by Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News Credit: CC0 Public DomainOnce known as consumption, the disease that killed Eleanor Roosevelt, Frederic Chopin and all five of the sisters Bronte, tuberculosis is often viewed as a bygone threat. But there is an uptick in new California illnesses after years of decline, with the number of cases...
A California health department has confirmed its first locally-acquired case of dengue virus in one of its residents. Alex ArgerPosted: 6:22 p.m. EDT Oct 23, 2023An “extremely rare” illness completely foreign to the state of California has been discovered there, and its appearance is not associated with travel. On Friday, officials with the health department...
by University of California, Los Angeles Trends in the use of glyphosate compounds, oxyfluorfen, paraquat dichloride, naled, and benomyl in California, 1979-2012. Credit: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (2022). DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgac413 In single pollutant models and within a 20-year period, 10 out of 29 reviewed pesticides were associated with thyroid cancer, including several of the most...
by Sarah Avery, Duke University School of Nursing Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two different COVID vaccines are predicted to be protective against a rapidly spreading variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus that arose in California, reports a Duke Health led research team. However, the vaccines were found to be less effective against a variant that first emerged...
