Eating an array of smaller fish could be nutrient-dense solution to overfishing
To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish. The right combination of certain species can provide up to 60% more nutrients than if someone ate the same quantity of even […]
U.S. to Cover PrEP for Older Americans to Stem the Spread of HIV
A proposed federal policy aims to protect older Americans from contracting HIV by offering free preventive medication, the latest effort to catch up to much of Europe and Africa in stemming the spread of the virus. Under the plan from the Biden administration, Medicare would cover patients’ full cost of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, which […]
Yellow Fever Vaccine Potency Wanes Over Time
SEATTLE — A single-dose of vaccine for yellow fever (YF-VAX strain 17D-204) is touted as offering lifelong protection, but the jab’s potency was reduced over time, researchers reported. In blood samples from 22 flavivirus-naïve individuals that were vaccinated for yellow fever within the last 10 years, 9% were 17D seronegative, and almost all (n=21/22) were […]
Online Gender-Affirming Services Can Be Appealing, Though Often Don’t Take Insurance
MIAMI — Some telemedicine companies offering gender-affirming hormone treatment offered an affordable alternative to traditional care models, a researcher reported at the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) annual meeting. A review of available services from six direct-to-consumer platforms — Folx Health, True U Clinic, QueerDoc, Q, TransClinique, and Plume — found that all […]
Universal influenza B vaccine induces broad, sustained protection, biomedical sciences researchers find
A new universal flu vaccine protects against influenza B viruses, offering broad defense against different strains and improved immune protection, according to a new study by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University. The double-layered protein nanoparticle vaccine, which is constructed with a stabilized portion of the influenza virus (the hemagglutinin […]
UK To Offer Monkeypox Vaccines To Some Gay, Bisexual Men
LONDON (AP) — British health officials will start offering vaccines to some men who have sex with men and are at the highest risk of catching monkeypox, in an effort to curb the biggest outbreak of the disease beyond Africa. Doctors can consider vaccination for some men at the highest risk of exposure, Britain’s Health […]
Can Lighter-Weight Mesh Cut Pain in Open Ventral Hernia Repair?
While offering similar clinical benefits at 1 year, a medium-weight polypropylene mesh was no better for pain control than a heavy-weight mesh in patients who underwent open retromuscular ventral hernia repair, a randomized multicenter trial showed. In fact, for the more than 300 patients in the trial, the two meshes resulted in identical pain scores […]