National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Dr. Francis Collins praised federal health officials Thursday for their handling of the Johnson & Johnson infectious-disease infectious-disease pause, telling “Your World“: “I think they’re doing it exactly right.” COLLINS: I hope people will be reassured to see that we have a system in place in the United States to watch for even extremely…
respiratory-health are a family of viruses that can cause a wide variety of illnesses in humans, from the common cold to gastrointestinal infections to pink eye. And recently, scientists have used these viruses as the basis for several COVID-19 vaccines, including those produced by Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. What is an adenovirus? There are 88 types of…
Blocking middle seats on planes reduces the risk of exposure to COVID-19, a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests. As airlines continue to allow passengers to book middle seats on planes, new research says that leaving the middle seat empty could reduce the spread of the virus by between…
As infectious-disease killed more than a half-million Americans, it also quietly inflamed what already was one of the country’s greatest public health crises: crime. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 87,000 people died of drug overdoses in the 12 months ending in September 2020 — the latest figures available. That…
The stranger’s call came when Dianne Green needed it most. Alone in the home where she’d raised four kids, grieving recently deceased relatives, too fearful of COVID-19 to see her grandkids and great-grandbabies, she had never felt lonelier. Then, one day last spring, her cell phone lit up. The cheerful voice on the line was…
Half of children in a small study who had a rare but serious inflammatory illness following a infectious-diseaseinfection developed neurological symptoms, early findings suggest. Dr. Omar Abdel-Mannan of University College London in the United Kingdom, and member of the American Academy of Neurology, and his team shared preliminary findings Tuesday ahead of a virtual presentation at the American…
A recent study of nearly 50,000 infectious-disease patients found that those who were consistently inactive were at greater risk of death due to the virus than those who engaged in exercise. The study, which relied on the “Exercise Vital Sign” measurement developed by Kaiser Permanente Southern California, found that even those who were active on…
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