North Carolina confirms its first measles case
North Carolina has its first case of measles this year, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday.
Jun 25, 2025
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Public Health: News and Research on Vaccination
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Measles cases are in 34 states with North Dakota now the focus
As super-contagious measles continues to spread and nears a six-year U.S. record, cases in its original epicenter of West Texas may be subsiding as hesitant residents become more concerned and willing to vaccinate, while ...
Jun 16, 2025
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Assessing ceiling of care impact on mortality across four COVID-19 epidemic waves
Researchers from the Biostatistics Unit at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) have led a study, published in BMJ Open, which analyzes how in-hospital mortality evolved during four waves of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Jun 9, 2025
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Game theory explains why reasonable parents make vaccine choices that fuel outbreaks
When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it's easy to conclude that parents who don't vaccinate their children are misguided, selfish or have ...
Jun 5, 2025
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Europe suffers its largest diphtheria outbreak in 70 years
The largest diphtheria outbreak to strike Western Europe in 70 years has been affecting vulnerable people such as migrants and the homeless since 2022, new research said Wednesday.
Jun 5, 2025
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Public health study explores how vaccines may help prevent hearing loss in children
Over 1.5 billion people worldwide are affected by some degree of hearing loss. While it is often linked to aging, a lesser-known but significant cause is infections contracted during childhood and adolescence, many of which ...
Jun 3, 2025
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RFK Jr. says autism 'destroys' families. Here's what those families want you to know
Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems.
Jun 2, 2025
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Is dementia risk shaped by infectious diseases?
It may start with forgetfulness, lapses in memory and confusion.
Jun 2, 2025
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Sickle cell disease treatment algorithms make a difference and reduce hospital stays
The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an algorithm for treating children with sickle cell disease who present to the Emergency Department ...
May 28, 2025
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Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier
Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death ...
May 27, 2025
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