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RSV, flu and colds: How to tell when your child is too sick for school A fever, trouble breathing and problems eating are among the symptoms to look out for when considering keeping your child home with a potential respiratory infection, experts said. Lumeez Ismail/peopleimages.com/ ...
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How a Biomarker Test Saved This Lung Cancer Survivor's Life In 2021, Brittany Hawkins received a surprising diagnosis that changed her life. During April of that year, she noticed a cough that seemed to come out of nowhere, but she brushed it aside at first ...
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On World AIDS Day, a broad view of continuing work Fred Hutch vaccine researcher Leo Stamatatos, PhD, (above) is leading efforts to develop an HIV vaccine using a strategy called germline targeting. Stephaun Wallace, PhD, MS, (below) is a principal staff scientist at Fred Hutch and directs external ...
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Malawi Launches Africa's First Children's Malaria Vaccine Malawi and the World Health Organization are rolling out a new malaria vaccine for young children that backers say will reduce deaths from the mosquito-borne disease. The RTSS vaccine was pilot tested on more than one million children in Ghana, ...
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Deaths From Substance Abuse Rose Sharply Among Older Americans in 2020 Deaths due to substance abuse, particularly of alcohol and opioids, rose sharply among older Americans in 2020, the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, as lockdowns disrupted routines and isolation and fear spread, federal health researchers ...
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CDC expands polio wastewater testing to Michigan and Pennsylvania The inactivated polio vaccine is administered by injection and is 99% effective in children, according to the CDC.
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Zika-exposed children may display neurodevelopmental differences WASHINGTON–(November 29, 2022)– Children who are exposed to the Zika virus while in the womb, but who are not subsequently diagnosed with Zika-related birth defects and congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), may still display differences in some aspects of ...
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VIRAL: A World Without AIDS dives into the epidemic and a 40-year path toward progress ABC News spoke with Beyoncé's mother Tina Knowles Lawson and HIV Prevention Specialist Damon Jacobs, for whom the HIV/AIDS epidemic hit home. "I rushed to the hospital as soon as I found out, ...
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DASH diet's impact differs based on race and sex The team's findings suggest that while the DASH and fruit/vegetable diet each reduced risk scores by about 10 percent over an eight-week period, the DASH diet conferred additional benefits for women and Black adults compared to Western diet. The results ...
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CDC will test sewage for polio outside New York to see if it's circulating elsewhere in nation The CDC will initially work work with health officials in Michigan and Philadelphia to identify communities with low vaccination rates and begin testing sewage the in those areas. The decision to expand polio surveillance comes after an unvaccinated ...
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Michigan to begin testing wastewater for polio The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday it will begin testing wastewater samples for polio in Michigan and Pennsylvania as part of an effort to target parts of the country with low poliovirus vaccination rates and ...
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More Than 52 Million Birds in the US Are Dead Because of Avian Flu November 30, 2022 3:53 p.m.. A person in PPE holds a chicken The current outbreak has led to the first case of avian flu in humans ...
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Parents urged to get children flu vaccine as infections rise All children under five can get vaccinated at their GP surgery. Covid restrictions have meant most young children have never encountered flu and have no natural immunity to the virus, the UKHSA said ...
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CDC expands polio wastewater testing to Oakland County "Vaccination remains the best way to prevent another case of paralytic polio, and it is critically important that people get vaccinated to protect themselves, their families and their communities against this devastating disease." Poliovirus ...
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MI Medical Society, health orgs issue warning amid rise in RSV, flu, COVID cases SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) — The State Medical Society, Michigan's largest network of physicians, along with Corewell Health (formerly Beaumont) and Hurley Medical Center urge Michigan residents to take precautions due to rise in influenza, ...
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FDA considering shift toward individual risk-based assessments for blood donors A person donates blood during a Children's Hospital Los Angeles blood donation drive on January 13. The US Food and Drug Administration is considering shifting its blood donation policy away from blanket assessments toward questionnaires that focus more on ...
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What is Ozempic and why is there a shortage of it? The semaglutide drug Wegovy, also from Novo Nordisk, was approved in the US in June 2021 for chronic weight management in adults with obesity – or who are overweight with at least one weight-related condition, such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, ...
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Johnson County health experts see spike this month in respiratory viruses Cases of those illnesses shot up a few weeks ago. Hunt says in mid-November nearly 30% of Johnson County emergency room visits in were due to respiratory illness. Flu cases made ...
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RSV hospitalizations remain high; families urged to call primary care provider for non-emergencies Following the Thanksgiving holiday, Oregon Health & Science University's Doernbecher Children's Hospital continues to face a high number of RSV cases in children who require hospitalization and expects this trend to continue in the coming weeks.
