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  Diagnostic tests are no longer in short supply, but questions about their accuracy are growing; Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show; Hidden Outbreaks Spread Through U.S. Cities Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say; How to create a COVID-19 alert-level system and supporting communication tools in resource-constrained settings; 'I'm looking for the truth': States face criticism for COVID-19 data cover-ups; Patients with COVID-19 may develop thyroid infection; Study reports the first known case of subacute thyroiditis after COVID-19 infection; Stroke rates among COVID-19 patients are low, but cases are more severe Overall stroke hospital admissions are down globally; Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California; High COVID-19 Attack Rate Among Attendees at Events at a Church — Arkansas, March 2020; Face Coverings Made From Layered Cotton Fabric Likely Slow the Spread of COVID-19 Better Than Synthetics, New Study Finds; Accurate Statistics on COVID-19 Are Essential for Policy Guidance and Decisions; When you cough, how far can it go? Physics suggests we should be ‘distancing’ further; COVID-19 Testing; Intense fitness classes can lead to rapid spread of COVID-19, report shows; Did Fauci Warn Trump in 2017 That a Surprise Outbreak Was Coming?; Did Trump Say More COVID-19 Testing Makes the US Look Bad? The president has been accused of forgetting the people behind the coronavirus case numbers; Global emissions plunged an unprecedented 17 percent during the coronavirus pandemic; Animal source of the coronavirus continues to elude scientists; Development and Validation of a Clinical Risk Score to Predict the Occurrence of Critical Illness in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19; Personal Protective Equipment and Covid-19; The Choice Institute COVID-19 Platform More Vitamin D, Lower Risk of Severe COVID-19?; Mental Health Challenges After COVID-19 Recovery Short- and long-term depression, anxiety, PTSD may be an issue post-ICU; Right Heart Problems Spell Trouble for COVID-19 Patients Portable echocardiography may help identify patients at highest risk; Decline in Child Vaccination Coverage During the COVID-19 Pandemic Michigan Care Improvement Registry, May 2016–May 2020; The US tested the wrong people for coronavirus; Why even a super-accurate Covid-19 test can fail; It's hard to find a disease that's rare; The Coronavirus Killed the Handshake and the Hug. What Will Replace Them?; Coronavirus Can Infect, Inflame the Thyroid; COVID and Sleep: Sweet Dreams Aren’t Made of This; Alterations in Smell or Taste in Mildly Symptomatic Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection;

  5 ways to prevent another 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the US (and beyond) It's time to fix the glaring gaps in death data and drastically improve measures to keep the coronavirus out of nursing homes; Contact Tracing; HEALTH DEPARTMENTS: Interim Guidance on Developing a COVID-19 Case Investigation & Contact Tracing Plan; CONTACT TRACING; Part of a Multipronged Approach to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic; Assessment of Deaths From COVID-19 and From Seasonal Influenza; How Many Covid Deaths? Don’t Ask President Trump The president has expressed skepticism about the fatality figures reported to him by his own experts; Social distancing can’t last forever. Here’s what should come next; Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders; Violent expiratory events: on coughing and sneezing; A Guide for Restoring the Economy that Matters to Americans; Is your community ready to reopen?; Adaptive Response; When and How to Reopen After COVID-19; When and How to Close due to COVID-19 Spread; Cloth masks can help stop the spread of COVID-19, save lives and restore jobs #Masks4All; What face masks actually do against coronavirus; “Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread; An unequal blow; Bat 'super immunity' may explain how bats carry coronaviruses, study finds Bat-virus adaptation may explain species spillover, researchers say; Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 offer insights into virus evolution; We don't have a president, or a plan 60 days into the coronavirus crisis, the White House does not have a plan, a framework, a philosophy, or a goal; How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease;

  COVID-19 Sequelae Can Linger for Weeks Even patients with mild cases describe persistent fatigue, trouble breathing, cardiac issues; New Inflammatory Condition in Children Probably Linked to Coronavirus, Study Finds; The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them; Biologist: Sharing Enclosed Space Leads To Massive Spread Of Coronavirus; Smell Diminishes by Day 3 of COVID-19, Study Says; Why COVID-19 Flare-Ups Will Keep Happening; A Brief History of TP, From Silk Road Hygiene to Pandemic Hoarding; An author's end-game expertise has never been more timely; COVID-19 lockdowns significantly impacting global air quality; Federalism Is an Asset: How to Activate It to Build a National Pandemic Testing Program; COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint; The White House reportedly suppressed CDC guidance for reopening safely The CDC created a detailed document with recommendations for how schools, religious institutions, and businesses might safely reopen; After Recovery From the Coronavirus, Most People Carry Antibodies A new study adds to evidence of immunity among those who have already been exposed to the pathogen; Humoral immune response and prolonged PCR positivity in a cohort of 1343 SARS-CoV 2 patients in the New York City region; A serological assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion in humans; Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients; How Pandemics End An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide?; Guidance: Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19; Kawasaki Disease From COVID-19 in Kids: How Common? Warnings out on inflammatory syndrome but many questions remain; Kids with Kawasaki disease symptoms possibly linked to COVID-19; coronavirus infection leading to critical illness in children remains very infrequent; Print Resources - Educational Information about COVID-19; What You Can do if You are at Higher Risk of Severe Illness from COVID-19; Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) When Caring for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19; Summer Is Coming, but the Virus Won't Be Going; Confirmed: Kids Can Get Severe COVID-19 Like in adults, comorbidities a major risk factor; U.S. Viral Testing Data; United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State; Why America's coronavirus testing barely improved in April; What Trump's refusal to wear a mask says about masculinity in America; From the president to stay-at-home protesters, a mask-less face has become a stand-in for manliness; How a COVID-19 Testing Model No One Is Talking About Could Save Thousands of Lives; 11 questions about the coronavirus we still can't answer Here's what we don't know about the coronavirus and why it really matters; How large superspreader events turned into coronavirus hot spots This is why large gatherings should be the last normal activity to come back after Covid-19 is contained; A Coronavirus Mystery Explained: Moscow Has 1,700 Extra Deaths Russia's government has boasted of a low coronavirus mortality rate, but figures from an obscure city agency cast doubt on those claims; New York area's 'patient zero' says coronavirus 'wasn't on my mind' when he got sick;

  There Is Still No Plan; We don't have a president, or a plan 60 days into the coronavirus crisis, the White House does not have a plan, a framework, a philosophy, or a goal; Coronavirus was in Italy already in December, sewage study shows; More Data Suggest Proning Helps COVID-19 Patients Observational data add to evidence of benefit in ARDS, though randomized trials still needed; COVID-19 United States Cases by County; United States COVID-19 Coronavirus Case Tracker; Coronavirus map: Tracking the spread in the US and around the world; How did we get here; Characteristics Associated with Hospitalization Among Patients with COVID-19 — Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, March–April 2020; How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic; Genes, Blood Type Tied to Risk of Severe COVID-19; Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure; What's the Rarest Blood Type?; How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic What Does Asymptomatic COVID-19 Look Like Under the Surface? — Many individuals show subclinical abnormalities as well as differences from symptomatic patients; How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases; Considerations for Travelers—Coronavirus in the US; Considerations for Events and Gatherings; Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China; Endcoronavirus.org; Important New IES Report: Germicidal Ultraviolet and COVID-19 The Illuminating Engineering Society releases new report on Germicidal Ultraviolet (GUV) and how it could reduce the spread of COVID-19; Germicidal Ultraviolet (GUV) Frequently Asked Questions; SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Shares Sequence with a Human Protein; Eight amino acids are identical to part of the human epithelial sodium channel, leading researchers to suspect the virus might interfere with the channel's function; A COVID-19 Primer: Analyzing Health Care Claims, Administrative Data, and Public Use Files; Can you get COVID-19 through the ventilation in your home?; Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality;

  Social Distancing During Pandemics; Children are falling ill with perplexing inflammatory syndrome thought to be linked to covid-19; The emerging long-term complications of Covid-19, explained It is a true roller coaster of symptoms and severities, with each new day offering many unknowns. Coronavirus Ravaged a Choir. But Isolation Helped Contain It; Identification and Monitoring of International Travelers During the Initial Phase of an Outbreak of COVID-19 California, February 3-March 17, 2020; Contact Tracing: What We Can Learn From Outbreaks In Other Countries To Fight the Coronavirus | NPR; Kids' COVID-Linked Ailment Is Not Your Typical Kawasaki Disease, A number of differences emerging, but U.S. data still scant; The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in SARS-CoV-2 transmission; Use of Prone Positioning in Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19 and Hypoxemic Acute Respiratory Failure; CORD-19; COVID-19 Open Research Dataset; Coronavirus Disease 2019 Case Surveillance — United States; AHRQ COVID-19 Resources;Coronavirus Recovery; COVID-19 Is More Severe in Smokers; How a superspreader at choir practice sickened 52 people with COVID-19; COVID-19 may spread through breathing and talking — but we don't know how much; Speech-related spread could help explain why people can spread the virus before they develop a cough; PICS Statement: Increased number of reported cases of novel presentation of multisystem inflammatory disease; Contact tracing, explained; Contact tracing for COVID-19: New considerations for its practical application; These Are the Ways the CDC Wants Your Favorite Restaurant to Look Totally Different;

  Here's How Long It Takes to Test Positive for Coronavirus After Exposure; Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Visits — United States, January 1, 2019–May 30, 2020; What to Do If You Are Sick; Genes May Leave Some People More Vulnerable to Severe Covid-19; Geneticists have turned up intriguing links between DNA and the disease. Patients with Type A blood, for example, seem to be at greater risk; COVID-19 Briefing Materials: Global Health and Crisis Response; COVID-19 Briefing Note: May 13, 2020; COVID-19 Implications for Business: June 4, 2020 SARS-CoV-2 looks like a hybrid of viruses from two different species Pieces of several genomes recombined to produce the pandemic-causing pathogen; New Air Travel Health Regulations Will Likely Stick Around Post-Coronavirus; The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others?; Advice for parents during coronavirus; Top NYC Pediatrician Warns of Alarming New Information About COVID-19 and Kids; The Coronavirus Becomes a Battle Cry for U.S. Extremists White supremacists seek to stoke the fear and disruption caused by the pandemic to push their agenda and to recruit; COVID-19: Alert Over Multisystem Hyperinflammatory State in Children; Centers for Disease Control and PreventionSituation Update; The essential worker trap ,It's hard to get unemployment benefits if you've been deemed essential; Why Do Countries' COVID-19 Death Rates Vary So Much? Multiple factors at play: testing capacity, case definitions, age distribution, preparedness; What We Know About Your Chances of Catching the Virus Outdoors; Talking Can Generate Coronavirus Droplets That Linger Up to 14 Minutes; Stay 6 Feet Apart, We're Told. But How Far Can Air Carry Coronavirus? Most of the big droplets travel a mere six feet. The role of tiny aerosols is the trillion-dollar question; Deciding How Much Distance You Should Keep; Stay 6 Feet Apart, We’re Told. But How Far Can Air Carry Coronavirus? Most of the big droplets travel a mere six feet. The role of tiny aerosols is the “trillion-dollar question; COVID-19 Antibodies Can Disappear After 2-3 Months; How Coronavirus Infected Some, but Not All, in a Restaurant A limited study by Chinese researchers suggests the role played by air currents in spreading the illness in enclosed spaces; Virus Test Shortages Undermine Drive to Restart U.S. Economy;

  COVID-19 Data Repository; NIST Scientific Indexing Resource, COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19); NIST COVID19 Resource Registry; Curated Archive for Covid-19 Research Challenge Dataset; Why You Shouldn't Treat COVID-19 ARDS Like HAPE. You might kill your patients, group warns; NYC Case Series Describes Clinical Features of ST-Segment Elevation and COVID-19 -ST-segment elevations not always tied to obstructive coronary artery disease; The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others? Experts are trying to figure out why the coronavirus is so capricious. The answers could determine how to best protect ourselves and how long we have to; How The Coronavirus Attacks Your Lungs | Deep Look; SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is an interferon-stimulated gene in human airway epithelial cells and is detected in specific cell subsets across tissues; U.K. Report Backs Stroke as COVID-19 Complication; French hospital discovers coronavirus case from December, country's possible 'patient zero': report; CDC compiles new guidelines to help organizations reopen; CDC Business Plans Draft COVID-19 reopening guidance from CDC; Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread; To Fight Virus in Prisons, C.D.C. Suggests More Screenings The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that detention facilities are hot spots for infection and recommended regular symptom screenings; COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities United States, February-April 2020; Deadly Disease; Lung scarring, heart damage, and anxiety: Some Covid-19 survivors face long-term complications; It is a true roller coaster of symptoms and severities, with each new day offering many unknowns: the Vox guide to navigating the coronavirus crisis; The Nature of the Virus to Mutate: Mapping the Spread of a Coronavirus' s new mystery: It's causing strokes in healthy people These people are clotting, and we can't shut it off.The New York City Subway May Work Differently After COVID-19;

  Protesting During A Pandemic Isn't New: Meet The Anti-Mask League Of 1918; COVID-19 Found in Semen -- What Does That Mean? Jury still out on implications for sexual transmission; How to weigh the risk of going out in the coronavirus pandemic, in one chart; Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at Two Family Gatherings Chicago, Illinois, February-March 2020; Inflamed brains, toe rashes, strokes: Why COVID-19's weirdest symptoms are only emerging now; Blood Vessels in Lungs Split in Response to COVID-19; Interpreting Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2; Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2 in Patients With COVID-19; Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience major complications; Can plasma from COVID-19 survivors help save others?; Why some nurses have quit during the coronavirus pandemic "Right now, nurses don't feel like heroes. We feel expendable."; Planning for a COVID-19 Vaccination Program; Why are viruses hard to kill? Virologists explain why these tiny parasites are so tough to treat "The fact that they are not alive means they don't have to play by the same rules that living things play by, a virologist said; Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Pediatric Vaccine Ordering and Administration United States, 2020; This Is the Future of the Pandemic Covid-19 isn;t going away soon. Two recent studies mapped out the possible shapes of its trajectory; Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period; A New Coronavirus Threat to Children; Children Are Falling Ill With a Baffling Ailment Related to Covid-19; How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?The government's disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies; Coronavirus Testing In Boston's Homeless Community Shows Shelter Size And Density Matter; Epidemic Disease Occurrence; There One Big Reason the U.S. Economy Can't Reopen The country faces the same problem today that it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus; Should You Get an Antibody Test? A user's guide to the immune system;

  How the CDC compromised its coronavirus testing totals; COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others?; COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season; The UK's public health response to covid-19; Targeting Immune Responses in Kids' COVID-19 Inflammatory Disorder IVIG, steroids, biologics all tried, with suggestions of success; COVID-19: Why Are People With Diabetes at Increased Risk?; COVID-19 Nursing Home Data; Use of Prone Positioning in Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19 and Hypoxemic Acute Respiratory Failure; Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C); Agriculture Workers and Employers Interim Guidance from CDC and the U.S. Department of Labor; Meat and Poultry Processing Facility Assessment Toolkit; National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN): LTCF COVID-19 Module; Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19; Lockdowns prevented nearly 5 million U.S. coronavirus cases, study says; WHO Says Asymptomatic Spread Of Coronavirus 'Very Rare,' But Experts Raise Questions; In the W.H.O.'s Coronavirus Stumbles, Some Scientists See a Pattern; First Reported Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Companion Animals New York, March-April 2020; Effect of Convalescent Plasma Therapy on Time to Clinical Improvement in Patients With Severe and Life-threatening COVID-19 A Randomized Clinical Trial; How long does the coronavirus last inside the body? Researchers are narrowing down how long the virus persists inside the body and whether people can be quickly re-infected; Study identifies potential approach to treat severe respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19; Syndromic management of anogenital discharges and ulcers during the COVID-19 outbreak, New York City, 2020; Presumptive oral treatment of uncomplicated anogenital gonorrhea infection in the absence of ready access to injectable treatment during the COVID-19 crisis, New York City, 2020; Information for People Exposed to a Sexually Transmitted Infection

  (STI): Getting Treatment Without Seeing a Doctor During the COVID-19 Outbreak; Coronavirus Testing In Boston's Homeless Community Shows Shelter Size And Density Matter; The government still doesn't know how many nursing homes have coronavirus outbreaks The lag in data collection is just one of a number of bottlenecks in the effort to slow the virus' deadly spread in nursing homes across the U.S.; A mutant coronavirus has emerged, even more contagious than the original, study says; Can COVID-19 spread through fecal matter? Studies indicate genetic material of virus showing up in stool; Study confirms cats can become infected with and may transmit COVID-19 to other cats; Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings (2007) The natural history and transmission potential of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection; COVID-19 safety: Tips for travel, restaurants, and the gym; Government COVID-19 resources for older adults; Ventilator/Ventilator Support Also known as Mechanical Ventilator, Breathing Machine; Genomic determinants of pathogenicity in SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses; People With O Blood Type Appear to Have a Lower Risk of Catching Coronavirus, Preliminary Study Says; Coronavirus symptoms: What are they and how do I protect myself?; COVID Racial Data Tracker; State Grades; GAO: Insufficient testing data hurt COVID-19 tracking efforts; Coronavirus Oversight An ongoing review of the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic and oversight of related spending; COVID-19 : Opportunities to Improve Federal Response and Recovery Efforts Report to the Congress;

• Progression to type 2 diabetes in women with a known history of gestational diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis; Do Artificial Sweeteners Promote Diabetes?;
• Epidemiology A- L New section: Death Statistics: Deaths in New York City Are More Than Double the Usual Total; How Many People Have Actually Died From Coronavirus in New York? ;
• Fitness Activity Planner Ready to get more active this week?; Celebrate National Physical Fitness & Sports Month; Number of steps per day more important than step intensity ;
• Healthcare Quality Issues The fascinating history of clinical trials. Tales of Ginseng, TB, rhubarb and coronavirus;
• Health Education Resources Are You an Information Seeker or Avoider? ;
• Why Our Planet is a Breeding Ground for Emerging Diseases;
• Preventing, Diagnosing, and Managing Tick-borne Diseases;
• Maternal Child Health 2020 Recommended Immunizations for Children from Birth Through 6 Years Old;
• Nutrition Resources The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow; 20 Foods That Age You 20 Years; European Food Safety Authority; Our ability to focus may falter after eating one meal high in saturated fat How Long Does Canned Food Last? Here's What You Need to Know They can actually last well beyond their printed "expiration" date;
• Fatty Liver Afflicts Most 9/11 'Ground Zero' Workers, Researchers blame toxin exposure during recovery and cleanup effort;
• Public Health E-News Table of Contents January;
• Public Health Continuing Education Opportunities Leadership Skills for Managing Worker Stress and Fatigue through COVID-19; Public Health Training Courses Online;
• Public Health Data Behavioral and Clinical Characteristics of Persons with Diagnosed HIV Infection Medical Monitoring Project, United States 2018 Cycle (June 2018–May 2019); Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States 2014–2018; HIV and Asians; HIV and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders; Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2018; Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States 2014–2018; Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States, 2010–2018 Chartbook;
• Public Health Data MATERNAL MORTALITY: Trends in Pregnancy-Related Deaths and Federal Efforts to Reduce Them ;
• Public Health Sites D-G Marijuana may impair female fertility; Fracking chemical may interfere with male sex hormone receptor; Prevalence of Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms Among People With Regular or Dependent Use of Cannabinoids A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis; Guidance for Law Enforcement and First Responders Administering Naloxone; Why "Positive Vibes Only" Won't Make You Emotionally Strong; The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists; But increasing acceptance in many countries over past two decades; Maternal Exposure to Phthalates During Preconception Tied to Higher Risk of Preterm Birth -Phthalate metabolites in urine associated with a 50% to 70% increased relative risk for preterm birth; The exposome: When our environment drives health and disease; 'Iso,' a Deadly New Synthetic Opioid, Has Hit American Streets;
• Public Health Sites M - N Chartbook on Healthcare for Asians and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders Chartbook on Asians and NHPIs: Slide Presentation;
• Public Health Sites O-Z Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs); STDs, also known as sexually transmitted infections (STIs); ; Looking Ahead: Improving Our Vision for the Future; Impaired Visual Acuity and Glaucoma in Adults: Screening;
• Research Resources on the Net Research Teams Reach Different Results From Same Brain-Scan Data. When 70 independent teams were tasked with analyzing identical brain images, no two teams chose the same approach and their conclusions were highly variable.; Why do researchers do different kinds of clinical studies?; The fascinating history of clinical trials. Tales of Ginseng, TB, rhubarb and coronavirus;
• Poor sleep linked with higher blood sugar levels in African Americans;;
• Statistical Procedures Standardized Rates of Disease; Age-adjusted Rates; Understanding Health Statistics;
• The Real Cost of Vaping; The Health Impacts of E-Cigarettes; Monitoring the Future 2019 Survey Results: Vaping;E-Cigarette Characteristics May Influence Use and Are Potential Targets for Regulatory Policy; The Risks of Vaping; A Look at Safety; Estimated Worldwide Mortality Attributed to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure, 1990-2016; Monitoring the Future 2019 - Vaping Findings; NIH Workshop on E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI): Developing a Research Agenda; Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function Detected at Quantitative MRI; Subclinical Vascular Damage From Vaping May Spell Long-Term Ills; Findings of endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress despite limited long-term evidence;
• US Government Statistics On the Cusp of Adulthood and Facing an Uncertain Future: What We Know About Gen Z So Far; Law Enforcement Offcers Killed and Assaulted, 2019; Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability in the United States: Dating, Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce; Characteristics of Public and Private Elementary and Secondary School Teachers in the United States: Results From the 2017–18 National Teacher and Principal Survey;
• Webmastering Tools Optimization Glossary; ;
• Web Resources How to Read a Floppy Disk on a Modern PC or Mac;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Glucose levels linked to maternal mortality even in non-diabetic women; Maternal Substance Use: Consequences, Identification, and Interventions
• Women's Health Issues Screening for Anxiety in Adolescent and Adult Women: A Recommendation From the Women's Preventive Services Initiative; Anxiety Screening Recommended for All Women; But for it to work, mental health care needs to be more accessible;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Female Cancers Alcohol's Effects on Breast Cancer in Women;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke; More Evidence Sugary Drinks Harm Women's Hearts; Drinking sugary drinks daily may be linked to higher risk of CVD in women ;
• Writing How to spot fake news; Factcheck.org; List of fake news websites; An Illustrated History of Government Agencies Twisting the Truth to Align With White House Misinformation; Real News/Fake News: Fact Checkers; Which Experts Should You Listen to during the Pandemic? It should be a no-brainer: your best bet is to follow those who have actual expertise

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• Academic Resources Want to Reduce Brain Fog And Improve Clear Thinking? Give up These Things Immediately; Smartphones are lowering student's grades on closed-book exams Rutgers study found relying on the internet for homework is hurting long-term retention; 7 Modern Life Habits That Can Be Incredibly Bad For Your Brain Health; Exercise improves learning and memory in young adults;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Andy Weir, Artemis, A Novel ;
• Annotated Public Health Practice Bibliography Sullivan, L.M. & Galea,S. (Editors) (2019). Teaching Public Health; Friel, S. (2019). Climate Change and the People's Health;
• Chronic Disease Index National security depends on promoting healthy lifestyles from an early age; Prioritizing health: A prescription for prosperity;
• Certain Social, Behavioral Factors Associated With Diabetes and Hypertension Onset; Education and exercise may determine early start of diabetes and hypertension; Lipids and Lipoproteins in 2020;
• What happens when babies with heart defects become adults?; ESC Guidelines for the management of adult congenital heart disease; How to treat the most common heart attacks; Trends in Recurrent Coronary Heart Disease Following Myocardial Infarction Among US Women and Men Between 2008 and 2017;
• Chinese Culture Diabetes and Asian Americans; 'I Will Not Stand Silent.' 10 Asian Americans Reflect on Racism During the Pandemic and the Need for Equality; Over 800 COVID-19-Related Hate Incidents Against Asian Americans Take Place in California in Three Months; 150 members of Congress demand Justice Department action against anti-Asian, COVID-19 racism "We did not understand why the Department of Justice wasn't doing more in countering hate crimes," said Rep. Ted Lieu, who led the bipartisan effort; Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say; Personal and Social Activities; Virus Of Hate: A Catalyst For Activism; A Chinese perspective on autumn;
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  COVID-19“Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children” United States, March-July 2020; Even Asymptomatic People Carry the Coronavirus in High Amounts, Researchers in South Korea found that roughly 30 percent of those infected never develop symptoms yet probably spread the virus; Performative masculinity is making American men sick American men are failing the pandemic; Obesity, race play roles in severe COVID-19 illness among kids. As of July 31, more than 338,000 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with COVID-19; Duke University Face Masks Study: Which Work the Best?; What Happens to Viral Particles on the Subway; How one man spread coronavirus to NINE other people on his bus in China: Scientists find the deadly virus can travel four times the 'safe' distance and linger in the air for over 30 minutes in confined places; Journal retracts study on how far coronavirus can spread through droplets; The Challenges of Going Back to School; Does high blood sugar worsen COVID-19 outcomes?; Pasteurization inactivates COVID-19 virus in human milk: new research; Masks, PPE materials should be hydrophilic; Why does COVID-19 impact only some organs, not others?; Asymptomatic COVID: Silent, but Maybe Not Harmless; Many COVID Outbreaks Traced to Restaurants, Bars; Coronavirus prompts closing of Georgia high school in district with over 1K in quarantine "We know all parents do not believe the scientific research that indicates masks are beneficial," said the district chief where over 1,100 students and staff are in quarantine;

  COVID-19 Tied to Large Vessel Strokes-Adjusted LVO risk was more than twice that of patients who tested negative for SARS-CoV-2; Contact Tracing Apps; Clinical Characteristics of 58 Children With a Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2; Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Related to COVID-19 in Previously Healthy Children and Adolescents in New York City; Chicken wings test positive for Covid-19 in China, but there's no evidence of food transmission, experts say; COVID-19 Damage Seen in Olfactory System; Autopsy report shows direct SARS-CoV-2 infection in olfactory bulb cells; Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic United States, June 24–30, 2020; COVID-19 Was Worse Than the Flu in NYC... the 1918 Flu Recent mortality rates were historically high, researchers found; Coronavirus Disease 2019 Case Surveillance — United States, January 22–May 30, 2020; Your Hot-Weather Guide to Coronavirus, Air-Conditioning and Airflow. Indoor air is riskier than outdoor air. So what do you do if it's really hot out?; Seroprevalence Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Convenience Sample” Oregon, May 11-June 15, 2020 Your Hot-Weather Guide to Coronavirus, Air-Conditioning and Airflow. Indoor air is riskier than outdoor air. So what do you do if it's really hot out?;

  Our Hot-Weather Guide to Coronavirus, Air-Conditioning and Airflow. Indoor air is riskier than outdoor air. So what do you do if it's really hot out?;

  Seroprevalence Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Convenience Sample” Oregon, May 11-June 15, 2020 Nursing Homes See Spike in New COVID Cases Due to Community Spread; Measure the risk of airborne COVID-19 in your office, classroom, or bus ride; What 'airborne coronavirus' means, and how to protect yourself The COVID-19 pandemic has revived a decades-old debate about how respiratory diseases travel” which affects the safety practices experts recommend; Q&A: Ventilation and air conditioning and COVID-19; Q&A: Ventilation and air conditioning in public spaces and buildings and COVID-19; Q&A: Ventilation and air conditioning in health facilities and COVID-19; Filtration and Disinfection; Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks; College towns fear super-spreader semester as students descend; Party with 400 people shut down during students' first weekend back at ECU, cops say; Caring for Someone With COVID-19; Coronavirus Cases Drop 46% In Parts Of S. Carolina With Mask Mandates Compared To Areas Without; Long after the fire of a Covid-19 infection, mental and neurological effects can still smolder; Thousands of students, staff sent home nationwide as COVID snarls school reopenings Only 17 states meet the WHO's criteria for safely reopening a community; Hybrid schooling could be a public health disaster, some doctors warn; Duration of Isolation and Precautions for Adults with COVID-19; A mathematical model reveals the influence of population heterogeneity on herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2; Interim SARS-CoV-2 Guidance and Recommendations for Farmed Mink and Other Mustelids; COVID-19 spikes in South Africa, Melbourne offer America clues ahead of winter 2020 Will the U.S., which has so far failed repeatedly to get ahead of COVID-19's spread, start paying attention in time?; Trends in Number and Distribution of COVID-19 Hotspot Counties — United States, March 8-July 15, 2020; This Is What Fueled California's Deadly COVID Outbreak, New Study Says MANY CORONAVIRUS DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF THE STATE HAD BEEN BETTER PREPARED; SARS-CoV-2 Natural Transmission from Human to Cat, Belgium, March 2020; Dangerous Oleander Extract Not a COVID-19 Cure "That would definitely end up killing people";

