December 27, 2024
(Reuters via Yahoo! News) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from … Read More
December 27, 2024
(The Washington Post) – Overdose deaths have reached record levels in the United States in recent years. Despite signs of decline, the number of people dying nationwide from overdoses has eclipsed 100,000 annually between 2020 and 2023, according to national … Read More
December 27, 2024
(ABC) – From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs include the discovery of a cause of an autoimmune disease, the development of a “game-changing” drug and potential hope … Read More
December 27, 2024
(Wired) – By learning lessons from other sectors, public health can ensure it is ready to face future outbreaks in record time. Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are … Read More
December 27, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 20, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 26, 2024
(BBC) – Twenty big cats – including a Bengal tiger and four cougars – have died of bird flu over the past several weeks at an animal sanctuary in the state of Washington. “This tragedy has deeply affected our team, … Read More
December 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Experts share how shifting from self-focused goals to thinking about others can have a positive impact on the year ahead. There is ample research — including one of the longest-running studies on human happiness — to … Read More
December 26, 2024
(New York Times) – It may be a longstanding practice, but critics say routine weight measurements are driving some patients away from care. And research shows that maintaining an optimal weight is not about willpower. A person’s weight is also … Read More
December 25, 2024
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 32, no. 12, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Our reporter went to Congo, where the mpox epidemic has reached the teeming capital, infecting children and their mothers, who sell sex to survive. The detection of a new, fast-spreading strain of the virus in a … Read More
December 23, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Despite numerous studies spanning decades, relationships between coffee and tea consumption with cancer risk, specifically HNC, remain unclear, Lee and co-authors noted in their introduction. Coffee and tea are consumed worldwide and contain bioactive compounds with potential … Read More
December 23, 2024
(NPR) – What’s happening in the Philippines is part of a seismic shift in the global HIV/AIDS landscape. Sub-Saharan Africa has long been the epicenter of the HIV crisis. But in recent years, new infections and AIDS-related deaths have plummeted. … Read More
December 23, 2024
(U.S. News & World Report) – Nearly 3.1 million U.S. residents died in 2023, according to final data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – roughly 189,000 fewer than in 2022. The age-adjusted rate of mortality in 2023 … Read More
December 23, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – No vaccine is perfect, but these medicines are still saving millions of lives. This year marks the 50-year anniversary of an ambitious global childhood vaccination program. The Expanded Programme on Immunization was launched by the World … Read More
December 20, 2024
(KFF Health News) – To understand how the bird flu got out of hand, KFF Health News interviewed nearly 70 government officials, farmers and farmworkers, and researchers with expertise in virology, pandemics, veterinary medicine, and more. Together with emails obtained … Read More
December 20, 2024
(NPR) – A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events. Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the … Read More
December 20, 2024
(Kron4) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency in response to bird flu on Wednesday. The declaration comes following the spread of avian influenza in 16 states, including California and outside the Central Valley. The declaration, according … Read More
December 20, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – When a car rolls down a freeway, a fine spray of microplastics spews out from its tires. When you wash your clothes, millions of tiny synthetic microfibers spill into waterways. And those tiny pieces of … Read More
December 19, 2024
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration released final rules on labeling foods as “healthy,” tightening limits for sugar, sodium and saturated fat. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday updated the definitions of the term “healthy” for … Read More
December 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Officials have discovered the virus in 645 herds of dairy cattle, more than in any other state so far. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California declared on Wednesday that the outbreak of bird flu among the state’s … Read More
December 18, 2024
(NPR) – Federal health officials are addressing the first severe case of bird flu detected in a human during the U.S. outbreak. Louisiana health officials initially reported the infection last week, saying a person was hospitalized after being exposed to … Read More
December 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus. There were more than 311,000 reported cases of measles in Congo last year. Some 6,000 of them ended … Read More
December 16, 2024
(Nature) – The influential writer talks about frighteningly accurate predictions, the creative act of reading, AI consciousness — and hope. My feeling is that ‘artificial intelligence’ is a public-relations name that obscures what’s really going on. It’s artificial for sure. … Read More
December 16, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – It’s no secret that the current AI boom is using up immense amounts of energy. Now we have a better idea of how much. A new paper, from teams at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of … Read More
December 16, 2024
(Ars Technica) – A person in Louisiana is hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu after having contact with sick and dying birds suspected of carrying the virus, state health officials announced Friday. It is the first human H5N1 case detected in … Read More
