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Cell function restored in pigs after death, scientists say (CNN) Researchers at Yale University say they have been able to restore blood circulation and other cellular functions in pigs a full hour after the animals' deaths, suggesting that cells don't die as quickly as scientists had assumed.
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Monoclonal Antibody Might Help Prevent Malaria In a small trial of healthy volunteers, U.S. government researchers found that a lab-engineered antibody protected most participants from infection with the malaria parasite — including all of those who received a higher dose of the antibody.
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US monkeypox response stirs up anxious memories of AIDS era for activists France and others who lived through the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 90s feel a similar sense of doom toward the current monkeypox outbreak — and what they see as the U.S. government's botched response to a disease that again has disproportionally ...
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The Risk of Heart Disease After COVID They found that people who had had the disease faced substantially increased risks for 20 cardiovascular conditions — including potentially catastrophic problems such as heart attacks and strokes — in the year after infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV- ...
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After repeating early COVID mistakes, US now has the world's biggest monkeypox outbreak Rarely seen outside of Africa before the spring, the virus, a less deadly cousin of smallpox, has now triggered a 26,000-person global emergency, reaching 83 countries, 76 of which had not historically seen the disease.
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Could One Type of Cheese Help Strengthen Your Bones? By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Enjoying just two slices of Jarlsberg cheese every day may help stave off osteoporosis, a small Norwegian study suggests. The protective effect of cheese on ...
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Royal Oak mom shocked by newborn's parechovirus diagnosis: 'I've never heard of this' The virus is a common childhood pathogen, but it can cause severe illness in infants younger than 3 months old and — though rare — long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Gout Flare-Ups Could Raise Heart Risk for Weeks After By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When gout flares up, the joint pain is often excruciating. But that's not the only worry tied to this common inflammatory arthritic condition.
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Insurance Data Shows Big Rise in Lyme Disease in US Aug. 3, 2022 – Lyme disease diagnoses have increased dramatically in the U.S. during the past 15 years, rising 357% in rural areas and 65% in urban areas, according to new data released by FAIR Health. The trends show that tick-borne illnesses are ...
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A shot of immune proteins may protect against malaria for months A single shot that could provide months-long protection against malaria has proven effective and safe in a small, early clinical trial of adults. The shot, which contains monoclonal antibodies, would primarily be intended for infants and children in ...
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San Diego County declares monkeypox public health emergency San Diego County has declared a public health emergency for monkeypox, two days after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared one for the entire state. Wilma Wooten, a public health officer for the county, made the declaration based on a limited ...
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Monkeypox respiratory transmission appears rare, but not yet fully understood Current messaging surrounding how monkeypox spreads is focused on sustained physical contact. But as the outbreak grows, with more than 6,000 cases now confirmed in the U.S., questions are also rising about whether and to what extent respiratory ...
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Leeds Pride: Event to offer monkeypox advice and help Health leaders have urged people to be aware of the symptoms of monkeypox ahead of Leeds's annual Pride event this weekend. Forty-nine cases have been recorded in the Yorkshire and Humber region, out of more than 2,700 cases UK-wide.
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State of Emergencies Declared During Monkeypox Outbreak As health officials ramp up their response to this health emergency, Healthline asked experts how this differs from responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and what people need to know as the situation develops.
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COVID-19 risks prompted more smokers to quit: study Smoking is a key risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes including hospitalization and death. According to researchers, these risks may have contributed to increased quitting rates seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. However, whether rates will be ...
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1 dead in Legionnaires' disease outbreak in California High levels of Legionella bacteria were found in a water sample taken from a cooling tower at Embassy Suites Napa Valley, although none of those who were sickened had visited or stayed at the hotel, according to a Napa County statement.
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1 Dead in Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak in California NAPA, Calif. (AP) — A Legionnaires' disease outbreak in California's wine country has caused one death and nearly a dozen hospitalizations since mid-July, and public health officials have found one possible source of the bacteria that causes the illness, ...
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Food choices that can affect memory and ability to make decisions later in life Life is full of choices, and regularly choosing potato chips over something natural, such as an apple, might affect your ability to think later on in life. A new study has revealed that people who ate the most ultra-processed foods have a 28% faster ...
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The US declared victory over polio in 1979. Now, it's here again. The threat of polio changed permanently when two vaccines were discovered in short succession: an injected, inactivated vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1955, and a live-attenuated vaccine, taken orally, by Dr. Albert Sabin in 1961. Both vaccines are very ...
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Polio virus has been detected in Orange County wastewater samples The county said the samples were initially collected from wastewater treatment plants across Orange County and were tested for COVID-19. There have been no confirmed cases of polio infection in Orange County to date, but ...
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Powassan virus is in the news: Here are 6 facts about the tick-borne illness Powassan virus, an extremely rare tick-borne illness, is trending after a severe case in a 3-year-old boy in Pennsylvania led to hospitalization. While swimming in a neighbor's pool, Jonny Simoson's mom, Jamie, noticed a tick on his back which she ...
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Why Exercise Doesn't Help People With Long COVID What started with a general sense of having been hit by a truck soon included a sore throat and such severe fatigue that he once fell asleep in the middle of sending a text to his sister. The final symptoms were chest tightness and trouble breathing.
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How close is NC to declaring a state of emergency over rising monkeypox cases? We asked. The first monkeypox case in North Carolina was reported on June, 23, 2022. Since then, confirmed cases have climbed to nearly seventy. Gov. Roy Cooper has made no mention of declaring a state of emergency. Arthur H. Trickett-Wile atrickett-wile@ ...
