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WHO and CDC warn of rising measles cases and deaths In a joint report today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said amid ongoing declines in measles vaccination, cases in 2022 rose by 18%, and deaths were up 43% globally compared to 2021.
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New data provide a boost for shorter drug-resistant TB regimens In addition, studies conducted in South Africa and Vietnam indicated an oral antibiotic could help reduce the risk of developing DR-TB in adults and children. High cure rate for BPaL ...
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CDC and FDA expedite release of more doses of RSV therapy amid shortage Amid an ongoing shortage of nirsevimab, an RSV immunization for young children, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that more than 77,000 additional doses will be distributed "immediately." These doses will be going to ...
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"Staggering" rise in global measles outbreaks in 2022, CDC and WHO report Measles is one of the most contagious airborne diseases known to infect humans. Up to 9 in 10 people without immunity will get infected after being exposed, the CDC says, with infectious virus lingering in the air for up to two hours.
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Mom, 38, is a part of an ongoing trend of nonsmokers being diagnosed with lung cancer This January, Lauren Corcoran, then 38, wanted to get her groove back after her first year as a mom and started training for a half marathon. Soon after, she tweaked a muscle in her neck. An X-ray spotted what seemed like a past injury but that didn't ...
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Global measles cases rose 18% in 2022 amid low vaccination rates: Report Measles is a viral disease that is extremely contagious. Global cases of measles increased by 18% from 2021 to 2022 ...
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Nearly 450 patients at a Massachusetts hospital were potentially exposed to hepatitis and HIV in the past 2 years Salem Hospital has notified all patients who may have been exposed and tested people for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, which are "standard tests for a potential exposure of this kind," a hospital spokesperson told CNN in an email.
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Rare "zombie" disease that causes deer to excessively drool before killing them found in Yellowstone Once established, officials say there is "no effective way to eradicate" the fatal illness, called chronic wasting disease. National Park Service officials said earlier this week the disease was found in a dead adult ...
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Nearly 450 patients at Massachusetts hospital may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis Hundreds of patients at Salem Hospital in Massachusetts were possibly exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, the hospital announced. Nearly 450 patients undergoing endoscopy at the hospital -- located 20 miles northeast of Boston -- may have been ...
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AHA's New Risk Calculator Takes Race Out of Heart Disease Predictions The tool assesses the risk of heart attack, stroke, and, for the first time, heart failure (HF), offering a more comprehensive perspective on cardiovascular health. It also takes new measures of CVD, kidney disease, and metabolic disease—including type 2 ...
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The world's first gene therapy for sickle cell disease has been approved in the UK In people with thalassemia, the genetic mutation can cause severe anemia. Patients typically require blood transfusions every few weeks, and injections and medicines for their entire life. Thalassemia predominantly affects people of South Asian, Southeast ...
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Can a Toothpaste Help Protect Adults Allergic to Peanuts? Nov. 16, 2023 – A new toothpaste is showing promise as a treatment to help adults who are allergic to peanuts tolerate increasing amounts of peanut protein. The investigational toothpaste is labeled INT301 and it met its safety goals in an early ...
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Childhood cancer mortality has fallen significantly in the US, but disparities have emerged, CDC report shows Child is receiving medication through intravenous (IV) fluid therapy in hospital bed. Recovery. Brain cancer was the most common cause of cancer deaths among children in 2021, according to a CDC ...
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Exercise Is Still Important for Weight Loss While Taking Drugs Like Ozempic Drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound have helped individuals who are living with obesity or overweight with a specific underlying condition lose significant weight, often where diet and exercise alone have not. However, a new article — and clinical trials ...
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US women now live 6 years longer than men—and a lack of male-targeted mental health care might be to blame The gap in life expectancy between U.S. women and men widened to nearly six years in 2021, reaching a near two-decade high due to COVID mortality and "twin crises of deaths from despair and firearm violence." That's according to a research letter ...