  50 Top Legal Experts Find U.S. Policy Response to COVID-19 Dangerously Lacking, Recommend Steps to Safeguard Health, Civil and Human Rights; Cardiac Arrest Tracked Stages of Lockdown - Researchers blame delayed heart attack presentation; Coronavirus Doctors Battle Another Scourge: Misinformation; Physicians say they regularly treat people more inclined to believe what they read on Facebook than what a medical professional tells them; Visualizing Changes in Nitrogen Dioxide Levels During the COVID-19 Pandemic; COVID-19 hospitalizations analysis shows disparities across racial and ethnic groups; Coronavirus appears to thrive in dry air Australian study adds weight to hypothesis; Humidity is a consistent climatic factor contributing to SARS-CoV-2 transmission; Coronavirus is spreading in schools, but the federal government isn't keeping count. Researchers say the absence of a comprehensive accounting is hampering efforts to identify which safety practices can best protect students and teachers; Using a public restroom? Mask up! Flushing public restroom toilets or urinals can spew clouds of particles carrying viruses, including COVID-19; Aging heart cells offer clues to susceptibility of older people to severe COVID-19; Low humidity increases COVID-19 risk: Another reason to wear a mask Dry air could prompt further disease spread; Airborne viruses can spread on dust, non-respiratory particles; F.D.A.'s Emergency Approval of Blood Plasma Is Now on Hold; Effect of Convalescent Plasma on Mortality among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: Initial Three-Month Experience; Maine CDC Investigates COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Wedding Reception in Millinocket; Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won't Go Away From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most persistent false claims about the pandemic; Unfriendly Skies: COVID-19 Transmission on a Plane - High above the clouds, small study finds airborne transmission might be possible; Michigan State And Notre Dame Suspend In-Person Learning Over COVID-19 Concerns;

  Sniffing Out Where Virus First Strikes in COVID-19” More context for why COVID-19 patients might lose sense of smell Op-Ed: Death Counts and Despair” Are we growing numb to the COVID carnage?; Some Coronavirus Patients Are Reporting Symptoms That Last Months. Nobody Knows Exactly How to Treat Them; COVID-19 and a loss of smell: Why the virus may hinder this sense A loss of smell can be caused by nasal congestion. But it happens in COVID-19 patients even without a stuffed-up nose; Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care; How to conserve your energy Practical advice for people during and after having COVID-19; COVID-19 Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons -23 States, January 31–July 3, 2020; Homerton University Hospital. ACERS: Post COVID-19 patient information pack; The Remote Misses of COVID-19; How to conserve your energy. Practical advice for people during and after having COVID-19; COVID-19 deaths analyzed by race and ethnicity — APM Research Lab; These variables affect whether you live, die or get help during the pandemic; Even Covid-19 tests that aren't perfect can help control the pandemic; CMS Warns of COVID-19 Spike in Nursing Homes — One or two cases in a home can spread to half of its residents in a "matter of hours," CMS chief says; REPORT: Nursing Homes See Spike in New COVID Cases Due to Community Spread in Sun Belt States UPDATED AUGUST 17, 2020; Wildfire Smoke and COVID-19; How to report misinformation online; RESEARCH ARTICLE Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech; First daily surveillance of emerging COVID-19 hotspots; Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States; Blood clots and lung injuries found in patients who have died of COVID-19;

  COVID19Scan Interactive Web Map; Effect of Remdesivir vs Standard Care on Clinical Status at 11 Days in Patients With Moderate COVID-19 A Randomized Clinical Trial; What to Know About COVID-19 Tests, From PCR to Antigen to Antibody; What Is the Impact of the Current Pandemic on Stroke Care?; COVID-19: Severity and Characteristics In the Young; COVID-19: What Do We Know About Hypercoagulation?; Gaps in early surveillance of coronavirus led to record-breaking US trajectory; Inconsistencies in data presentation could harm efforts against COVID-19 New research shows broad array of different content, formats in data available on national public health institutes' websites; Genomic analysis reveals many animal species may be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection; COVID-19 Associated With Some Components of Myocardial Injury-Research raises possibility of direct viral infection of the heart; Prone Positioning for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS); Two European patients re-infected with coronavirus; Smoking Gun Found for Virus in MIS-C Heart Damage Case — First case report documenting viral particles in the heart in MIS-C; COVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act; You can get reinfected with Covid-19 but still have immunity. Let's explain; No Data Behind CDC's Testing Guideline Change — Absent any evidence, experts speculate that supply shortages, politics influenced agency's decision; Going to a Public Disaster Shelter During the COVID-19 Pandemic; No Data Behind CDC's Testing Guideline Change” Absent any evidence, experts speculate that supply shortages, politics influenced agency's decision; Clinical Characteristics and Viral RNA Detection in Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the Republic of Korea; DA Warns Consumers About Hand Sanitizer Packaged in Food and Drink Containers; Key Cytokines May Help Predict Severity of COVID-19-Risk of death with higher levels of these cytokines was at least twofold, lab study shows; Depression Has Skyrocketed During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Says; University Of Arizona Prevented Coronavirus Outbreak On Campus By Testing Wastewater;

  Six feet might not be enough social distance to protect against the coronavirus, experts warn; SCHOOL REOPENING GUIDANCE FOR FAMILIES AND TEACHERS; How the Aging Immune System Makes Older People Vulnerable to Covid-19 As we age, the immune system begins to shift into a heightened state of alert, dialing up inflammation and running out of certain immune cells; Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19?; The Real Reason Post-COVID Myocarditis Is a Worry; Long-Term Lung, Health Issues Common in COVID-19; US Mobility Trends During the Pandemic; To Test Spread of Coronavirus, These Scientists Put on a Concert; Q&A: Staying at hotels and accommodation establishments and COVID-19; In tiny llama antibodies, researchers see hope for a coronavirus treatment; Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick; Sewage Testing on University Campus Identifies Asymptomatic Covid Cases; Brief Update on Initial Federal Response to the Pandemic; Quilting Cotton Face Masks Better Than Bandanas; How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Changed Cancer Care, In 4 Charts; COVID-19 reinfection reported in Nevada patient, researchers say; Sleeping Through a Pandemic” Three distinct profiles of sleep changes seen in the general population; Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Frontline Health Care Personnel in a Multistate Hospital Network” 13 Academic Medical Centers, April-June 2020; Visualization shows face shields may not protect against COVID-19 spread; The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel's Statement on the Emergency Use Authorization of Convalescent Plasma for the Treatment of COVID-19; COVID-19 often goes undiagnosed in hospital workers; virus may impair heart functions; Consumers Have Adopted New Habits Since the Pandemic, but Don't Think They're All Here to Stay; COVID-19 Testing: Understanding the Percent Positive; How "COVID fatigue" clouds judgment and endangers public health; How a Bus Ride Turned Into a Coronavirus Superspreader Event One-third of passengers aboard a bus were infected by a fellow passenger, scientists reported;

  Vaping Links to Covid Risk Are Becoming Clear; Dermatology Has a Problem With Skin Color; Common conditions often manifest differently on dark skin. Yet physicians are trained mostly to diagnose them on white skin; Does Your Blood Type Predict COVID-19 Severity?; Is COVID-19 Risk Linked to Blood Type?; Face-mask use in the United States A regularly surveyed representative sample of Americans¹ about their own use of face-masks² due to COVID-19 and their perception of whether 'their neighbors' are also wearing face masks; Mariposa County COVID-19 Dashboard; Homeless Man Shatters Windows of Chinatown Restaurants; Genome Data Help Track Community Spread of COVID-19; Clinical Outcomes in Young US Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19 9/2020; Regardless of Age, Obesity and Hypertension Increase Risks With COVID-19; Permanent Nerve Damage for Some COVID-19 Survivors; The 1918 flu is still with us: The deadliest pandemic ever is still causing problems today; Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 Outbreaks Associated with Child Care Facilities” Salt Lake City, Utah, April-July 2020; Delay or Avoidance of Medical Care Because of COVID-19“Related Concerns” United States, June 2020;

  Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults 18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities” United States, July 2020; CDC: Dining Out Tied to Coronavirus Infection” Study suggests complete safety not possible with reopened restaurants; Anticoagulation Again Shown to Improve Survival in COVID-19 Patients; The Multiplicative Power of Masks; An Explorable Essay on How Masks Can End COVID-19; The coronavirus may have reached Los Angeles even before China announced its outbreak; Italy's Bergamo is calling back coronavirus survivors. About half say they haven't fully recovered; More than half a million children in the U.S. have had COVID-19 The new data are a "chilling reminder" to take the coronavirus seriously, one expert said; How To Protect Yourself From Coronavirus That Can Linger In The Air; Novel Coronavirus Reports; COVID Hypoxemia: Finally, an Explanation; COVID-19 and the Path to Immunity; For Long-Haulers, Covid-19 Takes a Toll on Mind as Well as Body makes you depressed, anxious that it's never going to go away.; U.K. Study Pinpoints Older Age and Blood Cancers as Predictors of COVID-19 Risk, Mortality;

  Post-COVID Heart Scans Without Symptoms: Not a Good Idea” Multidisciplinary group urges against general population screening; COVIDView.jpg COVID Data Tracker; COVID-19 Cases, Data, Surveillance' Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19; The politically appointed HHS spokesperson and his team demanded and received the right to review CDC's scientific reports to health professionals; Manipulation of data Reporting; Political Appointees Meddled in C.D.C.˜Holiest of the Holy Health Reports; Emails show HHS official trying to muzzle Fauci Emails obtained by POLITICO show a top aide at the department dictating what the nation's top infections disease expert should say during media interviews; From doctors as patients: a manifesto for tackling persisting symptoms of covid-19; Texas officials change how the state reports positivity rate after testing backlogs skewed coronavirus data; West Coast wildfires heighten coronavirus risk; CDC: Most Kids Dying From Coronavirus Had Underlying Conditions" Enormous racial-ethnic disparities revealed as well; Most Kids Dying From Coronavirus Had Underlying Conditions” Enormous racial-ethnic disparities revealed as well; MMWR- COVID-19 Reports;

  COVID-19 Risk 10-Fold Higher for Opioid Abusers Substance use disorders in general tied to higher coronavirus hospitalization rates; Trump lied about science; What Is the Risk of Catching the Coronavirus on a Plane?; CDC: Kids Catch Coronavirus and Give It to Their Parents” So much for "kids get COVID, but they don't spread it"' Report: Trump Officials Altering CDC Scientific Reports To Fit Covid-19 Coronavirus Message; The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America; Echocardiography Reveals Myocardial Injury in MIS-C Associated With COVID-19; The Risk Of Severe COVID-19 Within Households Of School Employees And School-Age Children; Holiday Celebrations; U.S. coronavirus map: What do the trends mean for you?; The Straight Poop on Tracking COVID-19 in Communities” More evidence for wastewater as another epidemiological tool to monitor outbreaks; Updated CDC guidance acknowledges coronavirus can spread through the air; Low-cost, frequent COVID-19 screening of asymptomatic people could decrease infections, deaths and be cost-effective; Thousands of passengers on commercial flights may have been exposed to coronavirus in 2020, CDC says; Substance use disorders linked to COVID-19 susceptibility; The Latest COVID-19 Phishing Attacks to be Aware of (Plus 21+ ; Finding Effective Treatments for COVID-19 Scientific Integrity and Public Confidence in a Time of Crisis; T cells take the lead in controlling SARS-CoV-2 and reducing COVID-19 disease severity;

  Finding may help explain why people 65 and above face a higher risk of falling critically ill with COVID-19; Coronavirus May Increase Premature Births, Studies Suggest New studies provide more evidence that pregnant women may get severe Covid-19 symptoms and have an increased risk of pregnancy loss; Change in Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 Over 60 Days Among Health Care Personnel in Nashville, Tennessee; SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Hospitalized Pregnant Women: Reasons for Admission and Pregnancy Characteristics — Eight U.S. Health Care Centers, March 1–May 30, 2020; CDC: More Than Half of Pregnant Women With COVID-19 Lacked Symptoms; Vindicated Covid-19 models warn pandemic is far from over Modelers have watched with a mixture of horror and frustration as their projections of the pandemic's evolution have come to fruition; Public Health Experts Worried About Possible COVID-19 Data Manipulation; Similarities and Differences between Flu and COVID-19; Virus Cases Surged in Young Adults. The Elderly Were Hit Next; Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic” United States, May-August 2020; Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients With and Without COVID-19; Transmission of 2019-nCoV Infection from an Asymptomatic Contact in Germany; Data on COVID-19 during Pregnancy; Johns Hopkins's coronavirus tracker has become a gold standard, but its creators say many miss the real story; National mandate on mask-wearing could work better than lockdowns, new report suggests "A national mask mandate could increase U.S. face mask usage by statistically significant and economically large amounts," the report concluded; Homemade masks can work, physics suggests But don’t expect a bandana to do the job; Far-UVC light safely kills airborne coronaviruses, study finds;

• Certain Social, Behavioral Factors Associated With Diabetes and Hypertension Onset; Education and exercise may determine early start of diabetes and hypertension;; Better Evidence that Fruits, Veggies, Whole Grains Lower Diabetes Risk; Converting SL units to conventional units Unitslab.com;
• Epidemiology A- L China closes tourist spots in Inner Mongolia after bubonic plague case; Two cases of bubonic plague prompt crack down on marmot hunting; 10 Secrets of Epidemiologists; How to Think Like an Epidemiologist; ;
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• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Asterank.com;Perseid Meteor Shower Visualization; ;
• Favorite Movie Sites Godzilla was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it; 150 Essential Sci-fi Movies to Watch Now; 100 Top Grossing Movies of All Time;
• Favorite Music Sites 30 Years Later: The Great Milli Vanilli Hoax ; Meet the People Who Inspired Some of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever; The 60 Greatest Motown Songs of All Time;
• Fitness Aerobic exercise could have the final say on fatty livers; What Happens to Your Body When You Walk 10,000 Steps Every Single Day; The (Many) Benefits of a Cardio Workout. From less pain to a better sex life, cardio fitness does a lot for you; ;
• Health Education Resources LI> Healthy People 2030 Healthy People 2030 Framework; How has Healthy People changed?; Browse Objectives; Objectives and Data; Browse Evidence-Based Resources; About Healthy People 2030; Leading Health Indicators; Social Determinants of Health; Data Sources; Healthy People 2030: HHS Prioritizes Socioeconomic Disparities, Overall Well-Being - New national health goals for the next decade
• coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever); Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Childhood Diseases Often More Dangerous in Adults 7;
• China closes tourist spots in Inner Mongolia after bubonic plague case; Two cases of bubonic plague prompt crack down on marmot hunting;Annual Report of Animal Contact Outbreaks Surveillance for Outbreaks of Enteric Disease Associated with Animal Contact: Summary for 2017 ;
• Kids Health Approach to bullying and victimization; Indicators of bullying and victimization;;
• Maternal Child Health Pink Book Series - Immunization CE; Genetic Services: Information on Genetic Counselor and Medical Geneticist Workforces; 2020 Childhood & Adult Immunization Schedules; 2020 Childhood & Adult Immunization Schedules Digital and print versions of schedules for healthcare professionals; 2020 Recommended Vaccinations for Infants and Children (birth through 6 years) Parent-Friendly Version; Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Confirmed Acute Flaccid Myelitis, United States, 2018; Genetic Services:
• Nutrition Resources FDA and consumers might go forcell-based seafood label; Food Safety During Power Outage; Refrigerated Food and Power Outages: When to Save It and When to Throw It Out; ;
• Association of Weight Loss Between Early Adulthood and Midlife With All-Cause Mortality Risk in the US; Trends in Obesity Prevalence by Race and Hispanic Origin—1999-2000 to 2017-2018; Effect of a 6-month vegan low-carbohydrate (‘Eco-Atkins) diet on cardiovascular risk factors and body weight in hyperlipidaemic adults: a randomised controlled trial; Childhood Obesity Healthcare;
• Public Health E-News Table of Contents January;
• Public Health Continuing Education Opportunities Pink Book Series - Immunization CE ;
• Public Health Data Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids and Stimulants” 24 States and the District of Columbia, January-June 2019; Drug Overdose Deaths;
• Public Health DataSevere Maternal Morbidity in the United States; ;
• Public Health Practice Developing Primary Care“Based Recommendations for Social Determinants of Health: Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force;
• Public Health Sites A - C Brain Cells Can Harbor and Spread HIV Virus to the Body; Gender Differences in Binge Drinking;
• Public Health Sites D-G Certain Forever Chemicals Tied to Early Menopause; Earlier menopause could significantly impact overall health and quality of life, expert says ;Boron nitride destroys PFAS forever chemicals PFOA, GenX; Pollutant-destroying properties surprise engineer: 'It's not supposed to work'; Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke; Homeowner's and Renter's Guide to Mold Cleanup After Disasters; The Philippines Fault; An old, dangerous drug has made a comeback with a new generation of users Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, is making a comeback as a new generation of recreational users rediscovers it through online marketplaces; Kids Exposed to Cannabis In Utero Face Higher Risk of Autism "Another piece of the puzzle" of how marijuana use affects childhood outcomes; Cal Fire Tracker; California Fire Map & Tracker; Association of Depression With Past-Month Cannabis Use Among US Adults Aged 20 to 59 Years, 2005 to 2016; Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials; WILDFIRE SMOKE FACTSHEET Prepare for Fire Season; Association Between Bisphenol A Exposure and Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in US Adults; Creating and Storing an Emergency Water Supply; Food Safety During Power Outage; Refrigerated Food and Power Outages: When to Save It and When to Throw It Out; Emergency Preparedness for People With Chronic Diseases; Making Water Safe in an Emergency; PFOS, PFOA, AND OTHER FLUOROCHEMICALS; Climate Change Increases Threat of Fire to U.S. West; New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States; Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance (TILT); Think you have chemical intolerance? Answer 3 questions; Think you have chemical intolerance? Answer three questions COVID-19 disinfectants, wildfire smoke and mold endanger chemically susceptible individuals; new brief inventory can help identify those at risk; Quick Environmental Exposure and Sensitivity Inventory (QEESI); BREESI©; QEESI©;
• Public Health Sites H-L: Be aware of kidney damaging foods; What You Should Know About Albuminuria (Proteinuria); Renal Angiomyolipoma: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; ;
• Public Health Sites M - N Mental Health Disparities: Diverse Populations; 8 Reasons Racial and Ethnic Minorities Receive Less Mental Health Treatment; Learn About Mental Health; The Psychopathology and Neuroanatomical Markers of Depression in Early Psychosis;;
• Research Resources on the Net Garbage in, garbage out: Data science, meet evidence-based medicine Did you ever wonder how data is used in the medical industry? The picture that emerges by talking to the experts leaves a lot to be desired; How to "Do Your Own Research" on Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19;
• Resources for Health Professionals How to "Do Your Own Research" on Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19 ;
• Senior Health Multivitamin, mineral supplement linked to less-severe, shorter-lasting illness symptoms ;
• Outdoor Light Linked with Teens’ Sleep and Mental Health; Sleep and Alcohol Use in Women; Medical Errors Climb After Daylight Saving Time Switch; Sleep medicine academy calls for DST to be abolished; Study finds that sleep restriction amplifies anger;
• GAO - E-cigarettes ; Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults; 3 Reasons Why Smoking the Hookah is Harmful This tobacco trend is toxic for teens; E-cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2020; Surgeon General's Advisory on E-cigarette Use Among Youth; Protecting Young People From E-cigarettes; Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults; EVALI Hospitalizations Occurred Years Before 2019 Outbreak — Findings likely underestimate true early prevalence of vaping illness; Vaping linked with heart problems; Association of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Use With Cigarette Smoking Relapse Among Former Smokers in the United States;
• US Government Statistics Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2019; Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study; Correctional Populations in the United States, 2017-2018; Criminal Victimization, 2018;
• Useful Sites Report Scams and Frauds ;
• Web Resources Predicting your personality from your smartphone data;
• Wellness Resources Part I (1 - 6) Key takeaways on Americans’ views of and experiences with dating and relationships; 7 Modern Life Habits That Can Be Incredibly Bad For Your Brain Health;
• Wellness Resources Part III (13 - 18) Screening for Anxiety in Adolescent and Adult Women: A Recommendation From the Women's Preventive Services Initiative;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Certain Forever Chemicals Tied to Early Menopause; Earlier menopause could significantly impact overall health and quality of life, expert says; Apgar Score Offers Prognostic Info for Neonatal Survival; Study challenges idea that scoring is of limited use in preterm infants; Alcohol and Liver Function in Women; Contraception; Some Antidepressants Tied to Very Specific Birth Defects Venlafaxine associated with highest number of defects, but further research is needed;
• Women's Health Issues Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Girls and Women; The Endocrine System and Alcohol Drinking in Females; Treatment Interventions for Women With Alcohol Use Disorder;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke; Effects of Alcohol on the Cardiovascular System in Women;
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• Academic Resources Enrolling in health education courses may help change student's beliefs about stress;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography The Girl Who Lived Twice;
• Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis; Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?; Major Birth Defects Tied to Cancer Risk Into Adulthood-Overall, patients with cancer had a 74% higher likelihood of also having a birth defect;
• Chronic Disease Index Do Good Lifestyle Choices Prevent CKD and CVD?;
• Heart Cell Atlas; American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists released a new algorithm for the management of dyslipidemia and prevention of cardiovascular disease;
• Fracking Linked to Heart Failure Trouble — Study points to cardiovascular effects of unconventional natural gas extraction;
• Chinese Culture 'A sad and glorious history': One of NYC's last Chinese hand laundries closes ; Chinatown, Resilient and Proud; The mental health toll of being a 'model minority' in 2020. Especially when you talk about the invisibility of some of their issues, in a sense, it's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy, psychologist Richelle Concepcion said;
• Average Daily Rate of COVID-19 Cases Among Persons Living in Community Settings per 100,000 Population By Town; Healthy Connecticut 2025 Healthy People in Healthy, Equitable Connecticut Communities;
• Washing Masks; Dermatologic Issues and COVID-19; COVID-19 can affect the heart; Carriers of two genetic mutations at greater risk for illness and death from COVID-19. Researchers recommend population-wide screening for detecting mutation carriers; Travel During COVID-19; Weather impact on airborne coronavirus survival; Statins reduce COVID-19 severity, likely by removing cholesterol that virus uses to infect; During pandemic, racism puts additional stress on Asian Americans; Here’s How the Pandemic Finally Ends; A vaccine by early 2021, a steady decline in cases by next fall and back to normal in a few years—11 top experts look into the future; COVID-19 spurs anxious, upsetting dreams - Women especially affected, studies show; Asian Americans most likely to live in multigenerational homes. How Covid has taken a toll; "I think many of us come from cultures where putting family and community before yourself is highly valued."; COVID-19 safety: Tips for restaurants, salons and the gym; COVID-19 Trends Among School-Aged Children United States, March September 19, 2020; As Europe's Coronavirus Cases Rise, So Do Voices Crying Hoax; Nine in ten recovered COVID-19 patients experience side-effects - study; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in COVID-19: an international cohort study of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry;

  A Theory About Conspiracy Theories - In a new study, psychologists tried to get a handle on the personality types that might be prone to outlandish beliefs; Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in two Indian states; COVID-19 transmission – learning how to protect yourself and others; COVID-19 Can Damage Hearts of Some College Athletes; Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings; Documents and interviews show how senior officials sought to play down the risks of sending children back to the classroom, alarming public health experts; U.S. Coronavirus Rates Are Rising Fast Among Children; Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report; US Coronavirus Cases and Deaths; Track COVID-19 data daily by state and county; Experimental infection of domestic dogs and cats with SARS-CoV-2: Pathogenesis, transmission, and response to reexposure in cats; Recent Increase in COVID-19 Cases Reported Among Adults Aged 18–22 Years — United States, May 31-September 5, 2020. MMWR; Multiple COVID-19 Clusters on a University Campus — North Carolina, August 2020; Donald Trump Is the 'Single Largest Driver' of COVID Misinformation, Study Says; Why are Americans so confused about Covid-19? Blame Trump, Cornell study says; Tracking Covid-19 infections among President Trump's contacts; What we know about the Covid-19 status of those who have been around the president recently; Rose Garden announcement of Supreme Court nominee potential 'super spreader' event, with Trump plus six others getting COVID; Tracing Trump's movements: A timeline of the days leading up to his COVID diagnosis; A review of his public schedule shows several possible "super-spreader" events;

  Mask Mandate Exemptions Put Pulmonary Patients at Risk — Exemptions aren't evidence based, respiratory group says; COVID-19: What Is the Primary Route of Transmission?; US most likely to reach COVID-19 herd immunity in second half of 2021; Pandemic death toll is far higher than 200,000 in the US; COVID-19 Antibodies Lasted At Least 4 Months in Icelandic Study -But does this prevent reinfection?; Corticosteroids; COVID-19: How Long Do Symptoms Last?; Charting a Coronavirus Infection; Trump has been the biggest source of Covid-19 misinformation, study finds The President of the United States was likely the largest driver of the COVID-19 misinformation infodemic.; CDC finally acknowledges airborne COVID-19 spread, for real this time; How COVID-19 Spreads; COVID-19 - a global pandemic. What do we know about SARS-CoV-2 andCOVID-19? 05 June 2020; Nearly One-Third of Covid Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State; COVID-19 ICU Patients Have High Risk of Clots; Who infected President Trump? This genetics tool could easily pinpoint the source; If White House officials want to find the origin of its outbreak, they could use viral genomics to identify a source and a location. But time is quickly running out; COVID-19 (coronavirus) in babies and children; Face masks: what the data say; What We Know So Far About Masks and Coronavirus; Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sanitizing; Coronavirus Safety Runs Into a Stubborn Barrier: Masculinity. When political leaders suggest basic precautions appear unmanly, men are less likely to follow health and safety advice, experts say; Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic;

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  Denmark finds 214 people with mink-related coronavirus; WHO looks at mink farm biosecurity globally after Danish coronavirus cases; COVID-19: Are There Far-Reaching Cardiac Complications?; Are Some Face Masks More Effective Than Others?; COVID-Related Strokes Especially Severe, Result in Worse Outcomes; Cardiac Echoes Reveal COVID's Toll on the Heart -Retrospective study suggests utility of TTE in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and myocardial injury; Chinese-American Families Treated Badly During COVID-19 -One in two surveyed parents and children agreed that the media perpetuated sinophobia; Children Produce Weaker Coronavirus Antibodies, Study Finds; Scientists Have Uncovered the Likely Cause of a Serious COVID-19 Symptom: Blood Clotting; Declines in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, Hospitalizations, and Mortality After Implementation of Mitigation Measures” Delaware, March June 2020; Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Discharged and Experiencing Same-Hospital Readmission - United States, March-August 2020; 'Two-way street': CDC report says masks protect wearers and everyone else "Adopting universal masking policies can help avert future lockdowns," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.; Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2; Can Autoimmune Antibodies Explain Blood Clots in COVID-19?;

  As Their Numbers Grow, COVID-19 Long Haulers Stump Experts; COVID-19 Tied to New Psych Diagnoses; Pessimism & Bipolar Disorder — News and commentary from the psychiatry world; Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2; Life after COVID hospitalization: Study shows major lasting effects on health, work and more Death, rehospitalization, and problems with basic activities, jobs, mental health and finances seen in many patients treated at 38 Michigan hospitals; Smell and taste changes provide early indication of COVID-19 community spread; This interactive tool figures out your COVID-19 risk of attending an event; COVID-19 Bed Occupancy Projection Tool; 'Breakthrough finding' reveals why certain Covid-19 patients die Research shows Covid-19 patients with life-threatening illness have antibodies that disable key immune system proteins called interferons; How WHO is working to track down the animal reservoir of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; Prothrombotic autoantibodies in serum from patients hospitalized with COVID-19; High Prevalence of Pericardial Involvement in College Student-Athletes Recovering From COVID-19; Asian people are TWICE as likely to have a stroke if they have Covid-19, study claims; Multiple COVID-19 Outbreaks Linked to a Wedding Reception in Rural Maine — August 7–September 14, 2020; Science Denial and COVID Conspiracy Theories; Potential Neurological Mechanisms and Possible Responses; SARS-CoV-2 relative found lurking in frozen bats from Cambodia; ICU doctor warns 'this is what you'll see at the end of your life' if Covid precautions aren't taken; No evidence for increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2; A new playbook: COVID-19, athletes hearts and return to play; GO VIRAL! is a 5-minute game that helps protect you against COVID-19 misinformation; Their Teeth Fell Out. Was It Another Covid-19 Consequence?; COVID-19 infection combined with blood clots worsens patient outcomes, study finds; COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time; Individuals with obesity and COVID-19: A global perspective on the epidemiology and biological relationships; Thromboembolism risk of COVID-19 is high and associated with a higher risk of mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis; Don't blame the weather for fall COVID-19 spikes; The interplay of movement and spatiotemporal variation in transmission degrades pandemic control;

  Diabetes, hypertension may increase risk of COVID-19 brain complications; Study reveals how smoking worsens COVID-19 infection in the airways; Studies focus on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in domestic cats, pigs; World Mask Week aims to inspire global movement to wear face coverings in public to help stem exponential spread of COVID-19; 50 million world Covid-19 cases: The biggest outbreaks, explained, The actual toll is likely much higher. Here's how some of the worst outbreaks spread; COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a 10-Day Motorcycle Rally in a Neighboring State - Minnesota, August-September 2020; Mysteries of COVID Smell Loss Finally Yield Some Answers, Explanations begin to arise at the molecular level for this vexing but commonplace symptom; The Coronavirus Is Airborne Indoors. Why Are We Still Scrubbing Surfaces?; W.H.O. Rejects Antiviral Drug Remdesivir as a Covid Treatment; COVID-19 in a Correctional Facility Employee Following Multiple Brief Exposures to Persons with COVID-19 — Vermont, July-August 2020; Is There a Link Between Vitamin D and COVID Risk?; Can Type of Cancer Affect COVID-19 Outcomes?; Common Coronavirus Mutation May Actually Make COVID-19 More Susceptible to a Vaccine; U.K. Study Ties COVID-19 to Worse Stroke Outcomes -Unlike previous reports, stroke patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection not more likely to be younger and men; Masks Work. Really. We'll Show You How; COVID-19 highlights risks of wildlife trade; MMR vaccine could protect against COVID-19, study shows; Superspreading Events in the U.S.; Covid-19:Viral Shedding From Virus Can Be Prolonged, But Infection Window is Not; Pediatrics and COVID-19; COVID Heart Autopsies Point More to Clot Damage Than Myocarditis - Results bolster case for anticoagulation in hospitalized patients; A case study of extended in-flight transmission of SARS-CoV-2 en route to Aotearoa New Zealand; A large national outbreak of COVID-19 linked to air travel, Ireland, summer 2020; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control An agency of the European Union; Face masks slow spread of COVID-19; types of masks, length of use matter Pandemic could be stopped if at least 70 percent of the public wore face masks consistently; Coronavirus Was In U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says; COVID-19: Urgent Actions Needed to Better Ensure an Effective Federal Response; Cancer Patient With COVID Sheds Virus For 2 Months - Isolation protocols for immunocompromised people may need rethink 80% of COVID Patients Have Neurological Symptoms; More people have died from Covid-19 than in the past 5 flu seasons combined. And coronavirus is much more contagious;

