US sees meningococcal disease outbreak in gay, bisexual men: CDC
The state of Florida in the US has seen one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in the history.
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Only 1 in 5 Americans have ideal heart health American Heart Association - Sleep.
Researchers used the Life Essential 8 metrics, which include diet, physical activity, nicotine exposure, sleep duration, body mass index, blood lipids, blood glucose and blood pressure to determine an adult's overall cardiovascular health.
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Long COVID Symptoms Linked to Inflammation SARS.
Prolonged inflammation after SARS-CoV-2 infection caused permanent organ damage, affected the brain and correlated with behavioral changes.
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Sleep joins revamped list of heart health essentials American Heart Association - Sleep.
Proper sleep is essential, and a widely used scoring system for heart and brain health is...
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Viruses cling onto plastic to survive in freshwater Virus - Plastic - Microplastics - Cleaning.
Microplastics in wastewater treatment plants carry intestinal viruses such as rotavirus up to three days and create significant health risks, a study finds.
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Researchers explore disease severity post-infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in hematologic patients SARS.
Patients with hematologic disease are at an elevated risk of morbidity and mortality post-infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. It is currently unknown whether the Omicron variant leads to reduced ...
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Only one in five US citizens has optimal heart health American Heart Association - Sleep.
This is a new tool used to determine a cardiovascular health score based on components for ideal heart and brain health such as diet,
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Dramatic spike in monkeypox cases leads to CDC launching new emergency center with US infections now at 306 Monkeypox - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Emergency operations center.
The CDC said it was launching its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to cope with the influx of cases across the country. Advertisement. A symptom of Monkeypox is a ...
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OREF and OTA Extend Collaboration with New Soft Tissue Injury Research Grant and Funding Support from Arthrex, Inc. Injury - Research - Orthopedics.
Rosemont, IL (PRWEB) June 29, 2022 -- The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), in collaboration with the Orthopaedic Trauma Association.
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Getting a Flu Shot May Lower Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease - Vaccine - Influenza vaccine - Neurodegenerative disease.
What we think might be happening is the influenza vaccine might be changing the immune system such that its response to Alzheimer's proteins makes them not as damaging to our brain, he said.
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The distribution and dynamics of microbial populations on surfaces within a clinical microbiology lab during the COVID ... SARS.
Most viruses causing respiratory tract infections persist for days on surfaces and could spread unless disinfected. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is primarily ...
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