On Saturday, July 23, 2022, the WHO declared monkeypox a public health crisis after the second International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee meeting. According to the New England Journal...
The relationship between salt intake and health is not yet fully understood. However, a study published in the European Heart Journal found that adding salt beyond its use in cooking correlated with an...
The Rockland County Health Department in New York recently announced the first polio case since 2013 in an unvaccinated adult patient. Increased vaccine hesitancy has led to lower vaccination rates,...
On Monday, July 11, Athos therapeutics announced its plans for a research collaboration with Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, for precision medicine in inflammatory bowel...
On July 11, 2022, researchers published an article in JAMA Internal Medicine noting racial differences in pulse oximeter performance. Researchers also postulated that these discrepancies might be...
On July 12, 2022, the Biden Administration announced plans to reduce and manage the spread of BA.5, a COVID Omicron subvariant, in a White House press statement. According to the release, 80% of COVID...
A CDC report on antimicrobial resistance found that hospital-onset infections and deaths from antimicrobial-resistant infections rose 15% during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. Data...
BMJ recently published an article that correlated a history of infertility with a risk of stroke. The study determined that women who had experienced miscarriages and birth-related child loss had...
The first cases of diphtheria in over 30 years were announced by Healthy North Coast (HNC), a non-profit Australian government initiative. Since the 1990s, there have been no new cases of diphtheria in...
The Journal of Current Medical Research and Opinion recently published a study that found sex differences in COVID sequelae and long COVID. The study involved a literature review of multiple...
The CDC advised college and university students, as well as gay and bisexual men living in parts of Florida, to get the MenB or MenACWY vaccine as an outbreak of meningococcal disease takes hold in the...
On Monday, June 13, clinicians at Alleghany Health Network (AHN) revealed their plans to conduct a clinical study on the effects of using deep brain stimulation — also known as DBS...
A recent JAMA Network Open study analyzed mothers who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy and the neurodevelopmental outcomes, such as motor function and speech disorders, in their...
An annual CDC report that measures HIV diagnoses found a disquieting 17% reduction in diagnoses during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. Data from 2020 showed that 30,635 people had been...
Research scientists at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a coupled imaging method to detect lung cancer at the cellular level in real-time when performing a...
The FDA, CDC, and state and local partners have been investigating a recent hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to fresh organic strawberries in the United States and Canada.
Epidemiologic and...
CDC officials are releasing doses of the JYNNEOS vaccines and pledging to boost the national stockpile after multiple cases of the rare disease, monkeypox, emerged in the United States. Currently, the...
A nationwide shortage of baby formula intensified this month, leaving around 31% of stores out-of-stock and prompting the federal government to take action to accelerate production.
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An inmate in Colorado became the first human in the United States to test positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus, according to state officials and the CDC.
The individual contracted the...
