Mpox vaccine rollout begins in Africa: what will success look like?
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(Nature) – Nature talks to the mpox coordinator for Africa’s public-health agency about how the continent is handling its first jabs ever. Mpox has spread to 15 African countries in 2024, six of which had never seen a single case … Read More ..read more
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‘Mom, I Want to Live’: A Young Girl Battles War and Cancer
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(New York Times) – The daunting health challenges facing sick and disabled children in Ukraine are a cruel reminder that the war’s tentacles stretch far beyond the front line. They have suffered from misdiagnoses, lapses in treatment, a lack of … Read More ..read more
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As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms
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(New York Times) – The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they … Read More ..read more
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World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
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(Nature) – The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies. One woman and two men with severe autoimmune conditions have gone into remission after being treated with bioengineered and CRISPR-modified immune cells. … Read More ..read more
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Rwanda to start vaccine trials for Marburg disease in a few weeks
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(Reuters) – Rwanda will start cinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease in the next few weeks, its health minister said on Thursday, to fight the country’s first outbreak of the viral fever, which has so far … Read More ..read more
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Hospitals take steps to conserve IV fluid supply after Helene strikes critical factory
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2d ago
(NBC News) – Baxter International said it would temporarily close production at its North Cove, North Carolina-based facility, raising concerns about a potential nationwide shortage. Hospitals across the U.S. are taking steps to conserve their supplies of IV fluids after … Read More ..read more
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North Carolina hospitals search for missing employees days after Helene
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(NBC News) – Dozens of hospital workers are unaccounted for, unreachable by phone and possibly stuck in inaccessible areas. But nearly a week after the storm’s ferocious floodwaters destroyed so much of the western part of the state, Kaufmann, the … Read More ..read more
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Hurricane Helene now one of the deadliest storms to hit the U.S. this century
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(Axios) – Hurricane Helene’s death toll surpassed 200 on Thursday as rescue crews searched for survivors, one week after the major storm made landfall in Florida and brought flooding rains across the U.S. Southeast. The big picture: The at least … Read More ..read more
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Is Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed?
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2d ago
(Slate) – The criteria for the condition have expanded since the 1980s, scooping up patients who say the diagnosis has steered them down the wrong path. But some psychiatrists think that the bipolar diagnosis has actually gone too far—that there … Read More ..read more
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A Young Doctor’s Dilemma: Stay Home or Move Where Abortion Is Protected?
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(Wall Street Journal) – Residency programs in states where abortion is restricted are drawing fewer applicants Dr. Kyle Baugh has a choice to make. In the penultimate year of her residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Indiana University School … Read More ..read more
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