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WHO to consider again whether monkeypox outbreak is public health emergency of international concern In late June, WHO's Emergency Committee determined that the outbreak did not meet the criteria for such a declaration. But as the virus continues to spread, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wants the committee ...
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Hypothyroidism Tied to Increased Risk for Dementia "Thyroid function tests should be considered for patients with memory decline or dementia concerns," lead author Chien-Hsiang Weng, MD, MPH, clinical assistant professor, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, told ...
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Pig heart recipient died of heart failure, study finds Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have concluded that a man who received a first-of-its-kind pig-heart transplant in January died two months later of heart failure. The reasons for the failure remain under investigation.
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What to Know About the US Monkeypox Outbreak As a response to curb the outbreak, the US health officials are expanding the vaccine response by releasing vaccines from a national stockpile. About 296,000 doses of Jynneos, a vaccine approved for monkeypox and smallpox, will ...
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Labcorp to begin monkeypox testing, doubling nationwide capacity SAN FRANCISCO -- Starting Wednesday, Labcorp will begin testing for monkeypox using CDC's orthopoxvirus test, which detects all non-smallpox related orthopoxviruses including monkeypox. "The ability of commercial labs to test for monkeypox is a key ...
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The Quest for a 'Tick Map' Local health care providers can make sure they are looking out for symptoms of tick-borne illnesses. Local officials can advise citizens on how to take care outside during the danger season. But making accurate predictions is complicated.
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Massachusetts gets 2000 monkeypox vaccine doses; appointments offered at 4 locations The state was one of 10 jurisdictions in the country eligible for an initial allocation of the Jynneos vaccine. The state received 2,004 first doses on Tuesday, and four clinics in Boston and Provincetown received vaccines for administration starting ...
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What to Know About a Vitamin D Overdose Vitamin D is important for your bones, muscles, nerves, immune system, and more. But if you get too much, it could lead to a rare and possibly serious condition called vitamin D toxicity. You may hear your doctor call it hypervitaminosis D.
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Rising monkeypox cases in San Francisco raise concern among health officials SAN FRANCISCO – Health officials are raising concerns about the ongoing monkeypox outbreak, as cases continue to grow in the Bay Area and around the state. According to the Centers for Disease Control, California has the second highest number of ...
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Man infected with monkeypox attended Daddyland Festival in Dallas DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The Dallas County health department has reported its first locally transmitted case of the monkeypox virus after a man who attended the Daddyland Festival tested positive. He traveled from out-of-state for the four-day, ...
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Monkeypox cases rise 77% in a week, WHO reports: "Concerned by the scale and spread of the virus" Most of the cases were reported in Europe and Africa. The U.N. health agency said the mysterious outbreak continues to mainly affect men who have had sex with men, and that other population groups showed no signs of sustained transmission.
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Grief Can Be Heartbreaking for People Battling Heart Failure By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, July 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Can someone really die of a broken heart? If that person has serious heart disease, new Swedish research suggests the answer may well be yes.
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Hippocampal place cells have goal-oriented vector fields during navigation Although much is known about how the hippocampus encodes location in world-centred coordinates, how it supports flexible navigation is less well understood. We recorded CA1 place cells while rats navigated to a goal on the honeycomb maze.
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An Aggressive Leukemia Is Much More Lethal for Black Patients Than Whites - Why? THURSDAY, July 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Getting a blood cancer diagnosis is devastating for young people, but it is also far more deadly if the patient is Black, new research shows. The new study, which looked at outcomes for patients with acute ...
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Vaccinations Cut US COVID Deaths by 58%: Study By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, July 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program slashed the coronavirus' expected death rate by as much as 58%, saving hundreds of thousands of lives during the first ...
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US doubles monkeypox testing capacity Labcorp will begin testing for monkeypox using the CDC's orthopoxvirus test, making them the first national laboratory to offer the PCR test. The company will use its largest facility in the U.S. to conduct up to 10,000 tests ...