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Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action 2023 By Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia. As of 2020, the SEA Region accounted for a substantial portion of the global cervical cancer burden, with 200,000 new cases (32% of the global burden) and 100,000 deaths (34% of ...
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El Dorado County reports its first West Nile Virus death of the year Those most at risk are people over the age of 60 with major underlying medical conditions, like cancer or diabetes, and organ transplant recipients, officials said. Less than 1% of humans can develop serious neurological illnesses, such as encephalitis or ...
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Measles Cases Climb Across the Globe Measles cases worldwide rose 18 percent and deaths increased by more than 40 percent from 2021 to 2022 as countries struggled to get routine vaccinations back on track after the pandemic, according to a new report from the World Health Organization and ...
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The world's first gene therapy for sickle cell disease has been approved in Britain In a statement Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020. The agency ...
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Research Supports Healthy Promise of More Plant-Based Eating "Our findings suggest that a shift in diet from a high consumption of animal-based foods, especially red and processed meat, to plant-based foods (e.g., nuts, legumes, and whole grains) is associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality, CVD and T2D," ...
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Chronic wasting disease found in Yellowstone National Park The detection is a first for the park, which has previously managed to dodge the always-fatal disease despite its presence in the three states that neighbor Yellowstone. In a Tuesday press release, ...
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FDA Approves First At-Home Test for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The first home test for chlamydia and gonorrhea will soon hit the market, following its approval Wednesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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My anxiety is back since ADHD medication ran out ADHD patients say they have struggled to get hold of medication since a UK-wide shortage was announced in September. Angela Kirkpatrick was only on the medication for six months but she says her symptoms have returned since her prescription ran out.
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First-of-their-kind wearables capture body sounds to continuously monitor health In pilot studies, researchers tested the devices on 15 premature babies with respiratory and intestinal motility disorders and 55 adults, including 20 with chronic lung diseases. Not only did the devices perform with clinical-grade accuracy ...
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Delayed Cord Clamping Improves Preterm Infant Survival Rates by 50%, Study Finds A new study shows that delayed cord clamping, compared to immediate cord clamping, could cut the risk of death among premature babies by half. The extra blood from the placenta and improved circulation could explain why waiting a bit longer may ...
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For Health, More Nuts, Beans and Whole Grains The case has never been clearer: Eat less bacon and more beans. An analysis published Wednesday in the journal BMC Medicine, drawing on data from 37 studies, adds to the evidence that eating fewer animal-based foods — especially processed meats — and ...
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Phase 1b Trial Results Prove Safety, Tolerability of VERVE-101 Treatment in Patients with High-Risk HeFH "Certain individuals carry gene variants that naturally turn off the PCSK9 gene. These individuals have lifelong low levels of blood LDL-C, and dramatic protection against ASCVD," explained Bellinger during the session. "And now with PCSK9 inhibitors, ...
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Lincoln doctor offers ways to cope with Seasonal Affective Disorder SAD is a type of ...
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Bird flu detected in Cass County, Michigan Highly pathogenic avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu spread rapidly nationwide in 2022 and earlier in 2023. Its presence has returned to Michigan. The latest case was in a backyard flock in Cass ...
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Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO - October 2023 In global healthcare, we are witnessing remarkable progress in the prevention of cervical cancer, a brighter future for malaria control, and a rallying call for more rapid progress on routine vaccinations. Cervical cancer prevention soars to new ...
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GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic and Wegovy Can Help Reduce Heart Attack Risk New research presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions indicates that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, has significant effects on heart health. Evidence showed that patients treated with the GLP-1 drug had ...
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Ultra-processed foods, but not bread or breakfast cereals, linked to multimorbidity: The Lancet Multimorbidity is when one develops two or more chronic diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type-2 diabetes. The study, which analysed the diets of 266,666 Europeans across seven countries (Denmark ...
