A 'skinny jab' is no quick fix for obesity - and no excuse to let junk food companies off the hook | Sarah Boseley
Rather than board the injection bandwagon, Britain should be taxing unhealthy food and clamping down on marketingHumankind has been freed from the threat of disease by some wonderful, transformative inventions, from smallpox injections to the Covid vaccinations. With all due respect, I don ’t think the so-called skinny jab is one of them.A boom in injectable weight-loss drugs,such as Wegovy from the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, a biological type 2 diabetes medication containing semaglutide, has promised to revolutionise obesity treatment in recent months. For some people with serious obesity-related health c...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 25, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Obesity Society Diets and dieting Pharmaceuticals industry Drugs Food & drink industry Health Science NHS National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Source Type: news
White House budget includes ambitious push to eliminate hepatitis C
The Biden administration's fiscal year 2024 budget proposal, announced yesterday, aims to eliminate hepatitis C from the United States by creating a nationwide program to fight the disease. If funded by Congress, the 5-year, $11.3 billion program would expand testing, broaden access to powerful antiviral drugs, and boost awareness.
“I can’t really recall a circumstance quite like this, where we have the chance to do something this groundbreaking, so we just have to figure out how to make it work,” Francis Collins, acting science adviser to President Joe Biden and former head of the National Institutes of Health...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Mpox Information Outreach Awardee Projects
NNLM Region 6 is excited to share the 3 awardees selected for the Mpox Information Outreach Award. This award will provide funding to organizations for the purpose of providing communities most at risk for mpox with high quality information about mpox. The award is intended to increase health equity through outreach and engagement.
What is mpox (previously referred to as Monkeypox*)? Mpox is a rare but potentially serious disease that is caused by the mpox virus. Mpox virus is from the same family of viruses as the smallpox virus. However, it less severe and transmissible than smallpox. Learn more about mpox, how it spread...
Source: The Cornflower - February 22, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog awards mpox Source Type: news
Mpox in Patient Immunized with ACAM2000 Smallpox Vaccine Mpox in Patient Immunized with ACAM2000 Smallpox Vaccine
A patient contracted mpox despite having previously received a smallpox vaccine. Why was infection not prevented in this case?Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - February 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
What Fauci Knew About Vaccine Ineffectiveness... And When
Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), What if Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have gotten you and I blocked and banned at any point in the last three years? That just happened. His…#jeffreyatucker #epochtimes #anthonyfauci #vaccines #smallpox #fda #fbi #nonamericans #fauci #rsv (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
2022 human monkeypox outbreak: Clinical review and management guidance
Conclusion There are no FDA-approved treatments for monkeypox infection. Surveillance and detection of monkeypox among high-risk populations should be implemented to help understand the epidemiology of this disease. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Eleven science stories likely to make big news in 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its fourth year as a global health emergency, researchers will continue pushing to help make the disease manageable and ordinary. They will track hundreds of subvariants of Omicron, the highly transmissible but seemingly less lethal strain of SARSCoV-2 that dominated in 2022. Virologists will watch the virus’ evolution this year to see whether it has finally slowed or a more dangerous variant pops up, evading much of the immunity that humanity has built up to previous ones. Vaccine researchers hope to develop new shots that provide broad protection against a variety of coronaviruses. Ano...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 4, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Living Another Year Dangerously
By Anis ChowdhurySYDNEY, Jan 2 2023 (IPS) 2022 has been a year of great uncertainty when it seemed the world perilously reached the brink of self-destruction – be it human-induced climate change or military conflict. Welcoming 2022, we had enough reasons to be optimistic; but it was another ‘year of living dangerously’ – Tahun vivere pericoloso in the words of Soekarno, or an annus horribilis in the words of the late Queen Elizabeth.
Anis ChowdhuryNo end to Covid-19
The joy of the COVID vaccine discovery quickly vanished as the ‘vaccine apartheid‘ blatantly prioritised lives in rich nations, especially...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Economy & Trade Environment Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Keep The Flu Away In A Time Of “ Twindemics ”
Flu season is here, and the CDC has shifted into overdrive…pushing you to get your flu vaccine as soon as possible.
Once again, they’re insisting it’s more important than ever because of Covid.
Flu shots have an unquestioned reputation. The message from the medical establishment is that you need to ignore any vaccines’ potential adverse effects.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist…
In a moment, I’ll show you ways to bolster your native immunity so you can enjoy optimal health year-round. But first, for my new readers, let me tell you why I’ll never get a flu shot.
Unlike some of my colleagues i...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - December 23, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Health Source Type: news
Monkeypox as an emerging infectious disease: the ophthalmic implications
The 2022 outbreak of monkeypox is of worldwide significance. There has been a rapid escalation in case numbers despite efforts to contain it and the WHO has declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. To date, over 51 257 laboratory-confirmed cases have been reported, the majority in non-endemic countries, with 3279 in the UK. It is vital for ophthalmologists to understand this disease and the risk it poses. Human monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a double-stranded DNA virus in the Orthopoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family. Other orthopoxviruses include variola (smallpox)...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Gene Editing Could Help Solve the Problem of Poor Cholesterol
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and around the world. Though it’s held the top spot for decades, it wasn’t always the king of mortal maladies. Its ascension was propelled by two of medical science’s greatest successes.
“Before the 20th century, heart disease was an uncommon cause of death,” says Dr. Michael Shapiro, a professor of cardiology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Bacterial infections such as tuberculosis and dysentery, as well as smallpox and other contagious viruses, were common killers. “Antibiotics and vaccines changed every...
Source: TIME: Health - December 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
WHO Renames Monkeypox as mpox, Citing Racism Concerns
LONDON — The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.
The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox, saying that both monkeypox and mpox would be used for the next year while the old name is phased out.
WHO said it was concerned by the “racist and stigmatizing language” that arose after monkeypox spread to more than 100 countries. It said numerous individuals and countries asked the organization “to propose a way f...
Source: TIME: Health - November 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox wire Source Type: news
Makers of monkeypox drugs face a rash of orders
Defeating a worldwide outbreaks falls on two small drugmakers Monkeypox isn’t covid-19. Since May the viral disease has infected 35,000 people in 92 countries, less than one-tenth as many as covid infects in a day. Though symptoms, including fever,…#bavariannordic #nordic #bavarian #monkeypox #smallpox #drug #rash #vaccine #monkeypoxdrugs #henrikjuuel (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Great leaps forward in vaccine history | Letter
Lucy Wardon the roles played by Edward Jenner and Thomas Dimsdale in the development of inoculation against diseaseYour article on challenge trials raises fascinating questions, as the world seeks to address the risk of new pandemics (Should we give people diseases in order to learn how to cure them?, 31 October). It refers to Edward Jenner, who did indeed “challenge” his patient James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy he had test-inoculated with cowpox (the process that would become known as vaccination), by subsequently having him inoculated with live smallpox to ensure he was immune to the disease. However, by the time...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 4, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Letters Tags: Medical research Immunology Science Source Type: news
Should we give people diseases in order to learn how to cure them?
With the right ethical safeguards, could ‘challenge trials’ defend against future pandemics?In the 1770s an English doctor called Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids didn ’t seem to catch smallpox, the terrifying disease that caused around a third of the people who caught it to die. He thought that their frequent exposure to cowpox, a similar but less severe virus, might be what protected them. In order to test his hypothesis he gave his gardener’s eight-year-old son cowpox and thendeliberately infected him with smallpox to see if he had become immune. He had, and Jenner successfully repeated the experiment. “Va...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 31, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Saloni Dattani Tags: Science and nature books Culture Immunology Medical research Source Type: news
