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Monkeypox is 'a public health emergency,' US health secretary declares Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday in an effort to galvanize awareness and unlock additional flexibility and funding to fight the virus's spread.
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As Monkeypox Spreads, US Plans to Declare a Health Emergency The declaration would signal that the outbreak now represents a significant threat to Americans and set in motion a variety of measures devised to turn the tide. It would give federal agencies the power to expedite vaccines and drugs ...
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'We're on our own.' Urgent pleas for monkeypox vaccines from gay men feeling neglected by the government Residents wait in line hoping to receive a monkeypox vaccination at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on Tuesday. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images.
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Why Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage May Threaten the Immunocompromised People with H.I.V. and other immune-system problems may need the full two-dose regimen, researchers say. But the shots, particularly second doses, are hard to come by.
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Sex, 'casual contact' and pimples: A guide to separating monkeypox facts from fiction With local, state and national officials declaring emergencies over the monkeypox outbreak and a scramble for vaccines spurring long lines — and waits — in many U.S. cities, the latest updates about the rare virus can seem overwhelming and, well, ...
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7 ways to reduce your risk of monkeypox As the outbreak continues, the virus may soon start to spread further and begin to affect different demographic groups. Experts interviewed by ABC News provided the latest on how to stay safe. Alongside these suggestions, ...
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Polio was detected in New York. But most people don't need to worry The wastewater findings suggest that other people in Rockland County may have been infected, the CDC told the Associated Press, while adding that no other cases have been found and that there is not enough information to say whether the virus is actively ...
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1 dead, 11 sickened in Legionnaires' disease outbreak in California county Twelve residents of Napa County have been diagnosed and hospitalized with the rare lung infection since July 11, according to Napa County Public Health. Among those, one person has died and three people remain hospitalized, health officials said Wednesday.
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'A long way to go': Nearly 90% of people with opioid use disorder do not receive medication Study coauthor Noa Krawczyk, PhD, an assistant professor at the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy in the department of population health at NYU Langone, told Healio that more must be done "to expand MOUD to people in need.".
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Did we all believe a myth about depression? A study showing depression isn't caused by low levels of the "happy hormone" serotonin has become one of the most widely shared medical articles. It has provoked a wave of misleading claims about antidepressant drugs, many of which increase the amount ...
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Loneliness Can Be a Real Heartbreaker, Cardiac Experts Warn By By Sydney Murphy HealthDay Reporter, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Aug. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Social isolation and loneliness put people at a 30% higher risk of heart attack, stroke or death from either, a new scientific statement ...
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How Social Isolation, Loneliness Can Affect Heart Health, Cognitive Abilities Older adults who are lonely, socially isolated, or do not participate in engaging activities are at risk for heart attack, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease, according to a pair of studies released this week.
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How concerned do we need to be about monkeypox? The Hub reached out to experts from across Johns Hopkins University for their thoughts on those questions and for suggestions on how the country might get ahead of the monkeypox outbreak. We're unprepared for this emergency ...
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New Orleans bar to offer 300 monkeypox vaccines in shot-for-shot event A New Orleans bar is doing a shot-for-shot monkeypox vaccine event next week, reminiscent of the ones that were popular when COVID-19 vaccines first became available. The event is Tuesday (Aug. 9) at The Phoenix Bar, a 24-hour gay bar in the Marigny.
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Change in monkeypox vaccine injection method could mean more doses but may not be easy, experts say (CNN) The US government is considering a change to how physicians give monkeypox vaccines so it can make the most of the supply on hand, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said Thursday. As part of the Biden administration's ...
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Polio virus found in more NY wastewater after recent case "It is important to keep in mind that although Polio virus was detected in wastewater, it does not unequivocally mean that there is active disease circulating in the County," Orange County Health Commissioner Dr. Irina Gelman said in a prepared statement.
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Monkeypox can't use the same at-home testing playbook as COVID-19 It's an unfamiliar disease spreading rapidly, and there's high demand for tests. But monkeypox isn't the best benchmark for whether that future is going to materialize, says Ben Pinsky, the medical co-director for point of care testing at Stanford Health ...