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Emerging tick-borne viral threats in eastern europe and the black sea basin Ticks transmit a variety of pathogens, including diverse viruses like Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), and Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV).
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World-first gene therapy for 2 blood disorders — sickle cell and thalassemia — approved The agency approved the treatment for patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who are 12 years old and over. Casgevy is made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Ltd. and CRISPR Therapeutics. To date, ...
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The Future of Patient Education: AI-Driven Guide for Type 2 Diabetes When blood glucose levels are elevated, the kidneys attempt to filter and remove the excess glucose from the blood. This process leads to increased urine production, causing frequent urination. Frequent urination, known as polyuria, is a common symptom of ...
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Major studies suggest delayed cord clamping could save preemie lives Increasingly, childbirth experts endorse waiting a minute or two before clamping umbilical cords. But other complications make that timing less clear in premature births. Now, two meta-analyses of 60 studies and almost 10,000 births published in the ...
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UMass Lowell researchers study gut microbiome's connection to neurodegenerative diseases Researchers at UMass Lowell's Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences are exploring how the gut microbiome contributes to the risk of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. This research could lead to earlier detection and new treatments for people with ...
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DuPage County Health Department Advises Patients and Their Families to Be Antibiotics Antibiotics do NOT treat viruses, like those that cause colds, flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), or COVID-19. Antibiotics are only needed for treating certain infections caused by bacteria.
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This bird flu in Canada is a 'different beast' experts say. Here's why that matters for humans Cases of avian influenza are increasing across Canada, government data shows, but a lack of monitoring of wild birds is underscoring the threat to humans, experts say. Also known as the bird flu, the subtype H5N1 spreads rapidly in poultry farms due to ...
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Medical experts push the importance of lung cancer screenings during Lung Cancer Awareness month Dr. Laura Dover, a radiation oncologist with Ascension St. Vincent's cancer treatment center, attributes this to a lack of screening seen across the state. "Death from lung cancer does significantly decrease when these ...
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Stay Healthy Over the Holidays Those at greatest risk of complications and death due to both the influenza virus and Covid are people over age 65, and those who have certain medical conditions such as asthma, lung or heart disease, neurological impairment, weakened immunity or are obese ...
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Experimental Weight-Loss Drug Slashed Fat in Livers of Obese People An experimental weight loss drug called retatrutide has already been shown to help people drop weight quickly. Data from a subset of patients shows it can also help remove excess fat from around the liver. The drug could offer obese patients with ...
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Aging Brain Initiative symposium showcases "cutting-edge" research across MIT Seed projects, posters represent a wide range of labs working on technologies, therapeutic strategies, and fundamental research to advance understanding of age-related neurodegenerative disease.
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A common ingredient in some cold medicines may not work The FDA announced that phenylephrine, a common decongestant, may not relieve that stuffy or runny nose after all. This cold and flu season, you may find yourself reaching into your medicine cabinet for some help fighting common cold symptoms.
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Protect infants from RSV Denver (Nov. 16, 2023) – State health officials encourage Coloradans who are pregnant to get a vaccine called Abrysvo to protect their unborn children from RSV, respiratory syncytial virus. Infants and newborns are especially at risk for severe RSV ...
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State agencies, partners team up to combat antibiotic resistance with One Health approach All Minnesotans play a part in keeping antibiotics effective ... On Friday, Nov. 17, the Lowry Avenue Bridge, I-35W Bridge and Capella Tower will light up in purple in honor of U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov. 18-24).
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Contributor: Eating Disorder Claim Lines Rose 65% Across Nation From 2018 to 2022 In the period 2018-2022, 72% of patients with eating disorders were also diagnosed with 1 or more co-occurring mental health conditions that were not eating disorders. This ranged from 65% of ARFID patients to 78% of bulimia patients, the highest such ...
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expert reaction to study looking at an epidemic-economic model of Covid based on data from New York city Prof Katharina Hauck, Professor in Health Economics; and Deputy Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London, said:.
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