A rise in COVID cases across Colorado means San Miguel County residents should take the necessary precautions to reduce the risk of respiratory illnesses as fall approaches. Pharmacist Karyn Hemphill, who owns Sunshine Pharmacy in Telluride, said there has been a noticeable uptick in COVID-19 cases in the last month. “We’ve seen an increase in […]
AMNA NAWAZ: A new round of COVID-19 boosters will be available within days, as COVID cases and hospitalizations continue to rise across the country. The Food and Drug Administration approved the new shots yesterday, and now the CDC recommended this evening that all Americans 6 months and older should get a new booster. Dr. Mandy […]
The consumption of raw oysters at a Texas restaurant led to the untimely death of a relatively healthy man in his 30s. The man, contracted a bacterial infection known as Vibrio vulnificus that thrives in warm coastal waters. Bacterial infections like this one are on the rise as water temperature continues to increase in response […]
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Newswise — The risk of developing long COVID is significantly lower following an infection with the Omicron variant than after an infection with earlier coronavirus variants. This was the finding of a study by University Medicine Halle, which was published in the “International Journal of Infectious Diseases”. The analysis looked at information gathered from 11,000 […]
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Abstract The relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and rheumatoid arthritis has been investigated, but the results remain controversial. This study aims to determine the association between the two diseases via a 17-year retrospective cohort study. Using the National Health Insurance Research Database, a nationwide population based in Taiwan, we identified 97,533 individuals with H. pylori […]
Mehnaz Qureshi has caught COVID-19 seven times, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted. A veterinarian and a virologist at The Pirbright Institute in England, she first caught the disease in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning; then everyone in her family got sick. While Qureshi’s own symptoms were mild, her family members […]
COVID-19 cases are eking up in Colorado, but local infectious disease doctors aren’t worried — yet. The reason? This isn’t 2020. While three years ago infectious disease experts were grappling to understand how the novel coronavirus was transmitted, today health officials have a number of tools in their arsenal: COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, prior infections […]
Most Americans should get an updated COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said Tuesday. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and older and the agency’s director quickly signed off Tuesday on the panel’s recommendation. That means doses should be available this week, some as early as […]