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H5N1 avian flu strikes more Idaho dairy farms The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reported 6 more H5N1 avian flu detections in dairy cattle, all from Idaho, raising the national total since March 2024 to 1,031 from 17 states.
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Quick takes: Polio in 3 countries, Mali malaria vax launch, Uganda nears end of Ebola outbreak Three countries reported more polio cases this week, including Afghanistan with another wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case, according to the latest update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). Afghanistan's latest case was reported from ...
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California reports sharp rise in Valley fever cases for first three months of 2025 Patterns of drought and precipitation play important roles in incidents of Valley fever, which causes flu-like symptoms and in rare cases can be fatal. California is heading toward another record year for ...
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Yes, meningitis can cause serious illness and even death. But is it contagious? Your body's brain and spinal cord are surrounded by three layers of membranes known as the meninges. These protective membranes are vital for providing structural support, cushioning tissue, improving circulation of cerebrospinal fluid and enhancing ...
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How Your Oral Microbiome Could Be Triggering Your Migraines April 25, 2025 – You've heard of the gut microbiome – but did you know your mouth has one too? · The connection between oral health and pain was overwhelming.
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African countries see payoff from ramped-up mpox strategies Mpox cases in the African region have been declining over the past 6 weeks, due to the intensification of key public health steps, such as deploying more community health workers to do contact tracing and active surveillance, a top official from Africa ...
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New Study Says Measles Could Become Endemic: 3 Key Takeaways April 25, 2025 – Back in 2000, health experts declared measles had been eliminated from the United States thanks to an ambitious measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination program for children. But as vaccination rates decline, measles is making a ...
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Measles confirmed in LA County resident who recently returned from Texas Measles has been confirmed in a Los Angeles County resident who recently returned from Texas, a state that is in the midst of an outbreak of the highly infectious disease, health officials said Friday. The outbreak in Texas is one of the worst seen in ...
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FDA-approved smoking cessation pill helps break vaping habit Teens and young adults who took varenicline — an FDA-approved, twice-daily smoking cessation pill for adults — are more than three times as likely to successfully quit vaping compared to those who received only behavioral counseling, according to a new ...
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Systemically injectable therapy could prevent heart failure after a heart attack The therapeutic approach comprises specially designed polymers that act like proteins. These protein-like polymers (PLPs) "grab" onto regulatory proteins, which blunt the body's natural healing process, in heart tissue. With ...
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Taking the bite out of Lyme disease Northwestern scientists have identified an antibiotic that cures Lyme disease at a fraction of the dosage of the current "gold standard" treatment and discovered what may cause a treated infection to mimic chronic illness in patients.
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Vaccinated adult in Lakewood tests positive for measles, becoming Colorado's fifth case this year Anyone who may have been at the Kaiser Lakewood Medical Offices Urgent Care on Saturday, April 19, between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. could have been exposed, health officials say. Prev Next. Following the announcement that an unvaccinated Denver County ...
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There are nearly 900 measles cases in the US. Here's what you need to know The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published Friday. Cases have been confirmed in 29 states including Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, ...
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NICE Recommends Ribociclib for High-Risk Early Breast Cancer The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended ribociclib (Kisqali, Novartis) as an adjuvant treatment for early breast cancer in patients at high risk of recurrence. The recommendation applies to patients in England with ...
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'Now we have options': the scientists trying to cure our allergies This week's oral immunotherapy breakthrough is part of wider surge of interest in developing treatments. Hannah Devlin Science correspondent. Sat 26 Apr 2025 09.00 EDT. Share. A severe food allergy is among the few conditions that can propel a person ...
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This Kind of Sleep Is Essential for a Healthy Brain Scientists think that deep sleep and rapid eye movement (or REM) sleep are particularly influential when it comes to brain health and dementia risk. A study published last month on people with deep sleep and REM deficiencies found that the subjects' brains ...
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Colorado confirms its 5th measles case, this time a vaccinated adult in Denver County AP FILE – A vial of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine sits on a countertop at a pediatrics clinic on Feb. 6, 2015. Measles cases in Colorado are ...
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New RNA-based diagnostics to fight against tuberculosis Months- or even years-long regimens of potent antibiotics can eradicate the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. And in about 88% of cases globally, treatment is successful in curing the disease. But for the remainder of patients, at least those for whom ...
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Traditional African diet can protect against chronic diseases in just two weeks Quirijn de Mast, an infectious diseases specialist at Radboud University Medical Centre and lead co-author of the analysis, says many areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are seeing a sharp rise in these non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease and cancer.
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New drug gives hope and time to Alzheimer's patients SEATTLE — There's new hope for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. A new medication called donanemab appears to slow memory loss, giving patients the gift of more time. UW Medicine's Memory & Brain Wellness Center at Harborview Medical ...
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Lab-grown teeth could offer alternative to fillings and implants, scientists say The process allows scientists to grow teeth from a patient's cells in the lab. Someday, it could enable damaged or infected teeth to be replaced by real teeth, rather than being repaired using fillings and other dental procedures.
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Stroke Prevention for Women: What You Need to Know A Yale Medicine physician who specializes in stroke, listens to a female patient's heart in. Every year, stroke claims thousands of ...
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Second measles case reported in Austin Austin Public Health is investigating a second reported case of measles this year in Travis County. Officials said the case involves a vaccinated adult who might have been exposed to the virus while traveling within the United States.