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Regular Exercise Program May Stall Cognitive Decline Sedentary older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment who engaged in regular exercise for a year maintained their cognition without decline, topline data from the EXERT trial showed. Older adults who engaged in either moderate intensity ...
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With monkeypox vaccine in high demand, NIH to test approaches to stretch supplies As the monkeypox outbreak continues to grow, one thing seems abundantly clear. The global need for monkeypox vaccine outstrips the supply, and will likely continue to do so for quite some time. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are ...
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Hybrid immunity retained six months after SARS-CoV-2 exposure The rapid spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, several SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged with different rates of ...
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Sask. monkeypox response questioned at international conference in Montreal Saskatchewan's track record for dealing with infectious diseases has been called into question on the international stage. The 24th International AIDS Conference was held in Montreal last week. The world's increasing number of monkeypox outbreaks ...
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Monoclonal antibody treatment for malaria shows encouraging results Only two of 17 participants in the Phase 1 clinical trial contracted malaria after being given the monoclonal antibody treatment, known as L9LS, according to results of the trial, which were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Fully reduced form of vitamin K found to efficiently inhibit ferroptotic cell death A team of researchers at Tohoku University has reported on a novel function of vitamin K, which is generally known for its importance in blood clotting. The researchers discovered that the fully reduced form of vitamin K acts as an antioxidant ...
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Australia secures 450000 doses of monkeypox vaccine The Australian government has bought 450,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine, including 22,000 that will arrive this week and next. The third-generation Bavarian-Nordic vaccine will be prioritised for at-risk groups including ...
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Stronger monkeypox response needed in both the global North and Africa But advocates said the world is not doing enough to address the crisis, which is primarily affecting gay and bisexual men. At a media roundtable on Sunday, Dr Meg Doherty of the World Health Organization ( ...
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Mild exercise halts cognitive decline in people at risk of Alzheimer's For older people with mild cognitive impairment, just 2 hours of low-intensity exercise a week may be enough to halt further cognitive decline. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) refers to problems with memory, attention or other aspects of cognition that ...
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One dead, 11 sickened by Legionnaires' disease in California's Napa County One person died and 11 others were sickened by Legionnaires' disease in California's Napa County, health officials said, including three people who are still hospitalized with the rare illness. The Legionella bacteria that causes it ...
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There are now more than 400 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Ontario The agency says that nearly 78 per cent of the cases were reported by Toronto Public Health. Elsewhere in the GTA, Hamilton has nine confirmed cases, Halton has seven, Durham has six, Peel has ...
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Neurological Complications of COVID-19: A Review of the Literature Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused the most unprecedented health crisis since the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. Whilst COVID-19 is traditionally considered to be a respiratory disease, it is important to understand that this virus has the potential to ...
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Monkeypox: A short window to act, says experts A five-page letter has been sent to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, with a range of government ministers and health officials copied in, including Minister of Health Andrew Little, Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall, and top staff from Health New ...
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Stony Brook's top children's doctor says monkeypox outbreaks in schools are unlikely Outside of New York City, Suffolk County, home to Stony Brook University Hospital, tops the list. WSHU's J.D. Allen spoke with Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases ...
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13th monkeypox case reported in S'pore; 33-year-old man is a local unlinked case The current outbreak of the viral disease emerged in May and has infected more than 18,000 people in 78 countries, said the World Health Organisation last Wednesday. Nine people who contracted the virus in Africa ...
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Hepatitis in children explained — why does it happen and what could it mean? The cause of a mysterious outbreak of liver inflammation hepatitis among over 1,000 children in 35 different countries this year has been identified, and it could spell bad news. This year's spate of hepatitis cases ...
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Mosquitoes in Brookline Test Positive for West Nile Virus; Community Members Urged to Take Precautions BROOKLINE – Health Commissioner Sigalle Reiss and the Brookline Department of Public Health report that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health detected West Nile Virus (WNV) in mosquito samples collected in town on Wednesday, Aug. 3.
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Monkeypox symptoms 'different from past outbreaks' Symptoms of monkeypox cases in the current outbreak are different from those identified in past cases of the disease, researchers have found. Monkeypox vaccine (Photo: Alain Jocard/Getty Images). Pustules have been recognised as the main symptom of ...
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Is monkeypox sexually transmissible? What does research suggest Monkeypox virus in the current outbreak may be sexually transmissible, evidence has suggested. A study published in The Lancet on August 2 assessed viral shedding in semen samples collected 5–19 days after symptom onset in a patient.
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University of Bristol research could lead to earlier detection of brain tumours Researchers are looking to develop an affordable "point of care" blood test, which would be carried out by GPs. Dr Johanna Blee said: "We are hopeful this research will ...
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Dynamics of a national Omicron SARS-CoV-2 epidemic during January 2022 in England Since May 2020, the REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) study tracked the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in England through RT-PCR of self-administered throat and nose swabs from randomly-selected participants aged 5 years and over.
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Long-sought mediator of vitamin K recycling discovered The identity of the enzyme that enables vitamin K to combat the adverse side effects of a drug called warfarin has been long sought. Analysis of a type of cell death called ferroptosis has now unexpectedly solved the mystery. Nathan P. Ward &; Gina M.
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Update: Napa County says Legionnaires' disease bacteria found at Napa hotel Preliminary testing of human-made water sources detected high levels of the Legionella bacterium in a sample taken from a cooling tower at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Napa Valley at 1075 California Blvd., the county announced in a news release Wednesday ...
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Alternate monkeypox treatment caught in regulatory delays Why it matters: TPOXX (Tecovirimat) is FDA-approved to treat smallpox and was tested on animals with monkeypox, which is a related virus. But because it's unlicensed and classed as an investigational new drug ...
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