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The milestone came and went with little fanfare.After more than four years with COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported the lowest new, weekly coronavirus hospitalizations since the pandemic began. There was no celebration or publicized statement. It’s safe to say that most Americans had no clue about the occurrence – though that may just be how they’d prefer it.The CDC started publishing weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations in August 2020, so the data doesn’t repr…
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The Biden administration is reportedly moving to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug in what would be a massive shift in federal policy.Under the proposal, marijuana would move from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act – the most restricted schedule for drugs that have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse – to Schedule III, according to The Associated Press.Marijuana would still be considered a controlled substance, so people in possession of it in states where it…
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The World Health Organization on Friday reported “extensive” overuse of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic that could have increased the spread of antimicrobial resistance.The organization found that only 8% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 needed antibiotics for bacterial co-infections. However, about 75% of patients were treated with antibiotics. The highest rate of use was among people with severe or critical COVID-19 at 81% on average.Additionally, the use of antibiotics did not…
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz left King Faisal Specialist Hospital after completing a routine check-up, state TV reported on Wednesday, citing a statement from the royal court.(Reporting by Ahmed Tolba and Yomna Ehab; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters.
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Samples of pasteurized milk tested positive for viral remnants of the bird flu virus, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week.The agency said that pasteurization is likely to inactivate the virus, but the process could leave behind viral particles. Therefore, the findings do not represent the actual virus that may be a risk to consumers, the FDA said.“To date, we have seen nothing that would change our assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe,” the agency said in an update…
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By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Women hoping to get pregnant sometimes wonder if there’s anything they can do to make it easier to conceive.Those questions might take on an added edge if a couple has been having unprotected sex for at least a year with no success, according to the Mayo Clinic.There are medical issues that affect the ability to become pregnant, and those might need to be addressed.But lifestyle choices also can affect fertility, exp…
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The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis but evidence suggests they don’t cause infertility, Guillain-Barré syndrome or Bell’s palsy, according to a new report.The report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine reviewed evidence for more than a dozen potential harms of the COVID-19 vaccines after the Health Resources and Services Administration requested it form a committee to do so. The report addresses many of the health conditions that fueled v…
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A “hoax,” the advocates for which should “ROT IN HELL.” A product of China, they could lead to a “bloodbath” for the U.S. economy.Or, a savior of the environment that is creating “tens of thousands of good jobs.”These are, respectively, how former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have described electric vehicles – an unlikely wedge issue in a 2024 election that’s seen division on pretty much everything else.Both Biden and Trump are digging in their heels on EVs, but their strong op…
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The COVID-19 vaccine is not linked to sudden cardiac death among previously healthy young people, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Investigators at the Oregon Health Authority looked at death certificate data for people ages 16-30 from June 2021 to December 2022 with cardiac or undetermined causes of death listed. They identified 40 deaths among people who received either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.Of those 40, three deaths occurred…
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By Ernie Mundell HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, April 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Removal of armpit lymph nodes can leave many breast cancer patients with lingering lymphedema, a painful and unsightly swelling of the arm.Now, new Swedish research may help narrow down which patients require extensive lymph removal, based on the number and size of tumors infiltrating lymph nodes, and which do not.The findings were published April 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine.“We want to perform less extens…
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It happened again. The monthly jobs report number for March surpassed even the wildest expectations, coming in at 303,000 compared to estimates that had been around 200,000.Jobs were plentiful, while wages rose but not at a pace to cause inflation. The unemployment rate, at 3.8%, was modestly lower than the 3.9% rate in February.“Unemployment has been at or below 4% for 27 months running, the longest such strength since the late 1960s,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy I…
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