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17 Modifiable Risk Factors Shared by Stroke, Dementia, and Late-Life Depression HealthDay News — Seventeen modifiable risk factors are shared by stroke, dementia, and late-life depression, according to a review published online April 3 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Jasper Senff, M.D., from Massachusetts ...
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Second measles case reported locally, Austin Public Health says The individual was reportedly vaccinated against measles, a highly contagious disease that can have severe complications. Typically, two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine offers 97% protection against the measles virus, according to the Centers ...
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Can at-home brain stimulators make you feel better? FLOW NEUROSCIENCE, a Swedish company, advertises its headset as a way to "stop suffering from depression [and] feel alive again". Nurosym, a British firm, promises that its earpiece is capable of "improving health without surgery or drugs".
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Diagnose to Cure: Developing RNA-based TB Testing Dr. Kayvan Zainabadi (center) is working with colleagues in Pune, India, to test the RNA-based TB diagnostic he is developing. From left: Dr. Mandar Paradkar (co-PI, pediatrician), Vidyulata Kamble, Rajashree Wagholikar, Neeta Pradhan (co-PI, ...
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Louisiana sees rise in whooping cough cases. Here's what you need to know The Louisiana Department of Health has reported a high level of pertussis activity in the state. Health officials said the increase in pertussis, also known as whooping cough, started back in September of last year. Advertisement.
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#WorldMalariaDay: Nigeria Must Reimagine and Reignite New Approaches to a Wicked Problem Dr Adachi Ekeh and Israel Olaniyan (Lead Writers). Malaria has been a persistent national emergency in Nigeria, an entrenched crisis that continues to affect the health and wellbeing of families and communities. In 2022 alone, the disease claimed ...
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Parkinson's Awareness Month There is no cure for Parkinson's disease but there are treatments to help manage and relieve symptoms. These include: supportive treatments;; medication;; in some cases, brain surgery (known as deep ...
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Second Measles Case Reported in Travis County AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Public Health (APH) is actively investigating a second reported case of measles in Travis County in 2025. The case involves a vaccinated adult who may have been exposed to the virus while traveling domestically within the United ...
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What to know about processed and ultra-processed food Take a stroll down the middle aisles of any American grocery store, and you'll be surrounded by rows of brightly colored packaged macaroni and cheese, instant soups and chips in all forms and flavors — all with long ingredient lists.
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Lucid Dreaming Isn't Sleep or Wakefulness—It's a New State of Consciousness, Scientists Find After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a lucid dream is now thought to come from shifts in brain ...
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World Malaria Day 2025: Persistent Barriers and Emerging Threats in Malaria Control Insights from Andrew Lover, PhD, MPH, MS, on challenges in rural Southeast Asia, border malaria, and new mosquito vectors impacting global efforts. Advertisement ...
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The big push to end malaria: Progress, challenges, and the road ahead This is a remarkable achievement, but despite this progress, malaria remains a major public health challenge, particularly in Africa, where the disease is so deadly that one person is estimated to die from it every minute.
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Digitalization is revolutionising Mozambique's malaria response Then, in 2023, the country moved to digitalize malaria campaigns. It started with mosquito net distribution campaigns, then seasonal malaria chemoprevention, and finally indoor residual spraying campaigns. All three are now fully digitalized and integrated ...
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Vaccination progress helps save millions of lives in African region Brazzaville/Geneva – An increase in vaccine coverage in Africa is helping protect millions of people from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio and cervical cancer. In 2023, vaccination saved at least 1.8 million lives in the African region, ...
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Researchers uncover link between eye health and dementia Barrett-Young, co-lead author of the study and a Research Fellow in the university's Department of Psychology, told Susie Ferguson there were two categories of retinal measurements. "We looked at the thickness ...
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Health experts urge skin checks as Melanoma Monday approaches Melanoma is one of the most dangerous forms of skin cancer because it can spread to other parts of the body. It typically presents as a dark mole on someone's skin or as an existing moles that change in shape.
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Researchers warn that eating this amount of chicken per week could increase your mortality risk In the study, researchers investigated the connection between poultry consumption, gastrointestinal cancers, and early death. Poultry refers to all forms of birds, including chicken, turkey, duck, and game birds like quail and pheasants.
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Bed bugs might be evolving to resist pesticides, new study finds BLACKSBURG, Va. (WSET) — New research conducted at Virginia Tech found that a gene mutation found in bed bugs may contribute to their insecticide resistance. Warren Booth, an Associate Professor of Urban Entomology, said bed bugs were nearly eradicated ...
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Bed bugs might be evolving to resist pesticides, new study finds (WSET) — New research conducted at Virginia Tech found that a gene mutation found in bed bugs may contribute to their insecticide resistance. Warren Booth, an Associate Professor of Urban Entomology, said bed ...
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Study Links Extra 15 Minutes Of Sleep To Improved Cognitive Function In Adolescents New research indicates slight sleep duration increases benefit cognition. Adolescents averaging 7 hours, 25 minutes sleep showed cognitive gains. Reading, problem-solving, and focus improved with better sleep habits.
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Harshal, Cummins capitalise on dry pitch to keep CSK down An impressive CSK debut for Dewald Brevis, Ayush Mhatre's good start in his second game, were not enough to drag Chennai Super Kings out of the mire. Winning only their third toss of the year, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) capitalised on a dry pitch in ...
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