New York health officials issued warnings on melanoma, the deadliest type of cancer, over social media Wednesday as residents take to the outdoors under the summer sun. “Skin cancer most often develops on skin exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation (rays), but skin cancer can occur anywhere on the body,” according to the New…
U.S. veterans experiencing cirrhosis, or damage to the liver, and who also received an mRNA infectious-disease infectious-diseasesaw high levels of protection against virus-related hospitalization and death, a study found. The findings come as federal health authorities said the two groups of concern relating to potential use of booster shots include people 75 and older and…
A study of adults in Switzerland who had contracted infectious-disease found that a quarter of them still had symptoms for six to eight months following their illness. Fatigue, shortness of breath and depression were the most common long-term symptoms reported among the group, which the study authors said highlights the need for post-COVID-19 care. “This…
Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the infectious-disease pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase. “This is a staggering loss of human life,” said Brandon Marshall, a…
Mississippi’s top health official said Tuesday the state has seven children in the intensive care unit due to infectious-disease, including two who are on life support. Dr. Thomas Dobbs had said a day earlier that nearly all COVID-19 cases in the state are due to the Delta variant, with the majority of infections, hospitalizations and…
An us-regionshospital placed two employees on administrative leave this week after admitting the wrong patient received a kidney medical-research “We have offered our sincerest apologies to these patients and their families,” University Hospitals in Cleveland spokesperson George Stamatis said in a statement. “We recognize they entrusted us with their care. The situation is entirely inconsistent…
St. Louis County health officials are urging residents to mask up while in indoor public settings and even while at large outdoor gatherings when social distancing is not possible regardless of infectious-disease status amid a surge in infectious-disease cases. The update, posted Monday, follows an advisory issued July 1 warning about increases in community transmission…
If ongoing clinical trials and regulators concludeinfectious-disease infectious-diseasein younger healthy-living aged 6 to 11 are safe and effective, an expert with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) said “we would be foolish not to vaccinate” kids. The comments from Dr. Andrew Pavia, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at University of Utah…
A 3-year-old Kansas boy died after what police said was an “unanticipated reaction to medicine” given to him during a dental-health” target=”_blank”>dental procedure< A Witchita police spokesman told KAKE.com that authorities were called at around 8 a.m. on July 6 about a child who became unresponsive while receiving dental treatment. BUTTON BATTERY INJURIES IN KIDS…
Another study analyzing the impact that the infectious-disease has had on teens found that up to one-third of participants reported worsening mental-health” target=”_blank”>mental health<, showed that nearly a third of the 571 participants reported that their mood had worsened or their anxiety had increased between March 2020 and June 2020, which marked the beginning stages…