Thursday, July 21, 2022

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Healthline
WEDNESDAY, July 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for breast cancer survivors doesn't appear to increase the risk of cancer recurrence or death, Danish researchers report. Although HRT has previously been linked to a raised ...
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USA TODAY
BA.5 is still classified as an omicron variant but has new mutations different from BA.1 and BA.2 · The first cases appeared in the Northeast, then started spreading to the South, Midwest and West · Can you get BA.5 twice?
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ABC News
This is a MedPage Today story. While long COVID is a rapidly emerging health crisis across the U.S. and abroad, there is not a practical medical definition for it -- and that may not be a bad thing, experts said. There are overarching definitions for ...
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Healthline
These sometimes serious symptoms of breast cancer hormone therapy can negatively affect quality of life and even prompt some people to discontinue this cancer treatment. Over the years, vaginal estrogen therapy and menopausal hormone therapy have been ...
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Healthline
The CDC has received reports from healthcare providers in multiple states of parechovirus (PeV) infections in newborns and young infants. Parechoviruses are common childhood pathogens. There are four species of these viruses, of which only PeV-A is ...
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Healthline
In 2020, 1.34 billion people across 204 countries consumed harmful amounts of alcohol, according to the study. The findings indicate that current recommendations for alcohol consumption should be adjusted according to age rather than sex.
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Detroit Free Press
State health officials are launching a website to educate Michiganders about monkeypox, and Oakland County is forming a task force to respond to the monkeypox outbreak as confirmed cases tick up statewide and nationally. The Michigan Department of ...
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Charlotte Observer
Monkeypox is not as transmissible as COVID, said Dr. Kate Passaretti, an infectious disease expert at Atrium Health. Since it mostly spreads through prolonged close contact with an infected person, the number of potential new infections from one patient ...
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BBC News
The treatment corrects a genetic defect that leaves people's blood struggling to clot and stop bleeding. Elliott Mason, who was part of the trial which tested the therapy, says his life now ...
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OPB News
July 20, 2022 5:15 p.m.. More than 500 people in Multnomah County are on a waitlist for the hMPXV, or monkeypox, vaccine. Monkeypox is spreading in ...
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WDIV ClickOnDetroit
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus, according to the CDC. The virus is part of the same family of viruses that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms ...
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KELOLAND.com
Common symptoms of monkeypox include fever, fatigue, headaches, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, and a rash. Some people in the current outbreak have only reported rashes, which typically are found on the hands, feet, face or genitals.
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CBS News
Both will need to go through more rigorous, larger scale testing before even trying to get FDA authorization. But some medical researchers say delivering vaccines via tablets or nasal sprays would deploy more immune defenders to the ...
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NBC Bay Area
"If there's anything we've learned from the last couple of years, is that its up to each of us to protect our community," a Campbell resident said. By Audrey Asistio • Published 27 mins ago • Updated 24 mins ago. Pause. 1:30. People Line Up for Their ...
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Nature.com
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report providing post-vaccination serological data in subjects aged 90 + years old. This study suggests that distinct SARS-CoV-2 viral-specific antibody response profiles vary based on anti-N serostatus, age, ...
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AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
Hemophilia B is a rare and inherited genetic bleeding disorder caused by low levels of the factor IX protein, needed for forming blood clots. The gene responsible for making the clotting factor is located on the X chromosome, making it more common in men.
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The Economist
How most medicines work their magic is understood. But for some it remains a mystery. Among the most mysterious are a group of widely used antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris), the best-known of which is Prozac.
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pressherald.com
Last week, I wrote the sad story of a bald eagle that we found dead on our shore after several days of watching its odd behavior. The eagle likely died of avian flu which has been impacting backyard flocks as well as wild birds in Maine.
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WAFF
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Alabama has increased its number of monkeypox cases to four according to the Alabama Department of Public Health, but within the almost 2,500 cases nationwide, it's a drop in the bucket. While the location of the latest cases ...
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News-Medical.net
Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by the sudden outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), genomic evolution of the virus has occurred.
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VoiceofOC
But, local experts say, the county is in a much better position to handle the new wave of cases thanks to increased vaccination rates, the availability of anti-viral medication to treat infections and some signs the new Omicron strains – BA.4 and BA. 5 – ...
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CNN
"We don't yet have all the vaccine that we would like in this moment," Rochelle Walensky, MD, the CDC director, told reporters on Friday. The federal government made another 131,000 ...
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New Scientist
In a study of more than 5000 pregnant women, 9.1 per cent of those who had a positive covid-19 test after 34 weeks went on to give birth prematurely, defined as less than 37 weeks into the pregnancy. This is compared with 1.4 per cent of the women who didn ...
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The Jerusalem Post
Summary: Cellular changes in Parkinson's could be revealed by adapting a related technique, known as quantitative MRI (qMRI). A new method enabled researchers to look at microstructures within the part of the deep brain ...
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CBS News
NEW YORK -- Suffolk County is set to announce the next round of monkeypox vaccinations Wednesday, ahead of a major party weekend on Fire Island. The county is partnering with Northwell Health and Stony Brook Medicine to host pop-up clinics.
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Globalnews.ca
Researchers in British Columbia are celebrating what they believe to be a "breakthrough" in blood-based technology for treating and studying various forms of cancer. Metastatic cancers shed DNA into a person's bloodstream, explained Vancouver Prostate ...
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Drug Target Review
A new study by researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, both US has found that current vaccine boosters may provide sufficient immune protection against severe Omicron-induced COVID- ...
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News-Medical.net
Omicron was reported to contain over 30 mutations in the viral spike protein, the N-terminal domain (NTD), and the receptor binding domain (RBD). This led to increased transmissibility and evasion of both infection and vaccine-induced immunity.
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ThePrint
Houston [US], July 21 (ANI): According to a new study from UTHealth Houston and other institutions, an anti-inflammatory drug may have the ability to treat systemic inflammation and brain damage in patients with severe COVID-19 and greatly lower their ...
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Spectrum News
New York state Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said they foresee the monkeypox virus to continue to spread as reported cases begin to pop up more in the upstate region, whereas the brunt of cases have so far been in New York City.
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