West Virginia Lawmakers OK Bill Drawing Back One of the Strictest Child Vaccination Laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as among the most strict in the country.
The bill was approved despite the objections of Republican Senate Health and Human Resources Chair Mike Maroney, a trained doctor, who called the bill “an embarrassment” and said he believed lawmakers were harming the state.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LEAH WILLINGHAM / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk wire Source Type: news
Urgent warning over whooping cough as cases spike to decade high: Health chiefs beg parents to get children vaccinated against '100-day cough'
UKHSA bosses received 553 lab-confirmed reports of whooping cough cases in England alone in January. It marks a 61-fold rise on the 9 logged over the same month in 2023. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Whooping cough: UK 'Urgent warning' issued as cases of Victorian disease skyrocket
This deadly disease can lead to seizures and even death in vulnerable children. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Whooping cough warning for England, as cases rise
There have been more than 500 cases of the risky infection since the start of the year, officials warn. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
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Validated COuGH RefleX Score Can Predict Likelihood of GERD
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- The validated Cough, Overweight/Obesity, Globus, Hiatal Hernia, Regurgitation, and Male Sex (COuGH RefluX) score can predict the likelihood of proven gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in patients with chronic... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
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Biotech Nocion was in 'a real pickle,' then raised $62M in venture capital
CEO Richard Batycky said the capital would be used to bring Nocion ’s lead drug into a Phase 2b study in chronic cough patients and to prepare for a Phase 3 trial. But just last year, Batycky said the future of Nocion wasn’t so certain. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Hannah Green Source Type: news
Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for "all relevant spyware" with Meta's WhatsApp. The order [PDF] from Judge Phyllis Hamilton follows from WhatsApp's 2019 lawsuit [PDF] against NSO for…#nsogroup #israel #pegasus #meta #whatsapp #pdf #phyllishamilton #nso #voip #apple (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Whooping cough outbreaks persist in Alberta as health officials urge vaccination
As pertussis cases continue to climb, Albertans are being warned to ensure their children are up-to-date on their immunizations. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Calgary Source Type: news
Mythbuster: ‘ I ’ m worried my child ’ s cough is causing her harm ’
Parents continue to bring their coughing children to the practice, often repeatedly, even though every visit results in the same advice: ‘This is viral. Over-the-counter medicines may or may not manage symptoms, and there is no need for treatment with antibiotics.’ Parents’ concernsVarious studies have looked at parental beliefs on cough and other ‘minor’ childhood... Read moreThe post Mythbuster: ‘I’m worried my child’s cough is causing her harm’ appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - February 29, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Jon Lalljee Tags: Clinical Paediatrics Vaccinations and infections cough Source Type: news
Long COVID Doesn ’ t Always Look Like You Think It Does
In the spring of 2023, after her third case of COVID-19, Jennifer Robertson started to feel strange. Her heart raced all day long and she could barely sleep at night. She had dizzy spells. She felt pins and needles in her arm, she says, a “buzzing feeling” in her foot, and pain in her legs and lymph nodes. She broke out in a rash. She smelled “phantom” cigarette smoke, even when none was in the air.
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Robertson, 48, had a feeling COVID-19 might have somehow been the trigger. She knew about Long COVID, the name for chronic symptoms following an infection...
Source: TIME: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Uzbek Court Sentences 23 Over Contaminated Cough Syrup Deaths Uzbek Court Sentences 23 Over Contaminated Cough Syrup Deaths
A court in Uzbekistan sentenced 23 people to prison terms on Monday over the deaths of 68 children linked to contaminated cough syrups produced by India ' s Marion Biotech,...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
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Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people's personal data
Avast has agreed to cough up $16.5 million after the FTC accused the antivirus vendor of selling customer information to third parties. The US regulator filed [PDF] a lengthy complaint against Avast regarding its use and alleged misuse of customer data. The security shop collected people's info…#ftc #pdf #linakhan #avast #jumpshot #browsing #antitrack #bianlian #register (Source: Reuters: Health)
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A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Codeine: U.K. Bans Over-The-Counter Sales Of Addictive Cough Syrup
Many pharmacies had already stopped stocking the drug after experiencing aggression from customers thought to be struggling with addiction. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Codeine Abuse Drives U.K. To Ban OTC Sales Of Addictive Cough Syrup
Many pharmacies had already stopped stocking the over-the-counter drug after experiencing aggression from customers thought to be struggling with addiction. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katherine Hignett, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