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• Public Health Sites D-G Microplastics revealed in the placentas of unborn babies. Health impact is unknown but scientists say particles may cause long-term damage to foetuses ; The poison found in everyone, even unborn babies – and who is responsible for it, Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS known as forever chemicals are in the blood of virtually every person on the planet. And they will only accumulate; The 2008–2018 Summit Lava Lake at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii; Kilauea's 2008-2018 Summit Lava LakeChronology and Eruption Insights; Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration; New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States; Tectonic timelapse Future of the human climate niche; Older Driver Safety and Cannabis Use; Opium as a carcinogen: A systematic review and meta-analysis; Eight Ways Chemical Pollutants Harm the Body; Air pollution: The silent killer called PM 2.5; Vaping Marijuana Causes More Lung Damage Than Vaping or Smoking Nicotine; UCSF Study Finds Evidence of 55 Chemicals Never Before Reported in People; Melting glaciers contribute to Alaska earthquakes;
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• Senior Health Outwitting the Grim Reaper, Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on how to age successfully; 10 Useful iPhone Tips for Seniors; Vaccines for older adults; The Importance of Delirium and Delirium Prevention in Older Adults During Lockdowns;
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• Academic Resources Study identifies resilience factors to mitigate burnout in college students; Why Multitasking Doesn't Work. Studies show it makes us less efficient and more prone to errors; Prevention Core Competencies (SAMHSA); Smoking is associated with impaired verbal learning and memory performance in women more than men ; 5 Things You Learned in College That Will Pay Off. Who knew that the skills learned in college would help with your job search?; Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills NIH scientists discover that the resting brain repeatedly replays compressed memories of what was just practiced;
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• Fish oil supplements lower the risk of heart disease but only for patients with the right genetic makeup; Genome-wide association study of fish oil supplementation on lipid traits in 81,246 individuals reveals new gene-diet interaction loci; Your Walking Speed May Be Linked to Risk of Heart Disease - Study shows that cardiorespiratory fitness can give you the edge; Association of walking pace and handgrip strength with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality: a UK Biobank observational study; Study ratifies link of processed meat to cardiovascular disease and early death. Link is with processed meat but not with unprocessed red meat or poultry; How early marijuana use affects the heart later in life; Habitual cannabis use is associated with altered cardiac mechanics and arterial stiffness, but not endothelial function in young healthy smokers; Early cannabis use linked to heart disease; Marijuana use linked to a greater risk of heart damage; Heart Patients Outdo Rest of the Country in Tobacco Use - Few were able to put down the cigarettes in recent years; Eating plant-based meals late in the day lowers risk of cardiovascular disease by 10%; Marijuana use linked to a greater risk of heart damage; Meal Timing of Subtypes of Macronutrients Consumption With Cardiovascular Diseases: NHANES, 2003 to 2016; Eating plant-based meals late in the day lowers risk of cardiovascular disease by 10%;
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• Chinese Culture How Vincent Chin's Death Gave Others A Voice; 30 Years Later, Vincent Chin Seen As Turning Point; Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the U.S.; Why So Many Asian Americans Are Learning Remotely; Titanic: Searching for the 'missing' Chinese survivors; Senate passes hate crime bill responding to wave of violence against Asian Americans; 11 Moments From Asian American History That You Should Know; Far East Deep South; 'If Hate Is A Virus, There Is No Vaccine': Asian Photographers Speak Out; A guide to combating anti-Asian racism — from relationships to the workplace; 42% In The U.S. Can't Name A Single Prominent Asian American, A Survey Finds; The House passes bill to combat anti-Asian hate crimes. The legislation is intended to improve the data tracking hate crimes, though critics say it won't address the root cause; How purity culture and anti-Asian racism intersect in some white evangelical circles. Sexual purity theologies are tied to white supremacy because Asian women have a transcontinental history of being hypersexualized and fetishized, one expert said; A third of lead Asian American, Pacific Islander roles in top films played by 'The Rock,' study shows." There just aren't enough roles for [Pacific Islanders] and Asian actors in general. And that's why we see The Rock so many times, sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen said; These little-known sites help families connect to Asian American history. From Chinese railroad workers in Utah to Filipino shrimpers in Louisiana, here are tales of immigration, struggle, and belonging;4 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Where Asian Americans Fought For Civil Rights; 6 Charts That Dismantle The Trope Of Asian Americans As A Model Minority; The Asian American model minority myth masks a history of discrimination; Asian Immigrant Experiences with Racism, Immigration-Related Fears, and the COVID-19 Pandemic; How hate incidents led to a reckoning of casual racism against Asian Americans It is violence ” especially for a group that has been de-racialized and basically whitened, one expert said;
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• Hyperglycemia Better Predictor of Severe COVID-19 Than Diabetes; COVID-19 Vaccine: Quick Reference Guide for Healthcare Professionals; Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Authorized in the United States; Summary Document for Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Authorized in the United States; COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Errors and Deviations; U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Product Information; COVID-19 vaccines may not produce sufficient antibody response in transplant recipients; Insomnia, disrupted sleep, and burnout linked to higher odds of severe COVID-19 Each 1-hour increase in sleep associated with 12% lower odds of infection among clinicians; SARS-CoV-2 antibodies last days for some, decades for others; A cross-sectional and prospective cohort study of the role of schools in the SARS-CoV-2 second wave in Italy; Phylogenomic analysis of COVID-19 summer and winter outbreaks in Hong Kong: An observational study; Stanford Medcast: COVID-19 Mini-Series – Vaping; Why Pandemics Give Birth To Hate: From Bubonic Plague To COVID-19; Update on AstraZeneca and blood clots. German researchers might have found the link between the COVID-19 vaccine and unusual cases of blood clots; What Is MIS-C?; Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Personnel, First Responders, and Other Essential and Frontline Workers - Eight U.S. Locations, December 2020–March 2021; Messenger RNA vaccines lower risk for asymptomatic infection, study finds;

  Symptoms of Anxiety or Depressive Disorder and Use of Mental Health Care Among Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, August 2020-February 2021; Sensitivity of infectious SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants to neutralizing antibodies; Real-World Data Confirm Efficacy of Covid-19 Vaccination Among HCWs; Mild Covid-19 May Lead to Lasting Neurologic Symptoms; Genomic Sequencing Of Infectious Pathogens; WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part Joint WHO-China study: 14 January - 10 February 2021; Joint Report - ANNEXES; Joint Statement on the WHO-Convened COVID-19 Origins Study; Baylor Study: What Motivates People to Mask Up, Social Distance, Vaccinate?; COVID Vaccines' Power Could Wane Within a Year; Factors that may predict next pandemic Climate change associated with emerging disease spread; Virus Variants Can Infect Mice, Scientists Report; Mapping a Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity in the United States; It's Much More Likely the Coronavirus Came from Wildlife, Not a Lab; Don't freak out if you get these side effects from a Covid-19 vaccine. They can actually be a good sign; Is the Second Dose Bad? If I Feel OK, Is It Working? Can I Take Tylenol? The most common questions about vaccination side effects, answered; Answers to All Your Questions About Getting Vaccinated for Covid-19; Just How Much Was 2020 an Outlier for Deaths? - Setting cause aside, death numbers were "massive" compared with 2019; Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes in the US, March 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021; The Next Pandemic Is Already Here - Tools for stopping it are readily available, if only we agree to use them; Seven keys to herd immunity; Georgia Tech - Will you mask for me?; COVID-19 patients can be categorized into three groups = Phenotypes I, II and III show distinct characteristics and show adverse, normal and favorable clinical outcomes respectively; Technically no longer human can mRNA COVID-19 vaccines meld with your DNA? Indeed, can your DNA be altered at all?

  Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say; India's New Double Mutant COVID Variant Emerges in U.S.” Stanford Identifies First Case; First confirmed case of Indian coronavirus variant in U.S. found in California The strain was first detected last month by health officials in India; Variant Proportions in the U.S.; SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions; Science Brief: Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants; SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutations: Impact on COVID-19 Tests; How comorbidities increase risks for COVID patients; COVID-19-associated seizures may be common, linked to higher risk of death Study examines the prevalence and risk factors for nonconvulsive seizures among patients hospitalized with COVID-19; Double mutant coronavirus variant surfaces in Bay Area. Here's what we know; Covid-19: A Year In Review - Connecticut: COVID-19 Vaccination Tracker; COVID-19 Global Tracker; Epidemiologic Evidence for Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during Church Singing, Australia, 2020; Does Large Study Slam Door on Blood Type-COVID Link? Observational study addresses controversial research; New York Debuts Nation's First Vaccine Passport” Here's What You Need to Know The state hopes that this digital innovation will set a precedent for reopening venues; U.K. says under-30s should get a non-AstraZeneca option; E.U. finds a possible link to rare clots; Cigarette Smoking: Health Risks and How to Quit (PDQ)“Patient Version; Clearing the Air - Quit Smoking Today; NIH Begins Study of Allergic Reactions to Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccines;

  Moderna's COVID Vax Produces Antibody Responses 6 Months Later But neutralizing activity declined over time, and not equally among age groups; COVID on the Brain: Neuropsych Diagnoses Common Within 6 Months of Infection Many patients had no prior history; Understanding Viral Vector COVID-19 Vaccines; How Viral Vector COVID-19 Vaccines Work; Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines; How mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Work; Sorting Out Whether Vitamin D Deficiency Raises COVID-19 Risk; COVID-19 vaccine response in pregnant and lactating women: a cohort study; Social Distancing Behaviors Drop as U.S. Vaccinations Rise; Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Facility Every Day and When Someone is Sick; Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity; Post-COVID Conditions: Information for Healthcare Providers; Investigative Criteria for Suspected Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection (ICR); Promising News for Pregnant People Who Want a COVID-19 Vaccine; Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In; The Vaccine Passport Debate Actually Began In 1897 Over A Plague Vaccine; How Worried Should You Be About COVID-19 Coronavirus Variants?; COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Excess Mortality and Potential Years of Life Lost in the U.S. and Peer Countries; College and University COVID-19 Student Testing Protocols, by Mode of Instruction (N = 1,849) - United States, Spring 2021; Communicating the potential benefits and harms of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine; Why US coronavirus tracking can't keep up with concerning variants The country has an enormous virus-sequencing capacity, but funding and coordination roadblocks are holding it back;

  An injection of hope Life after the COVID-19 vaccine; Two New Studies Point to How AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine Is Linked to Blood Clots; Myths and Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines; Blood Clotting Needs to Be Watched with All COVID Vaccines, States the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS); Association of Sociodemographic Factors and Blood Group Type With Risk of COVID-19 in a US Population; People who see people: How high mixers help spread COVID-19 Can Vaccines Stop Variants? Here's What We Know So Far; Rise of Variants in Europe Shows How Dangerous the Virus Can Be; COVID-19 Vaccines vs Variants”Determining How Much Immunity Is Enough; Online Scammers Have a New Offer for You: Vaccine Cards; Comparison of seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections with cumulative and imputed COVID-19 cases: Systematic review; Sunlight linked with lower COVID-19 deaths, study shows; Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Vaccination; New-Onset Neuro Symptoms Common in Kids With MIS-C - Half of pediatric patients in small British study show neurologic involvement; 'Breakthrough' COVID Infection Rates as Expected - Low numbers of breakthrough infections among the fully vaccinated; national count unknown; Joint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine; CDC Studies 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Among People Already Vaccinated; Cases of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia after Receipt of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine; How will we know we've reached herd immunity?; WHO says Covid pandemic is growing exponentially at more than 4.4 million new cases a week;

  Differences in rapid increases in county-level COVID-19 incidence by implementation of statewide closures and mask mandates” United States, June 1–September 30, 2020; Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, by Region — United States, March-December 2020; COVID-19 pandemic has been linked with six unhealthy eating behaviors Study shows a slight increase in eating disorders, one of the deadliest psychiatric health concerns; COVID-19 in our dust may help predict outbreaks, study finds Finding does not mean virus can be transmitted via dust; Reactogenicity Following Receipt of mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines; Covid-19: One in three has neurological or psychiatric condition diagnosed after covid infection, study finds; During Pandemic, Higher Premature Excess Deaths in U.S. Compared to Peer Countries Partly Driven by Racial Disparities; Laboratory Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Reduction Through Physically Distanced Seating in Aircraft Cabins Using Bacteriophage Aerosol” November 2020; COVID-19: Scientists identify human genes that fight infection; Study shows past COVID-19 infection doesn't fully protect young people against reinfection; Why Women May Be Better Equipped to Fight COVID; So far, 5,800 fully vaccinated people have caught Covid anyway in US, CDC says; Risk of rare blood clotting higher for COVID-19 than for vaccines; Young Men Not Immune to Getting COVID Twice - Study in U.S. Marines stresses importance of vaccination, author says; Coronavirus Disease 2019 Testing Basics; Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: What You Need to Know; J&J/Janssen Update; Vaccine efficacy on variants - How do we know if current vaccines will be effective against new variants?; 15 Useful Words That Were Invented During the Pandemic; Update on Excess Deaths Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic” United States, January 26, 2020-February 27, 2021; Delta, American, United, and other major airlines signal rejection of new CDC guidance saying they should block middle seats; New Side Effect From mRNA COVID Vaccines? - Surprise finding in Israeli case series; Social Media & COVID-19: A Global Study of Digital Crisis Interaction among Gen Z and Millennials Key Insights;

  Post Vaccine Considerations for Workplaces; Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI); Those who had COVID-19 may only need one vaccine dose, study suggests -Second vaccine important for those who have not had COVID-19 to reach strong immunity; One year of SARS-CoV-2 evolution; Efforts to stop spread of COVID-19 should focus on preventing airborne transmission, experts say; Air pollution may affect severity and hospitalization in COVID-19 patients; Physical inactivity linked to more severe COVID-19 infection and death - Surpassed only by advanced age and organ transplant as a risk factor, large study shows; United Airlines said it was just PR. The CDC says airlines are full of it, Thinking of recommencing business travel? The CDC would like you to consider that airlines may not be the greatest purveyors of Covid-related science; A case study of extended in-flight transmission of SARS-CoV-2en route to Aotearoa New Zealand; Another Study Finds Covid-19 Can Spread On Long Airline Flights; Filling middle seats nearly doubles airline passenger risk of catching COVID-19, says MIT researcher; Covid-19 Can Spread On Long Airline Flights, Per Two New Studies; 59 Covid-19 Cases Linked To One 7-Hour Flight To Ireland, Per Study; Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis; SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection in a Liver Transplant Recipient; COVID Deaths Higher With Neuro Syndromes in Hospitalized Patients - Encephalopathy, coma most prevalent neurologic manifestations; COVID-19 Breakthrough Case Investigations and Reporting; Genomic Sequencing Fact Sheet; Non-stop cremations cast doubt on India's counting of COVID dead; Differing immune responses discovered in asymptomatic cases vs those with severe COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2:

  British variant is 45 percent more contagious than the original virus, study finds; Flushing a public toilet? Don't linger, because aerosolized droplets do Study explores flushing power to test risk of COVID-19 transmission; Updated advice for safe COVID-19 vaccination in people with high-risk allergy histories; SARS-CoV-2 variants from minks evade inhibition by antibodies; Vaccines Are Effective Against the New York Variant, Studies Find; Postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Skilled Nursing Facility Residents and Staff Members — Chicago, Illinois, December 2020–March 2021; COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program — Kentucky, March 2021; Vaccine Breakthrough Infections with SARS-CoV-2 Variants; More Exercise Lowers Risk of Severe COVID-19: Study; SARS-CoV-2 infection of the oral cavity and saliva; ISTH Interim Guidance for the Diagnosis and Treatment on VaccineInduced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (Updated 20 April, 2021); Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Section; Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia: Frequently Asked Questions; Why Clotting Happens When Platelets Are Low - A hematologist explains the counterintuitive concept of clots with low platelets; ONE Africa COVID-19 Tracker; COVID-NET Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations; People Are Talking About A 'Double Mutant' Variant In India. What Does That Mean?; SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia; Immune system, not COVID virus, may pose greatest risk to pregnant women; Pregnant women with COVID-19 face high mortality rate, Worldwide study also found that 11 percent of babies contracted the novel coronavirus from their mothers; Among COVID-19 survivors, an increased risk of death, serious illness Major study details numerous long-term effects of COVID-19, pointing to massive health burden;

  Preliminary Medicare COVID-19 Data Snapshot; COMIC: How I Cope With Pandemic Numbness; Infection Control after Vaccination; Guidance for Fully Vaccinated People; Navigating pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic How to best protect yourself and your baby; COVID-19 Data Overview - Endcoronavirus.org; COVID-19 for Older Adults; Know About Coronavirus Mutants and Variants that Could Have Contributed to India's Second Wave; COVID Has Created a Perfect Storm for Fringe Science. It's always been with us, but in a time of pandemic, its practitioners have an amplified capacity to unleash serious harm; Here's Who Might Want to Avoid the J&J COVID Shot- While safe for most, certain patients may want to opt for another choice; Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines Against COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Adults Aged ≥65 Years — United States, January-March 2021; Post-vaccination Inertia Is Real. Readjusting our ideas about what's safe is going to take time; Pandemic preprints a duty of responsible stewardship; ‘Neither Alternative Was Good News: An Immunologist Traces the Spread of P.1, the Brazilian COVID Variant; New cell atlas of COVID lungs reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is deadly and different; India Is Counting Thousands Of Daily COVID Deaths. How Many Is It Missing?; Risk phenotypes of diabetes and association with COVID-19 severity and death: a living systematic review and meta-analysis; Covid vaccine safety system has gaps that may miss unexpected side effects, experts say The U.S. is relying on a patchwork network of vaccine monitoring systems; What mask should I wear to protect against transmissible acute respiratory infections?; Venn diagram of the overlap of COVID-19 symptoms with seasonal allergy symptoms; COVID-19 VACCINES: PATIENT FAQs; We're starting to see how the pandemic affected births in the US; Doomsday scenario: Lagging vaccine rates stir fears of dangerous variants Officials say the virus remains a persistent enough threat to potentially mutate into something that puts even vaccinated people at heightened risk; Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform; Why some researchers oppose unrestricted sharing of coronavirus genome data. Global-south scientists say that an open-access movement led by wealthy nations deprives them of credit and undermines their efforts; The virus is an airborne threat, the C.D.C. acknowledges; Rapid Emergence and Epidemiologic Characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.526 Variant - New York City, New York, January 1-April 5, 2021; The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world. Wastewater tracking was used before the pandemic to monitor for polio and illicit drug use, but interest in the field and its applications has now ballooned; Scientific Brief: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission; Sex-specific impact of severe obesity in the outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a large retrospective study from the Bronx, New York; Tracking the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 - What do scientists know about its behavior, and how does that help predict what comes next?; Investigate the origins of COVID-19; Most COVID-19 Infections and Hospitalizations are in Unvaccinated; Droplets vs Aerosols: What's More Important in COVID-19 Spread? CDC finally acknowledged aerosol transmission, but contribution to case counts remains unclear; Coronavirus Variants and Mutations; The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences; COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review; Covid Is Airborne, Scientists Say. Now Authorities Think So, Too; How Did We Get Here: What Are Droplets and Aerosols and How Far Do They Go? A Historical Perspective on the Transmission of Respiratory Infectious Diseases; Impact of COVID-19 on diagnoses, monitoring, and mortality in people with type 2 diabetes in the UK; This Day Was Bound to Come: Taiwan Confronts a Covid Flare-Up. The island's border controls had shielded it from the worst of the pandemic. But new variants and a slow vaccine rollout gave the virus an opening; Public Health 101 failure: CDC mask decision may knock out Biden's workplace Covid crackdown Guidance that nixes masks for the vaccinated appears at odds with pending OSHA regulations that were expected to mandate masks on the job; Two more coronaviruses can infect people, studies suggest; California AG: Buying or printing fake COVID-19 vaccination cards is a crime; New Coronavirus Detected In Patients At Malaysian Hospital; The Source May Be Dogs; Explained: Why Indiaâ's Covid-19 deaths are spiking even as cases go down; Total Deaths Due to COVID-19 Underestimated by 20% in US Counties. Deaths caused by indirect effects of the pandemic emphasize the need for policy changes that address widening health and racial inequities; Coronavirus Transmission in Queens Drove the First Wave of New York City's COVID-19 Pandemic NYU Langone Investigation Analyzed More Than 800 Coronavirus Genetic Samples to Trace the Path of the Virus as It Traveled Across the City; Just How Much Was 2020 an Outlier for Deaths?” Setting cause aside, death numbers were "massive" compared with 2019; Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes in the US, March 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021; Did a new coronavirus go from dog to human?; Cardiac Conditions Still on the Forefront of COVID-19 Severity; Virus deaths are probably two to three times more than official records, the W.H.O. says; Recommendations for Demonstrators, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Public Health Agencies for Reducing SARS-CoV-2 Transmission During Civil Protests; Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak; adds to calls for probe of whether virus escaped lab; First Vaccine Data Against Indian Variant - Researchers from England examined effectiveness of Pfizer, AstraZeneca vaccines; Exclusive | Coronavirus: China's first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17; 55-yr-old Hubei resident, who contracted coronavirus on 17 November, could have been the 'patient zero', says Chinese media; A Year Ago, 'Patient 1' Was Infected With Covid-19; 1st known case of coronavirus traced back to November in China; Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China; First Covid-19 case happened in November, China government records show - report Earliest case detected on 17 November, weeks before authorities acknowledged new virus, says Chinese media; It's Been Exactly One Year Since the First Case of COVID Was Found in China; The first COVID-19 case originated on November 17, according to Chinese officials searching for 'patient zero'; First COVID-19 case can be traced back to November 17 in China's Hubei province: Report; China Had First Coronavirus Case in November 2019 Itself' Coronavirus “ the science: The search for patient zero; Timing the SARS-CoV-2 index case in Hubei province; COVID-19 Forecasting; New section: COVID-19 Natural Immunity; COVID-19 Natural Immunity; Quit Ignoring Natural COVID Immunity — Antibody testing and proof of prior infection can allow more people to return to normal; SARS-CoV-2 antibody-positivity protects against reinfection for at least seven months with 95% efficacy; Peru says its true Covid death toll is almost triple its official count; Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World; Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants; The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2; New section - COVID-19 virology; Covid: Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant, health officials say; Vietnam detects a suspected new coronavirus variant that's a hybrid of the UK and India strains; Everest climbers could have spread 'potentially more infectious AND vaccine resistant' Nepal Covid variant across the world after it was first found in THIRTEEN travelers on flights from Himalaya to Japan; A population-based analysis of the longevity of SARS-CoV-2 antibody seropositivity in the United States; Proposed Limits on Public Health Authority: Dangerous for Public Health - NACCHO May 2021; Proposed Limits on Public Health Authority: Dangerous for Public Health -NACCHO May 2021; Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country; A Global Early Warning System for Pandemics; Mobilizing Surveillance for Emerging Pathogens; How Can COVID-19 Phenotypes Guide Care?; Hospitalization of Adolescents Aged 12-17 Years with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 - COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1, 2020-April 24, 2021; Decreases in COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Deaths Among Older Adults Following the Introduction of COVID-19 Vaccine” United States, September 6, 2020-May 1, 2021; After Lavish Nights of Clubbing in Bangkok, a Covid Outbreak Thailand went for months without a single confirmed case of local transmission, but the epidemic has now radiated from nightclubs to areas where social distancing is all but impossible; Is there a smoker's paradox in COVID-19?; Vaping linked to COVID-19 risk in teens and young adults; Coronavirus and Smoking; How COVID-19 variants evade immune response; How Close Are We To Learning COVID's Origin Story? Experts discuss practical implications of a natural or accidental introduction for the virus; SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutations: Impact on COVID-19 Tests; Estimating epidemiologic dynamics from cross-sectional viral load distributions; New method accurately reflects hotspots in epidemic - Monitoring epidemics is essential for understanding how well public health interventions are working and where to distribute extra resources; G7 leaders will call for fresh WHO inquiry into Covid origins, leaked communique suggests; Opioid use disorder and health service utilization among COVID-19 patients in the US: A nationwide cohort from the Cerner Real-World Data; Saliva can be more effective than nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testing, researchers find; Leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face covid-26 and covid-32;The COVID-19 virus can cause diabetes, new studies find. "The virus actually destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin."; Associations between body-mass index and COVID-19 severity in 6-9 million people in England: a prospective, community-based, cohort study; How far can SARS-CoV-2 travel into the airways? A mathematical model shows it reaches deep into our lungs, and more to the right than the left; A healthy heart can lower the risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms, new research confirms; The Legal Stakes of a Lab Leak - China could be on the hook for a trillion dollars, but the U.S. isn't blameless; NIH researchers find more evidence Covid was circulating in the US in December 2019;Serologic Testing of US Blood Donations to Identify Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Reactive Antibodies: December 2019–January 2020; COVID-19 reinfection rate less than 1 percent for those with severe illness, study finds. Two deaths were associated with reinfection, but most cases were mild; The science around the lab leak theory hasn't changed. But here's why some scientists have. Five virologists said few conclusions can be drawn based on the available scientific evidence, but they noted that the context and circumstances of the debate have changed; Delta is the 'most serious' COVID-19 variant, scientists say. How will it affect the US?; The COVID-19 Delta Variant: What to Know; How Immunity Generated from COVID-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection; Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic; New Metric Identifies Coronavirus Hotspots in Real Time; New CDC dataset showing COVID vaccine-by-county numbers misses the entire state of Texas. Why?; Liver Disease Tied to Increased Risk of Death From Severe COVID - French study of hospitalized patients also saw an increased risk of mechanical ventilation; COVID-19 Vaccine safety updates Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) June 23, 2021; First COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019 - study; Tree pollen carries SARS-CoV-2 particles farther, facilitates virus spread, study finds; When did the first COVID-19 case arise? Novel analysis suggests much earlier, more rapid spread than confirmed cases imply; Dating first cases of COVID-19; Study confirms the low likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 on hospital surfaces is infectious; Virus that causes COVID-19 can find alternate route to infect cells. COVID-19 drugs, vaccines still effective against mutating virus; How Your Brain Tricks You Into Taking Risks During the Pandemic; Inside the Fall of the CDC;NIH study suggests COVID-19 prevalence far exceeded early pandemic cases Researchers estimate nearly 17 million undiagnosed cases in the U.S. by mid-July 2020; COVID-19 Outbreaks in Countries Largely Due to Four Features, New Study Shows; Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT); What Doctors Should Know About Delta” Here's the latest on transmissibility, virulence, vaccine efficacy, and more; Playing wind instruments generates less aerosol than vocalization, COVID-19 study finds;

