Author: Claudinne Miller
COVID hospitalizations accelerate for fourth straight week
CBS News New COVID-19 hospitalizations have accelerated for a fourth straight week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data now shows. A total of 10,320 patients in the U.S. were newly hospitalized with COVID-19 for the week ending August 5, according to the figures published Monday, an increase of 14.3% from the week before. Levels remain far below […]
Aug 15, 2023
Emerging Infectious Diseases Prompt a Layered Response
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that the list of emerging infectious diseases is hardly limited to outbreaks of previously unknown pathogens. It also includes known diseases that gain in numbers or geographic extent, or that persist and remain uncontrolled. The list includes chikungunya, HIV, and dengue […]
Aug 15, 2023
Can the world really stop wild polio by the end of 2023?
Nature Given global efforts to eradicate the poliovirus were recently described as unsuccessful, how are Afghanistan and Pakistan now on the verge of eliminating it? Afghanistan and Pakistan — the two countries in which polio is still endemic — are closer than they have ever been to eradicating wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) […]
Aug 15, 2023
YouTube announces new policies to target medical misinformation
The Hill YouTube on Tuesday announced it is creating a new framework to crack down on medical misinformation on the platform. “In the years since we began our efforts to make YouTube a destination for high-quality health content, we’ve learned critical lessons about developing Community Guidelines in line with local and global health authority guidance on topics […]
Aug 15, 2023
Most babies who got very sick from RSV last winter were previously healthy, study finds
NBC News During last winter’s RSV season, a majority of infants in the ICU with RSV didn’t have any underlying conditions. Last winter, a particularly severe season of RSV overwhelmed pediatric hospitals with a surge of sick infants struggling to breathe as their lungs filled with secretions. RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, can be especially dangerous for […]
Aug 15, 2023
Delayed Period After COVID Shot? It’s the Same With COVID-19 Infection
MedPageToday Having COVID-19 was linked to a slight, temporary change in menstrual cycle length similar to changes seen after COVID-19 vaccination, according to a study of self-reported data from a menstrual tracking app. People who experienced COVID-19 had a 1.45-day adjusted increase in cycle length during COVID-19 infection compared with the three cycles before infection […]
Aug 15, 2023
360 (Machine Translated) The authorities inform that the patient had an elevated temperature up to 38 degrees, headache, body pain, malaise and profuse sweating. He was initially admitted to the General Hospital in Veles, and now he is at the Infectious Disease Clinic in Skopje. In the late evening hours of 12/08/2023, the Department of Epidemiology […]
Aug 15, 2023
Lots of Swifties Are Saying They Got COVID After the LA Eras Tour Shows
Self Magazine Unless you’ve been living in a Wi-Fi-free hole for the past few months, you know that Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour has been having a major moment. And while most of the social media coverage has featured Swifties dancing and belting out bops like “Cruel Summer” and “Lavender Haze,” some attendees of last […]
Aug 15, 2023
COVID shots in same arm may elicit better immune response
CIDRAP Sequential vaccines, like those used for COVID-19, may elicit a greater immune response if the recipient has the same arm injected, called ipsilateral vaccination, as opposed to contralateral vaccination, in which the primary vaccination is delivered in one arm and booster dose is delivered to the opposite. The research is published in EBioMedicine. German scientists tested immune response […]
Aug 15, 2023
‘Blue Legs’ Yet Another Long COVID Symptom?
MedPageToday The 33-year-old man told doctors that for the past 6 months, his legs would feel progressively heavy, tingly, and itchy, and then would become “dusky” in color, according to medical student Nafi Iftekhar and Manoj Sivan, MD, of the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Leeds in England. In […]
Aug 15, 2023
