Africa: One in Twenty People Has No Sense of Smell - Here's How They Might Get It Back
[The Conversation Africa] During the pandemic, a lost sense of smell was quickly identified as one of the key symptoms of COVID. Nearly four years later, one in five people in the UK is living with a decreased or distorted sense of smell, and one in twenty have anosmia - the total loss of the ability to perceive any odours at all. Smell training is one of the few treatment options for recovering a lost sense of smell - but can we make it more effective? (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 26, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Africa: The Emergence of Jn.1 Is an Evolutionary 'Step Change' in the Covid Pandemic. Why Is This Significant?
[The Conversation Africa] Since it was detected in August 2023, the JN.1 variant of COVID has spread widely. It has become dominant in Australia and around the world, driving the biggest COVID wave seen in many jurisdictions for at least the past year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 26, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Science and Biotechnology Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Walgreens to pay $275,000 to settle allegations in Vermont about service during pandemic
Walgreens has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle allegations about service in some of the national pharmacy chain's Vermont stores during the coronavirus pandemic (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - January 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Michelle Mone: leading entrepreneur or lucky baroness?
The woman at the heart of the PPE scandal is widely hailed as a successful businessperson. But the fate of her high-profile lingerie company raises questionsCameron broke convention when he made Michelle Mone a peer, says Tory MPThroughout the stunning interviews the Conservative peer Michelle Mone gave last month,finally admitting she had lied for years when denying her involvement in lucrative PPE deals, she still maintained a claim central to her remarkable rise. Hands neatly placed in her lap, she was, she told the BBC ’s Laura Kuenssberg, a “very successful individual businesswoman”.Mone and her husband, the Isl...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 25, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Conn Tags: Michelle Mone Coronavirus House of Lords David Cameron Infectious diseases Politics Science UK news Source Type: news
Nigeria: Blinken Praises Nigeria On HIV/Aids Prevention, Covid-19 Response
[Vanguard] The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has expressed satisfaction about Nigeria's progress on health, particularly the HIV and AIDS prevention programme, even as he praised the strides made by the Nigerian government in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and the response to other infectious diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - January 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Coronavirus Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Africa: Health, Safety Compromised for People Living With Long Covid and Intimate Partner Violence
[The Conversation Africa] What happens when a person is experiencing long COVID and intimate partner violence at the same time? There has been no attention paid to this question anywhere in the world since the onset of the pandemic in 2020. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Human Rights Sustainable Development Women and Gender Source Type: news
Africa: Five Books About the Covid Pandemic to Look Out for in 2024
[The Conversation Africa] Vi-fi, short for virus fiction, describes contemporary fiction that features the devastating events of world-changing outbreaks and epidemics. Rooted in science fiction, vi-fi draws on bio-thrilling realism and parallel worlds with multiple, dystopian possibilities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Arts, Culture and Entertainment Books Coronavirus Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Europe Faces a Measles Outbreak
When vaccinations begin to lag, as they did during the pandemic, measles is often the first disease to resurge. “It’s the canary in the coal mine,” one expert said. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Rumors and Misinformation Children and Childhood Epidemics Measles Europe Great Britain Source Type: news
Tunisia: Tunisia Logs 1st Infection Case With Covid-19 Jn.1 Strain
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- "The first infection case with the new COVID-19 JN.1 strain has just been logged in Tunisia from 60 samples at the Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis and the National Pharmacovigilance Centre (CNPV)," CNPV Director General and member of the Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus Riadh Daghfous said on Wednesday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Coronavirus Health and Medicine North Africa Tunisia Source Type: news
COVID In Pregnancy Triples Baby's Odds for Respiratory Illness
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 24, 2024 -- Babies born to COVID-infected mothers have triple the risk of developing a breathing disorder that normally affects preemies, a new study shows.
Researchers found that exposure to the coronavirus while in the womb... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 24, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
The effect of social isolation, loneliness, and physical activity on depressive symptoms of older adults during COVID-19: a moderated mediation analysis - Jin MJ, Bae SM.
Depressive symptoms have been commonly reported in older adults during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Social isolation as a result of social distancing to prevent COVID-19 was reported to increase the level of depressive symptoms both directl... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Africa: How Long Does Immunity Last After a Covid Infection?
[The Conversation Africa] Nearly four years into the pandemic, Australia, like many other countries, is still seeing large numbers of COVID cases. Some 860,221 infections were recorded around the country in 2023, while 30,283 cases have already been reported in 2024. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Africa: Excessive Social Media Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic Exacerbated Adolescent Mental Health Challenges
[The Conversation Africa] How does time spent online, and especially social media, affect the brains and behaviours of children and youth? (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Economy, Business and Finance Children and Youth Coronavirus Health and Medicine ICT and Telecom Sustainable Development Source Type: news
How COVID-19 Vaccines and Infections Are Tweaking Our Immunity
Your immune system may be getting smarter every time you encounter COVID-19, a new study suggests. After getting vaccinated and infected, the immune system generates broader defenses against the virus, including against new variants.
In a paper published Jan. 19 in Science Immunology, researchers in South Korea compared immune cells in the lab from people with a variety of vaccine and infection histories throughout the different Omicron waves, which began in late 2021 with BA.1. People who had been vaccinated with the original Pfizer-BioNTech series and then got infected with any Omicron variant showed good levels of me...
Source: TIME: Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Virus Soup: Many Respiratory Viruses Peaking in Early 2024
Doctors are reporting high levels of COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), as well as other “flu-like illnesses” that cause similar symptoms, such as the common cold, other coronaviruses, and parainfluenza viruses. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
