Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling once again after a paralyzing fuel blockade that lasted two months. Dr. Jeanty Fils, a spokesman for Haiti’s Ministry of Health, told The Associated Press that people are back on the streets and likely spreading cholera as […]
A big cut in prescription drug prices for some Medicare beneficiaries kicks in next year, but finding those savings isn't easy. Congress approved in August a $35 cap on what seniors will pay for insulin as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, along with free vaccines and other Medicare improvements. But the change came too […]
Did you ever think of jellyfish or a salamander as fluorescent? That is actually the case. Both animals have proteins in their bodies that enables them to light up. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen now invented a way to use these fluorescent proteins to gain new knowledge about brain diseases like depression, Alzheimer’s, and […]
A study undertaken by management experts at Kingston University’s Business School and Maynooth University in Ireland has shown people in the early stages of their careers were more likely to be impacted by workplace stress during the COVID-19 pandemic than senior colleagues. The pandemic had been widely reported to impact negatively on the mental health […]
Preventive health care—such as cancer screening—is a critical tool in the early detection of disease. Missed screening can result in a missed diagnosis, delayed treatment and reduced chances of survival. But the medical system is poorly equipped to meet the needs of gender-diverse patients. Around 1.64 million people in the U.S. identify as transgender, nonbinary […]
As covid-19 raged, roughly 4,000 highly skilled epidemiologists, communication specialists, and public health nurses were hired by a nonprofit tied to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to plug the holes at battered public health departments on the front lines. But over the past few months, the majority of the CDC Foundation’s contracts for […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed many of our behaviours and attitudes towards infection control. Hand hygiene was one of the earliest and most adopted measures to counteract the spread of disease, but there have been more technology-based approaches, too. One example is the booming industry of devices that use ultraviolet radiation (UV) to kill […]
A recent study published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open evaluated the accessibility of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ‘Test to Treat’ sites by age, rurality, race, and ethnicity. Study: Geographic Accessibility of COVID-19 Test to Treat Sites by Race, Ethnicity, Age, and Rurality. Image Credit: angellodeco/Shutterstock Background The ‘Test to Treat’ […]
Eli Lilly is not giving away insulin, the drug company clarified on Thursday after a parody Twitter account falsely said the company would do just that. The problem started when the parody Twitter account with the handle @EliLillyandCo posted Thursday morning that, “We are excited to announce that insulin is free now,” Forbes reported. But […]
Cambridge researchers have highlighted how lack of access to a computer was linked to poorer mental health among young people and adolescents during COVID-19 lockdowns. The team found that the end of 2020 was the time when young people faced the most difficulties and that the mental health of those young people without access to […]
