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FRIDAY, April 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Health officials in California are now offering gift cards to encourage folks near farms to get tested for bird flu. The project is a partnership between the state and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to CBS News. ClinicsContinue Reading

SATURDAY, April 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Bird flu is changing fast and could become more dangerous to humans, new research from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte suggests. A team of scientists found that the H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu, is becoming more adept at infectingContinue Reading

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The inability to pay for health care has reached a new high in the United States, a new study says. More than one-third of Americans — an estimated 91 million people — say they couldn’t afford to access quality health care if theyContinue Reading

WEDNESDAY, March 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A controversial proposal from U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to let bird flu naturally spread through poultry farms is raising alarms among scientists — who say the move could be inhumane and dangerous. Kennedy recently suggested thatContinue Reading

MONDAY, March 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There’s a new reason to steer clear of raw cheese: New research shows it can harbor the infectious bird flu virus for months. “There is a risk of infection,” lead study author Dr. Diego Diel, an associate professor at Cornell University, told CNN.Continue Reading

SATURDAY, March 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have created a handheld sensor that can quickly detect bird flu (H5N1) in the air, potentially stopping outbreaks before they spread. Research published recently in the journal ACS Sensors noted the sensor is low-cost, highly sensitive and works within minutes. Bird fluContinue Reading

FRIDAY, March 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Patients generally don’t mind getting AI-written notes from their doctor’s office, unless they know the note came from a computer program, a new study says. Patients shown messages written by either AI, otherwise known as artificial intelligence, or a human doc tended toContinue Reading

MONDAY, March 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Francis Collins, the famed geneticist who led the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 12 years and helped guide the U.S. through the COVID pandemic, has stepped down. Collins, who’s 74, announced his retirement over the weekend, praising the NIH staff inContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — With egg prices soaring due to a severe bird flu outbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $1 billion plan to contain the disease and help poultry farmers recover. The outbreak has destroyed flocks nationwide, with more than 166 million birdsContinue Reading