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FDA approves first chikungunya vaccine The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced that it has approved Valneva's chikungunya vaccine, the first vaccine of its kind against the mosquito-borne disease. Called Ixchiq, the vaccine is approved for those ages 18 and older at ...
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Trial confirms heart benefits of Wegovy, but is weight loss responsible – or something else? Results from a landmark clinical trial this summer suggested, for the first time, that a medication given for weight loss alone could reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke or heart-related death in people with cardiovascular disease, ...
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A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptoms As the United States enters respiratory virus season and health officials roll out updated COVID-19 vaccines, a new COVID variant HV.1 has emerged and is currently sweeping the country. The new omicron subvariant has rapidly overtaken other strains, ...
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What's the Difference Between Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound? Roslin is referring to the idea that Ozempic has become the go-to name for a class of injectable weight loss drugs used to treat diabetes, obesity, and some individuals who are living with overweight.
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Puerto Rico declares flu epidemic, with more than 900 hospitalizations and dozens of deaths reported Secretary of Health Dr. Carlos Mellado López urged Puerto Ricans to get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the flu virus. Pablo Martinez/GFR Media/AP.
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Study finds prenatal vaccination protects infants from COVID Infants as old as 6 months were protected from COVID-19 infections only when mothers were vaccinated prenatally, and not before pregnancy, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open. The study is one of the largest to compare outcomes among infants ...
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Vaccine exemptions among US kindergarteners increase post-pandemic Exemptions increased in 41 states, and exceeded 5% in 10 states, which increases the risk for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. The findings come from national- and state-level estimates for complete vaccination ...
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Lee Health spotlights screenings for Lung Cancer Awareness Month A close-up of a lung scan image. Dr. Shyam Kapadia conducts lung cancer screenings with the ION endoluminal system. It's a robotic-assisted platform for minimally invasive biopsy in the lung.
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New COVID-19 Vaccines Will Keep Pharmacy Staff Busy Here we go again. Pharmacy staff across the nation can expect plenty of walk-in customers following the FDA's September 11, 2023, approval of 2 updated COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines in adults. 1. Vials with coronavirus vaccine and syringe on ...
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1.2 million chickens will be slaughtered at an Iowa farm where bird flu was found Anytime a case of bird flu is found the entire flock is killed to help keep the highly contagious virus from spreading to another farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been finding fewer wild birds carrying the ...
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What you can do this fall to help ease winter depression Every year, millions of people — an estimated 5 percent of Americans - deal with the lethargy and low mood of winter seasonal affective disorder. What many of them don't know is that the best time to prepare for winter depression is in the fall.
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Tuberculosis case confirmed as Douglas County prepares to declare health emergency OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - ...
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Simultaneous Inhibition of Proteins May Slow Growth of Aggressive, Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer LOXL2 expression was found to only predict outcomes of drugs which target the protein BRD4, a driver of cancer. Further, researchers evaluated whether LOXL2 and BRD4 may be working together in promoting the growth of triple-negative breast cancer cells.
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Cold and flu season is here — but doctors say antibiotics won't help you get better faster As the season for coughs and colds returns, medical experts have a reminder: antibiotics aren't a go-to treatment for common viral respiratory infections. "I think that a lot of people are in the habit of still seeking antibiotics if they're finding ...
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What to Expect in an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit Clinicians would need to capture the event on video, with both electroencephalogram recordings (EEG), where electrodes are pasted to the head, and cardiac monitoring. Other times there are patients with epilepsy who need ...
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Dr. Dmochowski on the economic burden of urinary tract infections The background for this paper stems from the increasingly identified need to do a better job of management of urinary tract infection, not only from a recognition standpoint, but also from a diagnostic and treatment standpoint. And ...
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COVID-19: Outbreak impacts dozens at retirement home in Port Hope, Ont. The faciity-wide outbreak at Aspira Empire Crossing was declared a week ago by the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit. In a letter to Global News on Wednesday night, a concerned family member alleges ...
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DCHD and Partners Respond to TB Case Nov. 10, 2023, noon · 2 min read. tuberculosis hospital old medical tools. The Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) and its partners are responding to a confirmed case of active tuberculosis disease (TB) at Westview YMCA. DCHD is investigating more ...
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Unraveling Bladder Cancer: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urinary Volatile Organic Compounds as Diagnostic ... Bladder cancer (BC) poses a considerable global health threat — and scientists are searching for more effective detection methods that can improve patient outcomes. A recent review published in the journal Talanta, written by Ângela Carapito ...
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How common are childhood seizures, and how do I know if my child has epilepsy? But research shows that's not the case. "Up to 80% of children will outgrow epilepsy by age 18," says Sookyong Koh, MD, PhD, Nebraska Medicine pediatric epileptologist and chief of Neurology ...
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Respiratory illness immunization campaign off to a good start "With respiratory illness season underway, people in B.C. should ensure they're practising healthy habits," said Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer. "Now is the time to get your updated influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, which help to protect people ...