• Bodies of Hundreds of New York COVID Victims Still in Trucks on Brooklyn Pier; Five pandemic-related changes that are likely here to stay. The way we buy cars and groceries and see a doctor may have changed forever; How many COVID deaths are acceptable in a post-pandemic world? Even after mass vaccinations, some hospitalizations and deaths from the coronavirus are inevitable but opinions differ on how many is too many for a return to relative normality; Coronavirus variants are spreading in India — what scientists know so far; Variants including B.1.617 have been linked to India's surge in infections. Researchers are hurrying to determine how much of a threat they pose; COVID Risks Raised in Rheumatoid Arthritis - Patients had higher rates of infection and hospitalization/death, study showed; Misinformation surges amid India's COVID-19 calamity; Distancing from the vaccinated: Viral anti-vaccine infertility misinfo reaches new extremes. "You can't fact-check someone's personal experience," said one expert. "With Instagram stories, people share their testimony, and the first round of it feels so intimate and immediate."; Vaccine History Repeats Itself — Sometimes; Most COVID-19 Misinformation Was Spread by These 12 Influencers; The Disinformation Dozen Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH); Back to normal? Psychologists warn the pandemic could have lasting effects Mental health professionals are ramping up their efforts to understand the pandemic's impact and early findings are not encouraging; New Model for Infectious Disease Could Better Predict Future Pandemics-Potential Benefits to Health Across Species, Communities and Environments Are Enormous; Old records shed new light on smallpox outbreaks in 1700s; Nurses Union Blasts 'Dangerous' CDC Mask Guidance NNU charges CDC used unreliable data and disregarded variant threat, low vaccination rates; Biden asks intelligence community to 'redouble' efforts to determine the origins of Covid-19 have now asked the Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days, the statement said; Top U.S. health official calls for 'transparent' new probe into origins of pandemic The comments come after a U.S. intelligence report said lab workers in Wuhan, China, fell ill in November 2019, before the first cases were reported; U.S. intel report identified 3 Wuhan lab researchers who fell ill in November 2019 The details add to circumstantial evidence supporting a theory Covid-19 spread to humans after escaping from a lab. But the evidence is far from conclusive; U.S. still hasn't ruled out lab accident origin for Covid because China hasn't been transparent U.S. officials haven't shown any evidence pointing to a lab escape, and scientists call the scenario unlikely. The U.S. wants China to share information; What scientists know about new, fast-spreading coronavirus variants; Key questions remain about how quickly B.1.617 variants can spread, their potential to evade immunity and how they might affect the course of the pandemic; Divisive COVID lab leak debate prompts dire warnings from researchers. Allegations that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab make it harder for nations to collaborate on ending the pandemic — and fuel online bullying, some scientists say; As Covid risk dwindles in Europe, police warn of renewed terror threats. "We have seen an increased body of online extremism and hatred," London's Metropolitan Police said; From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions*; Fact check: No definitive evidence COVID-19 vaccine causes autoimmune disease; Anthony Klotz The Covid vaccine means a return to work. And a wave of resignations; Investigation Pokes Holes in Idea That Smoking Cuts COVID Risks - Financial conflicts of interest exposed for those who touted the "nicotine hypothesis"; Anti-Vaccine Activists Use A Federal Database To Spread Fear About COVID Vaccines; What We Learned About Genetic Sequencing During COVID-19 Could Revolutionize Public Health; Asian Immigrant Experiences with Racism, Immigration-Related Fears, and the COVID-19 Pandemic; Seven in 10 U.S. White-Collar Workers Still Working Remotely; COVID-19 Lockdowns Cut Pollution, But Not All of It; Ipsos.com;
• First Detailed Look at COVID Vaccine Skin Reactions - Mostly mild, self-limiting reactions and no serious adverse reactions; SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and autoimmune diseases amidst the COVID-19 crisis; Organ transplant recipients remain vulnerable to COVID-19 even after second vaccine dose; US Case Reports of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis With Thrombocytopenia After Ad26.COV2.S Vaccination, March 2 to April 21, 2021; Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis with Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia; COVID-19 lockdown stressed all ages, but in different ways; How to diagnose and treat rare blood clots associated with a COVID-19 vaccine; Prevaccination Checklist for COVID-19 Vaccines; What is languishing? Alonely? A mental health glossary to explain what you're feeling; Postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Skilled Nursing Facility Residents and Staff Members - Chicago, Illinois, December 2020-March 2021; Potentially fatal 'black fungus' infections on the rise in India's COVID-19 patients; What is languishing? Alonely? A mental health glossary to explain what you're feeling; CDC Drops Most Mask Rules for the Fully Vaccinated - Exception for crowded places indoors like buses, planes, hospitals, homeless shelters, and jails; After You're Fully Vaccinated. How to Protect Yourself and Others; Here's the science that convinced the CDC to lift mask mandates The decision was guided by scientific evidence that the vaccines have played a major role in curbing both infections and transmission of the virus; Hundreds of Epidemiologists Expected Mask-Wearing in Public for at Least a Year The C.D.C. said Thursday that vaccinated Americans no longer needed masks in most places. Other disease experts recently had a different message: that masks were necessary in public; With Hugs and Haircuts, U.S. Epidemiologists Start Returning (Carefully!) to Everyday Life - Vaccinations mean the pandemic is moving to a phase when behavior will depend on people's individual tolerance for risk; COVID-19 Endothelial Dysfunction Can Cause Erectile Dysfunction: Histopathological, Immuno histochemical, and Ultrastructural Study of the Human Penis; Antigen Testing in Non-Healthcare Settings- A tool to prevent the spread of COVID-19; What is the deadly ‘black fungus seen in Covid patients in India?; Call for 'paradigm shift' to fight airborne spread of COVID-19 indoors; What Is 'Black Fungus'? And Why Is It Spreading Among India's COVID Patients?; Am I Legally (And Ethically) Bound To Say If I Got A COVID Vaccine?; Lung Disease & Respiratory Health Reference Mucormycosis: What to Know; 723 Epidemiologists on When and How the U.S. Can Fully Return to Normal Government mandates are lifting, but these experts say the pandemic won't really end nationally until more people, including children, are vaccinated; Delaying a COVID vaccine's second dose boosts immune response Older people who waited 11–12 weeks for their second jab had higher peak antibody levels than did those who waited only 3 weeks; Does a History of MIS-C Preclude COVID Vaccination?; Should We Keep Wearing Masks Even After the Pandemic Ends?; Rare COVID-19 response in children explained; Coronavirus vaccines may not work in some people. It's because of their underlying conditions. Early research shows that 15 to 80 percent of people with certain medical conditions, such as specific blood cancers or organ transplants, are generating few antibodies after receiving coronavirus vaccines; Back to normal? Psychologists warn the pandemic could have lasting effects. Mental health professionals are ramping up their efforts to understand the pandemic's impact” and early findings are not encouraging; Under HIPAA Rules, Can Businesses Ask If You Have Been Vaccinated Against COVID-19? Where does HIPAA's privacy rule apply?; Meet the Four Kinds of People Holding Us Back From Full Vaccination; A Large-Scale Facebook Survey Of U.S. Adults: Leveraging Precision Health to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake; Prevalence and correlates of stress and burnout among U.S. healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national cross-sectional survey study; Sudden Hearing Loss Reported After COVID Vaccines- Preliminary report teases apart VAERS data to identify most likely cases; Multiple Measures, Including Masks, Needed to Curb Covid-19 Scientific Brief Case study: COVID-19 brought on blood clots in arm; How Vaccinations Are Going in Your County and State; No One Actually Knows If You're Vaccinated America has always been on the vaccine honor system; What Are the Factors That Improve COVID Vaccine Antibody Response?; CDC reviewing cases of heart damage in young adults after COVID-19 vaccination; C.D.C. Is Investigating a Heart Problem in a Few Young Vaccine Recipients The agency is reviewing several dozen reports that teenagers and young adults may have developed myocarditis after vaccination, officials said. But the agency has not determined whether the vaccine caused the condition; IDSA Sees 'Widespread' Confusion, Frustration Over CDC Mask Policy- Guidance was a surprise that came too soon, and will be hard to implement; The VaST session on May 17, 2021, included several presentations on myocarditis following mRNA vaccines; Immune Disorders May Dampen COVID-19 Vaccine Response; Half Of All U.S. Adults Are Now Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19; COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC ” United States, January 1-April 30, 2021; COVID-19 Breakthrough Case Investigations and Reporting; Why CDC Changed Its 'Breakthrough Case' Definition - Will new monitoring tactic miss the "full picture" of COVID infections among the vaccinated?; Same-day SARS-CoV-2 antigen test screening in an indoor mass-gathering live music event: a randomised controlled trial; Study Shows How to Safely Hold an Indoor Mass Gathering — Testing, N95 masks allowed a 500-person indoor concert to go infection-free; No sign of infection after test concert in Spain, researchers say; Mass gatherings during Malaysian election directly and indirectly boosted COVID-19 spread, study suggests New computational method could deepen understanding of direct and spill-over effects of gatherings; Clinical Considerations for evaluation of myocarditis/pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination; Heart Inflammation -Also known as Endocarditis, Myocarditis, Pericarditis; Reported Adverse Events; Test for Current Infection; Eligibility and Disqualification Recommendations for Competitive Athletes With Cardiovascular Abnormalities: Task Force 3: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy and Other Cardiomyopathies, and Myocarditis. A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology; Clinical Considerations: Myocarditis and Pericarditis after Receipt of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Among Adolescents and Young Adults; Digital Vaccine Credentials; How COVID-19 Can Lead to Diabetes; I Spy an Opportunistic Infection? Providers should monitor for "black fungus" and other infections being associated with COVID; We'll Probably Need Booster Shots for Covid-19. But When? And Which Ones?; Don't Drop the Ball on Long COVID - We can prepare today for an influx of patients knocking at our doors; Vaccine Breakthrough Infections with SARS-CoV-2 Variants; Study examines the effects of COVID-19 on human kidney cells; Study identifies how COVID-19 linked to Alzheimer's disease-like cognitive impairment; Does low testosterone make COVID-19 worse for men?; postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS); COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women During Pregnancy - Eight Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 14, 2020-May 8, 2021;A Detailed Study of Patients with Long-Haul COVID. An Analysis of Private Healthcare Claims A Detailed Study of Patients with Long-Haul COVID A FAIR Health White Paper, June 15, 2021; Why some COVID-19 patients develop life-threatening clots. New insights could lead to new therapies for COVID-19; First Close Look at Presumed Myocarditis Cases After COVID Vaccination - Case reports suggest a favorable clinical course after hospitalization; New study finds SARS-CoV-2 can infect testes; Hopeful Dads Can Relax About COVID Vax: No Link to Infertility - The real threat to male sexual health is COVID-19 itself, says study author; Liver Fibrosis Linked to Lower Response to COVID Vaccine Third dose may be needed in this population as well as some transplant patients, says researcher; Unusual Variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome Linked to COVID Vaccines - Experts call for relationship between adenovirus vector vaccines and GBS to be studied; FDA to Add Warning on Rare Myocarditis Risk After COVID Vaccination - But CDC and others still believe benefits outweigh risks for adolescents and young adults; Here's Why Experts Are Comfortable With Myocarditis Numbers — The signal is real, but the condition is mild, and the benefits outweigh any risks; States hesitant to adopt digital COVID vaccine verification; 80% of COVID patients develop neurological problems; Who Are the COVID Vaccine 'Holdouts'?- Public health experts explain the chief concerns among those who still don't want a shot;
• Eating habits change only slightly after gestational diabetes diagnosis, NIH study suggests Findings highlight disparities by race/ethnicity, education level, age and obesity status; How COVID-19 Can Lead to Diabetes; Trends in Diabetes Treatment and Control in U.S. Adults, 1999-2018; The COVID-19 virus can cause diabetes, new studies find. "The virus actually destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin."
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• Favorite Music Sites What Makes Music Universal. Music brings us together to show us how different we are;
• Fitness Exercise, healthy diet in midlife may prevent serious health conditions in senior years; The 1-Mile Walking Test; What Is the Average Walking Speed of an Adult?; Benefits of Physical Activity; Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) Section; Six-Minute Walk Test; Reference values for the 6-min walk test in healthy subjects 20-50 years old; Use the six-minute walking test score (6MWT) on Apple Watch to monitor your fitness; Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT); ATS Statement Guidelines for the Six-Minute Walk Test; Six-Minute Walk Test; The 6-min walk distance in healthy subjects: reference standards from seven countries; 6 MINUTES WALKING TEST“ English Version; Taking more steps daily may lead to a longer life;
• GraphingWhen Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death;
• Health Education Resources Prevention Core Competencies (SAMHSA);
• Healthy People 2030 Health Literacy in Healthy People 2030; What is Health Literacy?;
• Measles: A dangerous vaccine-preventable disease returns; Shigella Prevention and Control Toolkit March 2021;
• Kids Health COMIC: How To Intervene When Someone Is Harassed Or Attacked;
• Maternal Child Health Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger How to use the child/adolescent; Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for ages 19 years or older: Growing Up with Vaccines: What Should Parents Know?; New atlas of genetic function maps complexities of immune system and immune diseases. Connecting genetic variants to changes in expression levels to understand immune-mediated diseases;
• Nutrition Resources Dietary Guidelines 2020 - 2025; Processed food might boost risk for chronic infection diseases; IARC Monographs evaluate consumption of red meat and processed meat;
• COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas; Executive Summary: COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas; Diet Rich in Animal Products, Processed Foods, Alcohol and Sugar Linked with Inflammatory Gut Microbiome; Man's energy drink habit lands him in the hospital with heart failure. The man reported consuming four energy drinks per day for two years; Deaths From Obesity-Related Cancers on the Rise -Trends parallel those already observed for heart disease; New section; Brown Fat; Uncovering the origins of brown fat; Obesity during adolescence linked to increased risk of stroke as an adult, study finds; Western diet may damage these immune cells in gut;
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• Public Health Data Gender Differences in the Epidemiology of Alcohol Use and Related Harms in the United States; Suicide Risk in Schizophrenia Highest for Young Adults Longitudinal study shows rates decline with advancing age;
• Public Health Data Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999–2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis; Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States; ;
• Public Health Practice Prevention Core Competencies (SAMHSA); ; New section: Pandemic Public Health Management; Proposed Limits on Public Health Authority: Dangerous for Public Health - NACCHO May 2021; Proposed Limits on Public Health Authority: Dangerous for Public Health -NACCHO May 2021;
• Public Health Sites A - C Does Alcohol Consumption Cause Cancer; Alcohol and Cancer; Natural Recovery by the Liver and Other Organs After Chronic Alcohol Use; Cannabis Vaping Skyrockets in High School Students- COVID-19's effect still to be determined; AIDS Glossary; What is hyperosmia and what causes it?; Lower risk of stroke after alcohol abstinence in patients with incident atrial fibrillation: a nationwide population-based cohort study;
• Public Health Sites D-G Anabolic androgenic steroids accelerate brain aging; Younger age of first cannabis use or prescription drug misuse is associated with faster development of substance use disorders. NIH analysis measures the prevalence of nine substance use disorders after first substance use or misuse in young people; Does teen cannabis use affect adult life? Yes for socioeconomic status, maybe not for mental health; Marijuana Smoking and Cancer Risk; THC Leads to Increased Neuropsychiatric Events in Older Adults; How early marijuana use affects the heart later in life; How long does impairment last after cannabis use? A new study shows that intoxication can last 3-10 hours, depending on how pot is used and who's using it; Habitual cannabis use is associated with altered cardiac mechanics and arterial stiffness, but not endothelial function in young healthy smokers; Early cannabis use linked to heart disease; Deaths From Paint Stripping Chemicals Are on the Rise - methylene chloride, also known as dichloromethane (DCM); Medical records analysis links cannabis use disorder in pregnancy to infant health problems; Marijuana users with heart rhythm issues risk a ‘devastating outcome; Toxicological Profile for Perfluoroalkyls; Microplastics are everywhere” but are they harmful?; FDA Announces Seizure of Adulterated Dietary Supplements Containing Kratom; How Emotionally Intelligent Are You About Your EQ? Hint: It's not just about empathy for patients; How to Use Naloxone if Someone Is Overdosing on Opioids; Use of PFAS in cosmetics 'widespread,' new study finds; Toxic Chemicals Found in Many Cosmetics; Cannabis use may be associated with suicidality in young adults NIH study suggests a link between cannabis use and higher levels of suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt; Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment;
• Public Health Sites H-L: Eating Bacon Could Cause This Type of Liver Disease, New Study Reveals. New research out of England suggests cured pork products can be contaminated with this infectious virus.; Western diet may damage these immune cells in gut
• Public Health Sites M - N Association Between Marijuana Use and Risk of Cancer - A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Testicular Cancer ; Marijuana usage in men linked to developing breast tissue, risk for breast cancer; What is languishing? Alonely? A mental health glossary to explain what you're feeling; Depressed brains don't have the regular response to stress; Key facts about Asian origin groups in the U.S.;
• Public Health Sites O-Z Suicide Risk in Schizophrenia Highest for Young Adults - Longitudinal study shows rates decline with advancing age; Studies reveal skull as unexpected source of brain immunity. Immune cells from skull bone marrow guard the brain, spinal cord;
• Research Resources on the Net How a Sharp-Eyed Scientist Became Biology's Image Detective;
• Senior Health Retirees in Profile: Evaluating Five Distinct Lifestyles in Retirement; Senior Citizens Face Mental and Financial Stress, Especially Women By Seniorly;
• Disrupted sleep is linked to increased risk of early death, particularly in women; Short and long sleep duration are associated with prevalent cardiovascular disease in Australian adults; Sleep duration linked to heart disease risk Both too little or too much sleep could be a health hazard, research suggests; Sleep duration linked to heart disease risk Both too little or too much sleep could be a health hazard, research suggests; The ways sleep deprivation affects you - Tips for getting a better rest; Press (re)play to remember - How the brain strengthens memories during sleep; Waking just one hour earlier cuts depression risk by double digits, study finds;Does Sleep Flush Wastes From the Brain?;
• Social Media Social Media Use in 2021; 15 Big Social Media Mistakes Companies Make and How to Avoid Them; 10 Social Media Fails to Avoid in 2021; 19 Massive Corporate Social Media Horror Stories; People are getting fired over racist, violent, and insensitive social media posts;
• Analysis of Chemicals Found in Cigarette Smoke in a Special Sample of U.S. Adults, NHANES 2011-2016; Cellular impact of 'Heat not Burn' products may be no less harmful than cigarettes. Findings cast doubt on industry promotion of these products as 'safer' alternative; 'This is victory': Anti-smoking advocates applaud FDA's move to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars The regulatory agency stopped short, though, of including menthol-flavored e-cigarettes; Exposure to secondhand smoke leads to a 35% higher risk of heart failure; Study of 70,000 individuals links dementia to smoking and cardiovascular disease Significantly, women impaired more by smoking; men impaired more by cardiovascular disease; How Juul Got Vaporized; Vaping Alone May Boost Lung Troubles - Study finds wheeze, shortness of breath with e-cigs even after controlling for tobacco or pot use; No Level of Smoke Exposure is Safe; Study raises new alarm over long-term exposure to second-hand smoke; E-cigarettes Health Bulletin; Tobacco, E-Cigarettes and Alternative Products: Product Guide FOR PEDIATRIC PROVIDERS; Tobacco, E-Cigarettes and Alternative Products: Anticipatory Guidance, Screening and Treatment FOR PEDIATRIC PROVIDERS; How to Talk With Your Children About Tobacco and E-Cigarettes: A COACHING GUIDE; #DontGetHookedNYC A comic book about #vaping for middle school teens. (If you're not, you can read it, too!); Heart Patients Outdo Rest of the Country in Tobacco Use - Few were able to put down the cigarettes in recent years; FDA Must Do More to Stop Youth Vaping, House Members Say "The alternative is going to be years and years of delay," says Democratic representative;
• US Government Statistics Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2020; Election Statistics; USA Facts - 2021 Annual Report; More people say they're multiracial after taking ancestry tests;
• Web Resources Victims of Identity Theft, 2018; PSA: These Apps Are Collecting (and Selling) a Ton of Your Personal Information; Combating Ransomware. A Comprehensive Framework for Action: Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force;
• Wellness Resources Part 1 (1 - 6) YOUR HEALTHIEST SELF - Physical Wellness Checklist;
• Women's Health New Study Finds Alarming Gaps in Women's Health Knowledge and Healthcare Experiences. MDVIP/Ipsos Survey Finds 9 in 10 Women Fail 'Women's Health IQ' Quiz. COVID-19 Pandemic Challenging Women's Mental Health, But Also Strengthening Their Resilience;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Medical records analysis links cannabis use disorder in pregnancy to infant health problems; Sugar-sweetened beverage intake in adulthood and adolescence and risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women; Prenatal Exposure to Glyphosate and Its Environmental Degradate, Aminomethylphosphonic Acid (AMPA), and Preterm Birth: A Nested CaseControl Study in the PROTECT Cohort (Puerto Rico);
• Women's Health Issues DDT Exposure in Grandmothers Linked to Obesity, Earlier Periods in Granddaughters; Can Curbing Thirst for Sugary Drinks Reduce Colon Cancer? Two servings a day more than doubled risk in women younger than 50, study showed; Smoking is associated with impaired verbal learning and memory performance in women more than men;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Female Cancers Exposure to common chemical during pregnancy may reduce protection against breast cancer; Alcohol's Effects on Breast Cancer in Women; Cannabinoids and Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Treatment; Review summarizes known links between endocrine disruptors and breast cancer risk; Breast Cancer Screening (PDQ®)Patient Version; Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines for Women; Follow up Care After Breast Cancer Treatment; Minimizing Cardiotoxicities of Contemporary Breast Cancer Treatments; Mammography use and breast cancer incidence among older U.S. women; Breast Cancer Prevention (PDQ®) Health Professional Version;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Stress from Work and Social Interactions Put Women at Higher Risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Drexel Study Suggests;
• Writing 5 Ways For Seniors To Protect Themselves From Online Misinformation; Comic: Fake News Can Be Deadly. Here's How To Spot It; Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing;

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• Academic Resources Healthy students are better learners; Remember more by taking breaks. Longer breaks during learning lead to more stable activation patterns in the brain; Weight gain isn't inevitable when you start college. Freshmen gain 3 pounds on average over their first semester;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition; The Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect; The Murderbot Diaries: Fugitive Telemetry;
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• Women's HealthHow An Anti-Vice Crusader Sabotaged The Early Birth Control Movement;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Here's What Life Was Like for American Women in America Before "Roe v. Wade"; To spare sperm, quit cannabis for 77 days pre-conception?;
• Women's Health Issues Promoting physical activity in older women to maximize health; The Meaning of California's Bill Against Nonconsensual Condom Removal The civil-rights attorney Alexandra Brodsky discusses how legislation banning so-called stealthing could expand understandings of sexual assault.
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Female Cancers Dense Breasts Linked to Increased Risk of Invasive Cancer in Older Women - Breast density, life expectancy could be factored into considerations for continued screening;
• Writing Handwriting beats typing and watching videos for learning to read; Communication; Communication Guidance; Building trust in preprints: recommendations for servers and other stakeholders; Clear Communication; Pink Book-Making Health Communication Programs Work; Climate change challenge: Terminology used by scientists confounds public; The Commas That Cost Companies Millions;

