Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Common joint pain treatment may be making arthritis worse, studies suggest

      ,      No comments   

A common injection for treating arthritis may be speeding up the onset of the disease rather than preventing it, according to new studies.  Both of the studies were presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.  In the first study, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, studied...

Mistakes at UK coronavirus testing lab may have led to 20 deaths

      ,      No comments   

England's government agency responsible for responding to public health emergencies said mistakes at a testing laboratory resulted in tens of thousands of positive COVID-19 cases reported as negative may have led to the deaths of 20 people. Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world, with more than 177,000 deaths since the...

Monday, November 28, 2022

WHO officially renames monkeypox under pressure from Biden administration

      ,      No comments   

The World Health Organization, or WHO, will officially begin using the term "mpox" instead of "monkeypox" after the Biden Administration pressured the international organization to change the name because of racial connotations associated with it. On the international organization’s website, it says both names will be used simultaneously for a year...

Getting pregnant soon after abortion or miscarriage might have lower risks than previously suspected: study

      ,      No comments   

A new medical study conducted in Europe is suggesting there may be fewer "adverse pregnancy outcomes" for women who get pregnant weeks after they’ve had a miscarriage or an abortion.  The cohort study, which was conducted by various academic researchers from around the world, analyzed pregnancies in Norway to see if the World Health Organization's...

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Biden as oldest US president at age 80: Nation deserves a 'full neurological assessment' of him

      ,      No comments   

President Joe Biden turned 80 on Nov. 20, 2022 — and debate is ongoing, from a health perspective, about his advanced age and the capacity of individuals of that age to serve in the highest office in the land.  Biden has surpassed former President Reagan as the oldest president to serve in the White House — and the milestone has people wondering:...

Friday, November 25, 2022

Court rejects San Diego school district's COVID vaccine mandate

      ,      No comments   

The California 4th District Court of Appeal ruled against the San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 student vaccine requirement this week.  On Tuesday, the appellate court agreed with a lower court's ruling from last year that the school district does not have the authority to establish its own mandate. The court rejected the district's...

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Vaccinated Americans a majority of COVID deaths for first time in August: analysis

      ,      No comments   

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus were at least partially vaccinated, according to a new analysis of federal and state data.  The waning efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and increasingly contagious strains of the virus being spread to elderly and immunocompromised people have...

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

White House urges Americans to discuss COVID-19 vaccines over Thanksgiving

      ,      No comments   

The White House on Tuesday encouraged Americans to talk about COVID-19 vaccination at the Thanksgiving table, insisting that widespread vaccination could prevent almost every coronavirus death in the country.  At a press briefing, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha rolled out the Biden administration's plan for a "six-week...

Monday, November 21, 2022

Why Somalia has not declared famine amid one of its worst cases of widespread hunger

      ,      No comments   

Somalia is on the brink of its worst famine in half a century as drought intensifies and global food prices soar, leaving hundreds of thousands of people at risk of dying from starvation. The United Nations has warned that parts of the country will be hit by famine in the coming weeks - and the projection is it will be more severe than in 2011, when...

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Enoki mushrooms linked to Listeria outbreak in two states: public health officials

      ,      No comments   

Listeria monocytogenes infections have sparked a collaborative investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and public health and regulatory officials.  At least two people, one in Nevada and one in Michigan, have been infected by the strain since November 15...

Saturday, November 19, 2022

RSV surge raises questions about repeat cases: Can you or child get it again?

      ,      No comments   

As respiratory syncytial virus, otherwise known as RSV, continues to surge across the United States, experts warn it’s possible people can be infected with it more than once. Dr. Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital on Long Island, New York, told Fox News Digital this week, "A person can get RSV more than once...

Friday, November 18, 2022

Young people at risk of hearing loss due to unsafe listening practices: New study

      ,      No comments   

The prevalence of unsafe listening practices from headphones, earbuds and attendance at loud music venues may range from 24% to 48% in young people ages 12-34 years old, according to recent research published in BMJ Global Health. This suggests that more than 1 billion teens could be at risk for hearing loss.  "Results from this study show...

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Cancer screenings and diagnoses lag post-COVID, causing potential delays to treatment

      ,      No comments   

Screenings for a variety of common cancers have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, potentially leading to diagnoses later in the course of the disease when it may be more difficult to treat successfully, U.S. data published on Thursday suggest. In 2020 - the first year of the pandemic - average rates of screening for breast cancer fell by 40%, for...

Nearly 50% of human population suffers from oral diseases, according to WHO

      ,      No comments   

Nearly half of the world's population, or 3.5 billion people, suffer from oral diseases, the majority of them in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. The most common oral illnesses are tooth decay, severe gum disease, tooth loss and oral cancers, with untreated tooth decay affecting nearly 2.5 billion people,...

Sperm counts and concentrations declining globally since 1970s but fertility implications unknown: study

      ,      No comments   

Researchers are raising the alarm that declining sperm counts "threaten mankind's survival" — yet experts remain cautious about the results of a new study. A controversial paper recently published in the journal Human Reproduction Update noted that sperm counts declined globally by about half since the 1970s — and the trend has been accelerating...

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Transition surgery study raises questions about long-term results on quality of life after 'top surgery'

      ,      No comments   

A recently conducted study that evaluated young patients after they underwent double mastectomies as they transitioned into becoming male indicates that their quality of life drastically improved. The study from Northwestern Medicine, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association — in JAMA Pediatrics — in September, compared two groups...

Monday, November 14, 2022

Moderna’s Omicron vaccine shows better immune response than COVID shots

      ,      No comments   

Moderna Inc said on Monday its Omicron-tailored vaccines produced a better immune response against the BA.4/5 subvariants in a mid-to-late stage study, when given as a booster dose, compared with its original shot. Data shows that both of Moderna's Omicron-tailored shots, mRNA-1273.214 and mRNA-1273.222, produced a higher antibody response against...

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Christina Applegate's MS: Here's why early symptoms are often overlooked

      ,      No comments   

Actress Christina Applegate apparently overlooked the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) before she was diagnosed last summer while on the set of the third and final season of "Dead To Me," which will drop on Netflix Nov. 17.  "I got diagnosed while we were working," the Emmy winner recently told Variety during an interview. "I had to call...

Saturday, November 12, 2022

California hospitals using overflow tents for rising number of flu patients

      ,      No comments   

Several Southern California hospitals have begun using overflow tents outside emergency rooms to cope with a rising number of patients with flu and other respiratory illnesses. The San Diego-Union Tribune reported Friday that overflow tents were put up at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas, Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health in La Jolla...

Popular Posts

Recent Posts

Unordered List

Pages

Text Widget

Powered by Blogger.

Formulir Kontak



Search This Blog

Find Us On Facebook

Flickr Images

Most Popular

Sample Text