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Yale Researchers Predict COVID-19 Endemic Phase Will Happen in 2024 The researchers say high transmission puts the U.S. on the track to the endemic phase, but that will only successfully happen amongst vaccinated populations. By Jane Caffrey • Published 3 hours ago • Updated 1 hour ago. Pause. 3:29.
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NYC Gets More Monkeypox Vaccine, Appointment System Hit by Glitches New York City health officials have received a fresh batch of monkeypox vaccines and planned to take new appointments as of Wednesday afternoon, though glitches plagued the system at the outset. The NYC Dept. of Health ...
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Monkeypox likely spreading locally, King County health officials confirm While the virus is rarely identified outside Africa, about 7,000 cases have been detected globally in the recent outbreak, including about 560 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Study finds people who practice intermittent fasting experience less severe complications from COVID-19 Intermittent fasting has previously shown to have a of host of health benefits, including lowering the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Now, researchers from Intermountain Healthcare have found that people who regularly fast are less like to ...
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Singapore confirms first local case of monkeypox infection He had symptoms such as lower abdomen skin lesions, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, fever and a sore throat. Advertisement · Scroll to continue.
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LA County's COVID Hospitalizations Surge Past 900 The number of coronavirus patients in Los Angeles County hospitals has surged past 900 after rising by nearly 100 people since Saturday, according to the latest state data released today. There are 920 COVID-positive patients ...
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Our COVID reporter got COVID. He was fully vaccinated. Here's what happened This is the story of how I got the virus and dealt with it in quarantine over the Fourth of July weekend. My case comes as a new vaccine-resistant offshoot of the omicron variant — the ...
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Age, Sex, Kidney Disease Predict Mortality for Patients Hospitalized With Respiratory Diseases A recent study found that older age, male sex, residence in a long-term care home, and chronic kidney disease were shared predictors of increased mortality for patients hospitalized with influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, or SARS-CoV-2.
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Could ADHD Meds Help Treat Alzheimer's? By By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Could ADHD drugs also treat degenerative brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease? British researchers say there is good evidence that ...
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1 in 8 US deaths during pandemic ascribed to COVID-19 COVID-19 accounted for one in eight US deaths from March 2020 to October 2021 and was the third leading cause of death, estimates a study published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine. National Cancer Institute researchers analyzed national death ...
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California Healthline Daily Edition Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations ; News Of The Day ; Coronavirus 6 ; Vaccines 3 ; Monkeypox 4 ; Health Care Industry 2.
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Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Increases Risk of Liver Injury Prenatal exposure to certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) could increase the risk of developing liver injuries later in life, according to new research based in Europe. A team, led by Vishal Midya, PhD, MStat, Department of Environmental ...
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Bird Flu May Have Caused Seal Strandings Unusually high numbers of the marine mammals were found stranded in the last two months along Maine's coast. Samples from four seals tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza.
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Grief associated with increased risk of death among heart failure patients Can someone really die of a broken heart? Advertisement. If that person has serious heart disease, new Swedish research suggests the answer may well be yes. After analyzing almost three decades worth of data on nearly half a million heart failure ...
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Prenatal exposure to chemicals may cause liver disease in kids They characterize the problematic chemicals as a wide class of environmental pollutants that include several pesticides, plastics, flame retardants and toxic metals. Specific examples include perfluoroalkyl substances, also known as "forever chemicals," ...
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Technical bug bungles New York City's monkeypox vaccine rollout NEW YORK — New Yorkers struggled mostly in vain to book appointments for one of the city's scarce monkeypox vaccines Wednesday in a botched roll-out that the health department is blaming on technological glitches. The hiccup comes as transmission, ...
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Grief Can Be Heartbreaking for People Battling Heart Failure WEDNESDAY, July 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Can someone really die of a broken heart? If that person has serious heart disease, new Swedish research suggests the answer may well be yes. After analyzing almost three decades worth of data on nearly half ...
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Utah study: Intermittent fasting can lower your risk of dying from COVID-19 (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Intermountain Medical Center in Murray on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Intermountain Healthcare reports that many who intermittently fast have been inadvertently protecting themselves, according to a new study.
