Author: Claudinne Miller
Nearly 400 ancient medical tools from Turkey hint at rare Roman doctors’ offices
Livescience Medical instruments dating to the Roman era may be evidence of a “group practice” run by health care workers. Hundreds of Roman-era medical instruments now being examined by scientists may come from one of the earliest known examples of a group medical practice, or at least a place where health care workers congregated to […]
Jan 30, 2024
New chronic Covid study offers insight into which immunocompromised patients are most at risk
STAT You’ve heard of long Covid, a condition in which the acute infection subsides but troubling symptoms persist. Less well known is chronic Covid: The virus just doesn’t leave, sometimes staying in patients’ bodies long enough to mutate into new variants. This happens to people whose immune systems are compromised, whether through disease or treatment, […]
Jan 30, 2024
People Likely to Conceal Contagious Sickness for Social Commitments
Neuroscience News A significant number of people, including healthcare workers, conceal infectious illnesses to maintain their work and social commitments. The study, involving over 4,100 participants, found that 75% had hidden or might hide their illness in the future, often due to social plans or institutional pressures. Despite the potential harm to others, actively sick […]
Jan 30, 2024
Worried parents concerned for children’s health as CDC warns measles is a growing global threat
CBS There haven’t been any new cases of measles in Philadelphia for 14 days now, but the outbreak isn’t officially over yet. Nationally, the CDC is warning doctors to be on the alert for measles as a growing global threat. Children can’t be vaccinated against measles until they’re one. Until then, those babies are at risk. That’s […]
Jan 30, 2024
Syphilis Is Soaring in the U.S.
NYT Cases have risen by 80 percent since 2018, the C.D.C. reported. But chlamydia remains far more common. Syphilis, once nearly eliminated in the United States, continues to resurge, reaching the highest rate of new infections recorded since 1950, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. More than 207,000 cases were diagnosed in […]
Jan 30, 2024
Measles Is Making A Comeback, CDC Alerts Clinicians
Forbes The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week warned clinicians to be alert for measles. This notification comes after 23 cases—most in children who had not been vaccinated—were reported in the U.S. during the past two months. Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases known. In a susceptible population, the virus can rapidly […]
Jan 30, 2024
Why Aren’t More Doctors Prescribing Paxlovid to High-Risk Patients?
MedPage Today It’s not all about drug-drug interactions, experts say. Recent evidence is piling up that many people at high risk for severe COVID-19 don’t receive nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) — or any outpatient antiviral treatment — when diagnosed with a SARS-CoV-2 infection. MedPage Today looked at new studies and talked to experts to find out why. In a […]
Jan 30, 2024
Could new clues on how long COVID affects immune system lead to treatment?
Medical News Today Approximately 10%-20%Trusted Source of individuals with a SARS-CoV-2 infection experience lingering symptoms beyond three months after symptom onset. These symptoms referred to as long COVID, can be debilitating, but there is a lack of diagnostic or therapeutic tools. A new study published in Science found that patients experiencing long COVID symptoms six months after the SARS-CoV-2 infection show […]
Jan 30, 2024
Babies Exposed to COVID in the Womb Are More Likely to Suffer Breathing Problems
Scientific American More than four years after the virus that causes COVID first appeared, scientists continue to discover new ways that the illness threatens pregnant people and babies—as well as additional evidence that vaccination offers significant protection. A new study finds that babies born to women who got COVID while they were pregnant were three times […]
Jan 30, 2024
Disinformation Is the Real Threat to Democracy and Public Health
Scientific American Disinformation is the coin of the modern realm. Vaccine denial, climate denial, election denial and war-crime denial have joined the grotesque denial of the Holocaust in the ranks of dishonesties now regularly foisted on the public. We can, however, do something about this crisis of the information age. In January the World Economic Forum […]
Jan 30, 2024