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Welcoming family into your home for Thanksgiving? Here's how to keep COVID out While many of us are ready to reboot our holiday traditions, COVID cases are once again rapidly climbing — with nearly 95,000 new cases a day. Experts warn we still need to keep COVID risk-reduction in mind.
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When Can the Covid Masks Finally Come Off? Amid the turmoil of the last two years — a period that included a deadly pandemic, mass layoffs, an ugly presidential election and an attack on the United States Capitol — some of the fiercest political debates in America have been waged over a nearly ...
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FDA Approves a New Virtual Reality Device to Help Ease Chronic Pain It's estimated that chronic pain affects 50 million U.S. adults. Treatments, including medications and cognitive behavioral therapy, are used to ease the pain. Federal regulators have now approved a virtual reality device that in a recent clinical ...
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Inside Fentanyl's Mounting Death Toll: 'This Is Poison' Dark heroin cut with so much white powdered fentanyl that it's known on the street as "gray." Cocaine laced so frequently with fentanyl that club DJs stock anti-overdose medication. Fake prescription pain pills that are in fact all fentanyl.
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Michigan COVID: Here's what to know Nov. 21, 2021 DETROIT – Michigan reported 17,980 new cases of COVID-19 and 128 virus-related deaths Friday -- an average of 8,990 cases over a two-day period, nearly the highest daily case total we've recorded since the start of the pandemic.
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Dr Funmi Olopade: Breast Cancer Screening Is Not One Size Fits All Funmi Olopade, MD, FACP, professor of medicine and human genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medical Center, explains how different populations are at different risk ...
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Second bird flu outbreak discovered in Essex A second outbreak of bird flu has been discovered in Essex, government officials confirmed. The H5N1 virus - which is highly contagious and can decimate poultry flocks - was found at a premises near North Fambridge, Maldon.
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Avian flu: Cull and restrictions after Copeland bird flu outbreak Birds have been culled and a surveillance zone has been set up after a bird flu outbreak. Cumbria County Council said further testing was being carried out at a premises at Silecroft near Millom and urged anyone who found a dead bird not to touch it.
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Three doctors encourage COVID-19 vaccine for kids — including their own Dr. Sarah Frenning, a pediatrician at Essentia Health Park Rapids Clinic; Dr. Johnna Nynas, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center; and Dr. Jill Olson, a family physician at Sanford Family Medicine in Bemidji, all followed the ...
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Health Dept. rule proposes COVID vaccinations for students attending La schools Louisiana will require students to get vaccinated against COVID-19, or submit an exemption, to attend schools, daycares and universities, under a pending health department rule that adds the disease to the state-mandated immunization schedule, ...
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Quotation of the Day: Vaccine's Arrival in South Sudan Is Cold Comfort "We heard people are dying, but we haven't seen anyone sick here. When you are starving, you don't think about other things — you need to feed your stomach first." JAMES KUIR BIOR, the leader of Pawel, a village in South Sudan where coronavirus vaccine ...
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Missouri opens coronavirus vaccine booster to all adults All adults in Missouri now can receive a booster shot within six months of their last Pfizer or Moderna dose. Johnson & Johnson boosters were already approved for adults at least two months after the shot. People ...
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As bird flu outbreaks spread around the world, OIE urges vigilance The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) urged countries to increase surveillance for avian influenza outbreaks on Friday, as outbreaks of the virus were reported in 41 countries across Europe and Asia within six months.
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ICU is full of the unvaccinated – my patience with them is wearing thin In hospital, Covid-19 has largely become a disease of the unvaccinated. The man in his 20s who had always watched what he ate, worked out in the gym, was too healthy to ever catch Covid badly. The 48-year-old who never got round to making the ...
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Expert says Covid 'unlikely' to soar in UK this winter as Tories refuse to impose Plan B Covid rates are "unlikely" to surge in the UK this winter like they are in Europe - because we're already suffering so badly, a key figure behind the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine has predicted. Prof Sir Andrew Pollard said the UK is less likely to see ...
