FRIDAY, Aug. 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A wave of leprosy cases in Florida has led public health officials to conclude the disease-causing bacteria may be naturally found in the state. In the past, most people with leprosy in the United States had been first infected in some other countryContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) — While both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are considered safe and highly effective, new research finds the Moderna shot has been the safest and most effective for seniors. “The results of this study can help public health experts weigh which mRNA vaccineContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo was named on Wednesday to become the next head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a job most recently held by Dr. Anthony Fauci, well known for his work on HIV and the pandemic. Marrazzo willContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) — As Americans continue to grapple with the effects of long COVID, the Biden administration on Monday announced the creation of a new office focused on research about the condition that will be part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. TheContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) – For the fourth summer in a row, Americans are experiencing a COVID-19 surge, this one marked by a rise in hospital admissions, emergency room visits, test positivity rates and wastewater data. The good news: It’s unlikely that most cases will be severe orContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s well known that some viruses make the leap from animals to humans, but a new study shows the influenza strain responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic has been particularly prolific in hopping between species. That strain, called pdm09, has passed from humansContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Results from more than 26,000 respiratory tests in late 2022 found simultaneous infections with COVID-19, influenza or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in more than 1% of positive tests. Co-infections were especially widespread in children and teens. In people under age 21, researchers sawContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) — People taking antiretroviral therapy to treat HIV who have low but detectable virus levels have almost zero risk of transmitting the virus to others, according to a new research review. Researchers looked at eight studies of more than 7,700 couples in which oneContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) – In the two decades since the opioid epidemic took off, the addiction crisis has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Now, new research points to another grim outgrowth of the crisis on American health: a skyrocketing risk in pregnant womenContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s rare for someone with HIV to go into remission and be considered “cured,” but a European man may be the sixth to do so. First diagnosed with HIV in 1990, the man had been taking antiretroviral drugs since 2005 and received aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — 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 that these symptom-free super-dodgers are more than twice as likely asContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The United States now has had eight reported cases of malaria, seven of them in Florida, state health officials reported Tuesday. Considered a public health emergency, these cases are the first in two decades to be acquired within this country’s borders, not reportedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — While nursing home residents are at high risk for bad outcomes if they get COVID-19, use of antiviral treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, was low through most of 2021 and 2022. The authors of a new study, led by Brian McGarry, a healthContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay Now) — Parents now have a new long-acting drug to protect their children against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common germ that hospitalizes as many as 3% of children under the age of 1 in the United States each year. The U.S. Food and DrugContinue Reading