blood samples and found evidence of ... Flag as irrelevant
	WTHR Riley Hospital treats sickle cell patients' minds with book club WTHR INDIANAPOLIS — A new book club at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health is bringing together families dealing with a rare disease. The hospital has given out over 100 books to children living with sickle cell disease as part of the Sickle Cell Story Book ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Delta COVID-19 variant is now in more than 80 countries, WHO says ABC News Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told ABC News' "Good Morning America" that the delta variant "is far more contagious than any variant we have seen throughout this entire pandemic.". Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Dr. Fauci: How we'll know when we've reached herd immunity with Covid CNBC Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2021 in Washington, DC ... Flag as irrelevant
	Oncology Nurse Advisor Demographic Disparities in Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening Oncology Nurse Advisor Completion of lung cancer screening may be associated with demographic factors, according to study results presented at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting by Christine Neslund-Dudas, PhD, of the Henry Ford Health ... Flag as irrelevant
	Oncology Nurse Advisor Risk Factors Identified for All-Cause Mortality in Cancer Patients With COVID-19 Oncology Nurse Advisor Factors associated with this increased risk were a higher adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index score, age 65 years and older, recent cytotoxic therapy, multitumor sites, male sex, hematologic malignancy, and residence in the southern or western US. Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today First Close Look at Presumed Myocarditis Cases After COVID Vaccination MedPage Today Health officials around the globe are investigating the potential link between vaccines and inflammation of the myocardium, with the attention focused on the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines in particular. Myocarditis had not been reported ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Earlier onset of disease and aging in the most deprived could be linked to gut health, poor diet Medical Xpress The study also found that those with a lower socioeconomic position had lower levels of betaine in their gut—a nutrient commonly obtained from a healthy, balanced diet containing fresh vegetables and fruits. An imbalanced diet ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News COVID live updates: CMO Paul Kelly says Australians who have had first AstraZeneca dose should not cancel second ... ABC News Australian Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says the AstraZeneca vaccine remains "very effective", and that those who have had their first dose with the vaccine should still get their second. Stay up-to-date on the coronavirus outbreak. Download the ABC News ... Flag as irrelevant
	York Dispatch US hits record level of drug overdose deaths York Dispatch Before the COVID-19 pandemic was the drug epidemic. Its relentless toll added a record 90,722 overdose deaths in the U.S. for the year through November 2020, a grim number obscured by coronavirus casualties that recently topped 600,000, according to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Courier Journal Delta 'variant of concern' in Louisville; Moyer: 'If you're alarmed ... get vaccinated' Courier Journal Though she couldn't share patient information, she said the variant was detected more than two weeks ago, and there have been no hospitalizations or deaths in fully vaccinated people. "We live in a ... Flag as irrelevant
	nj.com Rabid fox bites child, possibly 2 others, in NJ town, officials say nj.com A fox that bit a child over the weekend in Jackson, and possibly two other people in the neighborhood, has tested positive for rabies, officials said. The fox bit a young girl Saturday in a neighborhood between Aldrich Road and West Connecticut Concourse, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Asbury Park Press Fox that bit Jackson child had rabies, says Ocean County Health Department Asbury Park Press "The child is undergoing rabies post-exposure prophylaxis following the incident,'' it said. That treatment consists of a rabies vaccine and, if a person has not been ... Flag as irrelevant
	WBUR Pfizer's COVID Vaccine In Teens And Myocarditis: What You Need To Know WBUR The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that everyone 12 and older get vaccinated against COVID-19, and the rollout is well underway: According to the CDC, nearly 7 million U.S. teens and preteens (ages 12 through 17) have ... Flag as irrelevant
	Atlanta Journal Constitution This diet is linked to improved cardiovascular risk factors Atlanta Journal Constitution A study has found the popular DASH diet does more than lower blood pressure. Researchers from Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have found it may also lead to decreased cardiac damage, inflammation, injury and stress. ExploreNew study ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fortune COVID leads to an rise in patients getting a rare medical procedure: double-lung transplants Fortune John Micklus's battle with COVID-19 began last Christmas and ended five weeks later with lungs so damaged that doctors said there was nothing they could do to save him. "The doctor's recommendation was to get my affairs in order," Micklus said. Flag as irrelevant
	fox8.com CDC warns of unseasonal increase in RSV cases across southern US fox8.com While symptoms for older children and adults can include things like coughing, sneezing, runny nose, fatigue, headache, and fever, this virus can be harmful to younger children, especially infants. Older adults are also at risk of severe disease. Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Incidents of serious parasitic disease on the rise in Alberta, Canada Medical Xpress When a rodent ingests parasite eggs from canine feces, it gets a different form of the disease and develops a tumour, or parasitic growth, in the liver, which kills it. When the rodent is eaten by a canine, the parasite takes the tapeworm form again. Flag as irrelevant

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