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COVID-19 rates in vaccinated individuals grow; doctors say vaccine still effective at preventing severe illness As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into its second winter, more and more vaccinated people have contracted the virus. According to Kern County Public Health Services, 4,236 of these so-called "breakthrough cases" have occurred since Jan.
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Cases of avian bird flu discovered in Monaghan turkey flock A number of cases of bird flu have been detected among Irish turkeys, according to the Department of Agriculture. Avian Influenza H5N1 was confirmed in a turkey flock from Monaghan after the birds were tested. Restriction zones are established in the ...
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Long COVID sufferers face physical pain, physician skepticism Dismissive doctors, inconclusive tests, and an array of debilitating symptoms all too often explained away as signs of mental, rather than physical, distress. That's been the experience for many patients suffering long COVID, a poorly-defined, ...
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Waterloo Region COVID-19 vaccination rate drops as Public Health tinkers with numbers The other major changes that were implemented saw the statistics broken down by year of birth rather than age, as well as including students from outside the region. Story continues below advertisement.
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Who's eligible for a COVID vaccine booster? Oregon, western states agree with feds: Everyone 18+ A four-state scientific review panel that includes Oregon has concurred with the federal decision to expand COVID-19 vaccine booster eligibility to all adults, clearing the final hurdle to allow the administration of booster doses to everyone 18 and ...
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital to hold first vaccine clinic for kids ages 5-11 LIBERTY TWP., Ohio (WKRC) - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is holding its first-ever COVID-19 vaccine clinic for kids ages five to 11 on Sunday. It will take place on the Liberty campus off Yankee Road in Butler County.
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Missouri opens coronavirus vaccine booster to all adults All adults in Missouri now can receive a booster shot within six months of their last Pfizer or Moderna dose. Johnson & Johnson boosters were already approved for adults at least two months after the shot.
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For the unvaccinated, Biden bets billions on Covid treatments as another surge threatens WASHINGTON — After a year of relentless efforts to vaccinate Americans, President Joe Biden is spending almost $10 billion on new and experimental Covid-19 treatments that will largely help those he hasn't been able to convince.
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Toronto Public Health vice-chair questions city's COVID-19 policy Toronto Public Health's vice-chair is expressing concern over people losing their jobs for not being vaccinated against COVID-19 — a city policy — and is sharing infection-risk information that experts say is false.
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The toilet habit which could be a sign of an 'aggressive cancer' Severe nocturia has been found in 25% of prostate cancer cases as a side effect of radiation treatment, studies have shown. The Cleveland Clinic notes: "This can be thought of as nocturnal urinary frequency ...
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E-cigarettes could be prescribed on the NHS in world first As part of the government's ambition to make England smoke-free by 2030, we could become the first country in the world to prescribe medicinally licensed e-cigarettes. Image of Emily Bashforth ...
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Ohio doc says COVID-19 boosters readily available Before the FDA and CDC's announcement Friday, booster doses had already been available to people 65 and older, or to anyone 18 and older who is at an elevated risk of contracting COVID-19. " ...
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A look at major COVID-19 developments Vaccine wasn't a factor in last year's holiday surge, but this year about half of Georgians are fully vaccinated. Still, there are concerns about the state's relatively low vaccine coverage as residents prepare to gather for the holidays.
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Is Delta the last Covid 'super variant'? "It's like the weather report," says William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. "It used to be, 'We have a little bit of Gamma there, we've got Alpha coming up here.' But now it's just Delta.".
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No ministry-sponsored study on traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen's efficacy on Covid-19: MOH MOH said it had initially offered to sponsor a study on the efficacy of Lianhua Qingwen on the coronavirus; However, the study's principal investigator withdrew the application; Clinical trials so far have not provided any conclusive scientific ...
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Child among 28 Covid deaths A child is among the 28 people to die overnight from the Covid-19 virus, the Ministry of Health is reporting. The number of death makes it the worst day ever for Covid fatalities. The previous highest number of deaths was 23.
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Woman who refused covid jab begs doctors 'please don't let me die' An unvaccinated woman who died eight times after being hospitalised with Covid-19 is now urging others to get the jab. Doctors repeatedly battled to save Gemma Roberts' life as she fought Covid and two bouts of sepsis, the Mirror reports.
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