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Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Give Hints to Covid's Origins Coronaviruses discovered in Laotian bats are surprisingly adept at infecting human cells, showing that such deadly features can indeed evolve outside of a lab.
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Parents say Walgreens mistakenly injected them and their two kids with the Covid-19 vaccine instead of flu shot The Prices took their 4- and 5-year-olds to the Walgreens in Evansville, Indiana, on October 4 for their yearly shots. About 90 minutes later the pharmacist ...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects in Children and Teens Since March 2020, when the pandemic shut down offices and schools across the country, many parents have worried about their children getting sick.
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Henrietta Lacks, Whose Cells Were Taken Without Her Consent, Is Honored by WHO Without her knowledge or consent, doctors removed a sample of cells from the tumor in her cervix. They gave the sample to a researcher at Johns Hopkins ...
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Hospitals weigh COVID vaccine mandates for patients in need of lifesaving organ transplants Hospitals that transplant hearts, livers, lungs or other organs have strict requirements and prioritize patients based on a range of factors, including medical ...
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Study: 'Sociability' Hormone Didn't Help Kids With Autism Children with autism didn't benefit from an experimental therapy made with a hormone thought to promote social bonding, researchers reported Wednesday in the ...
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Henrietta Lacks family seeks justice: Grandchildren sue biotech company The family of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells were collected from her body and used for medical research without her consent in 1951, ...
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Deaths from tuberculosis rose in 2020, for the first time in a decade, the WHO says. Deaths from tuberculosis, the world's biggest infectious disease killer until the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, have increased for the first time in more than ...
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WHO honors Henrietta Lacks, woman whose cells served science The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells ended up providing the foundation for ...
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Why experts say monoclonal antibodies aren't vaccine substitute Despite more than 187 million Americans being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and data and attestations from researchers and public health officials that ...
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Second Ebola case confirmed in eastern Congo, health official says BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 14 (Reuters) - A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a health official ...
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Should You Avoid Your Daily Aspirin Regimen? Here's What to Know Experts say some groups including people with heart disease or who had a stent, angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery, could benefit from aspirin. The ...
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Tuberculosis Deaths Rise for 1st Time in Years, Due to COVID Evidence of the ancient disease has been found in Egyptian mummies and it's believed to have killed more people in history than any other infectious illness; TB ...
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Covid: Pregnant women in Wales urged to get vaccine Public Health Wales has warned that complications such as pre-term birth, stillbirth and pre-eclampsia are twice as likely for those with coronavirus. Dr Chris ...
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Should parents with young kids 'bubble up' this fall? How to stay safe from COVID-19 Receiving a COVID-19 vaccination makes most people far less susceptible to the disease, but for families with children too young to be vaccinated (under 12 ...
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US reaches record high of more than 96000 drug overdose deaths in a 12-month period, CDC data show The CDC's estimate for predicted deaths, which accounts for delayed reporting, was over 99,000 from March 2020 to March 2021. The numbers released on Wednesday ...
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NJ hospitals have potent COVID treatments. But some doctors aren't aware. Phil Schneider thought he dodged a bullet. Joey, his 6-year-old son, came down with a mild case of COVID-19 on a recent weekend after catching the ...
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Henrietta Lacks: 'Mother' of modern medicine honoured The World Health Organization (WHO) has honoured an African-American woman whose cells have led to crucial medical breakthroughs.
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More than half of COVID-19 survivors experience symptoms 6 months after recovery Researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine and two universities in Australia searched PubMed, Scopus, the WHO Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease, ...
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WHO Proposes 26 Experts to Study COVID-19 Origins Oct. 14, 2021 -- The World Health Organization has proposed a group of experts to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic after an earlier WHO ...
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WHO launches a new group to study the origins of the coronavirus The World Health Organization has announced the establishment of a scientific advisory group aimed at identifying the origin of COVID-19 and to better ...
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Henrietta Lacks' family sues biotech company for profiting from 'stolen' cells The estate of Henrietta Lacks has filed a lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, which sells a commercial line of HeLa tissue, accusing the corporation ...
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COVID-19 was 2nd-leading cause of US deaths in September, analysis finds More than half of those deaths occurred just in September during the wave of the delta variant, the foundation wrote in a summary Wednesday. Despite vaccines ...
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COVID outbreaks in Colorado schools infect 3000 kids, more than 400 staff The hallways inside Adams City High School are readied for the arrival of students back to the classrooms with reminder signs to wear masks and decals on the ...
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WHO honors Henrietta Lacks, whose cells led to vast scientific breakthroughs The HeLa cell line — a name derived from the first two letters of Henrietta Lacks' first and last names — was a scientific breakthrough ...
