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Monkeypox Appears to Recede, but Risks and Uncertainties Linger Supplies of the vaccine have improved, and federal health officials have begun clinical trials to gain a better understanding of who benefits, and how much, from both the vaccine and the drug used to treat those who become infected.
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Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine's Most Neglected Diseases Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients. By Ed Yong. An abstract image depicting a squatting runner whose head is ...
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Can I Get a Second Flu Shot to Boost My Immunity? "For adults whose immune systems have encountered both the flu vaccine and the flu virus, studies have not shown a benefit to receiving a second flu shot, even in elderly people with less robust immune systems," Wallace says. "One influenza vaccination per ...
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Flu season in Austin area could be a bad one, doctors say Flu symptoms include cough, congestion, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, aches and fever. Those are the same symptoms that can come with other respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus.
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Knowing Your Blood Type Is Essential: 3 Ways to Find Out Yours Luckily, I knew off the top of my head that I'm type O-positive, but I wanted to find documentation to confirm that. I called my mom to see if blood type is listed on my birth certificate -- no luck. I checked my physician's health portal -- also no luck.
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What's Your Blood Type? It's Essential You Know the Answer Blood types are determined by antigens -- a substance that triggers an immune response -- on the surface of red blood cells. There are ABO antigens, which designate ABO blood types. This is determined by the ABO gene. For example:.
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Reusing Contact Lenses Raises Odds for Rare Eye Infection In the study, people who wore reusable contact lenses were nearly four times more likely to develop the infection called Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) than those who wore daily disposable lenses. Risks increased for those wearing them overnight or leaving ...
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Bat-borne virus, similar to COVID-19, piques interest of WSU researchers At the same time, they hope that the discovery will lead to more progress in vaccine prevention. The COVID-19 pandemic has done an astronomical amount of damage, blamed for more than 6.5 million deaths and counting worldwide. While the pandemic is not over ...
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New COVID-like virus found in bat could spread to humans, resist vaccines According to WSU, a team led by researchers at the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health found spike proteins from the bat virus, named Khosta-2, can infect human cells and is resistant to both the monoclonal antibodies and serum from people who've been ...
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Lingering cardiac involvement in previously well people after mild COVID-19 However, signs of cardiac injury such as elevated troponin levels and structural heart disease are rare in previously well people with mild initial illness, despite often profound cardiac symptoms. Previous studies in populations of mainly young, ...
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Resistance of Russian Rhinolophus bats containing ACE2-dependent sarbecoviruses to COVID-19 vaccines In a recent study published in PLoS Pathogens, researchers investigated the receptor tropism and serological cross-reactivity for spike (S) protein receptor-binding domains (RBDs) from two clade 3 sarbecoviruses found in Russian Rhinolophus (horseshoe) ...
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Is polio back? Cases emerge overseas and Australia starts testing sewage Key points: NSW will join Victoria in testing water sewage for the polio virus as the disease spreads overseas; A patient in New York was diagnosed with paralytic polio — the ...
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Frozen embryo transfers linked with high blood pressure risks in pregnancy In pregnancies conceived with assisted reproductive technology using frozen embryos, the risk of developing a hypertensive disorder may be 74% higher than during naturally conceived pregnancies. In comparison, the risk of hypertensive disorders in ...
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Frozen embryo transfers linked with risk of high BP during pregnancy In comparison, the study found that pregnancies from fresh embryo transfers- transferring the fertilized egg immediately after in vitro fertilization (IVF) instead of a frozen, fertilized egg-and pregnancy from natural conception shared a similar risk of ...
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IVF With Frozen Embryos Tied To Risk Of Hypertensive Issues In Pregnancy Disorders like preeclampsia are more likely if in vitro fertilization processes use frozen embryos, new research finds. Head injuries from aging artificial turf, a spike in Tourette syndrome cases, childhood obesity, life after a monkeypox infection, ...
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Are 'Night Owls' at greater risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease than 'Early Birds'? They used advanced imaging to assess body mass and body composition, as well as insulin sensitivity and breath samples to measure fat and carbohydrate metabolism. Senior author Professor Steven Malin, Rutgers University explained more to International ...
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Lifestyle change lowers T2D risk in women with gestational diabetes mellitus history These associations are also present among individuals who are overweight/obese or are at greater genetic susceptibility to T2D. "Participants who had optimal levels of all five modifiable factors after the index pregnancy had a more ...
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Viruses 'watch' us to decide when to attack: Study Viruses decide when to remain dormant inside their hosts and when to grow and break out, destroying the host cell, utilising information from their environment. According to recent findings, viruses take advantage of their abilities to observe their ...
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Research finds that viruses may have 'eyes and ears' on us The phages in the study can only infect their hosts when the bacterial cells have special appendages, called pili and flagella, that help the bacteria move and mate. The bacteria produce a protein called CtrA that controls when they generate these ...
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Dr William Oh Discusses Goals of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month William Oh, MD, chief medical officer at Sema4 and a clinical professor of medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and possible reasons for disparities in diagnoses and mortality in prostate cancer. Video Player is loading.
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