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• Addressing the Challenges of Cancer Misinformation on Social Media; How to Find Cancer Resources You Can Trust; Wide Variety of Immune-Mediated Conditions Tied to Cancer - Associations often seen in the involved or near organ, but not always; Glucose control is a key factor for reduced cancer risk in obesity and type 2 diabetes;
• Chronic Disease Index Tracking Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic; What makes life meaningful? Globally, answers sometimes vary by age; What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies. Family is preeminent for most publics but work, material well-being and health also play a key role;
• Intermittent fasting may lower risk of heart disease, diabetes; E-CIGARETTES: A NEW THREAT TO CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH. A WORLD HEART FEDERATION POLICY BRIEF; Accelerometer-derived sleep onset timing and cardiovascular disease incidence: a UK Biobank cohort study; Experts warn that extreme heat events jeopardize cardiovascular health; Ultra-processed food intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in individuals with cardiovascular disease: the Moli-sani Study;
• New section: Coronary Artery Calcium Score; CAC scores not always reliable for ruling out obstructive CAD; Association of Age With the Diagnostic Value of Coronary Artery Calcium Score for Ruling Out Coronary Stenosis in Symptomatic Patients; Only Alcohol – Not Caffeine, Diet or Lack of Sleep – Might Trigger Heart Rhythm Condition. Lifestyle Factors May Play Role in Managing the Malady, Latest Study Shows; Rare gene mutation in some Black Americans may allow earlier screening of heart failure; A key difference between stroke symptoms for men and women;
• Chinese Culture These Are the 15 Best Chinatowns Around the World; Moody Photos of China's Most Beautiful Coastline and the Sea Farmers Who Tend It; Researchers find repeated link between volcanic eruptions and dynastic collapse in China's Imperial Era; The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American Cookbook. Chin Foin forever changed America's relationship with Chinese food;
• Connecticut Open Data - Search or browse public data provided by Connecticut State Agencies; CT WiZ: Access My Immunization Records;
• 💕; Are Young Children Super Spreaders of SARS-CoV-2 in Families?; People with substance use disorders may be at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections. Co-occurring health disorders appear to contribute to increased risk, NIH study suggests; COVID-19: Without masks, two meters distancing is not enough, research finds. Simulations track the spread of coughs and safe physical distancing indoors; Study Says Vaccinations Prevented Deaths In Connecticut; COVID-19 Science Update; Alarming study on COVID-19 vaccine side effects withdrawn after authors recognize key mistake; Genetics could explain why some people get severe COVID-19; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March to December 2020; The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory; China to test thousands of Wuhan blood samples in Covid-19 probe; Understanding SARS-CoV-2 antibody binding; COVID-19 Nursing Home Data Information on COVID-19 reported by nursing homes to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) COVID-19 Long Term Care Facility Module; Rates of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Vaccination Status; What to Know About the New Delta Sublineage-CDC acknowledges AY.4.2 is stateside after quick spread in the U.K;. SARS-CoV-2 and NIAID-supported Bat Coronavirus Research; Underlying Medical Conditions Associated with Higher Risk for Severe COVID-19: Information for Healthcare Providers; COVID reinfections likely within one or two years, models propose; Estimates based on viral evolution forecast a 50% risk 17 months after a first infection without measures such as masking and vaccination; PAD patients more likely to die from COVID-19; Peripheral Artery Disease and COVID-19 Outcomes: Insights from the Yale DOM-CovX Registry; Even With Mild COVID, Obesity May Mean Worse Symptoms; COVID-19 Vaccination and Non-COVID-19 Mortality Risk - Seven Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 14, 2020-July 31, 2021; Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Among Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19-Like Illness with Infection-Induced or mRNA Vaccine-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Immunity - Nine States, January-September 2021; COVID reinfection is likely for unvaccinated people; How does the government count COVID-19 deaths? Medical conditions or injuries at an individual’s time of death are not automatically official causes of death for the purpose of government statistics. That includes COVID-19; Gene linked to doubling risk of COVID-19 death found by UK scientists; Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 200 Million Mark For Infections; Report Shows Arizona Man Infected His Dog, Cat With COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2 variant detected in dogs and cats with suspected myocarditis; How SARS-CoV-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic; Zoonotic spillover of SARS-CoV-2: mink-adapted virus in humans; CDC Hasn't Updated COVID Vax Breakthrough Data - Agency doesn't report real-time breakthrough data, but states provide some answers; Coronavirus lurks and lingers in nursing home patients’ rooms, study finds. Rigorous surface cleaning needed to reduce chance of spread to unvaccinated and vaccinated-but-vulnerable patients, staff and visitors; First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Claims. A new review of early Covid-19 cases in the journal Science will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over how the pandemic began; Wuhan Market Vendor Likely First Case of COVID, Scientist Says; Why people with mental illness are at higher risk of COVID; Scientists warn of new Botswana variant of Covid with horrific number of mutations, Only 10 cases have been reported worldwide so far; What's known and unknown about Omicron, the coronavirus variant identified in South Africa; Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines' effectiveness; New Coronavirus Variant a ‘Serious Concern in South Africa; Scientists warn of new Covid variant with high number of mutations; Covid-19: ‘selfish mask guest in quarantine hotel cross infection is Hong Kong's first case of new coronavirus variant; 'Worse than Delta': Alarm over Botswana Covid variant with multiple mutations; WHO discusses new Covid variant possibly evolved in untreated AIDS patient. What we know so far; Super-mutant 'vaccine resistant' Botswana Covid variant is driving South African surge and is nearing dominance just WEEKS after first being detected - sparking calls for a new travel ban on region to prevent outbreak here; Delta-like SARS-CoV-2 variants are most likely to increase pandemic severity; COVID Sure Looks Seasonal Now; What we know about Omicron variant that has sparked global alarm Scientists fear emerging strain could be more transmissible and have higher resistance to vaccines; How variants like omicron develop and what makes them variants 'of concern'. The World Health Organization classified a new variant first identified in southern Africa as a "variant of concern" Friday; Explainer: A new variant of COVID-19, How do we detect new variants, and should we be alarmed?; What you need to know about the omicron variant. Omicron is the newest Covid-19 “variant of concern,” according to the World Health Organization; Tracking omicron cases worldwide; First Omicron Case Detected in the U.S. - But Fauci cautions this is an "n of 1" case; The Omicron variant: What we know so far; U.S. races to detect and track omicron, hampered by an unwieldy surveillance system; These 2 questions will determine if the coronavirus becomes a deadly pandemic; Update on Omicron; Scientists find ‘stealth’ version of Omicron that may be harder to track; Omicron's Explosive Growth Is a Warning Sign We don’t know how severe Omicron is, but we do know it's spreading very fast; Where has Omicron been Detected in the United States;US COVID-19 cases and deaths by state; MORE EFFECTIVE MORE EFFICIENT MORE EQUITABLE YEAR-END STAFF REPORT Overseeing an Improving & Ongoing Pandemic Response; Visualising SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes and mitigations; ‘Just stupid stuff’: Logistics and lack of testing stymied finding the Omicron variant in the U.S.; Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses; SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant — United States, December 1–8, 2021;How South African scientists spotted the Omicron Covid variant; How Long Does Omicron Take to Make You Sick? The new variant seems to be our quickest one yet. That makes it harder to catch with the tests we have; Omicron by the numbers: Where things stand now; New section: Metabolic syndrome; Metabolic syndrome increases risk of respiratory distress, death for hospitalized COVID-19 patients; Uneven Reporting Raises Doubts About CDC Vaccination Numbers The agency has acted to address inconsistencies in its data tracker. But experts say the solution does little to correct reporting that has miscounted the vaccination status of millions./; The Unvaccinated Drive COVID-19 Infections in the U.S.;Early data on Omicron show surging cases but milder symptoms The variant’s capacity for reinfection appears unprecedented; Intermountain official warns of continued protective measures, vaccination due to omicron;A case study of extended in-flight transmission of SARS-CoV-2 en route to Aotearoa New Zealand;
• Combat Misinformation With 'Psychological Herd Immunity' - Better to "pre-bunk" misinformation sooner rather than later, experts say; National and State Trends in Anxiety and Depression Severity Scores Among Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, 2020–2021; APA Offers Tips for Understanding Prolonged Grief Disorder; Doctors grow frustrated over COVID-19 denial, misinformation; CDC Now Reports COVID Cases and Deaths by Vax Status - New tool also reveals numeric differences between vaccines; Tracking Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic; 'I hope you die': how the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists. Dozens of researchers tell Nature they have received death threats, or threats of physical or sexual violence; Effects of covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020: time series analysis in 37 countries; New coronavirus, likely from dogs, infects people in Malaysia and Haiti; Amid the pandemic, a rising share of older U.S. adults are now retired; The Plastic Deluge: 8 Million Tons of Waste From COVID-19 Treatment of plastic waste is not keeping up with demand for plastic products; The Year America's Hair Fell Out; Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves; Understanding the hidden costs of COVID-19’s potential impact on US healthcare; Companies are telling unvaccinated workers to pay more for health insurance; We’ll know more soon about Omicron. Here’s how to interpret the coming flood of data; Outbreak Associated with SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant in an Elementary School - Marin County, California, May-June 2021; Growing use of home Covid-19 tests leaves health agencies in the dark about unreported cases; Preparing for Omicron as a covid veteran; Omicron blindspots: why it’s hard to track coronavirus variants; 10 lessons I’ve learned from the Covid–19 pandemic; Deaths of despair: the unrecognized tragedy of working class immiseration;
• Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 200 Million Mark For Infections;
• Why people who don’t trust vaccines are embracing unproven drugs; Erectile Dysfunction Risk 6 Times Higher in Men With COVID; Toolkit for Responding to COVID-19 Cases; Increased risk for COVID-19 breakthrough infection in fully vaccinated patients with substance use disorders in the United States between December 2020 and August 2021; A primer on what we know about mixing and matching Covid vaccines; What Are the Long-Term Outcomes of Kids With MIS-C After COVID-19?; Who Is Eligible for a COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shot?; Mandatory Employee Vaccines – Coming to A State Near You? (UPDATED); COVID-19 could cause male infertility and sexual dysfunction – but vaccines do not; Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how viruses in general hang on in the brain and testicles; 2021: Hospital care for COVID could cost you thousands; Assessment of Out-of-Pocket Spending for COVID-19 Hospitalizations in the US in 2020; The very low risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination should not discourage vaccination Position Paper of the Swiss Society of Cardiology (SSC), Working Group of Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging of the SSC and the Swiss Society of Paediatric Cardiology; Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 Vaccination; Rare Neurologic Events More Common After COVID Infection Than After Vaccine — Study looks at outcomes for 32 million people in England; COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots; Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19; Which Vaccine Passport App Should I Use? For those who want a digital option instead of always whipping out their vaccine card, there are plenty to choose from; Brain Fog After COVID-19 May Last Longer Than We Think — Relatively young people wrestle with cognitive dysfunction for months; More than half of survivors experience ‘long COVID’; Most Americans resumed risky activities before COVID vaccines came out; Breakthrough Infection Study Compares Decline in Vaccine Effectiveness and Consequences for Mortality; COVID-19 Vaccines Factsheet: In Chuukese, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, and more; COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing ETS OHSA - Emergency Temporary Standard; Even if they get breakthrough infections, vaccinated people don't get as sick with Covid-19, studies show;SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021; Mild COVID-19 infections not associated with long-term risk of heart damage; Prospective Case-Control Study of Cardiovascular Abnormalities 6 Months Following Mild COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers; COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Teens; Covid vaccination mandates for city workers caused backlash. But data show they’re working. Public employees are vaccinated at a higher rate than the general public in 19 cities, an NBC News analysis found;What would the public health experts do? STAT asked 28 about their holiday plans amid Covid-19; Why experts say monoclonal antibodies aren't vaccine substitute. Data supporting antibodies is limited compared to that for authorized vaccines; COVID-19 Linked to Long List of Eye Abnormalities — Indian eye doctors also warn of dangerous infections associated with steroids, diabetes; Effectiveness of public health measures in reducing the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis; Hospitalizations rising among fully vaccinated in U.S., Fauci saysv"What we’re starting to see now is an uptick in hospitalizations among people who’ve been vaccinated but not boosted." Risk for Stillbirth Among Women With and Without COVID-19 at Delivery Hospitalization - United States, March 2020–September 2021; A Breath of Virus-Free Air - Advanced air purification can reduce hospital-acquired infections; Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame; Let's Talk About MIS-C — Raising awareness of this condition, especially among the parents of our patients, is key; J&J's COVID Vaccine on the Way Out? — CDC panel demotes vaccine but stops short of recommending against use; As Omicron spreads, perceptions of risk around certain activities on the rise again; How COVID vaccines shaped 2021 in eight powerful charts; We Need to Start Thinking Differently About Breakthrough Infections; What to do if you've just tested positive for Covid With the fast-spreading omicron variant, there has been a rise in cases, including breakthrough infections. These are the steps to take if you test positive; Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2; Who Are the Adults Not Vaccinated Against COVID? Household Pulse Survey Shows Many Don’t Trust COVID Vaccine, Worry About Side Effects;
• Targeted Blood Sugar Level With Diabetes May Help Prevent a 2nd Stroke; Intermittent fasting may lower risk of heart disease, diabetes; National Diabetes Statistics Report 2020; Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2022;
• Favorite Music Sites Adele 30: The Psychology of Why Sad Songs Make Us Feel Good;
• FAQ Page;
• Fitness Target Heart Rate Calculator; Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong;
• Healthcare Quality Data It's time for individuals not doctors or companies — to own their health data;
• Healthcare Quality Issues Hospital Utilization - HHS.gov; Health Literacy: A Key to Good Health; Whether people inform themselves or remain ignorant is due to three factors;
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• Healthy People 2030 Healthy People 2020 Final Review; Healthy People 2020 Progress Table; Healthy People 2020 Progress by Population Group; Assessing Healthy People 2020; ;
• What is a superbug? Bacteria immune to the effects of antibiotics are rising.;
• 5 things to know about monkeypox after a new case appeared in U.S.;
• Maternal Child Health States have mandated vaccinations since long before COVID-19; How COVID vaccines shaped 2021 in eight powerful charts;
• Nutrition Resources 6 Things Americans Eat That Are Banned in Other Countries; Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Artificial Sweeteners; Vitamin D and Disease Prevention: Worth Another Look? Incidence of autoimmune disease decreased by 25-30% with dietary supplements; Diet trumps drugs for anti ageing and good metabolic health; Ultra-processed food intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in individuals with cardiovascular disease: the Moli-sani Study;
• The State of Obesity 2021; Obesity Paper Has Diet Researchers Riled Up - Nutrition community clashes over perspective piece on obesity mechanism; Diet-induced fasting ghrelin elevation reflects the recovery of insulin sensitivity and visceral adiposity regression; Obesity treatment: Weight loss versus increasing fitness and physical activity for reducing health risks; Overweight children are developing heart complications; 40+ Weight Loss Statistics 2021;
• Public Health Continuing Education Opportunities Public Health Law Introduction Videos. Video shorts from the Public Health Law Academy; New section: Complementary Health Approaches;Online Continuing Education Series from NCCIH;
• Public Health Data Trends in and Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyls United States, 2019–2020;
• Public Health Data Mental Health ATLAS 2020; ;
• Public Health Practice Social Media Toolkit. A Primer for Local Health Department PIOs and Communications Professionals 2.0 Updated July 2021; Tracking Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals -2021 Revision PHF.org;
• Public Health Sites A - C Alcohol and Cannabis Use and the Developing Brain; Investigating the causal relationship between allergic disease and mental health; Turns Out, Beer Is Even Worse For You Than We Thought. From your brain to your belly, this popular drink could be wreaking havoc on your health; HIV Source; Despite interventions, Black and Hispanic men are contracting HIV at the same rates as 10 years ago;
• Public Health Sites D-G Research Shows More People Living in Floodplains; Kilauea Summit WebCams; What's Behind California's Surge of Large Fires?; Exposure to Certain Phthalates Tied to All-Cause, CV-Related Death - Common chemicals in shampoo, cosmetics also linked with billions of dollars in lost productivity; Deaths Linked to ‘Hormone Disruptor’ Chemical Costs Billions in Lost U.S. Productivity. NYU Langone Study Shows That Daily Exposure to Chemicals Used in the Manufacture of Plastic Food Containers & Cosmetics May Lead to Roughly 100,000 Premature Deaths Among Older Americans Each Year; Synthetic Chemical in Consumer Products Linked to Early Death, Study Says; Risky grease proof chemicals hang around forever; Where does our plastic accumulate in the ocean and what does that mean for the future?; Preventing Marijuana Use Among Youth; PFAS exposure, high-fat diet drive prostate cells metabolism into pro-cancer state.Dietary fat synergizes with PFAS to trigger cancer in benign cells, accelerate tumor growth in malignant cells; Cannabis Not So Great for Catching Z's - Recent users reported less-than-optimal sleep duration; December tornadoes: What caused this deadly outbreak?'; ˜Forever chemicals" latch onto sea spray to become airborne; Weed May Mess With Your Medicines, Causing Harm; Cannabis may contain heavy metals and affect consumer health, study finds Research team proposes strategies for growers to avoid heavy metals in their cannabis crops;
• Public Health Sites H-L: Fighting Fatty Liver Disease; Hearing Aids and Personal Sound Amplification Products: What to Know. Learn about hearing aids, personal sound amplification products, and the proposed change to how you can get hearing aids;.
• Public Health Sites M - N Depression and suicide: what you need to know and what you can do; Mental Health ATLAS 2020;Brain Basics: Know Your Brain;
• Public Health Software ERCC - Emergency Response Coordination Centre;
• Research Resources on the NetUnrepresentative big surveys significantly overestimated US vaccine uptake;
• Senior Health Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong;
• Sleep and Alcohol Use in Women; Falling asleep at this time may be protective for your heart. Bedtime from 10 to 11 p.m. is associated with lower risk of developing heart disease, new research shows; Accelerometer-derived sleep onset timing and cardiovascular disease incidence: a UK Biobank cohort study; What happens when you don’t get enough sleep Sleep deprivation can cause a lot more problems than just feeling cranky in the morning;
• E-Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students - National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2021; Youth E-cigarette Use Remains Serious Public Health Concern Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Almost 85 Percent of the More Than 2 Million U.S. Middle and High School Students Who Used E-Cigarettes Used Flavored E-Cigarettes in 2021; UC San Diego Study: E-cigarettes Don't Help Smokers Stay Off Cigarettes Cigarette smokers who quit smoking but substitute e-cigarettes, or other tobacco product, are more likely to relapse; E-cigarettes don't help smokers stay off cigarettes, study suggests Cigarette smokers who quit smoking but substitute e-cigarettes, or other tobacco product, are more likely to relapse, study finds; Incidence of Cigarette Smoking Relapse Among Individuals Who Switched to e-Cigarettes or Other Tobacco Products; Do Vaping Products Actually Help Smokers Quit? A review of the evidence to date offers context for FDA's review of e-cigarettes; E-CIGARETTES: A NEW THREAT TO CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH. A WORLD HEART FEDERATION POLICY BRIEF; Vaping disrupts mitochondria and promotes inflammation independent of the effects of past smoking; E-cigarette use may be detrimental to bone health in adults;
• US Government Statistics NCVS Dashboard (N-DASH) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data - The NCVS is the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization. Bureau of Justice Statistics; New section: Poverty statistics; Poverty Rates for Blacks and Hispanics Reached Historic Lows in 2019;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Team of scientists warns against acetaminophen in pregnancy; Maternal cannabis use is associated with suppression of immune gene networks in placenta and increased anxiety phenotypes in offspring;
• Women's Health Issues .Falling asleep at this time may be protective for your heart. Bedtime from 10 to 11 p.m. is associated with lower risk of developing heart disease, new research shows;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Female Cancers Alcohol Is the Breast Cancer Risk No One Wants to Talk About. As companies roll out the pink beer in October to raise awareness of the disease, one group is urging young women to think twice;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Male-Female Differences in Heart Disease Could Start Before Birth; Sex‐ and Age‐Based Temporal Trends in Takotsubo Syndrome Incidence in the United States;
• Writing 9 Ways to Know if Health Info Is Actually Junk Science Use these steps to figure out what's true; The Golden Age of Junk Science Is Killing Us Misinformation is being spewed, weaponized, and consumed at a deadly rate. Fortunately, there's a way out. Here's how to make sense of what you're seeing;
• Career Resources How to Include Certifications on a Resume; What's an ATS-Friendly Resume? And How to Write One; What Workers Need to Know About Protests—On and Off the Job; What's a CV, and how does it differ from a resume? Don’t make the mistake of using these terms interchangeably; 10 things your resume is probably missing—that recruiters definitely want to see; How to catalog your accomplishments Don’t scramble at the last minute. Keeping track of your career achievements throughout the year is the smart way to go; Resume Buzzwords to Include and Avoid; 113 Resume Buzzwords—What to Use and What to Avoid;
• General job searching Use These 9 Best Job-Search Apps to Find Your Dream Job;

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All statistics to be updated can be found on all the Site Map Pages, the Web Site Statistics Page. This is done monthly, usually near the beginning of each month.

• Cancer statistics, 2022; Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries;
• Chronic Disease Index Association of Treatable Health Conditions During Adolescence With Accelerated Aging at Midlife;
• What Is a Heart-Healthy Diet? American Heart Association Weighs in With New Dietary Recommendations; High levels of good cholesterol may be bad for men; Very High High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels and Cardiovascular Mortality; New section: Alcohol; The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Cardiovascular Health: Myths and Measures; World Health Federation; 'Psychoactive and harmful': World Heart Federation says alcohol is never good for the heart; Caffeine, energy drinks and other natural supplements can cause heart damage, cardiologists warn; Caffeine, energy drinks and other natural supplements can cause heart damage, cardiologists warn; Cardiovascular effects of doping substances, commonly prescribed medications and ergogenic aids in relation to sports: a position statement of the sport cardiology and exercise nucleus of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology; Best Heart-Healthy Diets 2022; Vitamin D supplementation and prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer in the Finnish Vitamin D Trial, a randomized controlled trial; Daily exercise at age 70 may help prevent heart disease later; Study Touts Benefits of Exercise as Primary CVD Prevention in Older Adults;
• Risk Factors for Heart Disease;
• Chinese Culture The Hidden, Magnificent History of Chop Suey Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish's true origins; House GOP candidate calls for Texas-wide ban on Chinese students; Chinatowns are struggling to survive. Grace Young is reminding Americans why they matter; Rare 'bionic' armor discovered in 2,500-year-old China burial. It's only the second known ancient armor of its kind; The 22 Best Restaurants in NYC Chinatown; As Chinatowns face rapid change, America's oldest Chinese restaurants are bent on surviving. Traditional Chinese mom-and-pop eateries are facing multiple challenges of gentrification, shifting trends and increased bias attacks;
• Connecticut Measured By 2020 American Community Survey, 5-year estimates; COVID-19 In Connecticut 2 Years Later: Timeline;
• COVID-19 breakthrough hospitalizations; Omicron: What We Know About the New Coronavirus Variant. In just a few weeks since its discovery, Omicron has turned out to be highly transmissible and less susceptible to vaccines than other variants; New section: Delmicron (Under specific variants); What exactly is Delmicron? Scientists warn of super strain Here's all about its origin, mutation, etc; After Delmicron, it's flurona: Israel reports first double infection of Covid and flu: New section: Co-infections; 2022's Hottest New Illness: Flurona; New variant: B.1.640.2; New corona variant identified in France; Emergence in Southern France of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of probably Cameroonian origin harboring both substitutions N501Y and E484K in the spike protein; Wastewater samples reveal record levels of coronavirus across U.S. "Wastewater is going to be a leading indicator for what's going on in a given community and what's to come," said a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security; Why this Covid-19 surge is 'unprecedented in this pandemic'; Which Fully Vaccinated Adults Are Most at Risk of Severe COVID?; Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 Outcomes Among Persons Aged ≥18 Years Who Completed a Primary COVID-19 Vaccination Series - 465 Health Care Facilities, United States, December 2020-October 2021; What we know about the symptoms - and the severity - of the omicron variant; Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: a new chapter in the COVID-19 pandemic;

  Effectiveness of BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) mRNA Vaccination Against Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Among Persons Aged 12-18 Years United States, July-December 2021; The lag between daily reported Covid-19 cases and deaths and its relationship to age; CDC updates are straining already-pressed public health departments. With an already-weary public tuning out rules and with omicron surging, some public health professionals are struggling to explain recent changes in federal guidance; Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta; No, 'Deltacron' Is Probably Not Real - Reports of a 'recombinant' variant likely just hinge on lab contamination; U.S. COVID hospitalizations hit new record high, raising risks for patients; Excess Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized During the COVID-19 Pandemic; What Is Flurona? Cases of Co-Infections Increase Amid Peak Influenza Season and Omicron Variant Surge; Flurona: Worrisome but No Need to Panic - Viral co-infection isn't new, experts say; Omicron wave prompts media to rethink which data to report; Fact check: The theory that SARS-CoV-2 is becoming milder; Uncounted: Inaccurate death certificates across the country hide the true toll of COVID-19. Some counties, like Cape Girardeau, have seen a spike in deaths that aren't attributed to COVID-19. Many of them, blamed on natural causes, are likely from the coronavirus; Want to get omicron and just get it over with? Here's why that's a bad idea; States ranked by percentage of population fully vaccinated: Jan. 14; Average charge for COVID-19 hospitalization, by state; The mystery of where omicron came from — and why it matters; Study finds 1 in 10 people with COVID-19 remains infectious beyond 10 days; Persistence of clinically relevant levels of SARS-CoV2 envelope gene subgenomic RNAs in non-immunocompromised individuals; One in ten people may still be infectious for COVID after ten days, new research indicates; What we know about Omicron. The new coronavirus variant is spreading fast and raising concerns despite causing milder infections; Genetic risk factor found for Covid-19 smell and taste loss, researchers say Six months after contracting Covid, as many as 1.6 million people in the U.S. are still unable to smell or have experienced changes in their ability to smell; What we know about Omicron. The new coronavirus variant is spreading fast and raising concerns despite causing milder infections; Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant; Omicron 'sub-lineage' BA.2 designated as COVID variant under investigation, says UKHSA;

  COVID-19 Incidence and Death Rates Among Unvaccinated and Fully Vaccinated Adults with and Without Booster Doses During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Emergence - 25 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4-December 25, 2021; Covid booster shots effective against severe illness from omicron, CDC studies say Three studies released Friday by the CDC underscore the importance of a third dose to help keep Covid-19 patients out of the hospital; Effectiveness of a Third Dose of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19-Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance - VISION Network, 10 States, August 2021–January 2022; Rates of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations by vaccination status; Yes, you can catch the flu and Covid. No, 'flurona' isn't real. Researchers have studied what happens when a human body is infected by two viruses, but it's not yet clear what happens to people who catch Covid and another contagion; Omicron BA.2 Variant May Be Extra Transmissible - "Only having a transmissibility advantage at this stage of the game isn't a total showstopper"; Trends in Disease Severity and Health Care Utilization During the Early Omicron Variant Period Compared with Previous SARS-CoV-2 High Transmission Periods United States, December 2020-January 2022; Omicron subvariant: What we know now; Accuracy of Federal Stats on Most-Unvaxxed Hospitals in Question - Information crucial in light of high court's decision upholding health worker vaccine mandate; What to know about BA.2, the newest Covid omicron variant; Watchdog says key federal health agency is failing on crises. COVID-19: Significant Improvements Are Needed for Overseeing Relief Funds and Leading Responses to Public Health Emergencies; Autopsies and covid-19. America's elected coroners are too often a public-health liability. The politics of death;

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  Brain Injury Biomarkers Elevated in Hospitalized COVID Patients - Some markers reach levels seen in dementia patients; Blood Markers of Brain Damage Are Higher Over Short Term in Patients Who Have COVID-19 Than in People Who Have Alzheimer's Disease; (When) to Boost or Not to Boost, That Is the Question - Countless complex questions remain; New section: Subgenomic RNA (sgRNA); Persistence of clinically relevant levels of SARS-CoV2 envelope gene subgenomic RNAs in non-immunocompromised individuals; New section: Paxlovid; Caution: Paxlovid Interacts With Many Heart Meds - The Skeptical Cardiologist asks clinicians and patients to take note; Lopinavir-Ritonavir in SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Drug-Drug Interactions with Cardioactive Medications; How to Find a Quality Mask (and Avoid Counterfeits). Knowing which mask to pick and making sure it's not a fake requires the sleuthing skills of a forensic investigator. Our guide can help; SARS-CoV-2 may cause fetal inflammation even in the absence of placental infection; Even mild COVID-19 cases can result in lingering heart issues; Multi-organ assessment in mainly non-hospitalized individuals after SARS-CoV-2 infection: The Hamburg City Health Study COVID programme; Uneven Responses to Extra COVID Vax Doses in Autoimmune Patients- Mycophenolate therapy seems to be the problem; Fear of catching COVID-19 heightened Americans' disgust sensitivity. In study, pandemic affected people's perceptions of what is gross; COVID-19 May Raise Risk of Diabetes in Children; Risk for Newly Diagnosed Diabetes >30 Days After SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Persons Aged <18 Years United States, March 1, 2020–June 28, 2021; COVID-19 Vaccines Not Linked to Trouble Conceiving - But prior infection could affect male fertility, study suggests; Signs of Lingering Cardiac Dysfunction After Severe COVID - Study included people hospitalized before vaccines were available;

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• Research Resources on the Net Surveys with repetitive questions yield bad data, study finds. In as few as six or eight questions, people are already answering in such a way that you're worse off if you're trying to predict real-world behavior;
• Senior Health Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong; Exercise alters brain chemistry to protect aging synapses. Enhanced nerve transmission seen in older adults who remained active; Those Who Married Once More Likely Than Others to Have Retirement Savings; Senior Sleep Guide: Everything To Know About How Sleep Changes As You Age;
• Teens not getting enough sleep may consume 4.5 extra pounds of sugar during a school year says BYU research; Poor sleep can triple risk for heart disease; Clearance of Protein Linked to Alzheimer's Controlled by Circadian Cycle; Getting sufficient sleep reduces calorie intake; Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function;
• Social Media The Behaviors and Attitudes of U.S. Adults on Twitter A minority of Twitter users produce a majority of tweets from U.S. adults, and the most active tweeters are less likely to view the tone or civility of discussions as a major problem on the site; Social media use tied to poor physical health; Here's Why People Share Content Publicly on Social Media;
• Statistical Procedures Had to know Basic Mathematics ;
• 3 Simple Ways to Quit Nicotine, Caffeine, and Alcohol, Because it's time to get honest about vaping, coffee and booze. ; Association of E-Cigarettes With Erectile Dysfunction: The Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study; Tobacco publishing ban for researchers at industry-owned firms. Respiratory societies tighten author restrictions after tobacco giant PMI acquires inhaler maker Vectura; Tobacco Tactics: Philip Morris International; Synthetic nicotine: Unregulated and increasingly popular. To users, these vapes are identical. But because of an obscure loophole, they skirt the FDA's regulatory umbrella; E-cigarettes are less effective at helping smokers to quit A US study finds that going cold turkey was a better quitting strategy than using e-cigarettes; E-Cigs Are Not Helping People Quit Smoking - Only 9.9% successfully abstained from cigarettes for over 12 months; Researchers agree on first formal definition of long COVID in children. International experts hope the new definition will facilitate more reliable research; Vaping May Be Worse Than Smoking for Your Nose and Throat; E-Cig Use Tied to Higher Odds of Prediabetes - As in regular cigarettes, nicotine may play a role, researcher says; Smoking and Diabetes; Evidence links e-cigarette use with increased odds of prediabetes; Vaping alters mouth microbes; FDA Receives Authorization to Regulate Synthetic Nicotine;
• US Government Statistics NCVS Dashboard (N-DASH); Two Ways the U.S. Census Bureau Measures Poverty to Capture Clearer Picture of Poverty in America;
• Web Resources Blockchain: Emerging Technology Offers Benefits for Some Applications but Faces Challenges ;
• Women's Health Issues Academic Sexual Misconduct Database; One in four women experience domestic violence before age 50;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Female Cancers Diabetes, hypertension more common among breast cancer survivors;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Risk of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Women With and Without a History of Breast Cancer: The Pathways Heart Study; Risk Factors for Heart Disease;
• Writing Fake viral footage is spreading alongside the real horror in Ukraine here are 5 ways to spot it. Manipulated or falsified videos and images can spread quickly“ but there are strategies you can take to evaluate them; Visual Mis/disinformation in Journalism and Public Communications: Current Verification Practices, Challenges, and Future Opportunities; 20 Questions Framework;

