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Draft bill would ban CDC, NIH from funding lab research in China
A proposal moving through Congress to bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from funding research laboratories in China is sparking concern among scientists. If signed into law, the measure could cut off millions of dollars of U.S. funds flowing to collaborative research projects in several areas, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, mental health, and flu surveillance.
The proposed ban, part of a 2023 spending bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations on 30 June, grew out of suspicions among some lawmakers, so far unsupported b...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 12, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Mapping One Million COVID-19 Deaths and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviors in the United States: Recognizing the Syndemic Pattern and Taking Action
Tragically, the Unites States (US) surpassed one million documented deaths due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A convincing association between unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and poorer outcomes associated with COVID-19 infection has already been demonstrated and communicated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in public health messaging. The US is experiencing not a pandemic, but a syndemic, specifically an unhealthy lifestyle behaviors - chronic diseases - COVID-19 syndemic.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - July 8, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ross Arena, Nicolaas P Pronk, Deepika Laddu, Laurie P. Whitsel, James F. Sallis, Carl J Lavie, HL-PIVOT Network Tags: Review Source Type: research
New head of U.S. aid program for HIV/AIDS vows to refocus attention on the other, ‘silent’ pandemic
On 13 June, John Nkengasong, 58, was appointed the first African-born head of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that helps more than 50 countries respond to their HIV/AIDS epidemics. Nkengasong, who grew up in Cameroon and became a U.S. citizen in 2007, previously ran the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
PEPFAR is credited with helping save more than 20 million lives since its inception in 2003. It had a $10.7 billion budget in 2021, more than half of it spent on HIV treatment and care. The agency has relied on an acting director since Deborah Birx...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 5, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
A Clunky, Reusable Mask May be the Answer to N95 Waste
Experts say the U.S. government has unintentionally encouraged a dependency on imported masks by failing to promote elastomeric respirators, a reusable mask that is domestically produced.
Source: NYT Health - July 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Jacobs Tags: Masks Workplace Hazards and Violations Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Protective Clothing and Gear Hospitals Shortages Factories and Manufacturing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Source Type: news
Should parents get the Covid vaccine for kids under 5?
Parents of children under age 5 can finally get their kids the coronavirus vaccine. The US Food and Drug Administration and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have given the green light for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for young kids. Now, everyone ages 6 months and older is eligible for vaccination.
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kids under 5 can finally get the Covid-19 vaccine. What should parents consider?
Parents of children under age 5 can finally get their kids the coronavirus vaccine. The US Food and Drug Administration and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have given the green light for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for young kids. Now, everyone ages 6 months and older is eligible for vaccination.
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bad news for Paxlovid? Coronavirus can find multiple ways to evade COVID-19 drug
Prescriptions for Pfizer’s blockbuster drug Paxlovid have skyrocketed in recent weeks. That’s good news for many COVID-19 patients, as the pill has been proven to reduce severe disease from SARS-CoV-2 infections. But a bevy of new lab studies shows the coronavirus can mutate in ways that make it less susceptible to the drug, by far the most widely used of the two oral antiviral drugs authorized to treat COVID-19 in the United States. Researchers have found some of those mutations in variants already circulating in infected people, raising fresh concerns that physicians could soon lose one of their best therapies for fi...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 29, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have together become dominant in the U.S., the C.D.C. estimates.
The milestone comes less than six months since they were first detected in South Africa, and as the federal government considers an Omicron-specific booster dose for adults in the fall.
Source: NYT Health - June 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adeel Hassan Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Coronavirus Omicron Variant Vaccination and Immunization United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Source Type: news
Is the pediatric hepatitis outbreak real? A top WHO physician weighs in
It has been 3 months since the United Kingdom reported severe, unexplained hepatitis was sending young children to hospitals in unusual numbers. The initial handful of cases reported in Scotland on 31 March were soon joined by dozens and then hundreds, primarily from Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As of 22 June, the global total, from 33 countries, has swollen to
920 probable cases
, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on 24 June. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the same day that U.S. cases through 15 June
numbered 296
.
Yet after weeks of int...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - June 28, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The C.D.C. recommends Moderna ’s vaccine as an option for children and teens aged 6 through 17.
Pfizer-BioNTech ’s Covid vaccine has been available to children 5 through 15 since last year and to Americans 16 and older since late 2020.
Source: NYT Health - June 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Teenagers and Adolescence Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Moderna Inc Walensky, Rochelle Source Type: news
What to Know About the Latest Advances in Managing Severe Asthma
Graphs and charts don’t always tell the whole story. Numbers can be deceiving. But anyone who looks at U.S. trends in asthma mortality can see, without squinting, that things are moving in the right direction.
A 2019 analysis in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found that from 1999 to 2015, asthma mortality fell by 43%. “The decrease in asthma-related mortality was consistent in both sexes and in all race groups, with the largest decrease in patients older than 65 years,” the authors concluded. Figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the...
Source: TIME: Health - June 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized Disease freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Advisers to the C.D.C. recommend Moderna ’s vaccine for children and teens aged 6 through 17.
Pfizer-BioNTech ’s Covid vaccine has been available to children 5 through 15 since last year and to Americans 16 and older since late 2020.
Source: NYT Health - June 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Teenagers and Adolescence Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Moderna Inc Walensky, Rochelle Source Type: news
When Should You Use Home COVID-19 Tests? Here ’s What the Experts Say
Carlos del Rio does not mess around when it comes to the health of his 87-year-old mother. Even when he doesn’t feel sick, a day before he plans to visit her, the professor of infectious disease at Emory University in Atlanta takes a home COVID-19 test. The next day, he tests again the moment he enters her house. “I want to minimize the risk that I’m infected as much as possible before I see her,” del Rio says.
It doesn’t take an infectious disease specialist to know that an 87-year-old is a high-risk person, but dual-testing the way del Rio does is not in any formal protocol for how to intera...
Source: TIME: Health - June 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
C.D.C. Recommends Vaccines for Young Children
A scientific panel endorsed the shots despite reservations about the paucity of data, and the C.D.C. director quickly endorsed the decision.
Source: NYT Health - June 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Food and Drug Administration Moderna Inc Pfizer Inc United States Source Type: news
Covid Vaccines for Children Under 5 Are Coming, but Many Parents Have Questions
The vaccines seem safe for children and are likely to protect against severe illness. But data on efficacy are thin, and most children have already been infected.
Source: NYT Health - June 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Clinical Trials Parenting Pfizer Inc BioNTech SE Moderna Inc Centers for Disease Control and Prevention United States your-feed-science Source Type: news