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Australia's bad flu season is a warning for the US this year "The earlier it starts, the worse it tends to be," said Dr. Robert Citronberg, the executive medical director of infectious disease and prevention for Advocate Aurora Health in Illinois. That is mostly a function of time — the longer the flu circulates, ...
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CDC estimates 1.7 million gay and bisexual men face highest risk from monkeypox CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said gay and bisexual mem who are HIV positive or who are taking medicines, called PREP, to reduce their chance of contracting HIV face the greatest health risk from monkeypox. Those populations taken together are about ...
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Premature menopause associated with HF, AF risk "Women with premature menopause should be aware that they may be more likely to develop heart failure or atrial fibrillation than their peers," Ga Eun Nam, MD, of the department of family medicine at Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul, South ...
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Monkeypox 2022: everything you need to know InIn May, public health officials started to detect cases of monkeypox all over the world, including in places where the disease doesn't usually spread. In addition to spreading in Central and West Africa, where the disease has historically popped up, ...
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Explainer: How worried should we be about the monkeypox health emergency? First identified in monkeys, the virus is transmitted chiefly through close contact with an infected person. It typically causes mild symptoms including fever, rash, swollen lymph nodes and pus-filled skin lesions. Severe cases can occur though people tend ...
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Study: 1 in 8 Coronavirus Patients Will Develop Long COVID Study authors said their estimate is more reliable than previous ones because it looked at prevalence and severity of symptoms before COVID-19 infection and in uninfected populations for comparison. " ...
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Africa CDC says gay sex 'not relevant' in monkeypox there The monkeypox cases reported in Europe and North America have almost exclusively involved gay and bisexual men, though health officials have said the virus can infect anyone who is in close, physical contact with an infected individual, their clothing or ...
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How Long Does Polio Vaccine Protect You? Can You Get a Booster? What NYers Should Know Only one kind of polio vaccine has been used in the U.S. since 2000. Two doses of it provide 90% protection against all three types of polio virus, while three doses show at least 99% immunity, the CDC says. There is one lifetime booster option but ...
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Long-COVID Symptoms Affect 1 in 8, Study Suggests However, almost none of the existing research has compared long COVID sufferers with people who have never been infected, making it possible that some of the health problems were not caused by the virus. A new ...
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As monkeypox declared public health emergency, local universities looking at safety protocols "We're all out here trying to get an eduction, just trying to be normal," said Gundala. As students try to navigate college during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, they know have the ...
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Australia's Current Flu Season Is Tough: Will America's Be the Same? By By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Aug. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- As the worst flu season in five years winds down in Australia, U.S. health officials are bracing for similar severity this coming fall.
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Minneapolis health clinic staff urge awareness on monkeypox outbreak The first Minnesota case of the newly emergent disease was diagnosed at the clinic a little more than a month ago, on June 24, and nurses and doctors there want to help prevent its spread. As of Thursday, there have been 44 confirmed cases of monkeypox in ...
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Pig barn will be off limits at State Fair following swine flu case in Jackson County State Fairgoers check out livestock exhibits in 2021. FAIRLEA, W.Va. — Changes will be made to pig exhibits at this year's State Fair of West Virginia to protect the public ...
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The association of APOE genotype with COVID-19 disease severity COVID-19 has caused the recent pandemic of respiratory infection, which threatened global health. The severity of the symptoms varies among affected individuals, from asymptotic or mild signs to severe or critical illness.
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Long COVID Doubles Risk of Some Serious Outcomes in Children, Teens: Study Heart inflammation; a blood clot in the lung; or a blood clot in the lower leg, thigh, or pelvis were the most common bad outcomes in a new study. Even though the risk was higher for these and some other serious events, the overall numbers were small.
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Social Isolation, Loneliness Tied to Death, MI, Stroke: AHA People who are socially isolated or lonely have an increased risk for myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and death, independent of other factors, the American Heart Association (AHA) concludes in a new scientific statement. Crystal Wiley Cené.
