Meet the Pharmacist Responsible for Giving Half of His County ’s Monkeypox Vaccine
Clint Hopkins and his husband, Joel Hockman, own Pucci’s Pharmacy in Sacramento, but you might not always find them there. Since the monkeypox outbreak began in the U.S., the pair and their team of health professionals are just as likely to be at a bar, private party, or their local LGBTQ center administering monkeypox vaccines.
“We’re in a bit of a unique situation, because we’re LGBT and part of the community that is at highest risk,” says Hockman, COO of Pucci’s. “We’re aware of social events that are going on through our social network, so we reached out and said, ‘...
Source: TIME: Health - September 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
Inequitable Global Health Responses Underscore Need for More Self-Sufficiency in Developing Countries
A medical officer preparing to give a COVID-19 vaccine in Somalia in May 2021. Credit: Mokhtar Mohamed/AMISOMBy Juliet MorrisonUNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2022 (IPS) With the outbreak of Monkeypox in non-endemic countries leading to a scramble for vaccines, global health advocates are again calling for equity to be prioritized in the international response.
Equity was a top concern during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency health response. The World Health Organization (WHO) helped spearhead several initiatives in an attempt to reduce disparities between nations, notably COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Acces...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Juliet Morrison Tags: Africa COVID-19 Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report South Africa Source Type: news
Anthony Fauci, loved and hated, plots his next move: ‘I'm not going to sit in my house’
In 1984, when Anthony Fauci took over as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), his wife gave him a plant for the new office. Both the palm and the 81-year-old physician are still there, the giant plant now crowding the office of one of the most celebrated—and polarizing—scientific figures in U.S. history. But not for much longer. Fauci announced on 22 August that he would step down at the end of the year from both NIAID and his post as the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden.
“What am I going to do with this plant? It’s a monster. I can’t fit it in any other pla...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 1, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Anthony Fauci, loved and hated, plots his next move: ‘I’m not going to sit in my house’
In 1984, when Anthony Fauci took over as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), his wife gave him a plant for the new office. Both the palm and the 81-year-old physician are still there, the giant plant now crowding the office of one of the most celebrated—and polarizing—scientific figures in U.S. history. But not for much longer. Fauci announced on 22 August that he would step down at the end of the year from both NIAID and his post as the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden.
“What am I going to do with this plant? It’s a monster. I can’t fit it in any other pla...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 1, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
‘It’s an incredible place’: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on how she hopes to reform her battered agency
Rochelle Walensky walked into a hot mess when she took the helm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2021.
Then head of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, Walensky was an HIV/AIDS clinician and researcher who specialized in cost-effectiveness studies and oversaw fewer than 80 physicians. She took over an agency with a $15 billion annual budget, nearly 11,000 employees, and a world-renowned reputation that had been battered by its haphazard, inconsistent response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of the problem lay at the feet of outgoing former President Donald Trum...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 26, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
‘People are freaking out, seeing young men with lesions all over their faces’: the anxious wait for monkeypox vaccines
With supplies running low, many gay and bisexual men are struggling to get appointments at sexual health centres – and for some, the handling of the outbreak has alarming echos of the HIV/Aids epidemicIn a waiting room at the Mortimer Market Centre, a sexual health clinic in central London, a slow but steady stream of men who have sex with men (MSM) are arriving to receive their first monkeypox vaccination. It is a sweltering afternoon, and all available slots have been filled, as they have ever since vaccines started to be delivered here in early July.Few know much about the monkeypox virus itself, or how the vaccine wo...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 25, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Michael Segalov Tags: Monkeypox Vaccines and immunisation Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology LGBTQ rights Health Society NHS Source Type: news
Dr. Anthony Fauci Is Stepping Down From His Public-Health Posts
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease official, will step down from heading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in December, he said in a statement released on Aug. 22. Fauci, 81, said he would also leave his role as chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden.
But Fauci, who has served as NIAID director since 1984—under seven presidents—said he is not retiring. “I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field,” he said.
Fauci first made his mark on public health through his work fightin...
Source: TIME: Health - August 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
JYNNEOS for PreP of Persons at Risk for Orthopoxviruses JYNNEOS for PreP of Persons at Risk for Orthopoxviruses
The ACIP has recommended JYNNEOS over the Vaccinia virus vaccine ACAM2000 for preexposure prophylaxis of individuals with occupational exposure to orthopoxvirus.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - August 19, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
An HIV Vaccine May Be Closer Than Ever —Thanks, In Part, To Covid-19
Infectious disease expert Dave Wessner reports from the 24th International AIDS Conference, where researchers shared ways that Covid vaccine development might help the development of a vaccine for AIDS. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 16, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Dave Wessner, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Coronavirus Editors' Pick editors-pick Source Type: news
Jonathan Van Ness: We Are Still Not Taking Monkeypox Seriously Enough
I remember the day the U.S. confirmed its first case of monkeypox. It was mid-May, and I had just interviewed Steven Thrasher for my podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. He has a new book out, The Viral Underclass, about how different classes of people bear an unfair burden of the cost of viruses—fitting, because since then, monkeypox cases have increased exponentially, primarily affecting queer men.
Watching the government’s botched response to monkeypox has been surreal, and in many ways, I believe it’s been fueled by homophobia and transphobia. When an outbreak affects mainly men who have ...
Source: TIME: Health - August 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jonathan Van Ness Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
Black Men Bear the Brunt of Monkeypox Cases in North Carolina Black Men Bear the Brunt of Monkeypox Cases in North Carolina
New data show that 70% of cases in North Carolina are in Black men, but this group has received less than a quarter of vaccinations.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - August 15, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Smallpox vaccines may not protect against monkeypox for life
Researchers say some patients had childhood jab, and HIV infection could erode protectionSmallpox vaccinations may not protect against monkeypox for life, research suggests, with experts saying HIV may play a role in eroding protection from the jab over time.Monkeypox outbreaks are ongoing around the world, with the World Health Organization declaring the disease apublic health emergency of international concern. At present, the majority of cases in current outbreaks are among men who have sex with men.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 15, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Monkeypox Vaccines and immunisation Infectious diseases World Health Organization World news Aids and HIV Science Medical research Source Type: news
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Source: Johns Hopkins University and Health Systems Archive - August 10, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
What to Know About the Monkeypox Drug TPOXX —And Why It ’ s So Hard to Get
Monkeypox, which federal officials declared a public health emergency on August 4, is not as contagious as the other ongoing public health emergency in the U.S.: COVID-19. Monkeypox primarily spreads through contact with infected skin lesions. Theoretically, containing monkeypox should therefore be more feasible, as long as testing, vaccines, and treatments are accessible. But in reality, the rollouts of all three approaches have faced major challenges. Getting the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, is particularly difficult.
Here’s what to know about the antiviral drug treatment TPOXX.
What is TPOXX?
T...
Source: TIME: Health - August 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
Doctors say racism in global health responses needs to be confronted
Delegates at the international AIDS conference say that racism in global health is by design, from denial of visas to vaccine access. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
