Overview of U.S. COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance systems
This report describes the U.S. government's COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring systems and programs used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Indian Health Service. Using the adverse event of myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination as a model, we demonstrate how the multiple, complementary monitoring systems worked to rapidly detect, assess, and verify a vaccine safety signal. In addition, longer-term follow-up was conducted to evaluate the recovery status of myocarditis cases following vaccin...
Source: Vaccine - April 17, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Julianne Gee Tom T Shimabukuro John R Su David Shay Margaret Ryan Sridhar V Basavaraju Karen R Broder Matthew Clark C Buddy Creech Francesca Cunningham Kristin Goddard Harrison Guy Kathryn M Edwards Richard Forshee Tanya Hamburger Anne M Hause Nicola P Kl Source Type: research
Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections and Associated Risk Factors Among School Children in Dembecha Town, Ethiopia
This study aimed to determine the prevalence of STH infections and associated risk factors among three government elementary schools in Dembecha town, Ethiopia. We conducted a school-based cross-sectional study involving 316 participants between November 2019 and March 2020. A systematic random sampling method was used to select study participants from the study schools. Data related to the sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants and risk factors for STH infections were collected using a pretested questionnaire survey. Parasitological examinations of stool samples were performed using the formal-ether co...
Source: Environmental Health Insights - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Aleka Aemiro Sissay Menkir Abayeneh Girma Source Type: research
A comprehensive examination of temporal-seasonal variations of PM < sub > 1.0 < /sub > and PM < sub > 2.5 < /sub > in taiwan before and during the COVID-19 lockdown
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33174-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCOVID-19 has been a significant global concern due to its contagious nature. In May 2021, Taiwan experienced a severe outbreak, leading the government to enforce strict Pandemic Alert Level 3 restrictions in order to curtail its spread. Although previous studies in Taiwan have examined the effects of these measures on air quality, further research is required to compare different time periods and assess the health implications of reducing particulate matter during the Level 3 lockdown. Herein, we analyzed the mass concen...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shahzada Amani Room Yi Chen Chiu Shih Yu Pan Yu-Cheng Chen Ta-Chih Hsiao Charles C-K Chou Majid Hussain Kai Hsien Chi Source Type: research
Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections and Associated Risk Factors Among School Children in Dembecha Town, Ethiopia
This study aimed to determine the prevalence of STH infections and associated risk factors among three government elementary schools in Dembecha town, Ethiopia. We conducted a school-based cross-sectional study involving 316 participants between November 2019 and March 2020. A systematic random sampling method was used to select study participants from the study schools. Data related to the sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants and risk factors for STH infections were collected using a pretested questionnaire survey. Parasitological examinations of stool samples were performed using the formal-ether co...
Source: Environmental Health Insights - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Aleka Aemiro Sissay Menkir Abayeneh Girma Source Type: research
Overview of U.S. COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance systems
This report describes the U.S. government's COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring systems and programs used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Indian Health Service. Using the adverse event of myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination as a model, we demonstrate how the multiple, complementary monitoring systems worked to rapidly detect, assess, and verify a vaccine safety signal. In addition, longer-term follow-up was conducted to evaluate the recovery status of myocarditis cases following vaccin...
Source: Vaccine - April 17, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Julianne Gee Tom T Shimabukuro John R Su David Shay Margaret Ryan Sridhar V Basavaraju Karen R Broder Matthew Clark C Buddy Creech Francesca Cunningham Kristin Goddard Harrison Guy Kathryn M Edwards Richard Forshee Tanya Hamburger Anne M Hause Nicola P Kl Source Type: research
Intervention diversity predicts social rehabilitation indicators at discharge in Therapeutic Communities
The Therapeutic Community Model narrows the gap in substance use disorder's network of assistance in Brazil by offering residential treatment to socially vulnerable populations. Due to a historical lack of evidence-based approaches, the government has established treatment guidelines and has been trying to implement training and monitoring methods. (Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment)
Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - April 17, 2024 Category: Addiction Authors: K átia Isicawa de Sousa Barreto, Clarice Sandi Madruga, André Constantino Miguel, Crystal Smith, Gleuda Simone Apolinário, Guilherme Sabino de Godoy Filho, Lucas Roncati Guirado, Pablo Andres Kurlander, Sterling McPherson, Ronaldo Ramos Laranjeira Source Type: research
Plans to expand African vaccine production face steep hurdles
In March 2022, when the pandemic was still raging, the messenger RNA (mRNA) company Moderna announced it would build a $500 million plant in Kenya to manufacture half a billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine annually. “
This is major
,” Kenyan President William Ruto said at the time. The plant would help reduce Africa’s dependence on vaccines produced elsewhere, Ruto said—a situation that had turned disastrous during the pandemic—and bring economic benefits as well.
