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2024-25 COVID vaccine 80% effective against death, CDC estimates
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (662+ words) Direct Relief / Flickr cc The 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine was an estimated 40% effective against hospital admission and 79% effective against invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) or death, with similar efficacy against the KP.3.1.1 and XEC variants, although with considerable uncertainty, researchers from the US Centers…...
With boosted global supply of vaccine, preventive cholera vaccination resumes
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (296+ words) Amid an ongoing global cholera surge that has stretched cholera vaccine stocks, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said today that there is now enough vaccine supply to relaunch preventive vaccination campaigns. The…...
Long-COVID symptoms persist for years in nonhospitalized adults, study reveals
23+ hour, 45+ min ago (883+ words) Persistent physical and mental health impairments remained common up to 2.5 years after infection among nonhospitalized adults with long COVID, or post-COVID-19 condition (PCC), according to a cohort'study published today in BMC Public Health. Karolinska Institutet researchers followed up on 130 adults…...
Early Tylenol use does not raise eczema, bronchiolitis risk, randomized trial finds
1+ day, 4+ min ago (270+ words) Infants given acetaminophen (also called paracetamol; brand name, Tylenol) for pain or fever relief in their first year were no more likely to develop eczema or bronchiolitis by age 1 than those given ibuprofen (eg, Advil), according to a randomized controlled'trial…...
New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (764+ words) Multiple randomized clinical trials and analyses of electronic health records (EHRs) suggest that metformin, a widely available diabetes drug, may reduce the risk of developing long COVID when taken during or shortly after acute COVID-19 infection, according to a'literature review…...
Emerging bat virus found in stored throat swabs from 5 patients with suspected Nipah virus infection
2+ day, 20+ min ago (678+ words) Cloudtail the Snow Leopard / Flickr cc Bangladeshi researchers have uncovered an emerging bat-borne virus in archived throat swabs and viral cultures from five patients initially thought to be infected with Nipah virus (NiV). The discovery of'Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV), which raises…...
Study highlights antibiotic-related ED visits in kids
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (641+ words) Antibiotics continue to be the most commonly implicated drugs in children's emergency department (ED) visits for adverse drug events (ADEs), researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported late last week in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious…...
CDC data show decline in hospital-related infections in 2024
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (469+ words) Nanci Santos / iStock A new report released last week by federal health officials shows the rate of patients getting infections in US hospitals fell in 2024, marking a continued decline from COVID pandemic'era highs. US acute care hospitals also saw an…...
US measles cases soar to 588 so far this year as South Carolina confirms 58 new infections
5+ day, 31+ min ago (1031+ words) Aleksandr Pykhteev / iStock Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed 172 new measles cases for 2026, increasing a skyrocketing outbreak to 588 infections so far. And the largest outbreak in the country, in South Carolina, which started in October, has grown…...
Anxiety, depression linked to 78% higher risk of long COVID in older women
5+ day, 55+ min ago (454+ words) Older women with a history of anxiety and depressive symptoms were significantly more likely to develop long COVID than those without such symptoms, according to a large prospective'analysis published this week in Menopause.' A University of California (UC)led research…...