August 15, 2024 by C Raina MacIntyre, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public DomainThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, after rising cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the potential for further spread. This now triggers a coordinated international response to an extraordinary event and...
The virus is primarily spread through insect bites, including mosquitoes, and originates from pale-throated sloths, non-human primates, and birds. World NewsEdited by Anjali ThakurUpdated: August 11, 2024 10:14 pm IST Oropouche can cause symptoms such as headaches, nausea, vomiting, and muscle and joint pains A debilitating virus originating from sloths and transmitted by midges has...
KFF Health News Arthur Allen; Amy Maxmen July 29, 2024 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird flu test hasn’t harmed the agency’s outbreak response. But it has ignited scrutiny of its go-it-alone approach in testing for emerging pathogens. The agency has quietly worked since April to resolve a...
August 1, 2024 by Dennis Thompson The wildfires that are increasing with climate change could harm the future brain health of humanity, a new study suggests. Wildfire smoke appears to increase people’s risk of a dementia diagnosis even more than other types of air pollution, researchers reported at the Alzheimer’s Association annual meeting in Philadelphia....
Medscape Medical News Alicia Ault July 16, 2024 Illicit use of the veterinary tranquilizer xylazine continues to spread across the United States. The drug, which is increasingly mixed with fentanyl, often fails to respond to the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone and can cause severe necrotic lesions. A report released by Millennium Health, a specialty...
12 July 2024 Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind. By Smriti Mallapaty Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in 145 cattle herd in the United States. Credit: Matthew Ludak for The Washington Post via Getty As cases of...
JULY 2, 2024 by Robin Foster As millions of Americans grapple with blistering heat this summer, the Biden Administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace. If the first major federal safety standard of its kind becomes final, the measure would aim to protect an estimated 36 million U.S....
by University of California – San Diego Credit: Dylan Leagh / Unsplash Americans’ interest in a potentially harmful “magic mushroom” is soaring, with Google searches skyrocketing 114% from 2022 to 2023, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science....
JUNE 7, 2024 by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Graphical abstract. Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173522A team of public health researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has found microplastics in the semen of every sample they tested. In their study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, the...
Medscape Medical News > Conference News > ATS 2024 Neil Osterweil May 22, 2024 SAN DIEGO — Although there is as yet no smoking gun definitively showing that indoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations from gas appliances are a cause of pulmonary diseases, the circumstantial evidence of the baleful effects of gas stoves on lung function...