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Australian researchers unearth a new form of antimicrobial resistance "Bacteria need to make their own folates to grow and, in turn, cause disease. Some antibiotics work by blocking this folate production to stop bacteria growing and treat the infection," Dr Barnett explained.
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COVID deepened inequalities in HIV treatment: what we learnt in Nigeria It sought to know how easily they could access HIV, tuberculosis, sexual and reproductive health services. The second was about food insecurity, financial vulnerability and housing insecurity among women and girls living with – or at risk of – HIV in ...
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Flu season intensifies with 6M infected in US: CDC In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, a patient receives an influenza vaccine in Mesquite, Texas. Amid all the focus on COVID-19 vaccinations, U.S. health experts have another plea: Don't skip your flu shot.
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Texas Dept. of Health and Human Services shares HIV facts ahead of World AIDS Day Providing equitable access to HIV testing, prevention, care, treatment, and research is key to ending the HIV epidemic," said Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Harold Phillips. "The COVID-19 pandemic has tested our resolve and our ...
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NHS urges parents to accept toddler flu vaccinations as hospital admissions among under fives leap in November Health officials are growing increasingly concerned about the low numbers of toddlers getting a flu vaccine as hospital admissions for complications caused by the virus leap by more than 70% among children under five. Between November 14 and November ...
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How RSV is impacting children, hospitals in Michigan Dr. Matthew Sims is the director of infectious disease research at Corewell Health East (formerly Beaumont Hospital). He says the RSV and flu infections dropped when people were masking and taking active precautions against transmission — but has come back ...
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Driving on the road to an AIDS-free Uganda COMMENT | Allen Kagina | In the mid-1980s to early 1990s, the new NRA government of Uganda was grappling with the uphill task of reorganising a country ravaged by instability, economic adversity, and human capital inadequacies, among which a sick and ...
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Phase 2/3 clinical trial shows that Clover's vaccine candidate reduces household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Clover Biopharmaceuticals, Ltd., a global clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel vaccines and biologic therapeutics, and the International Vaccine Institute, an international nonprofit organization devoted to providing vaccines critical ...
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McMaster-led research shows surgical masks as effective as N95 in health-care settings Surgical masks are as safe as the N95 masks in preventing the spread of COVID-19 among health-care workers, a study led by McMaster University researchers showed. The study, published in the American College of Physicians journal, tracked more than ...
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Scientists Study Thawed 'Zombie Virus' from Siberian Permafrost The researchers aired concerns that climate change could pose a public health crisis by way of viruses that had been frozen for millennia resurfacing. Bethania Palma. Published Nov 30, 2022. Permafrost, seen at the top of the cliff, melts into the ...
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Predictive model for long COVID in children 3 months after a SARS-CoV-2 PCR test Internal validation showed minimal overfitting with excellent calibration and discrimination measures (optimism-adjusted calibration slope: 0.96575; C-statistic: 0.83130). Conclusions. We updated a risk prediction equation to identify those ...
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Audio Interview: Five Disease Outbreaks beyond Covid-19 The continuing spread of SARS-CoV-2 remains a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. What physicians need to know about transmission, diagnosis, and treatment of Covid-19 is the subject of ongoing updates from infectious disease experts at ...
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Avian flu confirmed in Milton Keynes after wild birds die at popular city lake Cases of bird flu have been confirmed in MK after wild bird were found dead at a popular lake. The birds were at Caldecotte Lake and the Parks Trust has not confirmed the numbers or what species they were. Advertisement. A spokesman said: "The Parks ...
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Training to Reduce Driver Inattention in Teens with ADHD Teens with ADHD are more likely to have long glances away from the roadway while driving. A computerized training program may help reduce these long glances and the associated risks. New research findings are summarized in a short video.
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Experts advise precautions with COVID, flu, RSV triple-demic threatening children's hospital capacity That applies specifically with children, Luna said. She said the health system is "being stressed out as we speak." In Chicago, ICU pediatric bed availability is at 5.5 percent, according to the ...
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'Invisible fiber' can make cake, pizza healthier Move over, Metamucil. There's a new fiber in town. Scientists from RMIT University in Australia have created FiberX, a modified starch product that can be added to food to increase fiber content. The best part is it won't affect the food's taste, ...
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Swollen axons impair neuronal circuits in Alzheimer's disease The highly aggregated amyloid-β that makes up the core of plaques is surrounded by areas in which the synaptic connections between neurons have been lost,, and by neuronal projections called axons that have abnormal swellings, known as dystrophic neurites.
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