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• Academic Resources Just being exposed to new things makes people ready to learn. Latent learning occurs without any explicit teaching; Which educational techniques get top grades; Understanding Learning by Inference. Study Shows Problems Are Mapped in the Brain;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Paul Dettmer's Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive; Riley Black's The Last Days of the Dinosaurs. An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World;
• Annotated Medical Bibliography Paul Dettmer's Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive ;
• Annotated Public Health Practice Bibliography Paul Dettmer's Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive;
• Annotated Wellness Bibliography Paul Dettmer's Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive;
• Factors influencing cancer patients' experiences of care in the USA, United Kingdom, and Canada: A systematic review; Young Cancer Survivors Face Higher Risk of Death From Second Malignancies - Study finds 25% higher risk of secondary cancers versus general public, 84% higher risk of death; Body Location May Influence Fate of Cells with Cancer-Causing Mutations; Exposure to wildfires increases risk of cancer, Living near regions prone to wildfires may boost risk of developing lung cancer and brain tumors; New section: Environmental Aspects; Living near wildfires ups cancer risk; American Cancer Society nutrition and physical activity guideline for cancer survivors; World Cancer Research Fund International - Cancer Trends; In people with HIV, treating precancerous anal lesions cuts risk of anal cancer by more than half;
• Chronic Disease Index New section: Environmental Factors; Environmental Factors Predict Risk of Death;
• Associations of Dietary Cholesterol, Serum Cholesterol, and Egg Consumption With Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality, and Systematic Review and Updated Meta-Analysis; Dietary and blood cholesterols: What to know; Study Provides 'Elusive' Link Between Kids' Health and Adult Heart Events - CV risk factors in childhood tied to midlife CV events and CVD; Just one cigarette raises heart disease risk, study finds Light smoking can raise your heart risk. A study finds that one cigarette a day raises the risk of heart disease and stroke almost as much as a pack a day. Combining certain medications with ibuprofen can permanently injure kidneys. Commonly prescribed hypertension drugs may be harmful in combination with ibuprofen; Mediterranean diet outperforms low-fat diet for cardiovascular disease prevention;
• Warmer summer nocturnal surface air temperatures and cardiovascular disease death risk: a population-based study; Seven Factors Account for 85% of Acute MI Risk in Young Americans - Some factors were sex-specific, highlighting need for targeted interventions, say investigators; Particulate Matter Size Tied to Stroke Mortality - Association stronger among individuals with ischemic strokes; American Heart Association's Simple 7: Lifestyle Recommendations, Polygenic Risk, and Lifetime Risk of Coronary Heart Disease; Association of Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Time and Physical Activity With Risk of Stroke Among US Adults; Association of Postural Instability With Asymptomatic Cerebrovascular Damage and Cognitive Decline;
• Chinese Culture How Chinese place names like Beijing, Xian, Guangzhou changed under foreign control, and how the new monikers came about; Understanding Disparities and Discrimination Faced by Asian and NHOPI People; About a third of Asian Americans say they have changed their daily routine due to concerns over threats, attacks; How Connecticut became the first state to require — and fund — teaching Asian American history. A new Connecticut law requires public schools to implement localized curricula about the history and contributions of Asian American and Pacific Islanders;
• Tracking Coronavirus in New Haven County, Conn.: Latest Map and Case Count; Census Approves CT Switch From Counties To Regions: What To Know The U.S. Census Bureau approved a request to tabulate data by planning regions instead of counties, here is what to know about the change; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Earnings, Employment, and Education in Connecticut;
• Consumer Health MyHealthfinder helps you Take Good Care with recommendations for preventive services that are just right for you; Many Americans Have Knowledge Gaps About Their Own Health: Survey;
• 💕; Explainer: Omicron 'stealth' COVID variant BA.2 now dominant globally; We Study Virus Evolution. Here's Where We Think the Coronavirus Is Going; Rates of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations by vaccination status; Does Green on COVID-19 Maps Mean What You Think? COVID-19's heat map are intended to help the public evaluate health risks during the pandemic. But the guidelines the CDC and other institutions use to create these maps can lead to confusion. Two linguistic anthropologists help make sense of what these maps really mean'; New Omicron variant XE found in UK but too soon to say how contagious it is; Omicron and its stealth subvariant quietly merged into a contagious mutant called Omicron XE — and it already has two cases; African Swine Fever Virus: A Global Concern; Omicron XE variant: 5 things to know; The animal origin of SARS-CoV-2; Tracking an FDA advisory panel meeting on Covid-19 vaccines and boosters; Wastewater provides a planet-wide laboratory for the study of human health; Let's Clear The Air On COVID; US, WHO officials and experts agree (sort of) on how COVID-19 spreads; Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1; Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne; Science & Tech Spotlight: Wastewater Surveillance; How sewage can warn us about the next pandemic The ins and outs of wastewater surveillance; SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in northern Italy since December 2019: Evidence from environmental monitoring; COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths; India Is Stalling the W.H.O's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public. The agency has calculated that 15 million people have died as a result of the pandemic, far more than earlier estimates, but has yet to release those numbers; New section - psychiatric disorders; Psych Disorders Tied to More Breakthrough COVID Cases Association in veterans appeared largely driven by those 65 and up; 4 Michiganders with COVID-19 strain unique to mink were likely 1st U.S. spillover cases; Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a Nursing Home Associated With Aerosol Transmission as a Result of Inadequate Ventilation; High SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate Following Exposure at a Choir Practice — Skagit County, Washington, March 2020; What triggers severe COVID? Infected immune cells hold clues Studies have revealed that infected immune cells prompt a massive inflammatory response; 2 new omicron variants are spreading in N.Y. and elsewhere. Here's what we know; Hospitalizations of Children Aged 5-11 Years with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 COVID-NET, 14 States, March 2020-February 2022; COVID-19 leading cause of death ranking; COVID-19 mortality preventable by vaccines; White House Keeping an Eye on 2 New Omicron Subvariants; Community Profile Report; Surprisingly low Shanghai COVID death count spurs questions; Here's why you might still want to wear masks on public transport; Symptom prevalence, duration, and risk of hospital admission in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 during periods of omicron and delta variant dominance: a prospective observational study from the ZOE COVID Study; Seroprevalence of Infection-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies United States, September 2021–February 2022; New section: B2.12.1; BA.2.12.1 Subvariant: Concerning, but No Need to Panic Just Yet - A number of factors are contributing to the Omicron subvariant's rise; South Africa Likely to See Fifth COVID Wave - Recent sharp increases in test positivity, cases driven by BA.4 and BA.5 variants; Impact of population mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated subpopulations on infectious disease dynamics: implications for SARS-CoV-2 transmission; Unvaccinated People Create Higher Risk for Vaccinated, Study Says; Unvaccinated People Increase Risk Of Covid Infection Among Vaccinated, Study Finds; Virus mutations aren't slowing down. New omicron subvariant proves it.; BA.4, BA.5, 2 new Omicron variants detected in the U.S., could spark another COVID wave. Research shows these people will fare best; Covid: World's true pandemic death toll nearly 15 million, says WHO; 14.9 million excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021; Omicron Subvariant BA.2.12.1 Likely To Become Dominant U.S. COVID Strain. The highly contagious coronavirus variant made up 36.5% of total U.S. cases last week, up from 26.6% the week before; Coronavirus update: Subvariants are proliferating; Making up 1 million deaths: Where Covid killed; New Study Finds Climate Change Could Spark the Next Pandemic; Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 in Hospitalized Adults Differ by Age; Most Americans have now had Covid-19 but experts are predicting the next surge; Most COVID Transmission Is Still Asymptomatic - Some 60% of spread starts with those who have no symptoms, and that may be higher with Omicron; The ˜five pandemics driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths; This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state; COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Monthly Update; COVID-NET Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations; Are COVID surges becoming more predictable? New Omicron variants offer a hint. Omicron relatives called BA.4 and BA.5 are behind a fresh wave of COVID-19 in South Africa, and could be signs of a more predictable future for SARS-CoV-2; The pandemic's true death toll: millions more than official counts Countries have reported some five million COVID-19 deaths in two years, but global excess deaths are estimated at double or even quadruple that figure; 15 million people have died in the pandemic, WHO says The World Health Organization's long-awaited estimate of excess COVID deaths is in line with other studies; Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers Decision-makers discussing landmark agreements on health and biodiversity must include four actions to reduce the risk of animals and people exchanging viruses; Nation's latest COVID-19 wave largely hidden from view, health experts say 'There's a lot of COVID out there,' one expert acknowledged; Aerosol particle emission increases exponentially above moderate exercise intensity resulting in superemission during maximal exercise; Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past; COVID death tolls: scientists acknowledge errors in WHO estimates Researchers with the World Health Organization explain mistakes in high-profile mortality estimates for Germany and Sweden; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Selects Biobot Analytics to Expand National Wastewater Monitoring; The Biobot Network of Wastewater Treatment Plants Advancing Wastewater as a Public Health Platform; Food Allergy Is Associated with Lower Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection NIH Study Finds High BMI and Obesity Raise Infection Risk, but Asthma Does Not; People with food allergies may be less prone to COVID infection, study finds; New section: Immune System Risk Factors; How many Covid deaths are acceptable? Some Biden officials tried to guess. Conversations about what Americans would tolerate didn't go too far, underscoring the difficulty of explaining when the pandemic will end; Concordance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Aerosols From a Nurses Station and in Nurses and Patients During a Hospital Ward Outbreak; How to Compare COVID Deaths for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People The death rate among unvaccinated people is still far higher than that among the vaccinated even though vaccinated people now make up a significant proportion of deaths; SARS-CoV-2 infection in free-ranging white-tailed deer; Pandemic's origins obscured by lack of Chinese data - WHO panel; Patients With HIV at Higher Risk for COVID Breakthrough Infections - Fully vaccinated HIV patients had a 28% higher risk; Omicron Subvariants BA.4, BA.5 Start Spreading in the U.S. - The two new subvariants are showing signs that they could become the dominant strains circulating as the U.S. averages more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases each day; CDC: New Omicron Subvariant Takes Over as Dominant Coronavirus Strain. The U.S. is averaging over 100,000 new coronavirus infections each day; Omicron BA.4 and BA.5: Starting From Scratch Yet Again — Here's what we know and what we still need to find out; How months-long COVID infections could seed dangerous new variants Tracking SARS-CoV-2 evolution during persistent cases provides insight into the origins of Omicron and other global variants. What can scientists do with this knowledge?; The BA.5 story;
• 💕 Health experts caution against "new normal" strategies for COVID-19; The Worst Epidemics and Pandemics in History; Crisis Standards of Care during COVID-19: Summary of State Actions;
• 💕 COVID Data Dashboard; COVID-19 Outbreak; COVID-19 Projections; The COVID Cast dashboard, from Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi Group; The Economist - covid-19-the-economist-global-excess-deaths-model; World Mortality Dataset (WMD); All-Cause Maternal Mortality in the US Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic;
• 💕; Effectiveness of Face Mask or Respirator Use in Indoor Public Settings for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infection - California, February-December 2021; COVID-19: Information on HHS's Public Education Campaign; Explainer: Why are Shanghai's COVID infections nearly all asymptomatic?; New section: Surveillance Testing; Trends in Number of COVID-19 Vaccinations in the US; Cardiac Complications After SARS-CoV-2 Infection and mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination — PCORnet, United States, January 2021–January 2022; Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests - United States, August 23, 2021-March 12, 2022; Tulane study shows COVID-19’s lingering impacts on the brain; The COVID-19 Spread Simulator - Fun and educational, food for the inner science nerd in you. See how #socialdistancing and good hygiene can make a big difference in preventing the spread of #COVID19; COVID-19 alters levels of fertility-related proteins in men, study suggests; Post-COVID Risk for Blood Clot Lasts at Least 6 Months; COVID-19 Tied to High Risk of Thrombotic Events - Swedish study finds 33-fold increased incidence of pulmonary embolism in month after diagnosis; COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters; SARS-CoV-2 infects and replicates in photoreceptor and retinal ganglion cells of human retinal organoids; COVID-19 linked to greater risk of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and bleeding events long after recovery; Could computer models be the key to better COVID vaccines?; International study finds heart inflammation rare among people hospitalized with COVID-19; Mandatory masking in schools reduced COVID-19 cases; What Can Be Learned From COVID-19--Related Perinatal Deaths?; 250 days and counting: Waiting on new lungs after Covid/ Just over 10 percent of lung transplants performed in the last year have been Covid-related. Prior to Covid, most of these transplants were needed because of chronic disease; Better ventilation would create a healthier workplace — but companies have to invest; FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Launches Effort to Improve Ventilation and Reduce the Spread of COVID-⁠19 in Buildings; Clean Air in Buildings Challenge - Guidance to Help Building Owners and Operators Improve Indoor Air Quality and Protect Public Health (EPA); Mask Use and Ventilation Improvements to Reduce COVID-19 Incidence in Elementary Schools's Georgia, November-December 11, 2020; Efficacy of Portable Air Cleaners and Masking for Reducing Indoor Exposure to Simulated Exhaled SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols” United States, 2021; American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) EPIDEMIC TASK FORCE Core Recommendations for Reducing Airborne Infectious Aerosol Exposure; Everyone should be wearing N95 masks now; Can 'one-way masking' really protect you from COVID on a crowded plane?; Proper N95 Respirator Use for Respiratory Protection Preparedness; An upper bound on one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles; Cardiac Conditions of COVID Long-Haulers” Do COVID survivors with cardiac conditions need special treatment and monitoring?; SARS-CoV-2 transmission on planes; COVID-19 Can Directly Infect and Damage Human Kidney Cells; Some cases of long COVID-19 may be caused by an abnormally suppressed immune system, UCLA-led research suggests Scientists had previously suspected that an overactive immune system was at the root of the syndrome; SARS-COV2 placentitis and pregnancy outcome: A multicentre experience during the Alpha and early Delta waves of coronavirus pandemic in England; Antibodies From Vaccines vs. Antibodies From Natural Infection. Similarities and Potential Differences; COVID in the Donor Organ: What's the Risk? - In small sample, donors gave infection to lung recipients, yet not to other organ recipients; New section: Donor Organ Issues; Long Covid: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 120,970 Patients; Guidance on Long COVID as a Disability Under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557; Severe COVID-19 may cause similar cognitive deficits as 20 years of aging. Severe infection was linked to lasting deficits; Coronavirus 'ghosts' found lingering in the gut. Scientists are studying whether long COVID could be linked to viral fragments found in the body months after initial infection. 55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years - "Ongoing follow-up of COVID-19 survivors is essential," researcher says; COVID in Newborns Linked With Necrotizing Enterocolitis Risk - Indonesian study of infants born to COVID-positive mothers also found associations with asphyxia; HIV and Opportunistic Infections, Coinfections, and Conditions; Severe acute hepatitis in children: investigate SARS-CoV-2 superantigens; Do COVID Vaccines Stave Off New Medical Conditions? Large study finds breakthrough cases linked with lower risk of diabetes, hypertension diagnoses; 76% of Long COVID Patients Were Not Hospitalized for Their Infection - Women, those ages 36 to 50 most likely to be diagnosed with post-COVID conditions; Patients Diagnosed with Post An Analysis of Private Healthcare Claims Conditions Conditions ICDCOVID Using the 10 Diagnostic Code Official A FAIR Health White Paper, 22 FAIR Health, Inc.; A multisystem, cardio-renal investigation of post-COVID-19 illness; Long COVID (Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS CoV-2 infection, PASC); Post-COVID Conditions Among Adult COVID-19 Survivors Aged 18-64 and ≥65 Years - United States, March 2020-November 2021; Evolution of neurologic symptoms in non-hospitalized COVID-19 long haulers; Long COVID in Older Adults: An Elusive Geriatric Syndrome — We need to redefine the condition for better diagnosis and management; Long COVID or Post-COVID Conditions; Physician Group Releases Guidance on Cardiovascular Issues in Long COVID AAPM&R calls for greater awareness of post-COVID cardiovascular complications among clinicians; Consensus Guidance Statement on Cardiovascular Complications in PASC; Ventilation Improvement Strategies Among K–12 Public Schools -The National School COVID-19 Prevention Study, United States, February 14-March 27, 2022; Reducing SARS-CoV-2 in Shared Indoor Air; The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing but things may soon improve A faulty reagent in a test kit and bureaucratic hurdles have slowed testing for the virus that causes COVID-19; COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage, by Race and Ethnicity - National Immunization Survey Adult COVID Module, United States, December 2020-November 2021; COVID and smell loss: answers begin to emerge; New section: Chemosensory; Brain Symptoms Persist in Long COVID Novel PASC phenotype identified in a small subset; How common is long COVID? Why studies give different answers Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries, such as how well vaccination protects against the condition; Sex differences in sequelae from COVID-19 infection and in long COVID syndrome: a review; Covid's Catch-22: The paradox of masking and disease; A Look at the Supreme Court Ruling on Vaccination Mandates; CDC: 67% of Americans Should Be Wearing Masks Indoors or Considering It The percentage of Americans who should be wearing masks in public indoor spaces under CDC guidance is increasing as the U.S. averages more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases each day; Long COVID symptoms linked to inflammation;
• Global Estimates of Diabetic Retinopathy Prevalence and Progression in Pregnant Women With Preexisting Diabetes -A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis; New study reveals that exposure to a group of widely used 'forever chemicals' may increase diabetes risk in middle-aged women; New study reveals that healthy plant-based diets are associated with a lower risk of developing diabetes; In Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Control Could Add Years to Life - Controlling four biomarkers could add as much as a decade to life expectancy; Potential Gains in Life Expectancy Associated With Achieving Treatment Goals in US Adults With Type 2 Diabetes; 'Forever chemicals' linked to higher diabetes risk for women; Poor diet associated with increased diabetes risk across all gradients of genetic risk. A poor diet, irrespective of genetic risk factors, is associated with a 30 percent increased risk of diabetes; Living near fast food restaurants in South Asia may increase risk of Type 2 diabetes; New evidence of how exercise can counter diabetes damage; Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES); Huge study of diverse populations advances understanding of type 2 diabetes; Health impact of seven herpesviruses on (pre)diabetes incidence and HbA1c: results from the KORA cohort; Diabetes Screening Thresholds Should Be Lowered for Racial Minorities - Researchers suggest BMI and age thresholds be lowered for Asian, Black, and Hispanic adults; Researchers identify biomarker panel that could help predict gestational diabetes in early pregnancy; Prediabetes May Be an Independent Risk Factor for MI” Findings reinforce importance of early screening and intervention, researchers says; Can Race-Based Diabetes Screening Thresholds Reduce Disparities?;
• Epidemiology M - Z New section: R0 or R naught; The Basic Reproduction Number: R Naught;
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... UFOs-Declassified Documents; How to hunt for a black hole with a telescope the size of Earth;
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• Fitness 8 Tips to Follow for When You're Walking for Weight Loss; Walking Calorie Calculator; Association Between Physical Activity and Risk of Disabling Dementia in Japan; Exercise shown to release protein reducing bowel cancer risk; Strong, steady and straight: UK consensus statement on physical activity and exercise for osteoporosis; Walking towards healthier knees;
• Healthcare Quality Data Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites;
• Healthcare Quality Issues Understanding Hospital Costs: New Online Dashboard Helps States and Employers Contain Health Care Spending Growth; Understanding Hospital Costs; One in Four Medicare Patients Harmed in Hospitals, Nearly Half Preventable - CMS needs to do more to penalize facilities with avoidable adverse events, report says; Concentration of Healthcare Expenditures and Selected Characteristics of High Spenders, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2019; Protecting the Privacy and Security of Your Health Information When Using Your Personal Cell Phone1 or Tablet; HIPAA Privacy Rule and Disclosures of Information Relating to Reproductive Health Care
• Healthy People 2030 New section: Health Equity; Health Equity and Health Disparities Environmental Scan; Health Equity in Healthy People 2030; Bridging Healthy People 2020 and Healthy People 2030 - March 31, 2022;
• New section: African Swine Flu Virus; African Swine Fever Virus: A Global Concern; Antibiotics can lead to fungal infection because of disruption to the gut's immune system/ Patients prescribed antibiotics in hospital are more likely to get fungal infections because of disruption to the immune system in the gut. New section: Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria; CDC Details Deadly Aromatherapy Outbreak- Tropical disease hit middle America and could pop up again, agency scientists say; How a COVID Misdiagnosis Revealed Deadly Aromatherapy Outbreak - Case "highlights the importance of autopsy," medical examiner says; CDC officials sound alarm for gay and bisexual men as monkeypox spreads in community; Warning signs ahead of monkeypox outbreak went unheeded, experts say; WHO will rename monkeypox virus to combat racism and stigma; Monkeypox in 2022—What Clinicians Need to Know; Cholera 101: Why This Ancient Disease Is Making Headlines In 2022; NIH scientists discover norovirus and other stomach viruses can spread through saliva; Monkeypox may present with unusual symptoms, CDC warns;
• Why do we have different blood types?; CDC expresses concern about possibility of undetected monkeypox spread in U.K.; Rare monkeypox outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What is it and should we worry?; U.S. monkeypox case reported, as Spain, Portugal report infections in growing outbreak; Massachusetts public health officials confirm case of monkeypox The confirmed case poses no risk to the general public; U.S. Buys Millions of Monkeypox Vaccines As Massachusetts Man Infected; African scientists baffled by monkeypox cases in Europe, US; What Doctors Need to Know About Monkeypox - While the potential of increased transmissibility is being sorted, here's what we know for sure; The symptoms and causes of monkeypox infections, which CDC calls an 'emerging issue' At least 85 cases have been reported around the world in what one expert calls "the most important outbreak in the history of monkeypox in the Western Hemisphere."; A CDC expert answers questions on monkeypox; Monkeypox Virus Infection in the United States and Other Non-endemic Countries—2022; Rare monkeypox infections detected in several European countries; Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert. Scientists are trying to understand why the virus, a less lethal relative of smallpox, has cropped up in so many populations around the world; 2022 United States Monkeypox Case; Monkeypox: What do we know about the outbreaks in Europe and North America?; ECDC presents monkeypox response options, as nine EU/EEA countries report cases; Monkeypox in Multiple Countries; EU health agency warns monkeypox could become endemic in Europe if outbreak continues; Risk assessment: Monkeypox multi-country outbreak; CDC: Monkeypox May Present With Genital Sores, No Prior Fever - Travel history, close contact, and intimate casual encounters between men all risk factors; What You Need to Know About the Global Monkeypox Outbreak; Multi-country monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries; Monkeypox likely spread by sex at two raves in Europe, expert says Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO’s emergencies department, said the leading theory was sexual transmission among gay and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium; Explainer: What to Know About Monkeypox; What Is Monkeypox? 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know; Monkeypox outbreak is primarily spreading through sex, WHO officials say; How bad could the monkeypox outbreak get? Health experts are optimistic monkeypox can be contained. Here’s why, and where it could go wrong; Health officials scramble to raise monkeypox awareness ahead of Pride Month; Why the Atypical Symptoms in the Latest Monkeypox Cases? — Experts agree these cases are unusual, but not necessarily a concern for viral mutation; Scientists warned us about monkeypox in 1988. Here's why they were right.; CDC Details Monkeypox Vaccine Recommendations — Routine recommendations for a new orthopoxvirus vaccine gain new relevance; Use of JYNNEOS (Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine, Live, Nonreplicating) for Preexposure Vaccination of Persons at Risk for Occupational Exposure to Orthopoxviruses: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2022; Factbox: Monkeypox cases around the world; Monkeypox outbreaks: 4 key questions researchers have; U.S. Monkeypox 2022: Situation Summary; Monkeypox: Get the facts; What the surprising mutations in the monkeypox virus could indicate about the new outbreak; Britain urges people with monkeypox to abstain from sex as cases rise; Public health agencies issue monkeypox guidance to control transmission. UK's 4 public health agencies issue monkeypox guidance to control transmission in the community; Guidance Principles for monkeypox control in the UK: 4 nations consensus statement Published 30 May 2022; Silent spread of monkeypox may be a wakeup call for the world; What to Know About Monkeypox; Genetic data indicate at least two separate monkeypox outbreaks underway, suggesting wider spread; ‘Nobody wants to mess this up: A WHO official weighs in on the challenges of responding to monkeypox; Latest Monkeypox Data Is Alarming; Second Monkeypox Strain Discovered in U.S. Over 1,000 cases have been reported in two dozen countries, and the virus may have been circulating outside of Africa for longer than we knew; ‘Nobody wants to mess this up: A WHO official weighs in on the challenges of responding to monkeypox; Monkeypox Outbreak — Nine States, May 2022; CDC: Two Distinct Monkeypox Strains Detected in U.S. Analysis of more cases is needed to understand transmission, officials say; CDC's travel advisory on monkeypox: 'Practice enhanced precautions'; Monkeypox info:2022 Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Outbreak Global Map; What is monkeypox, its symptoms and threat to you?; CDC raises monkeypox alert as global cases surpass 1,000; 'Testing bottleneck' for monkeypox puts hope of containment at risk, experts warn; Concern grows that human monkeypox outbreak will establish virus in animals outside Africa - New 'reservoirs' could make outbreaks common and spawn new variants; How the hard lessons of the AIDS crisis are shaping the response to the monkeypox outbreak; What Does the CDC's Monkeypox Travel Advisory Mean? The CDC just upgraded its travel health notice for monkeypox; Monkeypox and gay and bisexual men: Fact sheet; 3 paths monkeypox could take; The Spread of Monkeypox in a 'Shared Global Space'” It's not the next pandemic, but attention still needed, says Boghuma Titanji, MD, PhD; WHO Will Rename Monkeypox Virus to Minimize Stigma, Racism; WHO looks into reports of monkeypox virus in semen; Why the monkeypox outbreak is mostly affecting men who have sex with men The virus did not spread well between people in the past but may have found a new niche in tightly connected sexual networks; THE WORLD HEALTH NETWORK DECLARES MONKEYPOX A PANDEMIC; National incident declared after UK health officials detect polio virus in London sewage samples; Poliovirus detected in sewage from North and East London; Monkeypox Outbreak Strain Has Far More Mutations Than Expected Evidence of continued adaptation may account for suspected increase in transmissibility; Social Gatherings, Safer Sex, and Monkeypox; Updated Case-finding Guidance: Monkeypox Outbreak ”United States, 2022; Monkeypox Going Through ˜Accelerated Evolution' Researchers Report; Monkeypox in Africa: the science the world ignored African researchers have been warning about monkeypox outbreaks for years. As vaccines are deployed globally, they worry they will be left behind; Voluntary 2022 U.S. National Animal Health Reporting System (NAHRS) Reportable Diseases, Infections, and Infestations List; National List of Reportable Animal Diseases; How dengue and Zika infections could make people more attractive to mosquitoes;
• Maternal Child Health Why haven't we cloned a human yet?; Genes vs. Lifestyle: Which Matters More for Health?
• Nutrition Resources What Nutritionists Want You to Know About Calories; What is ultra-processed food and should we be worried about it?; 6 Sneaky Ingredients in Your Food That Lead to Weight Gain, Say Dietitians Learn the tricks to reading the nutrition label; Dementia Linked to Vitamin D Deficiency, Study Shows;
• Effects of Experimental Sleep Restriction on Energy Intake, Energy Expenditure, and Visceral Obesity; Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Adults: United States, 2017–2018; Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong; WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022; Brain's Wiring, Not Lack of Willpower, May Drive Obesity: Study; New section: Neurological Aspects; As the U.S. obesity epidemic grows, new BYU study shows who is most likely to be part of it;
• PCH 201 Templates and Grids Social media break improves mental health - new study. Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety;
• Public Health Data Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States; It's Official: Gun Deaths Hit an All-Time High in 2020. CDC data shows that more than 45,000 Americans died by gunfire for the first time, driven by a spike in homicides; Geographic Variation in Inpatient Stays for Five Leading Mental Disorders, 2016-2018; Public Opinion on Abortion; New section: Violent Deaths; Surveillance for Violent Deaths” National Violent Death Reporting System, 42 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2019; Gun Violence Archive; Changes in Firearm Homicide and Suicide Rates — United States, 2019–2020; The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981-2010;
• Public Health Practice Scientific Integrity: HHS Agencies Need to Develop Procedures and Train Staff on Reporting and Addressing Political Interference; Battle over CDC's powers goes far beyond travel mask mandate; Typology: Perspectives on Families in America Survey;
• Public Health Sites A - C New section-Aphasia; Understanding aphasia, the condition impacting Bruce Willis' acting career; What is aphasia? Bruce Willis is 'stepping away' from acting after diagnosis Willis' family said he was recently "diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities."; Majority of teens with substance use disorder don't grow out of it; Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain: What We've Learned and Where the Data Are Taking Us; Parents' ”Talk With Your High School Grads About Celebrating Safely; New section: Blood Types; Visualizing The Most Widespread Blood Types in Every Country;
• Public Health Sites D-G Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Facemasks: Potential Source of Human Exposure to PFAS with Implications for Disposal to Landfills; Dangerous PFAS Chemicals Are in Your Food Packaging. CR found 'forever chemicals' in bowls, bags, plates, and wrappers, even from some companies that say they've phased them out; Tornado Alley is shifting toward Dixie; New section: Plastic; Plastic bag bans may unintentionally drive other bag sales; Babies exposed to cannabis in the womb may be at risk for obesity, high blood sugar; Substance Use Disorder Symptoms Follow Teens Into Adulthood - Long-term study finds adolescents do not "recover on their own," as some observers have suggested; Substance Use Disorder Symptoms Follow Teens Into Adulthood - Long-term study finds adolescents do not "recover on their own," as some observers have suggested; Living Near Fracking Sites Linked to Adverse Birth Outcomes - Canadian study adds to mounting evidence that exposure to fracking sites is damaging to health; Living near fracking sites may have negative effects on pregnancies Higher risk of congenital abnormalities and preterm birth linked to fracking wells in Canada; Measuring endocrine disruptors in wastewater; Study Links Fracking, Drinking Water Pollution, and Infant Health; Nylon cooking bags, plastic-lined cups can release nanoparticles into liquids; 'Forever chemicals' linked to higher diabetes risk for women; Exposure to per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Markers of Liver Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis; FDA Issues First Warnings Over Illegal Delta-8 THC Sales - Agency cites multiple violations, including marketing CBD-derived substance for therapeutic uses; Hunga volcano eruption provides an explosion of data; Heart attacks more likely among marijuana users; Another four climate change records broken in 2021; Shall we talk about the weather instead of politics? It's not good news; Tonga volcano blasted winds to the edge of space; Pollution and health: a progress update; Kratom; Cannabis Vaping Rising Among Teens — Major shift seen among high school seniors; You Eat a Credit Card's Worth of Plastic Every Week. What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?; PFAS Exposure Linked to Weaker Bones in Teen Boys - Association not seen in female teens, though; New section: Electromagnetic Fields, Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer; CT Issues New Drinking Water PFAS Advisory: What To Know. The state Department of Public Health released new guidance on "forever chemicals" levels in drinking water.; Marijuana use linked to heart rhythm issues in older adults;
• Public Health Sites H-L: Genetic discovery may help scientists reverse hearing loss. Listen up: study in mouse model provides insight into the development of crucial sensory hair cells.; Noise Complaints-Taking On Tinnitus; American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Primary Care and Endocrinology Clinical Settings; Ten new genes linked to hearing loss – a promising scientific find that could lead to future treatments. Genes point to the stria vascularis in the cochlea as a potential target for treatment; Tinnitus seems to be linked to sleep; What Is Liver Cancer?;
• Public Health Sites M - N Paternal Use of Metformin Linked to Birth Defects — Link most apparent for the frequency of genital birth defects in boys; Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked to Birth Defects in Boys; Warmer summer nocturnal surface air temperatures and cardiovascular disease death risk: a population-based study; Ways Your Penis Changes as You Age; How Conditions Change Your Brain; Your brain expands and shrinks over time — these charts show how; Understanding Disparities and Discrimination Faced by Asian and NHOPI People; Well, I see it differently! UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman explains why people don't view the world the same way others do;
• Research Resources on the Net Scientific Integrity: HHS Agencies Need to Develop Procedures and Train Staff on Reporting and Addressing Political Interference;
• Senior Health Dementia Risk Factors Vary By Age - Vascular factors at age 55 are different from those later in life; Modifiable Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Among Adults Aged ≥45 Years — United States, 2019; Mortality Risk Linked With Balance on One Leg — One-legged standing test during routine checkups may add useful information about risk of death;
• Effects of Experimental Sleep Restriction on Energy Intake, Energy Expenditure, and Visceral Obesity; Sleeping with even a little bit of light isn't good for your health, study shows; Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers; How sleep helps to process emotions; Teen Screen Time Goes Hand in Hand With Wacky Bedtimes During the Pandemic - Girls spent more time on social media, and boys on video games;
• Social Media Scientists find that the impact of social media on wellbeing varies across adolescence; #Selfies may drive plastic surgery by distorting facial features; From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021?; 10 facts about Americans and Twitter; 5 facts about Twitter 'lurkers'; Social media break improves mental health“ new study Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety; Top Activity Online? Entertainment; ˜I don't even remember what I read: People enter a dissociative state when using social media;
• Just one cigarette raises heart disease risk, study finds Light smoking can raise your heart risk. A study finds that one cigarette a day raises the risk of heart disease and stroke almost as much as a pack a day; Smoking reduces wealth's tendency to increase life expectancy Smoking dominates other factors, including amount of wealth, in shortening lifespan; Electronic cigarette use among adults in 14 countries: A cross-sectional study; E-cigarettes may complicate teen attempts to quit nicotine; Perceived effectiveness of objective elements of vaping prevention messages among adolescents; Many young people don't know what they're vaping; FDA Announces Plans for Proposed Rule to Reduce Addictiveness of Cigarettes and Other Combusted Tobacco Products Potential Rule Would Propose to Establish a Maximum Level of Nicotine in Cigarettes with the Goal of Reducing Youth Use, Addiction and Death;
• US Government Statistics New section Mortality Statistics; World Mortality Statistics; covid-19-the-economist-global-excess-deaths-model; National Student Clearinghouse Research Center - Publications Page; Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2021; Incidence of Victimization at School and Away From School; Condition of Education -The Condition of Education contains key indicators on all levels of education, labor force outcomes, and international comparisons. The indicators summarize important developments and trends using the latest statistics, which are updated throughout the year as new data become available. Spotlight indicators provide more in-depth analyses on selected topics. In addition, the more succinct Report on the Condition of Education, which highlights and synthesizes key findings from the Condition of Education, is also available in PDF format; Household Income Distribution in the U.S. Visualized as 100 Homes;
• Useful Sites The 24 American UNESCO World Heritage Sites Ranked;
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• Web Resources Cellular Telephone Use and the Risk of Brain Tumors: Update of the UK Million Women Study; How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data;;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Global Estimates of Diabetic Retinopathy Prevalence and Progression in Pregnant Women With Preexisting Diabetes, A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis; New section: Preventive Health Services Guidelines; Well-Woman Chart. Recommendations for Well-Women Care; Women's Preventive Services Guidelines from HRSA.gov; The US Supreme Court is wrong to disregard evidence on the harm of banning abortion. Fifty years of research shows that abortion access is crucial for health care and important for equality; Reproductive History Linked to Later Stroke Risk - Infertility, stillbirth, miscarriage may increase stroke risk, analysis of eight studies suggests; New section: Stroke; Ruling an egregious allowance of government intrusion into medicine; Global reproductive and women's rights groups react to overturn of Roe v. Wade; Nation's largest union of nurses condemns Supreme Court overturn of constitutional right to abortion; 50 Years, Gone: Supreme Court Officially Overturns Roe V. Wade The U.S.'s highest court declares the right to an abortion is now up to individual states to decide, reversing nearly half a century of protections; Who overturning Roe hurts most, explained in 7 charts Data shows why taking abortion rights away is structural violence against women.;
• Women's Health Issues 'Forever chemicals' linked to higher diabetes risk for women ; Strong, steady and straight: UK consensus statement on physical activity and exercise for osteoporosis;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers Accuracy of Diagnostic Mammograms May Vary Across Racial and Ethnic Groups;
• Writing Journalists Reveal What Makes A Story Shareable; Dynamics of cross-platform attention to retracted papers;

