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COVID booster prompts good immune response, except after recent infection --study

Tue, 2023-01-03 13:50 — mike kraft

COVID booster prompts good immune response, except after recent infection CIDRAP

A study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases finds that a third COVID-19 vaccine dose triggered a robust immune response, regardless of whether recipients had been infected more than 3 months earlier, but it didn't significantly increase antibody levels in those infected less than 3 months before.

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China, EU in dispute over China's COVID crisis, Beijing threatens countermeasures

Tue, 2023-01-03 11:07 — mike kraft

EU, Beijing heading for collision over China's COVID crisis BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and China on Tuesday moved closer to a political standoff over the COVID-19 crisis, with Beijing vehemently rejecting travel restrictions some EU nations have started to impose that could well be expanded in coming days. AP NEWS

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It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Thu, 2022-12-29 23:19 — FNUOvviyaa

It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance US News is a recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics, business, health, and education. HealthDay US News & World Report

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Researchers found that over the past 20 years, a growing number of Americans with job-based health insurance have been skipping medical care due to costs. Women have been particularly hard-hit.

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A promising new Covid pill shows key advantages over Paxlovid in trial

Thu, 2022-12-29 23:10 — FNUOvviyaa

A promising new Covid pill shows key advantages over Paxlovid in trial A Chinese antiviral pill was found to be as effective as Paxlovid in a Phase 3 trial, and it appeared to cause fewer side effects. NBC News

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"You have a medication that looks to be just as good as Paxlovid, but less cumbersome," said Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

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COVID Smell Loss: 'Retraining' Mostly Flops in Trial

Thu, 2022-12-29 22:48 — FNUOvviyaa

COVID Smell Loss: 'Retraining' Mostly Flops in Trial Some patients did recover olfactory function with two-prong therapy, however Kate Kneisel medpagetoday

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Bimodal olfactory training with visual cues and the use of patient-preferred scents did not produce a clinically meaningful improvement in sense of smell among individuals with COVID-19–related olfactory loss, a 275-patient randomized trial showed.

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Epidemics That Weren't: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks

Tue, 2022-12-27 21:44 — FNUOvviyaa

Epidemics That Weren't: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks When Ebola swept through eastern Congo in 2018, it was a struggle to track cases. Dr. Billy Yumaine, a public health official, recalls steady flows of people moving back and forth across the border with Uganda while others hid sick family members in their homes because they feared the authorities. It took at least a week to get test results, and health officials had difficulty isolating sick people while they waited. It took two years for the country to bring that outbreak under control, and mor YahooNews

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Long COVID: What scientists have learned about the symptoms affecting millions around the world

Mon, 2022-12-26 18:19 — FNUOvviyaa

Long COVID: What scientists have learned about the symptoms affecting millions around the world A British historian, an Italian archaeologist and an American preschool teacher each helped bring long COVID into the public's consciousness. CBS News

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China's COVID cases overwhelm hospitals

Mon, 2022-12-26 17:59 — FNUOvviyaa

China's COVID cases overwhelm hospitals In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Martin Quin Pollard Reuters

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BioNTech starts human trial to test malaria vaccine

Fri, 2022-12-23 23:04 — FNUOvviyaa

BioNTech starts human trial to test malaria vaccine BioNTech on Friday initiated an early-stage study to evaluate its experimental malaria vaccine in humans, the German drugmaker said. Reuters Reuters

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Uganda gets Ebola vaccine doses for trial on Sudan strain

Thu, 2022-12-22 20:15 — FNUOvviyaa

Uganda gets Ebola vaccine doses for trial on Sudan strain KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s government says it has received more than 5,000 doses of Ebola vaccines for a clinical trial to assess their protection against the Sudan strain of the virus that caused an outbreak with over 50 deaths. AP NEWS

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This outbreak, the first in a decade of the less common Sudan strain, is a chance for clinical trials of the three vaccines donated by the U.S.-based Sabin Vaccine Institute, University of Oxford and Merck.

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