Flu/COVID Co-Infections Potentially More Severe in Kids, CDC Says
The CDC warned that co-infections with COVID-19 and influenza can potentially cause more severe illness in children, and need to be tracked. Surveillance data from the 2021-2022 influenza season revealed that 6% of flu-related hospitalizations and 16% of flu-related deaths involved children co-infected with COVID-19, Katherine Adams, MPH, of the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues […]
Opinion | Does Healthcare Produce Health?
Medical care can diagnose illness and injury, but a lack of medical care is not the cause of illness or injury. Medicine is more an art than a science. State-of-the-art care changes over time. When I was in medical school in 1972, a professor of medicine began his lecture by informing us that, “In 10 […]
Diets higher in calcium and potassium may help prevent recurrent symptomatic kidney stones
Kidney stones can cause not only excruciating pain but also are associated with chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. If you’ve experienced a kidney stone once, you have a 30% chance of having another kidney stone within five years. Changes in diet are often prescribed to prevent recurrent symptomatic kidney stones. However, little research […]
4 ‘Micro-Transitions’ In Your Day That May Be Causing You Anxiety
We know that big life changes ― layoffs, health events, a new baby ― can cause a lot of stress. However, there are also tiny shifts in our lives (and even our days!) that are often overlooked when it comes to anxiety. Maybe you dread lying down in bed for the night, or maybe the […]
CDC: Bacteria Causing Deadly Disease Found in U.S. Soil for First Time
The CDC has detected Burkholderia pseudomallei — a bacteria that can cause the rare and sometimes deadly melioidosis disease — in environmental samples along the Gulf Coast region. This marks the first time B. pseudomallei has been found on U.S. soil, but it’s likely the bacteria has been present since at least 2020, and modeling […]
Salmonella Linked to Pet Turtles Has Hospitalized 5, CDC Says
Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, July 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) Tiny turtles are the cause of a multistate outbreak of salmonella that has led to five hospitalizations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The agency has linked an outbreak that has infected at least 15 people in 11 states to turtles […]
Opinion | ‘A Big Step in Combating a Pervasive Myth’: What We Heard This Week
“This is a big step in combating a pervasive myth that continues to cause very real harms to Americans.” — Ryan Marino, MD, of University Hospitals in Cleveland, on a video taken down by the CDC after complaints it misled law enforcement officers about their risk of fentanyl overdose on the job. “As our [monkeypox] […]
Predicting equatorial plasma bubbles with SWARM
Changes in atmospheric density after sunset can cause hot pockets of gas called ‘plasma bubbles’ to form over the Earth’s equator, resulting in communication disruptions between satellites and the Earth. New AI models are now helping scientists to predict plasma bubble events and create a forecast. The work was presented this week at the National […]
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease: Symptoms, Stages, Treatment
What Are the Symptoms and Signs of the Coxsackievirus? The coxsackievirus are RNA viruses, that may cause hand, foot, and mouth disease. The most common signs and symptoms of coxsackievirus infection include: Fever Sore throat Cough Feeling tired Later symptoms and signs of coxsackievirus include: Mouth sores Rash that itches on the palms of the […]
Spiral wave teleportation theory offers new path to defibrillate hearts, terminate arrhythmias
A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia — a heart rate that’s too fast — and multiple spirals cause a state of disorganized contraction known as fibrillation. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a new method to disrupt spiral waves that uses […]