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Cystic fibrosis: Mum fears her baby will die after drugs are axed Charlotte Perkins, 38, whose 17-month-old daughter Delilah has had CF since birth, said she was "devastated". NICE said it is evaluating the "cost effectiveness ...
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Childhood pneumonia deaths "greatly reduced" in Kenya following PCV vaccination Pneumonia is still the leading killer of young children world-wide, but Kenyan doctors and researchers say that rates of the lung infection have dipped substantially since pneumococcal conjugate vaccines were introduced in 2011.
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University of Victoria warns of active case of tuberculosis detected on campus The B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) says tuberculosis is an infection caused by a slow-growing germ, most often in the lungs, that can be spread through coughing, sneezing, laughing or singing.
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Bird flu hits commercial layer operation in southeast Iowa with 1.2 million chickens Bird flu has hit a commercial egg-laying operation with 1.2 million chickens in southwest Iowa's Taylor County, the Iowa Department of Agriculture reported Friday. The state agency said highly pathogenic avian influenza also infected a backyard flock ...
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New AHA equations predict heart disease risk younger and without using race One in three U.S. adults has three or more risk factors that contribute to CVD, kidney disease and/or metabolic disorders, according to the AHA. The new equations help incorporate cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome into CVD prevention.
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How much attention have you paid to the dental news this week? – 11 November 2023 Oral cancers also killed more than 3,000 people in 2021, which is 46% higher than the figure from a decade ago. Toothless in England said: 'We have repeatedly warned about mouth cancer deaths rising ...
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Study points to possible link between elevated air pollution, increased risk of breast cancer Breast surgeon Dr. Anita Johnson, Chief of Surgery at City of Hope Atlanta, highlighted the findings. "Those cities or regions that had elevated levels of particulate matter actually ...
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1 million influenza vaccines administered already, Dr. Bonnie Henry says B.C. Minister of Health Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry held a press conference Friday providing an update on the ongoing respiratory illness season and the province's immunization campaign.
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JCVI advises on gonorrhea and mpox vaccinations The JCVI 's advice on gonorrhoea says that a targeted vaccination programme should use the 4CMenB vaccine for the prevention of gonorrhoea. The MenB vaccine is currently used in the routine childhood programme for the prevention of meningococcal disease ( ...
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Health authority declares COVID-19 outbreak with 15 cases at Victoria-area hospital Island Health says in a statement the outbreak was declared Thursday at the centre unit of Saanich Peninsula Hospital, with 15 patients infected and all experiencing mild illness. The statement comes as new BC Centre for Disease ...
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Demand for RSV shot is so high, CDC is recommending it only for the most vulnerable Atlanta — Lucas Cerna's mother is getting him a respiratory syncytial virus shot while his pediatrician still has it in stock. "I have just been seeing a lot in the news, and babies get really sick, so I was like, might as well just do it," Cerna's ...
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Implant may help patients to speak by decoding their thoughts better A new advance in technology may pave the way for devices that could allow people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who have lost the ability to speak to communicate using their thoughts alone. The new tech was described in a study, ...
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ChatGPT and medicine: how AI language models are shaping the future and health related careers AI-powered technologies are rapidly gaining interest from the medical community due to their potential to enhance patient care, education and research across various medical specialties. A summary of potential applications and our recommendations on the ...
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Health authority declares COVID-19 outbreak at Victoria-area hospital, after 15 cases reported Outbreak declared Thursday at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, as BCCDC data shows COVID surge waning in province. The Canadian Press · Posted: Nov 10, 2023 12:06 PM PST | Last Updated: in 11 minutes ...
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The challenges clients face with a pet diagnosed with diabetes In honor of National Pet Diabetes Awareness Month, Jessica Pritchard, VMD, MS, DACVIM (SAIM), clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, interviewed with dvm360 to discuss the lifestyle changes and challenges that come with a ...
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Cognitive Benefits in Multiple Sclerosis Seen Through Transcranial Current Stimulation In a recently published study evaluating frontal theta-transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with this approach demonstrated improvements in cognitive function after 1 session.
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Several students sick with norovirus at St. Margaret's Bay Elementary School In an emailed statement, Public Health spokesperson Jennifer Lewandowski said "a number of children" are now sick, but did not say how many students have been infected. The illness is believed to be "a common viral gastrointestinal illness, norovirus, that ...
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Open science campaign discovers compound promising for COVID-19 cure JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- The COVID Moonshot, an open science campaign, discovered a compound promising for blocking the protein that is essential for the replication of COVID-19 virus, Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) said in a ...
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Avian flu in South Holland Cases of avian influenza (bird flu) H5N1 have been confirmed in commercial poultry at a premise in Donington, Spalding. A 3km Protection Zone and 10km Surveillance Zone will now be put in place around the property. Officers from Lincolnshire Trading ...
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COVID-19 waning in province with decreasing hospital admissions and deaths, BCCDC data shows An update released by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) on Thursday says there were 144 new COVID hospitalizations in the week ending Nov. 4, fewer than half the 296 hospitalizations three weeks earlier.
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