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Paxlovid as a potential treatment for long COVID
Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2023 Sep 21. doi: 10.1080/14656566.2023.2262387. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: On 31 July 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced the formation of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice and the United States National Institutes of Health opened enrollment for RECOVER-Vital, a randomized study to evaluate new treatment options for long Coronavirus (long COVID).AREAS COVERED: The RECOVER Initiative is a $1.15 billion research platform intended to describe, categorize, treat, and prevent long-term symptoms following infection by Severe Acute Res...
Source: Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy - September 21, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Matthew W McCarthy Source Type: research

Biden HHS Hits Wuhan Lab With 10-Year Funding Ban Amid Mounting Evidence Of Leak
The Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday that it has officially banned the Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving US funding for a decade, based on mounting…#bidenhhshits #wuhanlab #xavierbecerra #wiv #yanyiwang #anthonyfauci #nypost #hhs #nih #coronavirus
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Biden Administration Announces $600M to Produce No-Cost COVID Tests
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household — aiming to prevent possible shortages during a rise in coronavirus cases that has typically come during colder months. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and that no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service. Twe...
Source: TIME: Health - September 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized Biden Administration Source Type: news

Updated Covid-19 vaccine OK ’d, experts urge people to roll up their sleeves
Federal officials Tuesday approved an updated Covid-19 vaccine for use by anyone age 6 months or older, and health officials are urging people to get the shot amid a fall surge in cases. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 2,476 new cases of Covid-19 in the week ending Sept. 6, down from preceding weeks but still almost twice the number of infections as were reported in early July. While they caution that it is too early to call it a pattern with coronavirus, health officials say …
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 13, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Alexandria Cullen Source Type: news

South Africa: Citizens Urged to Vaccinate Amid Confirmed Case of Covid Eris Variant in Gauteng
[SAnews.gov.za] The National Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed the first case of the new COVID-19 "Eris" variant from a sample taken in Gauteng.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 18, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Coronavirus Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news

Government looks to extend pandemic vaccination rules
The government is looking to extend regulations introduced during the pandemic that enabled an expanded workforce, including nursing associates, to deliver a Covid-19 or flu vaccination. It said the move would help maintain ‘capacity and flexibility’ as the UK transitions out of the coronavirus pandemic. This week the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)... Read moreThe post Government looks to extend pandemic vaccination rules appeared first on Nursing in Practice.
Source: Nursing in Practice - August 10, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Wiliam Hunter Tags: Clinical Latest news Vaccinations and infections Source Type: news

What Happens When Private Equity Buys Your Doctor ’ s Office?
Private equity ownership of American health care facilities has grown massively in the last few decades. A 2021 study of U.S. hospice agencies found private equity ownership more than doubled, to 7%, between 2011 and 2019 while in 2021, 63% of deals in hospice and home care were with private equity. Twice as many companies providing fertility care were bought between 2017 and 2019 than in the previous seven years combined, according to a 2020 study. The trend of accelerating acquistion stretches overseas, as well, with international health care buyouts by private equity firms totaling $240 billion in 2021 and 2022, compare...
Source: TIME: Health - July 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

The Medicaid Meltdown: A Post-Pandemic Casualty in Need of Redress
It was on August 2, 2022 that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made it known that the national uninsurance rate stood at an all-time low of 8%.1 This remarkable development was chiefly attributable to the addition of over 15.5 million individuals to the national Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) rolls during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.1 These striking increments were principally attributable to the enactment of the “continuous enrollment provision” of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) on March 18, 2020.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - June 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Eli Y. Adashi, Daniel P. O'Mahony, Carmel Shachar Source Type: research

Dr. Mandy Cohen Selected As New CDC Head
NEW YORK — Dr. Mandy Cohen, a former North Carolina official, will be the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House announced Friday. Unlike the last two people to serve as head of the nation’s top federal public health agency, Cohen has prior experience running a government agency: She was secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services from 2017 until last year. Before that, she held health-related jobs at two federal agencies. “Dr. Cohen is one of the nation’s top physicians and health leaders with experience leading large and complex ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health wire Source Type: news

IJERPH, Vol. 20, Pages 5799: Retrospective Analysis of the Outcome of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients with Coexisting Metabolic Syndrome and HIV Using Multinomial Logistic Regression
ua Modjadji Globally, the coexistence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and HIV has become an important public health problem, putting coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) hospitalized patients at risk for severe manifestations and higher mortality. A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was conducted to identify factors and determine their relationships with hospitalization outcomes for COVID-19 patients using secondary data from the Department of Health in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study included 15,151 patient clinical records of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases. Data on MetS was extracted in the form of a cl...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - May 12, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Peter M. Mphekgwana Musa E. Sono-Setati Tania V. Mokgophi Yehenew G. Kifle Sphiwe Madiba Perpetua Modjadji Tags: Article Source Type: research

Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study
Am J Public Health. 2023 Mar 9:e1-e10. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307230. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTData System. The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) Study was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care in England to provide reliable and timely estimates of prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection over time, by person and place. Data Collection/Processing. The study team (researchers from Imperial College London and its logistics partner Ipsos) wrote to named individuals aged 5 years and older in random cross-sections of the population of England...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul Elliott Matthew Whitaker David Tang Oliver Eales Nicholas Steyn Barbara Bodinier Haowei Wang Joshua Elliott Christina Atchison Deborah Ashby Wendy Barclay Graham Taylor Ara Darzi Graham S Cooke Helen Ward Christl A Donnelly Steven Riley Marc Chadeau- Source Type: research