PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY: Yes, long Covid DOES exist, but too many people have wrongly been told they have it
PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY: The one - and fortunately only - time I got Covid I felt awful: exhausted, coughing, sore throat and all my muscles ached. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What a Doctor Is Seeing In COVID-19 Today
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have been on the rise since the beginning of July. Then came the identification of the heavily mutated and possibly highly-transmissible BA.2.86 variant by the global surveillance network. Such a variant has the potential to evade our vaccine- and infection-induced antibodies and cause a surge of seasonal hospitalizations. The recommendation by the FDA’s VRBPAC in June that the Fall updated vaccine be composed of an XBB-lineage of the Omicron variant appeared to be at risk. There was mounting concern we be faced with a similar situation from last year where the virus had already mutated ...
Source: TIME: Health - September 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michael Daignault Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance Source Type: news
Is It Flu, COVID-19, or RSV? How to Navigate the New World of At-Home Testing
Before COVID-19, figuring out whether a sore throat, fever, and runny nose were caused by a cold, flu, or strep wasn’t a top priority. You either powered through, knowing you’d be miserable for a few days but would probably feel better soon or you visited the doctor’s office, urgent care, or emergency room where you might get a test to figure out which virus or bacteria was behind your misery, and maybe a prescription to treat it. But even doctors often don’t order tests, preferring instead to make diagnoses based on symptoms.
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During the pandemic, how...
Source: TIME: Health - September 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How Many Diphtheria Vaccines are Currently Licensed in the US?
Discussion
Diphtheria is caused by the toxin produced by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Two other Corynebacterium species (C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis) may produce diphtheria toxin; both species are zoonotic. Diphtheria is spread by respiratory droplets and also contact with open ulcers or sores. Incubation period is 1-10 days with a usual period of 2-5 days. The bacteria attacks the respiratory tract mucosa causing cellular death which in turn causes a “pseudomembrane” of tissue to build up causing respiratory distress and possible death due to airway obstruction (5-10% for general population but up to...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 25, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Antibiotics Destroy Memories?
Even in my earliest days of practicing medicine, I was never a big fan of prescribing antibiotics – except, of course, in cases of extreme or life-threatening infections.
Because even back then, I was concerned about the damage these drugs could cause to your gut.
That’s because trillions of microscopic bacteria – some that protect against certain diseases and some that can cause disease – live in your microbiome and exist in a delicate balance with each other.
The problem is that antibiotics can’t distinguish between so-called “good” bacteria and the “bad” ones causing the infection.
These drugs kill eve...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 19, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news
Doctors admit they can't tell Covid apart from allergies or the common cold anymore - highlighting how mild virus has become
Patients with the virus are now most likely to suffer from a sore throat, sneezing or congestion - similar to those with RSV , asthma or a pollen allergy. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This May Be Why Some People Don ’ t Get COVID-19 Symptoms
About three-quarters of people in the U.S. have had COVID-19 at least once, according to the latest federal estimates—but, if they were asymptomatic, some of them might not realize it.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, researchers have tried to understand why some people who are infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus never experience telltale symptoms like a cough, sore throat, or fever. A new study, published July 19 in Nature, offers one possible explanation: it’s thanks to a quirk of their genes.
Genes that are part of what’s known as the HLA complex help the body identify proteins made by pathogens, such...
Source: TIME: Health - July 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Could Your Genes Guard You From the Symptoms of COVID Infection?
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 -- In the world of COVID-19 infections, the majority of patients develop symptoms, while about one-fifth mysteriously don’t develop a cough, sore throat or other tell-tale signs of illness.
Now, new research finds... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
For Many Cities Around The World, Bad Air Is An Inescapable Part of Life
(WASHINGTON) — Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death.
Almost the entire world breathes air that exceeds the World Health Organization’s air-quality limits at least occasionally. The danger grows worse when that bad air is more persistent than the nightmarish shroud that hit the U.S. — usually in developing or newly industrialized nations. That’s where most of the 4.2 million deaths blamed on out...
Source: TIME: Health - June 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SUMAN NAISHADHAM/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change Environmental Health extreme weather healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Ghana: Time to Convert COVID-19 Fund Into a Public Health Emergency Fund
[Ghanaian Times] What started as a mere sore throat and cough was later to affect his ability to communicate for months until a third hospital he visited confirmed a diagnosis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 8, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Worse than a cold, not as bad as RSV: Meet HMPV, the virus making people sick this spring
A virus that causes symptoms similar to that of a cold, the flu, and Covid-19 has seen an upsurge in the US, leading to the hospitalisation of a record number of young children and older people. Runny nose, dry cough, sore throat and fever: the combination of these symptoms would immediately be…#cdc #johnvwilliams #rsv #hmpv #dutch #netherlands #avian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
40% of Food Illness Outbreaks Are Linked to Sick Restaurant Workers
Sick restaurant and food-store workers were linked to four in 10 U.S. foodborne disease outbreaks in recent years, yet few establishments had comprehensive policies in place to prevent contamination, a government analysis found.
Food workers’ illnesses may have played a role in some 200 outbreaks from 2017 through 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. Ailing workers touching ready-to-eat food with bare hands alone was linked to 14% of cases. Other, unspecified types of contact by food workers suspected of harboring infections were linked to more than 100 cases.
Roughly one in six A...
Source: TIME: Health - May 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ilena Peng/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire healthscienceclimate Public Health Source Type: news
I couldn't shake a sore throat for months and it turned out to be CANCER
Steve Bergman, now 63, began to suffer a string of colds in his mid-50s and had pain down the side of his neck. Doctors in London, UK, diagnosed him with stage four throat cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
England ’s Pharmacies To Prescribe Certain Drugs To Reduce Pressure On Doctors
Community chemists will give out the contraceptive pill as well as treatments for earache, sore throat, impetigo, shingles, infected insect bites, sinusitis and uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - May 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katherine Hignett, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