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Conformational flexibility in neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by naturally elicited anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies We solve the structures of the Delta-neutralizing ACE2bs mAb TAU-2303 with the SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer and RBD at 4.5 Å and 2.42 Å resolutions, respectively, revealing a similar mode of binding to that between the RBD and ACE2.
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'Tip of the iceberg': How state health officials are setting off alarms over polio State, federal and local health officials are still zeroing in on the details about a case of paralytic polio in Rockland County and the virus' presence in wastewater systems in the Hudson Valley. But, two state health officials made clear that this ...
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Covid's aftershocks are only beginning to be seen Health organizations have measured the pandemic's effects on other health goals, including to stop tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria and other diseases, as well as to continue and increase routine childhood vaccinations. Even with the strictest ...
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Blood Protein May Help Predict Diabetes, Death From Cancer Following a similar trend, higher prostasin levels in adults without diabetes were significantly tied with higher fasting blood glucose levels, plasma insulin levels, and insulin resistance measured by HOMA2-IR. Beyond just diabetes, ...
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US sees largest monkeypox spike of any country: 3 updates 1. Five children have tested positive for monkeypox since July. News of the first two pediatric cases came on July 22. They involved a toddler in California and an infant whose family was visiting Washington, D.C., from another country, CDC officials told ...
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Phages Treat Gut Inflammation in Mice The idea of using bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages to kill specific microbes implicated in disease has been around for more than a century. But a major barrier to using phage therapies is that the microbiome is constantly evolving and ...
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One in 8 people got long covid after infection early in the pandemic One in 8 adults who had a covid-19 infection during the early stages of the pandemic developed long covid symptoms, according to survey data from the Netherlands. Long covid is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an illness that usually ...
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Monkeypox outbreak response ramps up as Georgia counts more cases Demand for the monkeypox vaccine continues to outpace supply in Atlanta as cases rise here and nationwide. On Thursday, federal health officials announced the Biden administration has declared monkeypox a national health emergency, which would free ...
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Polio virus found in more NY wastewater after recent case The polio virus was detected in more wastewater samples north of New York City, this time in a county adjacent to where an unvaccinated adult recently contracted the life-threatening disease. The polio virus was identified in wastewater collected from ...
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Monkeypox vaccine available for kids on case-by-case basis, FDA says While JYNNEOS has not been studied specifically for children or adolescents, the same non-replicating Vaccinia virus in the JYNNEOS vaccine has been used in studies as part of vaccines against other diseases including tuberculosis, measles, and Ebola," the ...
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Monkeypox vaccine available at Pride Fest in Windsor this weekend Doses of the vaccine — known as pre-exposure prophylaxis — will be available Sunday at Lanspeary Park at a booth hosted by the health unit from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. The heath unit said the vaccines ...
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Top in hem/onc: Rise in late-stage cancer diagnoses; high lung cancer risk in smokers Healio spoke with experts about these increases in late-stage cancer diagnoses, ongoing efforts to bring screenings back to pre-pandemic levels, and the potential long-term impact of screening disruptions on clinical practice. It was the top story in ...
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Study identifies broad-spectrum antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern In response to the deadly coronavirus disease, 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2, several potential vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and antiviral drugs have been developed, which collectively helped reduce the pandemic trajectory.
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Blood protein levels may flag risk of diabetes and death by cancer, shows study Some of those enrolled on the study already had diabetes, so the scientists looked at who among those without the disease went on to be diagnosed later. People in the top quarter for prostasin levels turned out to be 76% more likely to develop diabetes ...
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Polioviruses found in wastewater samples in 2 NY counties, suggesting continued spread Rockland and Orange counties have among the lowest vaccination rates for polio in New York State. Only 60% of young children in Rockland County have had the three doses of polio vaccine they should have received by their second birthday; in Orange County, ...
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Swine flu investigated after people sickened at WVa fair CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Health officials said they are investigating after several people developed a flu-like illness after working closely with pigs that exhibited respiratory symptoms and fever at a county fair. The state Department of Health and ...
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Swine Flu Investigated After People Sickened at WVa Fair CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Health officials said they are investigating after several people developed a flu-like illness after working closely with pigs that exhibited respiratory symptoms and fever at a county fair.
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