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Task force says most people should not take daily aspirin to prevent a heart attack A medical task force is changing its guidance on the use of aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease. It says older Americans without heart disease should ...
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'Green' Mediterranean diet may boost fasting ghrelin, cardiometabolic health Weight loss is associated with an increased fasting ghrelin level and improved insulin sensitivity; however, the underlying mechanism between change in fasting ...
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County urging vaccinations, boosters to prevent surge in coronavirus cases But three vaccines later, only about 60% of Cuyahoga County residents have elected to receive one, County Executive Armond Budish lamented during a virtual ...
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Maine reports 893 COVID-19 cases, 7 additional deaths over a 4-day period If there's not a substantial backlog of cases to work through this week, the four-day case count represents a decline in average daily cases. The seven-day ...
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Cleveland Clinic denies woman liver transplant over COVID-19 vaccine refusal Her husband of 47 years, Jim Vitullo, says they sacrificed a lot in preparation for the surgery, and followed all of the instructions by clinic doctors. "They ...
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Unlike LA, San Diego won't issue an indoor COVID-19 vaccine mandate, county says County officials are urging San Diegans to get their flu shots, noting that influenza cases are above where they were this time last year and that an influx of ...
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Weekly COVID-19 positivity rate highest it's been in Minnesota since last year Photo: AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File. In this April 28, 2021, file photo, medical staff attend to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care ward of the Erasme ...
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US Task Force's new aspirin recommendations: What clinicians need to know Experts say the new recommendations regarding aspirin for cardiovascular disease prevention could fuel plenty of questions and, potentially, ...
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Covid: Lateral flow tests more accurate than first thought, study finds When LFTs were introduced, they were criticised for being less accurate than PCR tests, which are analysed in a lab. But the study found rapid tests were "a ...
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How 9 hospitals are approaching COVID-19 vaccines for transplant patients Many of the country's more than 250 organ transplant centers have recently moved to require COVID-19 vaccination for both organ recipients and donors, ...
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Aspirin No Longer Recommended as a Preventative Measure Against Heart Attacks and Strokes in Older Individuals Low-dose aspirin or baby aspirin (81 to 100 milligrams) has been used as a safe and cheap way to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks, ...
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Washington's COVID-19 Cases Down Across All Age Groups The Seattle Times reports the encouraging trend, revealed Wednesday, comes several weeks after the state passed a peak of infection driven by the delta variant, ...
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False News Report On Hawaii Flu Deaths Fuels Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories An article in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser stated in error that flu and pneumonia deaths had surpassed those from Covid, undermining the state's message that ...
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Group kicks off effort to reach 30000 vaccine holdouts in 2 Maine counties Both counties have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state. Some 58.7 percent of Androscoggin residents have been fully vaccinated, while Penobscot is ...
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80% of eligible San Diego County residents now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 "Local health care providers and many other county partners have made a tremendous effort to encourage San Diegans to get vaccinated and to make the vaccine ...
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Could it be COVID-19 or the flu? Influenza (the flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses, meaning they affect your lungs and breathing, and can be spread to others. Although ...
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Even One Vaccinated Member Can Cut Family's COVID Risk Oct. 13, 2021 -- The chances that unvaccinated family members will be infected or hospitalized with COVID-19 drop sharply if even one family member is ...
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New US COVID cases are down 21%. See how your state is doing Cases and hospitalizations have decreased by roughly 20% in that period, while deaths due to the virus are down 4%, according to New York Times data from Oct.
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Aspirin has long been prescribed to prevent heart attacks. Now experts say it shouldn't. Low doses of aspirin have long been used as a preventative tool against cardiovascular disease. Past research has shown that daily aspirin use can lower the ...
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The Young, the Old, and COVID-19 As COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates head downward, pediatric SARS-CoV-2 rates rise, and nursing homes can again become disaster ...
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Average age of COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota is getting younger Ehresmann and state leaders have encouraged unvaccinated Minnesotans to seek shots against COVID-19. Studies have shown that the vaccines have lost some ...
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WHO launches a new group to study the origins of the coronavirus Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in ...
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STD levels remained high throughout pandemic, reports health dept. The five boroughs saw rates for sexually transmitted diseases jump back to pre-pandemic levels by July 2020, just a month after the state's initial lockdown ...
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NYC Health + Hospitals calls on New Yorkers to get screened for breast cancer NYC Health + Hospitals is reminding New Yorkers to schedule screening mammograms and other breast cancer screenings as the system observes Breast Cancer ...
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'It's not just about pink ribbons': What those who work year-round want you to know about breast cancer She was paired with a breast cancer survivor who had gotten her diagnosis around the same age who became her mentor. Now, five years later, she's a mentor ...
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