Saturday, September 10, 2022

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Daily update September 10, 2022
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The New York Times
The order allows emergency service workers, midwives and pharmacists to administer the polio vaccine. The declaration also requires health care providers to send polio immunization data to New York health officials so that they can determine where in the ...
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Los Angeles Times
Sept. 9, 2022 – Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday they're looking into the death of a person who had monkeypox. An autopsy has not been done yet, Rita Singhal, MD, chief medical officer of the county Department of Public Health, ...
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Healthline
Officials say the polio disease could be circulating among unvaccinated individuals, with hundreds of cases unaccounted for. According to experts, vaccination against the disease is crucial to preventing severe illness and minimizing the spread.
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NPR
Health officials began checking for signs of the virus in sewage water after the first case of polio in the United States in nearly a decade was identified in July in Rockland County, which is north of the city.
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Cancer Network
Findings provided rationale to limit air pollution and highlighted the need for molecularly targeted lung cancer prevention due to particulate matter being revealed as a mechanistic driver for EGFR-positive NSCLC. Air pollutant particulate matter may ...
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Forbes
While emergency declarations aren't a cause for panic, it's important to know why these designations were made and how monkeypox can affect you. Below, we cover who is currently eligible for the monkeypox vaccines, where to get vaccinated and how to ...
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Healthline
A new study found consuming artificial sweeteners was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. People who ate more artificial sweetener had an 18% higher risk of stroke or another type of cerebrovascular disease compared to ...
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National Institutes of Health
A Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the antiviral tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, is now enrolling adults and children with monkeypox infection in the United States. Study investigators aim to enroll more than 500 people from clinical research sites ...
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Politico
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York declared a state disaster emergency Friday after poliovirus was detected in wastewater samples from Long Island, signaling growing community spread of the virus which can cause paralytic disease. Key context: Gov.
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Healio
The vaccine remained highly efficacious 1 year after the children received a booster dose of the vaccine, according to new data published this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The booster shot was given 1 year after the children received an initial ...
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Healthline
Both types of diets led to similar weight loss and metabolic reactions. Those who had a larger breakfast felt fuller throughout the day, possibly making it easier to maintain the diet for longer. Should ...
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The Hill
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching a Phase 3 clinical trial to determine the efficacy of tecovirimat — the smallpox antiviral better known as TPOXX — for use in treating monkeypox as current data on its effectiveness against the virus ...
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PBS NewsHour
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. officials are considering broadening recommendations for who gets vaccinated against monkeypox, possibly to include many men with HIV or those recently diagnosed with other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Bridge Michigan
Flu cases have been minimal the past two seasons, worrying experts that some people won't get immunized; The Biden administration suggests people get their flu shot at the same time they get a redesigned COVID booster; Health experts differ on the ...
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WDIV ClickOnDetroit
FILE - A vial containing the monkeypox vaccine and a syringe is set on the table at a vaccination clinic run by the Mecklenburg County Public Health Department in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022.
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NOLA.com
"Why (they're decreasing), I don't completely understand, because we certainly haven't had a robust enough vaccination campaign in this country to account for that," said Dr. Sandra Kemmerly, an infectious disease specialist at Ochsner Health.
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Laboratory Equipment
According to their paper published in PLOS Genetics, the CWRU team performed full genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 viruses from 250 patients in Northeast Ohio and used similar data from another 110 patients with full genetic sequences of infecting viruses ...
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MedPage Today
"I think we need to communicate very clearly that the vast majority of monkeypox infections are sexually transmitted," he told MedPage Today. "We should not get lost in discussions about what an STD [sexually transmitted disease] is.".
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Prevention.com
Why might this year's flu season be bad? Infectious disease and public health experts in the Northern hemisphere generally look to what's happening in the Southern hemisphere as a predictor of where things will go during our ...
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Colorado Public Radio
Public health officials are warning Coloradans to cover up and spray insect repellent as West Nile virus cases continue to climb above normal levels. State data shows there have been 63 confirmed cases of the West Nile virus this year.
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CBS News
The county health department says the patient has multiple underlying conditions and is recovering at home. West Nile is contracted through mosquito bites and most often causes mild-to-moderate flu-like illnesses.
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Verywell Health
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune condition in which the body's immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells inside the pancreas. As a result, the body is no longer able to make insulin. Insulin is responsible for lowering blood glucose levels ...
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YourErie
In a press release issued Friday, the Mercer County Conservation District said businesses and residents near Broadway Road and Lynnwood Drive should take measures to protect themselves and reduce mosquito breeding habitats. For protection, residents can ...
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The Indian Express
Monkeypox's effect on the skin – the disfiguring rashes – and the flu-like symptoms have been well described, but few have investigated the neurological and psychiatric problems the virus might cause. Advertisement.
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NBC News
New research published Friday in the journal Cell Metabolism found that eating the bulk of one's calories in the morning doesn't help people lose weight any more than eating those calories at night.
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CBC.ca
The Halifax Sexual Health Centre will host a free pre-exposure clinic as soon as the week of Sept. 19, the province said Friday in a news release. The province confirmed the first case of ...
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Financial Times
Researchers found the fine particles in polluted air cause inflammation in the lungs, which activates pre-existing cancer genes that had been dormant. It was previously believed that air pollution triggered genetic mutations that ...
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1011now
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department reported that mosquitoes in the area tested positive for West Nile virus on Friday, which means residents may be a greater risk of exposure. A drier summer didn't save Lancaster ...
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News-Medical.net
Many studies have been conducted to determine treatment options to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Significant attention has been given to the role of vitamin D in preventing and treating COVID-19.
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American Hospital Association
Clinical data from patients treated under an investigational protocol for TPOXX (tecovirimat) support continuing to make the smallpox antiviral drug available to treat U.S. patients with monkeypox during the current outbreak, according to a report ...
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The Hindu
Monkeypox's effect on the skin — the disfiguring rashes — and the flu-like symptoms have been well described, but few have investigated the neurological and psychiatric problems the virus might cause. There are historic reports of neurological ...
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Medical Dialogues
Further muscle aches, fatigue, headache, anxiety and depression were also relatively common among monkeypox patients. The systematic review and meta-analysis has been published in eClinicalMedicine.
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NBC News
Historic inequities in health care and current disparities in vaccine distribution have Black gay men worried they could be seeing a repeat of the response and stigma that came with the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Image: A nurse administers the ...
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MarketWatch
The new generation of COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be even better. But the difference between what a nasal vaccine and an intramuscular vaccine can do is remarkably different, primarily by providing mucosal immunity, which we don't get from shots in ...
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The Guardian
The findings outline how fine particulates contained in car fumes "awaken" dormant mutations in lung cells and tip them into a cancerous state. The work helps explain why so many non-smokers develop lung cancer and is a "wake-up call" about the damaging ...
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syracuse.com
The aerial spraying of the swamp and surrounding areas is intended to disrupt mosquito breeding cycles. If weather conditions are unfavorable Saturday the spraying will be conducted at a later date that will be announced.
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