The EU announced Friday that it had struck a deal with French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi for 300 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm which negotiated the agreement, said it would allow all 27 member countries to purchase the vaccine once it was proven to be safe and […]
Web-based surveillance of the global spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) during the first 11 weeks of the outbreak (Dec 31, 2019, to March 10, 2020), reveals that three-quarters (75/99) of affected countries outside mainland China reported their first COVID-19 case in people who had recently travelled to an affected country—with almost two-thirds […]
Even short, single antibiotic courses given to young animals can predispose them to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) when they are older, according to Rutgers researchers. The study, published in Genome Medicine, provides further evidence supporting the idea that the use of antibiotics in children under 1 year old disrupts the intestinal microbiota—the trillions of beneficial […]
Chronic diseases typically associated with middle age and older adulthood are common in young people needing hospital care in Hawaiʻi, according to public health researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. More than a quarter of hospitalized youth and 12 percent of youth who visited an emergency department had at least one chronic condition […]
The world has changed a lot in the three and a half years since I started taking antidepressants. I’ve changed a lot, too. Like most people who are prescribed medication to manage their mood, taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) — a type of antidepressant — was never really my Plan A. Nor was it […]
We’re now all too familiar with the common symptoms of COVID-19: a fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Some people also experience aches and pains, a sore throat, and loss of taste or smell. Sufferers with mild illness might expect to get better after a few weeks. But there’s mounting evidence this isn’t the case, and […]
(HealthDay)—In a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance report, published in the July 24 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, recommendations are presented for testing and clinical management of health care personnel (HCP) exposed to the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Anne C. Moorman, M.P.H., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues provide […]
A team of researchers from Google Health, working with others from institutions across the U.S. and Canada has found that a Google AI system was able to outperform general pathologists when validating Gleason grading of prostate cancer biopsies. In their paper published in JAMA Oncology, the group describes two major experiments they conducted that compared […]
(HealthDay)—If you want to live longer, you should choose beans over beef for your protein, a new analysis suggests. “These findings have important public health implications as intake of plant protein can be increased relatively easily by replacing animal protein and could have a large effect on longevity,” the researchers reported. Diets high in protein […]
Thousands of nurses head to Florida hot zone amid coronavirus pandemic South Florida is being considered the epicenter for the coronavirus resurgence, as the state experiences increase in positive cases and hospital capacity; Phil Keating reports from Miami. The novel coronavirus has claimed the life of a young Florida girl, with her death marking the […]