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• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Alexandra Chang's Days of Distraction; Carol Burnett's In Such Good Company. Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox;
• Annotated Wellness Bibliography Paul Dettmer's Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive;
• Charcuterie’s link to colon cancer confirmed by French authorities; The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019; Almost half of cancer deaths are preventable. Data show that smoking, drinking alcohol and obesity are the biggest contributors to cancer worldwide;
• Chronic Disease Index Environmental Factors Predict Risk of Death; Variation in Population Attributable Fraction of Dementia Associated With Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors by Race and Ethnicity in the US; Whole Person Health: What You Need To Know;
• Trends and Disparities in Cardiometabolic Health Among U.S. Adults, 1999-2018; As violent crime declines, so do heart disease deaths; How Smoking Affects Heart Health; How does red meat raise heart disease risk?; What Is TMAO? And Why Should You Avoid It?; Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases: results from the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort; Prospective Associations of Daily Step Counts and Intensity With Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and Mortality and All-Cause Mortality; Heart Disease Is Still A Killer. Here's How To Reverse It;
• Blood Type Tied to Early-Onset Stroke Risk - Findings point to prothrombotic mechanisms in younger stroke patients;
• 💕; Five COVID Numbers That Don't Make Sense Anymore. It's long past time to forget them all.; COVID-19 was third leading cause of death in the United States in both 2020 and 2021; Leading Causes of Death in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to October 2021; Vaccinations Cut U.S. COVID Deaths by 58%: Study; Estimated Number of COVID-19 Infections, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Prevented Among Vaccinated Persons in the US, December 2020 to September 2021; Here's How Many U.S. Deaths COVID Vaccines Prevented CDC estimates 1.6 million hospitalizations and over 200,000 deaths averted through fall 2021;WHO Tracks New Omicron Subvariant in India; First Cases of Newest Omicron Subvariant Reported in U.S.; Meet Centaurus, the new "stealth Omicron." It was just found in the U.S. and may escape immunity more than any other COVID strain; Americans Reflect on Nation’s COVID-19 Response; What to Know About the New BA.2.75 Omicron Subvariant - Now spreading in at least 10 countries, but it's too soon to tell how virulent or deadly it is; "Headed in a bad direction": Omicron variant may bring second-largest US Covid wave The BA.5 sub-variant has immuno-evasive properties that cause reinfection even after vaccination and previous illness; Each COVID-19 Reinfection Increases Health Risks; As the BA.5 variant spreads, the risk of coronavirus reinfection grows; Citing risk from Omicron variant BA.5, White House urges Americans to get Covid-19 boosters; Effectiveness of 2, 3, and 4 COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Doses Among Immunocompetent Adults During Periods when SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2/BA.2.12.1 Sublineages Predominated - VISION Network, 10 States, December 2021–June 2022; Rates of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Vaccination Status; The COVID-19 Reinfection Loop and What It Means for Americans' Health. The continued emergence of new coronavirus variants means that protection from COVID-19 is fleeting and that herd immunity is likely unattainable; What To Know About COVID-19 Variants; SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutations: Impact on COVID-19 Tests; Will Omicron Subvariant BA.2.75 Be the Next COVID Threat?; Vaccinated Have Lower Heart, Stroke Risk From COVID - Korean nationwide data support yet another benefit of being fully vaccinated; Smoking is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events, disease severity, and mortality among patients hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 infections: Studies Throw Cold Water on COVID 'Lab Leak' Theory - Researchers say new analyses point to Wuhan market as early epicenter; The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic; The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2; Newly published evidence points to Wuhan seafood market as pandemic origin point; Clinical and genomic signatures of SARS-CoV-2 Delta breakthrough infections in New York; Awareness of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Infection Among Adults With Recent COVID-19 Seropositivity; COVID-19 Outbreaks and Mortality Among Public Transportation Workers California, January 2020–May 2022; New section: Protective Factors; Physical activity and risk of infection, severity and mortality of COVID-19: a systematic review and non-linear dose response meta-analysis of data from 1 853 610 adults; Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among Adults During SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 Variant Predominance COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network, 14 States, June 20, 2021–May 31, 2022; Two Years of Excess Deaths: What Can We Learn?” First, let's look at the data; Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccination in Preventing COVID-19-Associated Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Death” United States, March 2021–January 2022; Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries; Provisional COVID-19 Deaths by Week, Sex, and Age; Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19 Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19); New section: BA.4.6; New Covid Variant BA.4.6 Outcompeting Dominant BA.5 Across Swath Of U.S. For First Time; Physical activity and risk of infection, severity and mortality of COVID-19: a systematic review and non-linear dose“response meta-analysis of data from 1 853 610 adults; Unvaccinated Over 10 Times More Likely to Be Hospitalized During Omicron - But hospitalizations among the vaccinated are on the rise;COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations Among Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Adults 18 Years or Older in 13 US States, January 2021 to April 2022; #24 Tracking/Designated Lineages;SARS-ANI: a global open access dataset of reported SARS-CoV-2 events in animals; Table 2 Number of globally reported SARS-CoV-2 cases (infections or exposures) per animal host (as of date of submission, 22 June 2022); The ‘End’ of COVID Is Still Far Worse Than We Imagined. Even now, the coronavirus is killing three times as many people as the flu; SARS-CoV-2 infection drives an inflammatory response in human adipose tissue through infection of adipocytes and macrophages;
• 💕 Americans Reflect on Nation's COVID-19 Response. Fewer than half say the country has given the right amount of priority to the needs of K-12 students, public health, quality of life; Conservative blocs unleash wave of litigation to curb public health powers;
• 💕 Smartphone apps in the COVID-19 pandemic; Digital epidemiology and tracking apps for COVID-19;
• 💕; Long COVID symptoms linked to inflammation; COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Teens; Estimates of long Covid are startlingly high. Here's how to understand them; Experts Urge Caution in Rushing to Define Long COVID” Specific definitions may overemphasize certain symptoms, harming those who don't fit the bill; Minimum Air Changes Per Hour (ACH) recommended for reducing COVID across 50 states; Factors Associated with Severe Outcomes Among Immunocompromised Adults Hospitalized for COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 10 States, March 2020–February 2022; Over 10% of COVID Hospitalizations Involve Immunocompromised People — Once hospitalized, no mortality difference between vaxxed and unvaxxed immunocompromised patients;; COVID Brain Problems May Stem From Attack on Endothelial Cells; Effectiveness of vaccination mandates in improving uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA; COVID-19 Vaccination Schedule At-a-Glance; Surveillance Testing: Gathering the Data on COVID-19; Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the COVID-19 pandemic; Blood Viscosity Enters the Equation in COVID Mortality” Its association with death may be unrelated to inflammation; Why You'll Need to Get COVID-19 Boosters Again and Again; Update Alert 8: Masks for Prevention of Respiratory Virus Infections, Including SARS-CoV-2, in Health Care and Community Settings; Sexual Dysfunction, Hair Loss Among Long COVID Symptoms "Wider range of post-COVID symptoms emerge than previously thought; When you have covid, here's how you know you are no longer contagious; Quarantine and Isolation; When you have covid, here's how you know you are no longer contagious; Most COVID-Related Smell, Taste Dysfunction Resolved at 2 Years” Cross-sectional survey showed 88% of patients recovered their senses at 2-year follow-up; Duration of Symptoms and Association With Positive Home Rapid Antigen Test Results After Infection With SARS-CoV-2; CDC: More Clots, Kidney Failure in Kids After COVID, Post-COVID symptoms run the gamut for kids and teens; Post-COVID-19 Symptoms and Conditions Among Children and Adolescents - United States, March 1, 2020-January 31, 2022; Persistence of somatic symptoms after COVID-19 in the Netherlands: an observational cohort study; Profiling post-COVID syndrome across different variants of SARS-CoV-2 (Preprint); Long COVID Comes in Three Forms: Study; COVID Clean-Air 1-pager; Can COVID-19 Cause Hair Loss?” Shedding may be induced by COVID-related stress, but hair will grow back, experts say; No surprise, N95 respirators offer health workers and others best protection against COVID-19 With cases climbing, masks and other protection methods remain important; The Immune Signature of Long COVID” Preliminary study indicates syndrome can be described by and is reflected in biological processes; Myocarditis a Common Long COVID Condition in Kids - ICU care during infection, young age, complex chronic conditions all linked with PASC; COVID-19 ACIP Vaccine Recommendations; Impact of Lifting School Masking Requirements on Incidence of COVID-19 among Staff and Students in Greater-Boston Area School Districts: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis; Long COVID Risk Factors May Include Loneliness, Depression, Stress - Psychological distress linked to higher risk of post-COVID symptoms than physical conditions; Long covid an update for primary care; So you haven't caught COVID yet. Does that mean you're a superdodger?; How Clean Is the Air on Planes? Apprehension about aircraft cabin air is common during flu season. Here's what to know; Patients With HIV at Higher Risk for COVID Breakthrough Infections” Fully vaccinated HIV patients had a 28% higher risk; Long-Term Neurologic Problems Rise by 7% After SARS-CoV-2 Infection” Movement disorders, memory problems, strokes, and seizures emerge, regardless of age;
• Can Race-Based Diabetes Screening Thresholds Reduce Disparities?; 6 Things to Know about COVID-19 Vaccination for Children; 10,000 steps per day optimal in diabetes or prediabetes; New section: Insulin Resistance Syndrome; Insulin Resistance; Trends and Characteristics in Gestational Diabetes: United States, 2016-2020; The Acute Effects of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting Time in Adults with Standing and Light-Intensity Walking on Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis; Short Walks After Meals Can Cut Diabetes, Heart Risks: Study; New section: Physical Activity Factors; Women With Type 2 Diabetes Die Sooner Than Men, Study Suggests - Other groups at risk for early mortality include smokers, those diagnosed at younger ages;
• Epidemiology A- L New section: Disease Transmission; Airborne Precautions, Contact Precautions, Droplet Precautions; Transmission-Based Precautions; Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings “Recommendations of the HICPAC; World Health Organization Best Practices for the Naming of New Human Infectious Diseases May 2015; New section: Best Practices; The campaign to rename monkeypox gets complicated;
• Epidemiology M - Z New section: R0 or R naught; The Basic Reproduction Number: R Naught; Covid Sewage Surveillance Labs Join the Hunt for Monkeypox;
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope;
• Favorite Music Sites Musicians With the Most Emotionally Diverse Songs ; Most Americans Recognize Familiar Songs in Ads;
• Fitness Walking towards healthier knees; Exercise more than the recommended amounts for the longest life, study says; Joint associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis in more than 44 000 middle-aged and older individuals; Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity and improve health: a systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses;
• Grants Grants for Low Income ;
• Graphing5 Megatrends Fueling the Rise of Data Storytelling;
• Healthcare Quality Data Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites; HIPAA Privacy Rule and Disclosures of Information Relating to Reproductive Health Care; EXPLAINER: Data privacy concerns emerge after Roe decision; Protecting the Privacy and Security of Your Health Information When Using Your Personal Cell Phone1 or Tablet; NIST Updates Guidance for Health Care Cybersecurity. Revised draft publication aims to help organizations comply with HIPAA Security Rule; Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule: A Cybersecurity Resource Guide;
• Healthcare Quality Issues Protecting the Privacy and Security of Your Health Information When Using Your Personal Cell Phone1 or Tablet; HIPAA Privacy Rule and Disclosures of Information Relating to Reproductive Health Care
• Healthy People 2030 New section: Social Determinants of Health; Social Determinants of Health Literature Summaries;
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• Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change; New section: Henipavirus (also named Langya henipavirus, LayV) Henipavirus; China's Shandong and Henan detect new zoonotic virus, 35 people reportedly infected; Surge in infectious diseases was inevitable, Dr. Michael Osterholm says; Ebola Disease caused by Sudan virus - Uganda;
• National List of Reportable Animal Diseases; How dengue and Zika infections could make people more attractive to mosquitoes; The next epidemic may be here. The U.S. isn’t ready for it; A Closer Look at the Monkeypox Outbreak's Less Than Typical Symptoms - Current case definitions should be reviewed, English researchers say; Lesions, headaches, debilitating pain: Gay men with monkeypox share their stories. Men who have sex with men comprise the vast majority of monkeypox cases in this unprecedented outbreak. Eighteen of them talked to NBC News about their experiences; Monitoring People Who Have Been Exposed; #Monkeypox @CDCgov guidance: Monitoring People Who Have Been Exposed Monitoring Exposed Healthcare Professionals; Infection Prevention and Control of Monkeypox in Healthcare Settings; Monkeypox and Smallpox Vaccine Guidance; Infection Prevention and Control of Monkeypox in Healthcare Settings; Isolation and Infection Control: Home; Treatment Information for Healthcare Professionals; Interim Clinical Guidance for the Treatment of Monkeypox; Signs and Symptoms; Ghana reports first-ever suspected cases of Marburg virus disease; Rapid Diagnostic Testing for Response to the Monkeypox Outbreak — Laboratory Response Network, United States, May 17–June 30, 2022; How Far Will Monkeypox Spread in the U.S.? — Testing and surveillance for both monkeypox and syphilis play a big role in the outcome; Monkeypox Outbreak - Nine States, May 2022; The monkeypox outbreak was avoidable and warning signs were ignored, expert says; New section: Parechovirus; Recent Reports of Human Parechovirus (PeV) in the United States—2022; CDC's monkeypox case count passes 1,000: Here's what you need to know. Monkeypox testing has been limited in the U.S.; Monkeypox Is Continuing to Surge Across the U.S. There are now over 1,400 confirmed cases in the U.S, along with over 10,000 cases globally; Monkeypox (DPH); Monkeypox 101) (DPH); Monitoring People Who Have Been Exposed; Smallpox/Monkeypox Vaccine (JYNNEOSâ„¢): What You Need to Know; Isolation and Infection Control: Home; Monkeypox Fact Sheet; What is parechovirus? Signs, symptoms and risk factors of the virus infecting babies across the country; The new cases in multiple states are from a parechovirus subtype that's associated with more severe disease in newborns and infants, the CDC said; Years of neglect leaves sexual health clinics ill-prepared for monkeypox; Monkeypox: Information for Providers; Monkeypox (Orthopoxvirus); Monkeypox virus could become entrenched as new STD in the US;. keypox Virus Infection in Humans across 16 Countries — April–June 2022; WHO Declares a Public Health Emergency Over Monkeypox The emerging viral illness joins polio and covid-19 in being deemed a public health emergency of international concern; Multi-Country Monkeypox Outbreak - Global Trends; New clinical symptoms identified in largest international case study series of confirmed monkeypox cases; Monkeypox spreading in 'cluster events,' but vaccines can help stop it, local health officials say; Monkeypox: World Health Organization declares it a global health emergency here's what that means; Epidemiologists warn the U.S. reaches a critical moment to contain monkeypox; What to know about polio, a disease once again vying for attention; How Monkeypox Can Present Like Common STIs - Some cases involve just a single genital lesion, large multinational series shows; Joint ECDC-WHO Regional Office for Europe Moneypox Surveillance Bulletin; WHO recommends men who have sex with men reduce sex partners to limit #monkeypox risk; WHO recommends gay and bisexual men limit sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox; Monkeypox: Symptoms, pictures, treatments & vaccines; Public health advice for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men on the recent outbreak of monkeypox; Does Monkeypox Leave Scars?; Update for Clinicians on Testing and Treatment for Monkeypox; Update for Clinicians on Monkeypox in People with HIV, Children and Adolescents, and People who are Pregnant or Breastfeeding; In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID; The campaign to rename monkeypox gets complicated; Ophthalmic manifestation of monkeypox infection; Red Cross beginning to screen blood donors for monkeypox; U.S. declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency; U.S. Declares Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency - Move signals new urgency as cases rise; Interim Guidance for Prevention and Treatment of Monkeypox in Persons with HIV Infection — United States, August 2022; Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Monkeypox Cases — United States, May 17–July 22, 2022; Public health advice for gatherings during the current monkeypox outbreak; Monkeypox: The myths, misconceptions — and facts — about how you catch it; 5 things to know about monkeypox and skin: Analysis; Adult at day care tests positive for monkeypox, children potentially exposed; New York Health Department says hundreds of people may be infected with polio virus; The monkeypox outbreak: risks to children and pregnant women; 'Silent' spread of polio in New York drives CDC to consider additional vaccinations for some people; The polio outbreak of 1955: Lessons from an epidemic; What scientists know and don't know” about how monkeypox spreads; Monkeypox virus isolation from a semen sample collected in the early phase of infection in a patient with prolonged seminal viral shedding; Frequent detection of monkeypox virus DNA in saliva, semen, and other clinical samples from 12 patients, Barcelona, Spain, May to June 2022; Monkeypox Symptoms Tied to Specific Type of Sex Patients Had — High viral loads at point of transmission may be the link; Wastewater monitoring identifies polioviruses in New York City; The FDA recommends 3 home tests if you're exposed to COVID to boost accuracy; Paralysis-Causing Polio Has Been Detected in NYC Wastewater. The results suggest that the debilitating and deadly virus, once made almost extinct, is now circulating among the city's population. Monkeypox may be here to stay. The disease has gained a foothold among men who have sex with men, and experts warn that time is running out to stop the virus from spreading in the U.S. population more broadly.; Public Health Response to a Case of Paralytic Poliomyelitis in an Unvaccinated Person and Detection of Poliovirus in Wastewater — New York, June–August 2022; Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus; 1st suspected case of human-to-dog monkeypox transmission reported in France - People with monkeypox should avoid contact with animals, including pets; Pets in the Home; Why a single monkeypox case is raising transmission concerns for researchers; Human Monkeypox without Viral Prodrome or Sexual Exposure, California, USA, 2022; Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus; Connecticut Department of Public Health. What You Need to Know About #Monkeypox; High-Contact Object and Surface Contamination in a Household of Persons with Monkeypox Virus Infection” Utah, June 2022; Monkeypox Doesn't Need to Be Renamed. Calling the disease something different won't fix its bad vibes;Is Monkeypox Neuroinvasive? Neurologic manifestations are rare but with cases rising, "it's a numbers game," experts say; The Classification of Monkeypox Should Include Its STI Status” Let's not ignore the evidence; New monkeypox registry established; MONKEYPOX REGISTRY; DERMATOLOGIST EXPLAINS WHAT THE MONKEYPOX RASH LOOKS LIKE; Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are taking steps to protect themselves and their partners from monkeypox.; American Men's Internet Survey (AMIS) Monkeypox Supplement1: Online HIV Behavioral Survey of Men Who Have Sex with Men; FDA Warns on Potential for Monkeypox Spread via Fecal Transplant” Agency urges additional protections around donor screening; Monkeypox: experts give virus variants new names; Multi-country outbreak of monkeypox, External situation report #4 - 24 August 2022; Monkeypox is rare in children, but K-12 schools are preparing for possible cases; Schools, Early Care and Education Programs, and Other Settings Serving Children or Adolescents; Breakthrough Monkeypox Infections: What You Need to Know The World Health Organization says the vaccines aren't 100% effective should you be worried? Infectious disease experts weigh in; Monkeypox: What You Need To Know; What is the epidemiology of monkeypox infections?; Safer Sex, Social Gatherings, and Monkeypox; 10 key questions about monkeypox the world needs to answer; Human Monkeypox Virus Infection Part 1: What You Need to Know” Epidemiology; How monkeypox spoiled gay men's plans for an invincible summer Queer men across the U.S. talked to NBC News about the dates they never went on, the sex they never had and the gatherings they avoided due to the viral outbreak; Study raises concerns about the effectiveness of the monkeypox vaccine; Very few in the U.S. getting full monkeypox vaccine series - CDC chief; Monkeypox Has Potential to Cause Heart ProblemsPatient in case study developed myocarditis following monkeypox infection;Brain Inflammation, Spinal Cord Lesions Emerge in U.S. Monkeypox Cases - CDC report highlights two young men with encephalomyelitis; Two Cases of Monkeypox-Associated Encephalomyelitis — Colorado and the District of Columbia, July-August 2022; Human Monkeypox Virus Infection Part 2: What You Need to Know” Clinical Characteristics; Is polio back? Here's what you need to know New York State, London and Jerusalem are detecting poliovirus. How can an eradicated disease suddenly come back?;Monkeypox: The State of the Science; Monkeypox and gay and bisexual men: Fact sheet; Neurologic Complications of Smallpox and Monkeypox - A Review; New section: Orthopox Viruses; What are your chances of catching monkeypox?; Monkeypox - HIV.gov; Unvaccinated 14 Times More Likely to Catch Monkeypox - Agency expands vaccine eligibility and plans shift to a pre-exposure prophylaxis strategy; Rates of Monkeypox Cases by Vaccination Status;
• Kids Health Cyberbullying linked with suicidal thoughts and attempts in young adolescents;
• Maternal Child Health Why haven't we cloned a human yet?; Genes vs. Lifestyle: Which Matters More for Health?; Is it Possible to Bring Back Extinct Animal Species?
• Nutrition Resources New section: Antioxidants; Certain Antioxidants May Lower Dementia Risk; Dementia Risk Climbs With Intake of Ultra-Processed Foods. Swapping out ultra-processed for unprocessed or minimally processed foods can lower risk sharply; Not so sweet: artificial sweeteners might mess with your microbiome Glucose tolerance and glycaemic responses altered in test groups; Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases: results from the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort;
• As the U.S. obesity epidemic grows, new BYU study shows who is most likely to be part of it;
• Public Health Data;
• Public Health Data The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981–2010; Gun Violence: The Impact on Public Health; Gun Carrying Among Youths, by Demographic Characteristics, Associated Violence Experiences, and Risk Behaviors - United States, 2017-2019; With homicide the leading cause of maternal mortality, new research shows a link to firearms and intimate partner violence;
• Public Health Sites A - C Visualizing The Most Widespread Blood Types in Every Country; Just 4 Drinks a Week Tied to Brain Changes - Higher brain iron may contribute to adverse cognitive effects; Fall Semester A Time for Parents To Discuss the Risks of College Drinking;
• Public Health Sites D-G Marijuana use linked to heart rhythm issues in older adults; Adolescents more vulnerable to cannabis addiction but not other mental health risks; Prenatal Exposure to Everyday Chemicals Tied to Liver Injury in Kids - Researchers identify a potential contributor to epidemic of pediatric NAFLD; MISCExplainer: Earth’s Tectonic Plates; Persistent Chemicals:Hotter nights could increase global mortality rates, a study warns; Technologies for PFAS Assessment, Detection, and Treatment; Higher-Potency Cannabis Linked to Psychosis, Dependency - Policymakers should consider potency when regulating cannabis, researchers urge; Heat.gov; Rainwater Everywhere Now Considered Too Toxic for Safe Consumption, Study Finds. Harmful chemicals called PFAS can be found even in remote regions of Tibet and Antarctica.; Overdose Deaths Involving Eutylone (Psychoactive Bath Salts) — United States, 2020; Majority of 'Bath Salt' Deaths Concentrated in Just Two States - Drug dealers may be passing toxic stimulant off as MDMA; Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-Up. Explore insights and recommendations from the National Academies; Assessing the U.S. Climate in August 2022; Explainer: what are PFAS? We explain the complexities of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS – sometimes known as “forever chemicals; PM2.5 Concentrations in the Smoking Lounge of a Cannabis Store;
• Public Health Sites H-L: What Is Liver Cancer?; Vitamin B12 may treat fatty liver disease; What's in my ink?; Tattoo ink is under-regulated, scientists say, Ink is sometimes made from products that were not manufactured for tattoos; Exposing what's in tattoo ink;
• Public Health Sites M - N How Conditions Change Your Brain;
• Public Health Sites O-Z From acids, to vitamins A through C what's the science behind the stuff in skincare? ;
• Senior Health Why Your Balance Gets Worse With Age and What to Do About It;
• New section: Shift work; Shift workers face long-term risk of stroke; Just 1 hour of lost sleep saps our generosity; NIH-funded study shows sound sleep supports immune function Adults who cut back on sleep for six weeks had increased markers of inflammation;
• Social Media People enter a ˜dissociative state" when using social media; Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022;
• A Case for Cigarettes Causing a Cornucopia of Diseases Outside the Lungs, Heart - Does smoking have a causal role in epilepsy, IBD, rheumatoid arthritis, and more?; Vaping May Open the Door to Cannabis Use in Teens” Adolescents that reported e-cigarette use were more likely to report cannabis use 1 year later; Longitudinal Assessments of Neurocognitive Performance and Brain Structure Associated With Initiation of Tobacco Use in Children, 2016 to 2021; Brain Structure, Cognitive Performance Linked With Tobacco Use in Kids” Impairments seen through 2 years of follow-up; What Are the Early Warning Signs of Vaping Illness?;Juul to pay nearly $440M to settle states’ teen vaping probe; A healthy lifestyle may help former smokers lower their risk of death from all causes; Airline secondhand smoke exposure tied to worsened respiratory health decades later;
• US Government Statistics Household Income Distribution in the U.S. Visualized as 100 Homes ; Middle-Class Identification Steady in U.S.; About Half of Americans Identify as Middle Class; U.S. State Life Tables, 2020; New section: Life Expectancy Statistics;
• Useful Sites The 24 American UNESCO World Heritage Sites Ranked; Airline Customer Service Dashboard; This New Online Tool Helps Travelers Know Their Rights During Flight Delays and Cancellations. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who recently warned airlines about schedule disruptions, is launching an online dashboard detailing what passengers are owed; Air Travel Consumer Report: Consumer Complaints Up from May, Nearly 270 Percent Above Pre-Pandemic Levels; Airlines Are Misleading Consumers on Refund Policies, Says DOT If you previously accepted a voucher, you have the right to call back and ask for a cash refund;
• Webmastering Tools Favicon Generator; Slow Page Load Times Drive Customers and Visitors Away;
• Web Resources Consumer Data: Increasing Use Poses Risks to Privacy; Excessive smartphone use may lead to early puberty;
• Women's Health Even a Little Bit of Exercise Boosts Women's Brain Speed;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Who overturning Roe hurts most, explained in 7 charts - Data shows why taking abortion rights away is structural violence against women.; Having Kids Later in Life; New section: Reproductive Rights; ReproductiveRights.gov; Prenatal Exposure to Everyday Chemicals Tied to Liver Injury in Kids - Researchers identify a potential contributor to epidemic of pediatric NAFLD; Majority of Public Disapproves of Supreme Court's Decision To Overturn Roe v. Wade 62% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, little changed since before the court's decision; Associations Between Prenatal Urinary Biomarkers of Phthalate Exposure and Preterm Birth. A Pooled Study of 16 US Cohorts; Apgar scores are less predictive of infant mortality for Black babies than white ones, study finds; Justice Department Announces Reproductive Rights Task Force. The Task Force Formalizes the Department's Ongoing Work to Protect Reproductive Freedom Under Federal Law; Abortion in the U.S. Dashboard; Key facts about the abortion debate in America; Following President Biden's Executive Order to Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care, HHS Announces Guidance to Clarify that Emergency Medical Care Includes Abortion Services; Kansans vote to uphold abortion rights in their state. The proposed amendment was the first time anywhere in the U.S. that voters cast ballots on abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June; Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks to Announce Action to Protect Reproductive Rights; Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization; ReproductiveRights.gov; An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services; Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children that persist into early adolescence. NIH-funded results add to growing scientific evidence of negative health effects of cannabis use during pregnancy; Termination is the safest course for some high-risk pregnancies. Dobbs decision threatens that care;
• Women's Health Issues Prenatal Exposure to Everyday Chemicals Tied to Liver Injury in Kids - Researchers identify a potential contributor to epidemic of pediatric NAFLD; Women can live better with an improved diet; With homicide the leading cause of maternal mortality, new research shows a link to firearms and intimate partner violence; Women With Type 2 Diabetes Die Sooner Than Men, Study Suggests - Other groups at risk for early mortality include smokers, those diagnosed at younger ages;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers New section: General Cancer Information; The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Women urged to eat potassium-rich foods to improve their heart health; Sex differences in women with cardiovascular disease and implications for imagers;
• Writing The Evolution of Media: Visualizing a Data-Driven Future; Deepfake attacks and cyber extortion are creating mounting risks; Chrome Extension Can Detect Fake Profile Pictures with 99.29% Accuracy; How to spot a deepfake? One simple trick is all you need. If you're not convinced they who are they say they are, this weakness in deepfake software could help;

