1+ hour, 43+ min ago  (792+ words) Shingles vaccination may halve the one-year risk of serious cardiac events among older adults who have heart disease, adding to accumulating evidence that the vaccine may protect against health conditions in addition to shingles (herpes zoster), University of California researchers…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (717+ words) Rasi Bhadramani / iStock Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or prolonged evolution in an intermediate…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (622+ words) The findings come as new'data suggest that long-COVID prevalence in the United States may be gradually declining and recovery becoming more common, though millions remain affected. Using health care registry data from the Stockholm region, researchers from the Karolinska Institutet…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago  (974+ words) A report in Nature details a case of likely direct interspecies mpox virus (MPXV) transmission from a fire-footed rope squirrel to wild sooty mangabey monkeys in a Cote d'Ivoire national park in 2023. To investigate the outbreak among a group of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (719+ words) Children and adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) were twice as likely to be diagnosed as having influenza or COVID-19 in the five years following diagnosis than those without the condition, according to a large'study published in the Journal of…...

1+ mon, 19+ min ago  (671+ words) Patients with both severe and nonsevere COVID-19 infections are at higher risk for both new-onset obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and related serious complications than their uninfected peers, Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers report in a'study published this week on…...

1+ mon, 6+ min ago  (607+ words) Carl Lokko / iStock COVID-19 genetic material was frequently detected in hospital air during community outbreaks, even in well-ventilated settings, according to a new'study published in Respiratory Medicine. A team led by Kirby Institute researchers conducted air and surface sampling in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (584+ words) While seasonal flu activity in the United States has decreased for three consecutive weeks and hospitalizations among school-aged children are stable, flu activity remains elevated nationally and influenza-related emergency department visits for school-aged children are increasing, according to the most…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (566+ words) In the past 30 days, APHIS has confirmed avian flu in 67 flocks across the United States, including 18 commercial flocks and 49 backyard flocks. A total of 1.48 million birds have been affected." The Meeker County, Minnesota, January 16 detection involved 250,600 birds; that same county…...

2+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (1400+ words) Seasonal flu activity in the United States remains high nationally but appears to be declining, according to an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The percentage of outpatient visits for influenza-like illness fell from 7.2% to 5.3% but remained…...