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Labcorp begins testing for monkeypox, greatly increasing US capacity The Department of Health and Human Services announced last month it begun shipping orthopoxvirus tests to five commercial laboratory companies, meaning even more testing capacity is expected to be added throughout July. Before Wednesday, all monkeypox ...
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Noradrenergic drugs may improve cognition, apathy in Alzheimer's patients Drugs that target the noradrenergic system may improve cognition and apathy in patients with dementia or mild cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer's disease but have little effect on attention or episodic memory, researchers reported.
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COVID in California: Major cruise line drops pre-boarding test requirement UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter called the BA.5 omicron subvariant "a different beast" compared to other mutations. The notion that "hybrid immunity" offers a high degree of protection has been thrown into doubt with the onset of the highly infectious ...
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Dallas County reports first case of monkeypox transmitted locally According to officials, the person reported attendance at the festival and other private parties. The visitor went to a Dallas hospital with a rash and was diagnosed with the virus through lab testing.
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CDC announces launch of broad monkeypox testing as US cases rise The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Labcorp will begin testing for monkeypox Wednesday with a test used to detect related viruses. The Wednesday statement explains that the CDC test detects all non-smallpox-related orthopoxviruses, ...
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Columbia County issues tick alert as results awaited on rare viral disease A Columbia County resident may have contracted a rare and potentially dangerous disease from a tick, the county's health department said, prompting a warning for all to be wary of the pest as they venture outdoors. The agency said it is awaiting ...
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COVID for 471 days: Cancer patient had virus evolve three times in body, study finds Prior to the research, one potential theory regarding how coronavirus variants emerge suggests that they may come from an immunocompromised person, such as someone with cancer, with a chronic virus infection, according to the study. Such individuals have a ...
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Ontario's next COVID-19 wave is likely here, says science table, citing exponential growth in most regions The COVID-19 Science Advisory Table points to several key indicators that it says signal the beginning of a wave, little more than a month after the end of most public health measures, including mask mandates.
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NYC to administer 6000 monkeypox vaccine doses at pop-up clinics The health commissioner also addressing issues with the vaccine appointment website saying, "Not only were there technical issues but the demand for this vaccine is high and there isn't enough vaccine supply in the US. Right now, all appointments have been ...
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Older adults with hypothyroidism at increased risk for dementia "In some cases, thyroid disorders have been associated with dementia symptoms that can be reversible with treatment," Chien-Hsiang Weng, MD, MPH, clinical assistant professor at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and physician at Coastal Medical ...
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New Findings in Breast Cancer Trials Call for Restructuring of Disease Subtypes Emerging therapies, such as ado-trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla), fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu), and CDK4/6 inhibitors are revolutionizing treatment across breast cancer subtypes, according to Gregory Vidal, MD, PhD.
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Over-50s could get Covid booster jabs in autumn but expect warns it's too late to halt current surge Government sources have suggested it is in favour of expanding eligibility but interim advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is to restrict them to over-65s. JCVI member Prof Adam Finn refused ...
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GPs should review if reduced Covid booster vaccination fee is worth it, says BMA NHS England's guidance stressed that only GP practices with 'sufficient workforce capacity' should opt in to give Covid boosters 'so as not to impact the delivery of essential services'. In its preliminary ...
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Indian Institute of Technology researchers develop AI tool to identify cancer-causing genes Dubbed PIVOT, the AI tool is based on a prediction model that uses information on mutations, expression of genes, and copy number variation in genes and perturbations in the biological network due to an altered gene expression.
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Verbal entrainment in autism spectrum disorder and first-degree relatives Difficulty developing and sustaining social connections is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Subtle differences in social behaviors have also been noted in first-degree relatives of autistic individuals and may express underlying genetic ...
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We really can become 'hangry', suggests first real-world test of idea Sure enough, there was a correlation between people's hunger levels and their self-reported feelings of irritability and anger. When they were hungrier, they also felt less pleasure. The effect ...
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