Month: January 2022

RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, Head a.i. Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis at the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The next Covid-19 variant that will rise to world attention will be more contagious
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About a fifth of young sexual minority males and transgender females are estimated to be engaging in transactional, or survival sex, according to results of a new survey study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers. The findings, which define the practice as trading sex for money, housing and other necessities (e.g., food, clothing), were published in
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In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, a team of researchers evaluated the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant on the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections among unvaccinated and vaccinated populations of South Africa and 50 other countries. Study: Using Survey Data to Estimate the Impact of the
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. New York state education officials told school administrators to continue enforcing the state’s mask mandate for students and teachers Tuesday despite a judge’s ruling overturning it, causing confusion as some districts rushed to make masks optional. The Education Department said the
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Medical laboratory professionals form the backbone of health care and the public health system. They conduct some 13 billion laboratory medicine tests annually in the U.S. As of January 2022, these individuals had also performed more than 860 million COVID-19 tests and counting during the pandemic. Why should anyone care? Laboratory testing is the single
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Is age just a number? How will medical and technology advances redefine biological aging? In this seminar, learn more about research led by scientists at Harvard Medical School about what healthy aging means, and explore discoveries that could help to improve the experience of aging. Like Harvard Medical School on Facebook: https://goo.gl/4dwXyZ Follow on Twitter:
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Counselling Directory has seen a surge in searches for ways to improve sexual intimacy in long-term relationships over the past two years. Here, psychosexual counsellor Charlene Douglas shares her advice for reconnecting with your significant other Writing for Happiful has many upsides, and the most significant for me is the ability to talk to mental
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The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over if the World Health Organization head’s latest statement is to be believed. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organization’s director-general, said that instead of assuming that the global health crisis is coming to a end, nations should stay vigilant and focused on the challenges that could surface next.  Approaching The End?
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From 1 April, we’re investing £100 million over five years into seven Cancer Research UK Centres across the UK. The Centres in the new network will be Cambridge, City of London, Convergence Science, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford and Scotland. We award Centre status to locations that perform the highest quality cancer research. Our funding supports essential
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It’s National Peanut Butter Day! Here are 5 Must-Try Low-Carb Peanut Butter Products – Diabetes Daily Learning Center Learning Center: LearningCenter Diabetes Daily does not provide medical advice,diagnosis or treatment.Get additional information.© 2005 – 2022 Everyday Health, Inc. Everyday Health is among the federally registered trademarks of Everyday Health, Inc. and may not be used
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A 35-year-old man presented to the emergency department with extreme pain in his penis and scrotum. He explained that his symptoms started after he injected cocaine into the dorsal vein of his penis 3 days previously, and the pain has been intensifying. He told clinicians that immediately after injecting the cocaine, he experienced severe pain
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Thousands of schools transitioned to online learning in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, during which time many children with cancer and other chronic health needs, as well as those with special education needs, faced significant challenges to learning online. An opinion paper by Johns Hopkins experts, published Jan. 4 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics,
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A small study may help explain the cause of “brain fog,” the lingering mental confusion reported in some people who’ve had COVID. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found abnormalities in the cerebrospinal fluid — the clear, colorless liquid
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There’s now scientific data on the potential impairment of fertility in men infected with SARS-CoV-2.  A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that a man’s fertility could be negatively affected by a COVID-19 infection.  Researchers who worked on the study published Thursday in the American Journal of Epidemiology reported that
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Streets in Tianjin, China, empty out on Jan. 10, 2022, as the city enters partial lockdown following a spike in omicron cases. Geno Hou | Future Publishing | Getty Images Covid lockdowns, quarantines and restrictions are causing a backlog in some of China’s major ports, resulting in “chaos” and pushing up air freights by as
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Of hospitalized children who tested or were presumed positive for SARS-CoV-2, 44% developed neurological symptoms, and these kids were more likely to require intensive care than their peers who didn’t experience such symptoms, according to a new study led by a pediatrician-scientist at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The most common
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