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Study outlines the favorable and unfavorable trends in cancer risk factors during Covid pandemic

Thu, 2023-05-04 11:04 — mike kraft
ACS spotlights favorable, unfavorable trends in cancer risk factors amid COVID Smoking, inactivity, and heavy drinking declined a bit, but obesity levels rose and fewer women received cervical cancer screening. CIDRAP

 

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WHO releases strategy paper on COVID disease management and long-term disease prevention

Thu, 2023-05-04 10:55 — mike kraft
From emergency response to long-term COVID-19 disease management: sustaining gains made during the COVID-19 pandemic The updated two-year strategy builds on the objectives of the 2022 SPRP and supports countries as they are working to transition their critical emergency response activities to longer-term sustained COVID-19 disease prevention, control and management.
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Bivalent COVID vaccine shows good Omicron protection while older version wanes --studies

Wed, 2023-05-03 18:25 — mike kraft
Bivalent COVID vaccine shows good Omicron protection while older version wanes CIDRAP

Two studies published today measure the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of COVID-19 vaccines against laboratory-confirmed Omicron variant and subvariants and symptomatic disease. Vaccines that target the newer variants performed well, but primary vaccines offered rapidly waning protection from SARS-CoV-2 infections in the post-Omicron era.

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U.S. FDA approves first RSV vaccine, a long-sought scientific achievement

Wed, 2023-05-03 13:24 — mike kraft
FDA approves first RSV vaccine, a long-sought scientific achievement The FDA has approved the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, completing an elusive quest that has been decades in the making. Helen Branswell STAT

 

... The product, GSK’s Arexvy, was approved for adults ages 60 and older.

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Analysis: We won't know for a while if Covid's spring lull will last

Wed, 2023-05-03 13:15 — mike kraft
Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last? Things look calm right now. They may even stay that way—but we won’t know for sure for a good long while. Katherine J. Wu The Atlantic

 

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The nursing shortage: Recruiting from the Global Health will not solve the problem

Wed, 2023-05-03 12:19 — mike kraft
The Global North can’t solve its health care worker shortage by recruiting from the Global South Some countries with a tradition of training nurses "for export," like the Philippines, are actually facing a huge shortage themselves. Torie Bosch STAT

 

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WHO finds signs of health system recoveries, European group cites lessons learned

Wed, 2023-05-03 12:06 — mike kraft
WHO survey finds signs of health system recovery from pandemic CIDRAP

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has been tracking health system impacts since the early days of the pandemic, and its latest survey of countries shows that health services are starting to recover, according to new findings..

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WHO director general warns that the world is failing to learn COVID’s lessons

Wed, 2023-05-03 11:50 — mike kraft
WHO director general warns that the world is failing to learn COVID’s lessons "Future generations will question what we did to improve from the pandemic," said. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Yahoo Finance

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“If the world does not learn from our past mistakes with COVID, then future generations will question what we did to improve from the pandemic,” he said.

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What to know about XBB.1.16, the 'Arcturus' variant

Thu, 2023-04-27 17:52 — mike kraft
What to know about XBB.1.16, the 'Arcturus' variant The subvariant accounts for nearly 10% of new Covid cases in the U.S. NBC News

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Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in Asia and the Mideast

Thu, 2023-04-27 16:52 — mike kraft
Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in two regions CIDRAP

Though COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to decline over the past 4 weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) is tracking rises in two of its regions, South East Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In its weekly update today, it also noted rises in individual countries in other parts of the world.

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