THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids and teens are vulnerable to Long COVID just as adults are, with a set of distinct symptoms showing long-term health effects, a new study shows. Ten symptoms in school-age children and 8 in teenagers indicate the likely presence of long COVID, accordingContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The first mpox vaccine doses from the United States are set to arrive next week in the Congo, the epicenter of an ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa. The doses come not a moment too soon: Just last week, the World Health Organization declaredContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A review of U.S. data from 2012 through 2024 finds that when kids get free school meals, there’s a potential for a slight increase in attendance and a lowering of child obesity rates. Even kids from higher-income households benefited, as many took advantageContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An insect-borne virus that can cause birth defects and deaths has prompted warnings from the United States for travelers headed to locales in South America and the Caribbean. Oropouche virus has caused two deaths and five cases of fetal death or birth defectsContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Across rural America, the increased presence of loaded guns in homes and vehicles could lead to a spike in gun injuries and homicides at the start of every deer hunting season, a new study warns. In fact, in the U.S. rural counties coveredContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. doctors should be on the lookout for a more severe strain of mpox that is spreading widely in parts of Africa, federal health officials warned Wednesday. The alert, issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, came just hours after the WorldContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Bacteria can adapt to a wide range of hostile environments, surviving and even thriving in marine oil spills, ocean-borne plastic trash, industrial brownfields and even the interior of the International Space Station. Now, researchers have found bacteria that have adapted to arguably oneContinue Reading
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MONDAY, July 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The virus responsible for COVID-19 is widespread among wildlife, a new study finds. SARS-CoV-2 was detected in six common backyard species, including deer mice, opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, cottontail rabbits and red bats, researchers reported July 29 in the journal Nature Communications. Further, antibodiesContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Arizona health officials are reporting an increase in hantavirus infections, which are spread by rodents and can cause severe respiratory illness. In a recent health alert, the Arizona Department of Health Services announced there have been seven confirmed cases and three deaths inContinue Reading
SUNDAY, July 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As yet another batch of variants fuel a COVID surge this summer, one expert offers advice on how to navigate the threat. “We’ve seen a bit of a seasonal pattern emerge, where we’ve had an uptick in COVID in the summer and thenContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — You’re far less likely to develop Long COVID now than you were in the midst of the pandemic, promising new data shows. Changes in strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are playing a role in the lowered risk, but so areContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People’s odds for Long COVID appear to be declining with the advent of new variants of the virus, along with repeat infections and vaccinations, new research shows. That suggests that the average person’s chances of developing long-term symptoms is falling over time, concludedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Secondhand smoke from cigarettes is much worse than that from vaping, in terms of exposing children to nicotine, a new study finds. Children exposed to vaping indoors absorb less than one-seventh the amount of nicotine as kids exposed to indoor smoking, blood testsContinue Reading