But Moderna may never break ground on the Kenya factory. On 11 April, the company said it had
“paused its efforts”
becau...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Young toads are teaching Australian lizards to avoid deadly snacks
Releasing 200,000 eggs and young of a toxic invasive species might seem to be a sure way to make a bad situation worse. But by doing just that in Western Australia, conservation biologists have begun to rescue the region’s largest lizard.
Yellow spotted monitor lizards usually die after eating a single adult cane toad, an introduced pest with toxic skin secretions that has wreaked havoc on Australia’s native wildlife. But if these lizards first taste the species’ young, which are only slightly toxic, the predators learn to avoid eating the lethal adults. As a result,
they survive even after a wave of adult...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Cervical cancer screening outcomes for HIV-positive women in the Lubombo and Manzini regions of Eswatini-Prevalence and predictors of a positive visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) screen
This study aimed to describe the prevalence and predictors of a positive VIA (visual inspection with acetic acid) cervical cancer screening test in women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We retrospectively analysed data from women aged ≥15 who accessed VIA screening from health facilities in the Lubombo and Manzini regions of Eswatini. Sociodemographic and clinical data from October 2020 to June 2023 were extracted from the client management information system (CMIS). VIA screening outcome was categorised into negative, positive, or suspicious. A logistic regression model estimated the adjusted odds ratio ...
Source: Cancer Control - April 16, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Rufaro Mapaona Victor Williams Normusa Musarapasi Sharon Kibwana Thokozani Maseko Rhinos Chekenyere Sidumo Gumbo Phetsile Mdluli Hugben Byarugaba Dileepa Galagedera Arnold Mafukidze Alejandra Hurtado-de-Mendoza Prajakta Adsul Pido Bongomin Christopher Lof Source Type: research
Researchers need ‘open’ bibliographic databases, new declaration says
When universities are deciding whom to hire and promote, or grant organizations are selecting projects to fund, there’s a good chance they’re referencing more than just the application materials. Many organizations rely on databases that compile publication information including authors, affiliations, citations, and funding sources to create metrics meant to quantify a researcher’s productivity and the quality of their work.
Some of the best known databases, such as the Web of Science and Scopus, are proprietary and offer pay-to-access data and services supporting these and other metrics, including university r...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Privatisation of government services in Australia: what is known about health and equity impacts
Historically in Australia, all levels of government created collective wealth by owning and operating infrastructure, and managing natural assets, key public goods and essential services while being answerable... (Source: Globalization and Health)
Source: Globalization and Health - April 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Julia Anaf, Toby Freeman and Fran Baum Tags: Research Source Type: research
US COVID-origins hearing puts scientific journals in the hot seat
Nature, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01129-xPoliticians spar over whether academic publishers colluded with government scientists to suppress the lab-leak hypothesis. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - April 16, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Max Kozlov Source Type: research
Effects of COVID-19 vaccine safety framing on parental reactions
by Hao Tan, Jiayan Liu, Yingli Zhang
As a major concern shared by parents globally, COVID-19 vaccine safety is typically being messaged to the public in a negative frame in many countries. However, whether the COVID-19 vaccine safety framing have an effect on parents when vaccinating their children is unclear. Here we implement an on line survey with a convenience sample of 3,861 parents living in mainland China, all over 18 years old and with at least one child under 18. The parents were randomly assigned to receive information about COVID-19 vaccine safety in either a negative frame (incidence of side effects) or a posi...
Source: PLoS One - April 16, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Hao Tan Source Type: research
Partnerships in the recovery planning process: lessons from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and Irma
Partnerships in the recovery planning process: lessons from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and Irma Ashlyn Tom, Alice Kim Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- To assess which partnerships were most critical during the recovery planning process following Hurricanes Maria and Irma. We discuss the roles and impact of different types of partners, barriers and facilitators to partnerships and lessons in collaboration during the development of the economic and disaster recovery plan for Puerto Rico.The Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) was tasked with assisting...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashlyn Tom Alice Kim Source Type: research
Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
J Rheumatol. 2024 Apr 15:jrheum.2024-0302. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.2024-0302. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the contemporary healthcare climate, we are acutely aware that our resources are finite. This is particularly pertinent in government-funded healthcare settings, where clinical teams often face the challenge of meeting increasing patient demand with static or dwindling capacity.1-4.PMID:38621794 | DOI:10.3899/jrheum.2024-0302 (Source: J Rheumatol)
Source: J Rheumatol - April 15, 2024 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Edward Alveyn James Galloway Laura C Coates Source Type: research
