To fight dengue epidemic, health agents in Brazil scour junkyards and roofs for mosquitos
Local public health officials in Rio de Janeiro have been scouring the city's neighborhoods and even its junkyards for signs of standing water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
How Bacteria Thrive Amidst a Viral Epidemic sans Social Distancing
New research uncovers evidence that a genetic mechanism may help the berry-building bacteria, and others like them, protect against disease (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - February 16, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Anthropology and Disability Source Type: news
More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them
NEW YORK — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its study published Thursday the largest to look at how Americans took the drugs that killed them.
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CDC officials decided to study the topic after seeing reports from California suggesting that smoking fentanyl was becoming more common than injecting it. Potent, illicit versions of the painkiller are involved in more U.S. overdose deaths than any other drug.
Some early rese...
Source: TIME: Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MIKE STOBBE/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
America's loneliness epidemic laid bare: Nearly 40MILLION adults now live alone and they are 64% more likely to be depressed than their peers, official report warns
A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published today estimated that 37.9million Americans were living alone in 2022, up 4.8million - 13 percent - from the numbers in 2012. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tonya Mosley to Launch ‘She Has A Name’ Family Mystery Podcast With APM Studios
Fresh Air radio co-host Tonya Mosley is set to launch the She Has A Name podcast next month, about a young Detroit mother lost amid that city’s economic collapse and crack cocaine epidemic. The 10-part documentary podcast from APM Studios will kick off on March 28. Mosley, who grew up in Detroit…#tonyamosley #detroit #apmstudios #freshair #terrygross #antoniowiley #motorcity #tmiproductions #airfestbrooklyn #aspulitzerprize (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Over-the-Top Epidemic
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Source: Reuters: Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Women, Girls Equal Partners in HIV Responses, Says Activist
Tendayi Westerhof was one of the first celebrities in Zimbabwe to disclose their HIV-positive status. By Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, Feb 14 2024 (IPS) UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, recently made an impassioned call for governments to support women and girls from marginalized communities at the frontlines of the defence of human rights, to help ensure, among others, that global health is protected.
This comes as the latest data from UNAIDS shows that:
Globally, 46% of all new HIV infections were among women and girls in 2022
In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) accounted for more than 77% of ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 14, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: Africa Aid Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Federal Government will start PAYING off people's rent in two states starting this YEAR under new $1.5billion Medicaid pilot program
US States will soon begin paying for residents' housing using federal healthcare funding in hopes it will help curb America's homeless epidemic , which has reached a record high. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Man Has Died From Alaskapox. Here ’s What We Know About the Virus
Alaska’s health department reports that the first person in the state has died from a recently discovered virus called Alaskapox.
The elderly man—who was immunocompromised due to cancer treatments—first noticed an unusual lesion in his right armpit last September, according to Alaska health officials who spoke to TIME about the case. He was prescribed antibiotics at his local emergency room on the Kenai Peninsula, but after multiple visits and a worsening, painful infection, he was transferred to a hospital in Anchorage.
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The patient tested positive for ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
C.D.C. Considers Ending 5-Day Isolation Period for Covid
Americans may be advised that it ’s safe to return to regular routines after one day without a fever. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Quarantines Disease Rates Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Masks Deaths (Fatalities) Epidemics Influenza Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Source Type: news
DHS Awards Grants from JUUL Settlement Funds to Prevent and Treat Vaping by Youth and Young Adults
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has awarded 13 grants worth $830,000 over the next two years to community organizations throughout Wisconsin to help address the youth and young adult vaping epidemic. Funding for the Vaping Prevention and Treatment Initiatives (VPTI) grants comes from current payments to Wisconsin as part of a $14.7 million multiyear JUUL Settlement announced by the Wisconsin Department of Justice in September 2022. The DHS Tobacco Prevention and Control Program...(see release)lucy.pepinFebruary 13, 2024 (Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases)
Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases - February 13, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: lucy.pepin Source Type: news
EQT, Denis Ladegaillerie, and TCV launch $1.64 billion takeover bid for Believe
Will Believe be privately owned by the summer? That’s the hope of a new consortium, which today (February 12) has announced a takeover bid worth EUR €1.523 billion (USD $1.64 billion) for 100% of the company’s shares. The consortium brings together three parties: Existing Believe shareholders TCV…#willbelieve #eur1523billion #denisladegaillerie #chairmanceo #swedish #epidemicsound #unitedtalentagency #tcv #pariseuronext #tcvluxcobdsàrl (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Disaster after disaster: the outbreak of infectious diseases in Pakistan in the wake of 2022 floods - Alied M, Salam A, Sediqi SM, Kwaah PA, Tran L, Huy NT.
In June 2022, Pakistan witnessed catastrophic floods, affecting millions of people. The ensuing epidemics of cholera, cryptosporidiosis, rotavirus infections, generalized diarrhoea, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, as well as the frequency of vector-borne d... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Frightening maps show how deadly fungal diseases are surging across the US - as Michigan woman reveals lung-destroying strain has killed TWO of her relatives
The death of a Michigan chef to a fungal infection has shone a light on a silent epidemic that has been growing in America for years. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Long COVID: Another Great Pretender Long COVID: Another Great Pretender
The epidemic of syphilis reminds many experienced physicians of its ability to mimic myriad other diseases. Is long COVID another great imitator?Medscape Internal Medicine (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - February 9, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news
