Month: August 2022

With more than 10,000 monkeypox cases in the United States and vaccine demand remaining high, Jynneos has been in short supply for weeks. The new injection strategy allows health-care providers to give shallow injections intradermally, in between layers of the skin, with one-fifth the standard dose size instead of subcutaneously, into the fatty layer below
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In a recent study published in PLoS ONE, researchers developed humanized nanobodies that neutralize severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Study: A humanized nanobody phage display library yields potent binders of SARS CoV-2 spike. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a global health emergency at an unprecedented
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After battling COVID-19, there is still a chance for patients to suffer long-term symptoms, such as headaches. While some may be mild, others could disrupt one’s daily routine. Experts have shared ways to manage the lingering symptoms, but if they don’t seem to work, when is the right time to call a doctor? Lingering Headaches
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Dr Shannon de l’Etoile How do a baby’s body and brain respond when their mother sings a lullaby? Shannon de l’Etoile, PhD, is hoping to find out. de l’Etoile, professor of music therapy at the University of Miami, Florida, began watching interactions between typically functioning mothers and infants, mothers with postpartum depression and their babies,
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There’s no evidence that humans can transmit the monkeypox virus to their pets after an Italian greyhound contracted the disease from its owners.  A report published in the Lancet medical journal discussed how a pet dog contracted monkeypox after sharing the bed of its owners —a gay French couple engaging in a non-monogamous relationship. According to
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The community cancer care landscape in the United States has been changing rapidly over the past decade, and not for the better. Many community oncology clinics or practices have closed, or been acquired by hospitals or a corporate entity, and many have struggled financially, as reported by the Community Oncology Alliance (COA). However, this trend appears
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Polio has been detected in New York City wastewater, suggesting local circulation of the virus, health officials said Friday. New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett called the findings alarming. Bassett said local and federal health officials are aggressively assessing how far polio has spread in the city and in New York state. “For
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The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis describes how fetal growth influences the long-term health of an adult. Over the past several years, epidemiological studies have identified many factors that affect fetal growth, which, in turn, contribute to individual differences in disease pathogenesis later in life. Experimental studies have also presented considerable evidence
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The study, published Friday in the journal Pediatrics, said the most common symptoms for children hospitalized with Covid-19 were fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, headache, muscle and body aches and fever. MIS-C is a rare condition that affects children, often — but not always — after Covid-19 infection. Doctors don’t know exactly what causes it.
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In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the impact of removing mask mandates in schools on the incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Study: Impact of Lifting School Masking Requirements on Incidence of COVID-19 among Staff and Students in Greater-Boston Area School Districts: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis. Image Credit: kepazuria/Shutterstock
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Blueberries might be the best example of how good things come in small packages. Dietitian Anya Miller says that includes protection for your heart, thanks to something called an anthocyanin – a compound in these berries that gives them their deep blue hue. Studies have shown eating foods high in these anthocyanins can help lower
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The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to rename the disease monkeypox, and it wants to hear some suggestions from the public before making the big move.  The United Nations health agency said Friday that it’s holding an open forum to rename monkeypox. It has already renamed two families, or clades, of the virus using Roman
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Germ cell production in genetically modified hybrid animals is now a reality rather than science fiction, as recently demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich. Stem cell biologist Ori Bar-Nur, PhD, and his team used genetically engineered rat-mice chimeras to show that sterile mice could support the development of rat spermatogenesis. “In the distant future we would
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More people actually suffer from tinnitus than expected, with 14% of adults experience hearing the ringing sound in their ears, according to a new study.  Published in the research journal JAMA Neurology, the study found that about 120 million people, mostly adults 65 and above, have tinnitus — an earn condition characterized by hearing sounds
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The US Food and Drug Administration today approved a supplemental new drug application for Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) for the treatment of influenza in children aged 5 to 12 years. The drug, which is manufactured by Genentech, has been used to treat and prevent flu in older populations since 2018. It’s the first of its kind
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Philanthropist Philip Esformes attends the 15th annual Harold & Carole Pump Foundation gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 7, 2015 in Century City, California. Tiffany Rose | Getty Images A highly unusual move by the Justice Department to retry Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes on health-care fraud criminal charges after then-President
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In one of the largest follow-up studies to date, involving 25 pediatric hospitals, more than a quarter of children and adolescents hospitalized with coronavirus infection early in the pandemic still had health problems two to four months later, either persisting symptoms or activity impairment. The study, led by Boston Children’s Hospital, is published August 12
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Researchers have created a mathematical model to predict genetic resistance to antimalarial drugs in Africa to manage one of the biggest threats to global malarial control. Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites and spread to humans through infected mosquitos. It is preventable and curable, yet resistance to current antimalarial drugs is causing avoidable
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