CDC Monitoring Rare Neurologic Events After RSV Vaccination
(MedPage Today) -- Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) cases following respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination in adults 60 and up appeared slightly elevated compared with expected rates, though on the population level the vaccine&rsquo... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - February 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Measurable Cognitive Deficits Linked to Long COVID
(MedPage Today) -- Measurable cognitive deficits persisted after SARS-CoV-2 infection, a large observational study in England showed.
People with COVID symptoms that lasted 12 weeks or longer (i.e., long COVID) had greater deficits in global cognition... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - February 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Pfizer Says Its RSV Shot Is Protective Through a Second Year Pfizer Says Its RSV Shot Is Protective Through a Second Year
Pfizer on Thursday said a single dose of its new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine Abrysvo maintained its ability to protect against the illness through a second...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - February 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Fired scientists in Canada failed to acknowledge links to China, newly released records say
Two scientists at a high-security infectious disease laboratory in Canada lost their jobs after security reviews found they failed to protect sensitive material and information and did not acknowledge links with China, newly released records show (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Cognitive Deficits Post-COVID Range From 3-9 IQ Point Loss Cognitive Deficits Post-COVID Range From 3-9 IQ Point Loss
COVID-19 –related cognitive deficits in severe cases were equivalent to a 9-point drop in IQ, new data show, with most deficits in memory, reasoning, and executive function.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - February 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Source Type: news
Fired scientists in Canada failed to protect sensitive information, newly released records say
Two scientists at a high-security infectious disease laboratory in Canada lost their jobs after security reviews found they failed to protect sensitive assets and information, newly released records show (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Britain Seeks'urgent Reversal' Of Fall in Childhood Vaccination Rates Britain Seeks'urgent Reversal' Of Fall in Childhood Vaccination Rates
Britain will on Thursday launch a drive to boost childhood vaccination rates, health authorities said, seeking an " urgent reversal " to a fall in uptake as the country faces...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - February 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Scientist fired from Winnipeg disease lab intentionally worked to benefit China: CSIS report
One of the scientists who was fired from Canada's top infectious disease laboratory "intentionally" shared scientific information with China — potentially putting people's health in jeopardy, says an assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Politics Source Type: news
Killer fungi detectives: inside the lab that may be fighting the next pandemic
Researchers in Adelaide are at the forefront of finding new fungal pathogens, which are spreading more because of climate change and can be deadly without effective drugsThe first tray of yellow-lidded specimen jars holds chunks of flesh – lung, perhaps, or muscle – some cerebrospinal fluid and another liquid, possibly from a brain abscess. The second holds a rainbow of colourful fungi, cultivated from those specimens.One growth is green and fluffy, like something you would find in a sharehouse fridge – penicillium, maybe. Another is a dark grey or brown, like animal fur. There are bright white fuzzballs and blackish...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 28, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Tory Shepherd Tags: Fungi Biology Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science Australia news Adelaide Health South Australia Source Type: news
Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment
Paul Edmonds of California is fifth-known person in world confirmed to be in remission from both, says cancer instituteDoctors say a man inCalifornia who contracted blood cancer while living with HIV is in remission from both potentially fatal illnesses thanks to a treatment they are hailing as remarkable and encouraging.Paul Edmonds is only the fifth-known person in the world confirmed to be in remission for both acute myelogenous leukemia and HIV, according to a recentnews release from City of Hope, the national cancer institute that provided his medical care.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 28, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Ramon Antonio Vargas Tags: US news Infectious diseases Medical research Aids and HIV Cancer research California World news Science Source Type: news
Sure Looks Like Cannabis Is Bad for the Heart, Doesn't It? Sure Looks Like Cannabis Is Bad for the Heart, Doesn't It?
Dr F. Perry Wilson takes a closer look at the findings of a cross-sectional study of marijuana use and subsequent heart attack and stroke in adults.Medscape (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - February 28, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news
Biological Sex Differences: Key to Understanding Long COVID? Biological Sex Differences: Key to Understanding Long COVID?
New evidence continues to suggest a complicated link between sex hormone fluctuation and immune dysfunction in long COVID.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 28, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Sinusitis Tied to Later Autoimmune Disease
(MedPage Today) -- A history of sinus congestion and drip may be a precursor to serious autoimmune disorders, a population-based study suggested.
Rates of rheumatologic conditions including antiphospholipid syndrome and Sjögren's disease... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - February 28, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases 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
From COVID-19 to Measles, Florida ’ s War on Public Health
The culture of public health and medicine rests on open discussions in which different points of view are considered for the betterment of patient care and health. This process depends on psychological safety so individuals feel free and safe to speak and openly disagree. These factors collectively create a just culture, which improves systems and organizations and is being widely implemented in healthcare nationwide.
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However, in the face of politicized anti-science and anti-expert sentiment and attacks, we need to ask if just culture is being restricted in public health. Fo...
Source: TIME: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Scott A. Rivkees Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
