A CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) evaluating antibodies among blood donors in the United States revealed that over 95% of people over 16 who donated blood between April 2021 and...
A recent article published in the American Journal of Public Health found that life expectancy rates in the United States have lagged behind other nations. The publication analyzed data on life...
A CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) assessment noted that 40% of foodborne illnesses between 2017 and 2019 were linked to infected or ill food workers. These findings suggest increasing...
While long-COVID has become a widely accepted phenomenon, researchers and healthcare professionals still do not clearly understand the condition, its symptoms, and its mechanisms. However, in a recent...
Last week, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), a global nonprofit organization focused on HIV and AIDS advocacy and treatment, warned about the resurgence of mpox, formerly called monkeypox. Despite...
After investigations of fungal meningitis revealed a link between the condition and traveled to Mexico, the CDC issued a level 2 travel notice, urging United States residents to practice enhanced...
In a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the CDC on May 12, 2023, public health officials identified the first cases of drug-resistant ringworm in the United States. According to...
A press release on May 15, 2023, by the WHO warns patients against using artificial sweeteners, also called non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), when trying to manage body weight or prevent chronic disease. The...
An article published in SLEEP on May 11, 2023, reported a link between obstructive sleep apnea and an increased risk of long COVID. Using data from NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery...
On May 11, 2023, the WHO released a statement announcing the end of the global mpox public health emergency. Just days earlier, the CDC began investigating the potential resurgence of mpox in the...
A collaborative study by researchers at the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark and the investigators at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found a stronger link between...
On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, the HHS issued an advisory regarding social connection, loneliness, and isolation. The advisory included data and statements from the United States Surgeon General, Vivek H....
The Trevor Project recently released key findings from its 2023 United States National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ young people, revealing that nearly half of LGBTQ youth in the US have...
A CDC report published Tuesday found that drug overdose deaths increased significantly for several substances, including fentanyl which has emerged as the most common cause of overdose in the United...
In April 2023, Beyond Plastics, an environmental advocacy group, released a report that linked plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes to adverse human health outcomes. According to the organization,...
As the COVID pandemic has progressed, the CDC has added yet another COVID-19 subvariant to the seemingly never-ending variants of concern. The new variant XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, is an...
An investigation published in JAMA Network Open explained how race and ethnicity might impact recommendations for breast cancer data. Based on the researchers’ analysis, they provided...
On April 18, 2023, a study published in JAMA Network Open analyzing the link between COVID-19 and incident diabetes found that the condition may be linked to increased disease burden. Based on the...
A notice issued by the CDC in early April 2022 closed the investigation linking a listeria outbreak to multiple kinds of packaged salads and leafy greens produced by Dole. Since the initial...
In a study published this week, scientists uncovered a bidirectional link between antimicrobial resistance in humans and food-producing animals for the first time. Researchers from the London School of...
