Uptick seen in mpox cases in Chicago
While the mpox outbreak has been waning since last summer, it hasn't disappeared yet.
May 9, 2023
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Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services: News and Research on Vaccination
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Results of research study aimed at understanding spread of COVID-19 across a Texas community
Results from the Waco COVID Survey have provided needed insights into how the dynamics of COVID-19 transmission, health behaviors and COVID-19-related attitudes changed across the first two years of the pandemic in the McLennan ...
May 9, 2023
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COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency. What that means (and what we've learned along the way)
World Health Organization (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO's new strategy to transition from an ...
May 8, 2023
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WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?
The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, saying it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The action reverses a declaration that was first made on January 30, 2020, ...
May 5, 2023
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Targeting nurse and patient 'supercontactors' in health care facilities can help minimize spread of infectious diseases
New research presented at this week's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (Copenhagen, April 15-18) shows how interventions focused on so-called "supercontactors" in hospitals and other long term ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Pathway for 'difficult to vaccinate' children and adolescents empowers families and staff
For almost 100 families, the "Difficult to Vaccinate" clinical pathway has transformed their child's immunization journey from one that is challenging to one that can empower.
Apr 12, 2023
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Early in mpox outbreak, access to vaccines was unequal across racial groups
In August 2022, U.S. health officials declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) a public health emergency. At that time, however, the national supply of the approved preventative treatment—the smallpox/mpox vaccine Jynneos—was ...
Apr 10, 2023
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Long COVID puts some people at higher risk of heart disease. They need better long-term monitoring, says researcher
Lasting damage to the heart and brain is an aspect of long COVID that should receive much more attention than it has so far. We have sufficient evidence now to call for ongoing monitoring of individuals across the population.
Mar 30, 2023
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Flu boosts short-term odds for heart attack 6-fold
Getting the flu isn't fun for many reasons, but it can also trigger a heart attack, a new study suggests.
Mar 29, 2023
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High humidity and low temperature altered the spread of COVID-19 in Brazil, but only slightly, shows study
Weather has long been known to affect the spread of common colds and flus. Temperature and humidity can influence how viruses fly through the air, how long they remain infectious outside the human body, and how susceptible ...
Mar 29, 2023
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