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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Lebanon announces first cholera case in almost 30 years

Lebanon's health ministry on Thursday announced the crisis-hit country's first case of cholera in decades.

Oct 6, 2022

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Medications

ADHD drug Adderall in short supply

Labor shortages at Teva Pharmaceuticals have made Adderall, a widely used attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug, hard to find in some drugstores.

Aug 29, 2022

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Pediatrics

Factory at center of baby formula recall will produce Similac again soon

Roughly six months after it shut down its baby formula plant in Michigan, Abbott Laboratories said it plans to begin making Similac again.

Aug 29, 2022

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Medical research

New clinical symptoms identified in largest international case series of confirmed monkeypox cases

A case series which is the result of an international collaboration across 16 countries is published today (21 July 2022) in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The study identifies new clinical symptoms of monkeypox ...

Jul 21, 2022

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Medical economics

Staffing shortages have US nursing homes in crisis

There's a shortage of nursing home beds for the elderly in America due to a severe staffing crisis that has caused long-term care facilities to cut back on new admissions, new research shows.

Jun 29, 2022

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Beijing delays school reopenings after new COVID outbreak

Most children in Beijing will not return to school next week as originally planned, Chinese officials said on Saturday, after an emerging COVID-19 outbreak prompted authorities to partly reverse a decision to resume in-person ...

Jun 11, 2022

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Swathes of Shanghai to be returned to lockdown in testing drive

Shanghai will impose fresh lockdowns on residents in several city districts this weekend during a mass testing drive, officials said Friday, as President Xi Jinping called for China to stick "unswervingly" to its strict zero-COVID ...

Jun 10, 2022

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Radiology & Imaging

New study identifies promising focus areas, informs mitigation strategies for contrast shortage in computed tomography

The current shortage of iodinated contrast in the United States due to the COVID-19 related production shutdown in China is causing severe disruptions in patient care. A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study ...

May 23, 2022

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO: Omicron makes China's 'zero-COVID' policy unsustainable

The head of the World Health Organization said China's extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it's up to every country to decide ...

May 17, 2022

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