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What older adults should know about the lowered age for pneumoccal vaccine.

Fri, 2024-10-25 10:11 — mike kraft
CDC panel lowers age for key vaccine. What older adults should know. A panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to lower the recommended age for older adults to get their pneumococcal vaccine. Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY

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U.S. limits on testing for bird flu in humans could pose difficulty for containing spread

Fri, 2024-10-25 10:01 — mike kraft
Limits on testing for bird flu in humans could pose difficulty for containing spread Tests will soon be available by prescription, but they are only recommended for people in close contact with animals The Guardian
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Analysis: Trying to reverse climate change after the fact won’t work--research paper

Thu, 2024-10-24 12:04 — mike kraft
Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn “Climate change comes with irreversible consequences.” Justine Calma The Verge
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Many deaths attributed to natural causes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been due to the virus --studies

Thu, 2024-10-24 11:46 — mike kraft
Many deaths attributed to natural causes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have instead been due to the virus NIA-funded study finds many deaths attributed to natural causes early in the pandemic may have been caused by COVID-19. National Institute on Aging
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U.S. CDC recommends expanding pneumococcal vaccines to adults aged 50-64

Thu, 2024-10-24 11:39 — mike kraft

U.S. CDC recommends expanding pneumococcal vaccines to adults aged 50-64

Oct 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday recommended expanding the use of vaccines to adults between 50-64 years to protect against pneumococcal disease.
The agency's earlier recommendation for vaccination was for adults 65 years or older and children younger than 5, as well as for children and adults with certain conditions.
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COVID infections in pregnant women may affect newborn heart development --China study

Thu, 2024-10-24 10:06 — mike kraft
Maternal COVID infections may affect newborn heart development Ten percent of newborns in the COVID-19 group had abnormalities, compared with 4% in the control group. CIDRAP

Maternal COVID-19 infection during pregnancy may adversely affect the development of the newborn's heart, resulting in congenital heart defects (CHD), researchers suggested yesterday in Scientific Reports.

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CDC Recommends Second Dose of 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine for Older People And Those Who are Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised

Thu, 2024-10-24 09:57 — mike kraft
CDC Recommends Second Dose of 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine for People 65 Years and Older and for People Who are Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised Today, CDC Director Mandy Cohen endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (AC CDC CDC Newsroom
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Repeated COVID vaccinations found to enhance mucosal immunity in the nose against the virus

Wed, 2024-10-23 19:27 — mike kraft
Repeated COVID vaccinations found to enhance mucosal immunity against the virus During the COVID pandemic, many of us received multiple mRNA vaccines. New work by researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, and University Hospital Ghent, among ... VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) Medical Xpress
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RSV: US FDA approves Pfizer's RSV vaccine for older adults at increased risk

Wed, 2024-10-23 09:48 — mike kraft
US FDA approves Pfizer's RSV vaccine for adults at increased risk of the disease The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Pfizer's RSV vaccine for the prevention of lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV in adults aged 18 to 59 at increased risk of the disease. Reuters Reuters
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Floor swabbing in hospitals could help prevent COVID-19 outbreaks --study

Wed, 2024-10-23 09:33 — mike kraft
Floor swabbing could help prevent COVID-19 outbreaks in hospitals COVID-19 is here to stay. As restrictions and human testing have waned, new research is tackling the challenge of how we can monitor, predict, and prevent cases and outbreaks of COVID-19, especially among ... Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute Medical Xpress

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Young children more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 than older kids--study

Tue, 2024-10-22 16:47 — mike kraft
Young children more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 than older kids, study shows Today a Kaiser Permanente Northern California study of children during the COVID-19 pandemic finds children too young to be vaccinated had the highest hospitalization rate, while adolescents had the highest rate of intensive care unit (ICU) admission. The findings are published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. CIDRAP
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Climate Change can take its toll on buildings

Tue, 2024-10-22 16:41 — mike kraft
How Climate Change Exacts a Hidden Toll on Buildings It’s not just storms and floods: Wild temperature swings, severe heat and drought are exacting an invisible toll on the built environment. Bloomberg

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U.S. Covid pandemic disproportionately affected younger Americans of color-- study

Tue, 2024-10-22 10:04 — mike kraft
Covid pandemic disproportionately affected younger Americans of color, says study Older Americans had highest number of deaths, but younger Americans of color had highest disease rates The Guardian
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Covid XEC: The symptoms of new virus strain

Tue, 2024-10-22 09:55 — mike kraft
Covid XEC: What are the symptoms of new virus strain? Everything you need to know about the Covid XEC strain Yahoo News

A new strain of Covid emerging in the UK is spreading as cases increase at a high rate, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.

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Newer Mpox Strain Poses Bigger Risk to Young Women -- Study

Tue, 2024-10-22 09:45 — mike kraft
Mpox Outbreak: Girls May Be More Susceptible to Newer Strain, Study Shows Girls and young women may be more susceptible to an infectious subvariant of the virus that causes mpox that has spread from Democratic Republic of Congo to neighboring countries, a study showed. Antony Sguazzin Bloomberg

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