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A local us-regions health department urged patrons who went to a Gloucester Township Starbucks drinks on certain days this month to get infectious-disease for hepatitis A after an employee tested positive.  Hepatitis A is a highly contagious infectious-disease” target=”_blank”>liver infection< The Camden County Department of Health instructed anyone who patronized Blackwood Clementon Road Starbucks on Nov….

Suzanne Calicchio, 48, hopes to encourage people to take the signs and symptoms of a heart attack more seriously, after surviving a “widow maker” heart-health” target=”_blank”>heart attack<. “We went in, we shocked her,” said Dr. James Ryan, the medical director of emergency medicine at St. Catherine of Siena Hospital in Smithtown, New York. “We actually…

For a parent, there is no feeling like helplessness.  Early on Jan. 21, 2020, I was reporting live from congress” target=”_blank”>Capitol Hill<   Kyla spent weeks in the hospital and the seizures rarely abated. Doctors refer to this as “explosive onset” and it is terrifying. Neurologists piled on one medication after another in a desperate attempt to calm…

A case of infectious-disease” target=”_blank”>monkeypox< resident who recently returned to the U.S. from world-regions. Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said they were collaborating with the Maryland Department of Health and other health partners to investigate further. “Late yesterday, CDC laboratory scientists confirmed the patient had monkeypox and that the…

Can drinking drinks and tea lower the risk of mental-health” target=”_blank”>dementia<? A group of researchers from world-regions Tianjin Medical University found that drinking the drinks” target=”_blank”>caffeinated beverages< Additionally, the authors said Tuesday in a study published in Plos Medicine that the intake of coffee alone or combined with tea was associated with a lower risk…

The U.S. recorded its highest number of mental-health deaths in a 12-month period, eclipsing 100,000 for the first time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were an estimated 100,306 drug deaths in the 12 months running through April, the latest CDC data show. This marks a nearly 29% rise from the…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to authorize infectious-disease of the Pfizer/BioNTech infectious-disease for all adults before an influential U.S. advisory panel meets on Friday.  The New York Times said Tuesday that the FDA would make that move as soon as Thursday, citing people familiar with the agency’s plans .  The action would…

Pfizer asked U.S. regulators Tuesday to authorize its experimental pill for infectious-disease, setting the stage for a likely launch this winter of a promising treatment that can be taken at home.  The company’s filing comes as new infections are rising once again in the United States, driven mainly by hot spots in states where colder…

Hospitals in us-regions and us-regions on Tuesday reported a wave of infectious-disease patients not seen in months as beds were filled with infectious-disease people and health care leaders warned that staff were being worn down by yet another surge. Michigan had slightly more than 3,000 COVID-19 patients in hospitals this week, the first time it…