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• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Kolbert, Elizabeth. (2014). The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History;
• 6 Things You Need To Know About Cancer and Complementary Health Approaches;
• Setting your clock: associations between timing of objective physical activity and cardiovascular disease risk in the general population; Study challenges good cholesterol's role in universally predicting heart disease risk; Lower levels of HDL cholesterol were associated with increased risks for heart attacks in white but not Black adults, and higher levels were not protective for either group; DASH diet reduces long-term risk of heart disease; Micronutrient Supplementation to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk; Nitrites, Nitrates, and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Are We Living La Vie en Rose With Pink Processed Meats?; Prospective Association of Daily Steps With Cardiovascular Disease: A Harmonized Meta-Analysis;
• Marijuana, meth, cocaine and opiates all linked to heart rhythm issues; Stroke Risk Rises for Young People Who Drink Frequently” Cumulative effect seen with 2 or more years of moderate-to-heavy drinking; New section: Coronary Artery Dissection; What Are Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Outcomes in Young to Middle-Aged Patients?; Association of Psychosocial Stress With Risk of Acute Stroke;
• 💕; ;Modelling the dynamic relationship between spread of infection and observed crowd movement patterns at large scale events; Here's How a Virus Moves in a Crowd so You Can Avoid It; These scientists traced a new coronavirus lineage to one office — through sewage. Researchers are hunting through waste water for heavily mutated SARS-CoV-2 variants that could be the next Omicron; CDC starts tracking BF.7: 5 notes on the subvariant; Binge drinking raises young women's COVID-19 risk; Will there be a COVID winter wave? What scientists say. Emerging variants and waning immunity are likely to push infections higher in the northern hemisphere as influenza also makes a comeback; Here's what might happen the second” or third” time you get Covid, experts say: ˜There's no guarantee; From BQ.1.1 to XBB and beyond: How the splintering of Omicron variants could shape Covid's next phase; Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows. Lower vaccination rates among Republicans could explain the partisan gap, but some researchers say mask use and social distancing were bigger factors; Three COVID Scenarios That Could Spell Trouble for the Fall; New section: XBB and BQ.1.1; BA.275.2; > Understanding Exposure Risks; "Pretty troublesome": New COVID variant BQ.1 now makes up 1 in 10 cases nationwide, CDC estimates; Vaccination Tied to Shorter COVID Illness, Less Viral Shedding - Study in health workers also affirms milder infections with vaccination during Delta and Omicron; Endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19: an overview of evidence, biomarkers, mechanisms and potential therapies; Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2; Aerosols from speaking can linger in the air for up to nine hours; SARS-CoV-2 infection drives an inflammatory response in human adipose tissue through infection of adipocytes and macrophages; Why the 5-Day Isolation Period for COVID Makes No Sense; Prevalence of Positive Rapid Antigen Tests After 7-Day Isolation Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection in College Athletes During Omicron Variant Predominance; Duration of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infectivity: When Is It Safe to Discontinue Isolation?; Omicron keeps finding new evolutionary tricks to outsmart our immunity; COVID-19 Death Rates in Urban and Rural Areas: United States, 2020; COVID ˜variant soup" is making winter surges hard to predict. Descendants of Omicron are proliferating worldwide — and the same mutations are coming up again and again; COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a Complex and Grave Situation Inside a Wuhan Lab. The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic's onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica give the clearest view yet of a biocomplex in crisis; Biosecurity Incident in Wuhan; Senate HELP Committee Minority Oversight Staff Releases Interim Report Analyzing Origins of COVID-19 Pandemic; An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID19 Pandemic Interim Report Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions Minority Oversight Staff October 2022; Probable Aerosol Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through Floors and Walls of Quarantine Hotel, Taiwan, 2021; COVID Hospitalizations Spiked in Youngest Infants During Omicron - However, indicators of severe disease "consistently lower" versus Delta period; Chances of finding COVID-virus ancestor ˜almost nil", say virologists. Genome analysis finds SARS-CoV-2 and bat coronaviruses shared an ancestor just a few years ago, but extensive recombination has muddied the picture; Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection; Who Is Dying from COVID Now, and Why Nearly three years into the pandemic, COVID's mortality burden is growing in certain groups of people; COVID-19 Data Review: Update on COVID-19–Related Mortality; You dirty rats! Researchers find COVID-19 in NYC sewer rodents; Are Repeat Coronavirus Infections Really More Dangerous Than the First?” No, but a recent study has been misinterpreted by some as saying that; Gradual emergence followed by exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Africa;
Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends Report; Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now?; SARS-CoV-2 Serology and Self-Reported Infection Among Adults — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, August 2021–May 2022; TOILET TERROR WATCH: NEW LASER EXPERIMENT REVEALS HOW HIGH POOP PARTICLES MAY BLAST AFTER WE FLUSH A never-before-seen look at bathroom physics.; Commercial toilets emit energetic and rapidly spreading aerosol plumes; COVID-19 Tied to Doubled Risk of Endocarditis in Substance Use Disorder Patients” Hospitalization risk after endocarditis also increased; The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic; Pandemic's Two-Year Global Death Toll May Be Close to 15 Million; US House of Representatives - Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Report 8/2022; Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis - Preparing for and preventing the next public health emergency: Lessons Learned from the Coronavirus Crisis. Final Report, December 2022; House Subcommittee Report Details Pandemic Failures, Lessons Learned” "This outcome was not inevitable," subcommittee chair says; Report: Intelligence agencies didn't move fast enough to collect Covid data The report by Democrats on the House Intelligence Community says the CIA and other spy agencies "took too long to pivot."; Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent Adults Aged 65 Years IVY Network, 18 States, September 8–November 30, 2022; Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department or Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Immunocompetent Adults — VISION Network, Nine States, September-November 2022; The Coronavirus May Spread From Corpses, Scientists Report;COVID-19 Symptoms and Duration of Rapid Antigen Test Positivity at a Community Testing and Surveillance Site During Pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron BA.1 Periods; Long COVID Risk Makes It Worth Avoiding Second Infections; China Covid: Five deaths under country's new counting method;BF.7: 5 notes on the subvariant fueling surge in China; Long COVID: Could mono virus or fat cells be playing roles?; Autopsies Show COVID-19 in the Brain” What this means for neurologic COVID symptoms remains elusive; SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy; Chinese officials investigate cause of pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan; Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance for Early Detection of New SARS-CoV-2 Variants; New section: COVID-19 Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance;
• 💕 Five ways to prepare for the next pandemic;
• 💕; Long COVID; New section: Protein Test; Blood test predicts which hospitalized COVID patients will get worse; Long Covid: What science has learned about the loss of smell and taste; Long COVID is still disabling millions of Americans; Transcriptomic profiling of cardiac tissues from SARS-CoV-2 patients identifies DNA damage; COVID Attacks DNA in Heart, Unlike Flu, Study Says; Relationship Between Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease and Death and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19; Adverse Childhood Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Poor Mental Health and Suicidal Behaviors Among High School Students -Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, January-June 2021; Outcomes among confirmed cases and a matched comparison group in the Long-COVID in Scotland study; Duration of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Incidence of COVID-19 by Social Vulnerability of US Counties, April-December 2020; Study Shows Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters; Do Skin Manifestations of COVID-19 Differ by Variant Type?; COVID-19 ages organs, compilation of studies finds; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Outpatient Treatment of COVID-19 ― United States, January-July 2022; Myocarditis risk higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination, new study of 43 million patients confirms; New evidence that heart damage risk is much higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination; Small study links prior SARS-CoV-2 infection with coronary vasomotor dysfunction; Association between regular physical activity and the protective effect of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in a South African case-control study; Inflammasome pathway links COVID and Parkinson's; Lifting Universal Masking in Schools — Covid-19 Incidence among Students and Staff; Incidence of Epilepsy and Seizures Over the First 6 Months After a COVID-19 Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study; How infectious disease experts are responding to Covid nearly three years in; Effectiveness of Bivalent mRNA Vaccines in Preventing Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection - Increasing Community Access to Testing Program, United States, September-November 2022; MakeMyTestCount.org; NIH establishes website for self-reporting COVID-19 test results; COVID-19 disrupts gut microbiome; Should We Bring Masks Back Into the Classroom?— Mask mandates can ease the burden on our healthcare system; Higher BMI a Risk Factor for Long COVID Symptoms — Female sex was another independent risk factor, U.K. study showed; Patients With COVID-19 More Likely to Experience New-Onset Diabetes; Face masks may return amid holiday ˜tripledemic" of covid, flu and RSV Health experts say a quality medical mask remains a highly effective line of defense against respiratory viruses; FACT SHEET: DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES COMMIT TO CLEANER INDOOR AIR ACROSS THE NATION; Effectiveness of Face Mask or Respirator Use in Indoor Public Settings for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infection — California, February-December 2021; Apparent risks of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome diagnoses after COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-Cov-2 Infection;Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study; Persistent post–COVID-19 smell loss is associated with immune cell infiltration and altered gene expression in olfactory epithelium; What the Never-Ending Mask Debate Is Really About” Hint: It's not the science; Why can't some people smell months after catching Covid? Their immune response could be the answer Researchers found that people struggling to regain their sense of smell after Covid showed evidence of continued inflammation and an immune response that continued to persist after the virus was long gone; Autopsies Show COVID-19 in the Brain” What this means for neurologic COVID symptoms remains elusive; Higher-Dose Steroids Upped Risk of Death in Non-Ventilated COVID-19” Stick with a 6-mg dose, as giving more can be harmful in this group, RECOVERY researchers advise;
• Any weight-loss strategy lowers risk for type 2 diabetes for adults with obesity; Type 2 diabetes risk lower for women with diabetes history, optimal risk factor levels; Gestational diabetes increases risks for CV, cerebrovascular diseases; Low-Carb Diet Helps Cut HbA1c in Prediabetes - Could be a useful approach for preventing, treating type 2 diabetes, says researcher; Effects of a Low-Carbohydrate Dietary Intervention on Hemoglobin A1c. A Randomized Clinical Trial; Outdoor Lighting at Night Tied to Diabetes Prevalence - China study may have global implications for diabetes risk; Habitual coffee consumption and subsequent risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals with a history of gestational diabetes – a prospective study; Type 2 Diabetes and Dietary Supplements: What the Science Says; Obesity Absent in One-Fourth of Kids With Type 2 Diabetes — Global study supports obesity as a risk factor, not prerequisite, for diabetes screening; Association of Longitudinal Activity Measures and Diabetes Risk: An Analysis From the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program; More Steps Per Day, Lowered Odds for Diabetes in Women; More Steps Per Day, Lowered Odds for Diabetes in Women; Physical activity, inactivity and sleep during the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT); CDC warns of future surge in diabetes among young Americans; Projections of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Burden in the U.S. Population Aged <20 Years Through 2060: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study;
• Epidemiology A- L Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP): Noncommunicable Disease COVID-19 Toolkit;
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• Favorite Music Sites Music and Health: What You Need To Know;
• Fitness Turns Out There Is Something Special About 10,000 Steps a Day ; Association of the Weekend Warrior and Other Leisure-time Physical Activity Patterns With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality. A Nationwide Cohort Study; Prospective Associations of Daily Step Counts and Intensity With Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and Mortality and All-Cause Mortality; Counting Steps? Here's How Many You Need to Boost Health; ˜Weekend warrior" and regularly active physical activity patterns confer similar cardiovascular and mortality benefits: a systematic meta-analysis; Just a couple minutes of vigorous activity several times a day might lower one's risk of death Short bursts of intense movement, like climbing stairs, were linked to a significantly reduced risk of dying within seven years, a study found;
• Healthcare Quality Issues Health Literacy Online; Health Literate Care Model; My Health Finder Tool;
• New section: D68; 4 things to know about enterovirus D68 ; New section - Chickenpox; U.S. Chickenpox Vaccine Program Led to Near Elimination of the Virus - Cases decreased by 99% in people under 20 after implementation of the two-dose vaccine; New section: Cholera; Cholera 101: Why this ancient disease is making headlines in 2022; WHO releases list of threatening fungi. The most dangerous might surprise you; Update on Ebola Virus Disease (Sudan ebolavirus) Outbreak in Central Uganda; New section: Bacterial Pathogens; Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019;Visualized: The Many Shapes of Bacteria;
• Evolutionary consequences of delaying intervention for monkeypox; Monkeypox Signs and Symptoms; Technical Report #3; 2022 Outbreak Cases & Data; 2022 Multi-National Monkeypox Outbreak - Technical Reports; Monkeypox eradication unlikely in the U.S. as virus could spread indefinitely, CDC says; Incidence of Monkeypox Among Unvaccinated Persons Compared with Persons Receiving 1 JYNNEOS Vaccine Dose - 32 U.S. Jurisdictions, July 31-September 3, 2022; The monkeypox virus is mutating. Are scientists worried? In some samples, large chunks of the virus's genome have disappeared — but understanding whether the mutations affect its behaviour will be difficult; Human Monkeypox Virus Infection 2022: Part 3 — Treatment and Prevention; Monkeypox Virus Infection Resulting from an Occupational Needlestick — Florida, 2022; As monkeypox subsides, experts grapple with the possibility of long-term consequences; Ocular Monkeypox” United States, July-September 2022; Harm reduction and rights-based approaches to reduce monkeypox transmission among sex workers; Severe Monkeypox in Hospitalized Patients” United States, August 10–October 10, 2022; New section: Respiratory Syncytial Virus; What Is RSV? 5 Questions About Respiratory Syncytial Virus Answered; Wastewater Testing and Detection of Poliovirus Type 2 Genetically Linked to Virus Isolated from a Paralytic Polio Case” New York, March 9-“October 11, 2022; One of the World's Biggest Killers Is on the Rise Again; More Evidence of Monkeypox Spread Before Symptoms Appear - Pre-symptomatic transmission has implications for infection control, experts say; RSV References & Resources; Update on Managing Monkeypox in Patients Receiving Therapeutics; An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us; Monkeypox Toolkit for People Who Work in Sex Trades or Conduct Outreach to Sex Workers; WHO Issues New Name for Monkeypox - New name reflects current virus naming convention guidelines to reduce stigma, racism; Which Respiratory Virus Do I Have? — There's a range of possibilities, and it's not easy to tell them apart; Severe Monkeypox in Hospitalized Patients — United States, August 10-October 10, 2022;
• Maternal Child Health CDC Extended BMI-for-Age Growth Charts – Download;
• Nutrition Resources New section: Burden of Proof Studies; Which diet and health habits are backed by science? Now there's a tool for that; Effects of elevated systolic blood pressure on ischemic heart disease: a Burden of Proof study; Health effects associated with smoking: a Burden of Proof study; Health effects associated with consumption of unprocessed red meat: a Burden of Proof study; Health effects associated with vegetable consumption: a Burden of Proof study; Meat, vegetables and health” interpreting the evidence; Which diet and health habits are backed by science? Now there's a tool for that; IHME Burden of Proof Data Tables; Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds; Are highly processed foods addictive?; Cognitive Decline Tied to Midlife Diet - Impact of ultra-processed foods is small but important, prospective study suggests; Micronutrient Supplementation to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk; Nitrites, Nitrates, and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Are We Living La Vie en Rose With Pink Processed Meats?;
• Any weight-loss strategy lowers risk for type 2 diabetes for adults with obesity; New research points to health benefits of eating earlier in the day and within a 10-hour window. Two studies suggest that there are optimal times of day for eating and fasting; How diet may disrupt gut microbes to promote weight gain; Phthalate exposure linked to lower SHBG, higher risk for obesity in women; Small boosts to physical activity can prevent, reverse obesity; Don't Skip Exercise in Lifestyle Interventions for Kids With Obesity -Adding exercise to behavioral and diet interventions made bigger dent in fat loss; Adiposity in the older population and the risk of dementia: The Rotterdam Study; Obesity Linked to Brain Abnormalities in Kids — It remains unclear whether losing weight would reverse these changes;
• Public Health Continuing Education Opportunities Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP): Noncommunicable Disease COVID-19 Toolkit;
• Public Health Data Overdose Deaths Involving Para-fluorofentanyl - United States, July 2020-June 2021; Estimated Deaths Attributable to Excessive Alcohol Use Among US Adults Aged 20 to 64 Years, 2015 to 2019;
• Public Health Data Leading Causes of Death in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to October 2021 ; Mortality in the United States, 2021 NCHS Data Brief No. 456, December 2022'
• Public Health Sites A - C Scientists Discover New Blood Types; Alcohol's Negative Emotional Side: The Role of Stress Neurobiology in Alcohol Use Disorder; Alcohol use disorder is associated with higher risks of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: A study of US insurance claims data;
• Public Health Sites D-G Is Juliet Unwittingly Poisoned in Today's Environment? - Examining the dangers of endocrine disrupting chemicals; EDC-2: The Endocrine Society's Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals; Be Informed. Search for information about a drug - Justthinktwice,gov; A potentially cancer-causing chemical is sprayed on much of America's produce. How high is exposure near you? Weedkillers containing glyphosate are sprayed on nearly half of all corn and soybeans grown in the U.S. Exposure is highest in parts of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana; New section: Diacetyl; Coffee roasting chemical and flu combo seriously damages lungs; How Marijuana Affects Your Body; Marijuana Addiction and Abuse; Phthalates in Cosmetics; Not Too Pretty #Phthalates, Beauty Products & the FDA; Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs); FDA alerts health care professionals of risks to patients exposed to xylazine in illicit drugs; New section: xylazine; Marijuana Smoking Increases Emphysema Risk, Study Suggests - Airway inflammation also more common in marijuana smokers than tobacco-only smokers; A Horrifying Drug Called ˜Tranq Dope Is Spreading in the US The animal tranquilizer xylazine, which has been linked to severe wounds and amputations, has been detected in nearly 40 states; How to Reverse an Overdose From Tranq, the Lethal Drug Spreading in the US. Narcan still works for tranq, a cocktail of fentanyl and the animal tranquilizer xylazine. Oxygen tanks can help, too; In Philadelphia,˜tranqâ is leaving drug users with horrific wounds. Other communities are bracing for the same; Atlas of Disaster produced by the non-profit group Rebuild by Design and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); ‘Gas Station Heroin Is Causing Intense Withdrawals. It's Legal in Most States. Tianeptine is an antidepressant. But it's being sold in the U.S., especially at gas stations, as a dietary supplement and functions like an opioid; Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate;
• Public Health Sites H-L: Widespread Hepatitis A Outbreaks Associated with Person-to-Person Transmission - United States, 2016-2020 ; Nurses exposed to noise are more likely to face health problems; Air pollution particles appear to weaken lung's immune defenses over time; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Mortality by Industry and Occupation — United States, 2020;
• Public Health Sites M - N Broad Diversity of Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Population; The prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities in adult ADHD compared with non-ADHD populations: A systematic literature review; About Rapid Mood Screener (RMS); Bipolar I vs Bipolar II: Major Differences in Diagnosis and Treatment; The Rapid Mood Screener (RMS): a novel and pragmatic screener for bipolar I disorder;
• Can you make up for lost sleep? ; Evaluation of Sleep Habits and Disturbances Among US Adults, 2017-2020;
• Vaping Prevention and Education: Resources for Talking With Students is a robust collection of science-based, standards-mapped classroom resources; E-cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2022; E-cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2022; Health effects associated with smoking: a Burden of Proof study (Supplementary Information); Impact of Vaping Prevention Advertisements on US Adolescents. A Randomized Clinical Trial; How To Quit Vaping. Quitting vaping may not come easily, but it’s important to give yourself grace and patience; NIH-funded studies show damaging effects of vaping, smoking on blood vessels. Combining e-cigarettes with regular cigarettes may increase health risks; E-cigarettes linked with blood vessel damage; Gen Vape: How Clinicians Can Help Their Young Patients Quit; Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2022; Results from the Annual National Youth Tobacco Survey; Real-Time Digital Surveillance of Vaping-Induced Pulmonary Disease; Vaping Won't Help Smokers Quit, Another Study Finds; Trajectories of ENDS and cigarette use among dual users: analysis of waves 1 to 5 of the PATH Study; Most dual smokers and vapers likely to carry on smoking; E-cigarette aerosol exposure of pulmonary surfactant impairs its surface tension reducing function; Vaping May Affect Lungs' Lubricant, Making Breathing Tougher;
• US Government Statistics Nation's Report Card - National Center for Education Statistics; Preventing Youth Hate Crimes & Identity-Based Bullying Fact Sheet;
• Career Resources The European Parliament's 2021 'Digital automation and the future of work' report ;

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• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Kolbert, Elizabeth. (2014). The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History; Albert Camus' The Plague;
• Annotated Medical Bibliography Albert Camus' The Plague ;
• Annotated Public Health Practice Bibliography Albert Camus' The Plague;
• People With Cancer Should Be Wary of Taking Dietary Supplements; Common Cancer Myths and Misconceptions; A 'Double Whammy' for Gastric Cancer Risk — H. pylori infection and certain pathogenic variants linked with large excess risk;
• Chronic Disease Index Association between healthy lifestyle and memory decline in older adults: 10 year, population based, prospective cohort study;
• Caffeine, energy drinks and other natural supplements can cause heart damage, cardiologists warn; Association of Plasma High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level With Risk of Fractures in Healthy Older Adults; Associations between types and sources of dietary carbohydrates and cardiovascular disease risk: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank participants; Heart Disease, Stroke Linked To Specific Kinds of Sugars: Study;Analysis of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Early Adulthood and Midlife With All-Cause Mortality and Fatal or Nonfatal Cardiovascular Disease; Bisexual Women Face Increased Risk of Heart Disease; Prospective relationship between occupational physical activity and risk of ischemic heart disease - are men and women differently affected? Exposure to ionizing radiation can increase risk of heart disease;
• What Is the Effect of Exercise on Stroke Patients?; After long decline, stroke deaths are rising again; AHA: ‘Mini strokes’ need emergency assessment, may require hospitalization; Safety evaluation of smart scales, smart watches, and smart rings with bioimpedance technology shows evidence of potential interference in cardiac implantable electronic devices; New section: Cardiac electronic devices; Comparison of seven popular structured dietary programmes and risk of mortality and major cardiovascular events in patients at increased cardiovascular risk: systematic review and network meta-analysis; Longevity, cardiovascular durability improve with just 1 or 2 walks per week; Even in asymptomatic, CCTA-detected coronary artery disease increases heart attack risk;
• Chinese Culture The unseen Asian American mental health crisis;
• 💕; New section: XBB/Kracken; CDC reports a new strain of omicron taking over in the U.S. About 40% of confirmed U.S. Covid cases are caused by the XBB.1.5 strain, up from 20% a week ago; COVID variant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 40 percent of cases in the US: CDC; CDC now tracking subvariant XBB: 3 notes; XBB now dominant Covid variant in U.S.; New omicron subvariant on path to dominance, data suggests; Highly immune evasive omicron XBB.1.5 variant is quickly becoming dominant in U.S. as it doubles weekly; Kraken is the latest variant of COVID-19, but expect more mutations. The new subvariant of Omicron is close to taking over as the most-prevalent form of COVID in the U.S.; Doctors: New O micron subvariant XBB.1.5 responsible for 75% of new COVID cases in Northeast; The 'Kraken' COVID-19 subvariant is here in Canada. Here's what you need to know; Highly immune evasive omicron XBB.1.5 variant is quickly becoming dominant in U.S. as it doubles weekly; COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless; From 'COVID toes' to 'Paxlovid arm': 4 phenomena that emerged amid the pandemic; Here's What to Know About XBB.1.5; Its immune evasiveness didn't come at a cost in transmissibility, virologist says; All around the world, covid surveillance is faltering That, rather than the surge of cases in China, is the main reason for worry; Does COVID Reinfection Increase Risk for Long COVID?;The findings revealed SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be detected in 84 different locations in the body. The highest burden of viral RNA was found in airway and lung tissue, however, the virus was also detected in the brain, gut, heart, kidney, eye, adrenal gland, and lymph nodes. Large COVID autopsy study finds SARS-CoV-2 all over the human body; Stanford study finds inflammation in brains of deceased COVID-19 patients; New clues to how COVID may trigger immune damage in the brain; SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy; NIAID Pandemic Autopsy Study Fosters Long COVID Treatment Trial; XBB.1.5 FAQ: What you should know about the latest Omicron subvariant; People who haven't had COVID will likely catch XBB.1.5 and many will get reinfected, experts say; What does it mean for a disease to be 'endemic'? In the context of a disease, the transition from "epidemic" to "endemic" means a pathogen is no longer causing outbreaks but isn't disappearing; The pandemic’s true death toll; Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights; What’s standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool; Integrating Wastewater and Public Health Data; Antigenic mapping of emerging SARS-CoV-2 omicron variants BM.1.1.1, BQ.1.1, and XBB.1; Airplane lavatories deliver new hope for the CDC’s variant hunt; Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2; Covid-19 is a leading cause of death for children in the US, despite relatively low mortality rate; Facing the New Covid-19 Reality;Scientists discover receptor that blocks COVID-19 infection -The receptor sticks to the virus and pulls it away from the target cells; LRRC15 receptor; What's a spillover? A spillback? Here are definitions for the vocab of a pandemic; Does COVID Vaccine Blunt Elevated Diabetes Risk After Infection? Unvaccinated had a 78% higher risk for new-onset diabetes; no link seen among the vaccinated; Association of COVID-19 Vaccination With Risk for Incident Diabetes After COVID-19 Infection; WHO abandons plans for crucial second phase of COVID-origins investigation. Sensitive studies in China were intended to pinpoint the source of the pandemic virus; SARS-ANI VIS. A Global Open Access Dataset of Reported SARS-CoV-2 Events in Animals; How many animal species have caught COVID? First global tracker has (partial) answers; Preliminary Report for the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO); Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) Preliminary Report of the SAGO 9 June 2022 Version 1 received 13 April 2022 by WHO Version 2 received 15 May 2022 by WHO *This version includes a timeline, letters to WHO from the SAGO, and clarifications requested by WHO; As COVID turns 3, experts worry where the next pandemic will come from – and if we'll be ready; Epidemiologic Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant Variant XBB.1.5 New York City, November 1, 2022–January 4, 2023; What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?; Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Expanded in February 2023 to Include Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19; Expanded Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19; Identification of Deaths With Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 From Death Certificate Literal Text: United States, January 1, 2020-June 30, 2022; How Can Public Health Officials Increase Trust in Their Agencies? Using science and giving clear recommendations would help, survey suggests;Parental Nonadherence to Health Policy Recommendations for Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission Among Children; SARS-CoV-2 Exposure in Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus) from New York City; 81% of toilet samples from US-bound planes had Omicron RNA; Effect of Predeparture Testing on Postarrival SARS-CoV-2;“Positive Test Results Among International Travelers” CDC Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance Program, Four U.S. Airports, March–September 2022; Aircraft Wastewater Surveillance for Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants” John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, August-September 2022;The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic's origin to raccoon dogs; WHO calls on China to share data on raccoon dog link to pandemic. Here's what we know; COVID-origins study links raccoon dogs to Wuhan market: what scientists think Some scientists say the analysis provides new evidence supporting the hypothesis that the virus that causes COVID-19 spilled over from an animal” but falls short of definitive proof; COVID-origins report sparks debate over major genome hub GISAID; GISAID revoked researchers access following the report, sparking discussion about findings based on data found in online repositories;WHO: New Omicron Subvariant XBB.1.16 Is˜One to Watch™ The strain has been reported in 22 countries.WHO: New Omicron Subvariant XBB.1.16 Is 'One to Watch' The strain has been reported in 22 countries;
• Five ways to prepare for the next pandemic;
• Axios-Ipsos COVID-19 polls; COVIDcast by CMU Delphi; Measuring Household Experiences during the Coronavirus Pandemic; CDC COVID Data Tracker;Iowa COVID-19 Tracker;INTERACTIVE COVID-19 DASHBOARD;
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• Can COVID affect your eyes? 6 'COVID eye' symptoms and when to see a doctor; Can COVID affect your eyes? 6 'COVID eye' symptoms and when to see a doctor; From Positive to Negative to Positive Again—The Mystery of Why COVID-19 Rebounds in Some Patients Who Take Paxlovid; After COVID, immune response to flu vax differs by sex; Does COVID Reinfection Increase Risk for Long COVID?; COVID and the Heart: It Spares No One; Data-driven identification of post-acute SARS-CoV-2 infection subphenotypes; Study Identifies Four Major Subtypes of Long COVID; Paxlovid reduces serious risks from Omicron variants; COVID-19 Treatments and Medications; What to Do if You Have COVID: short version;What to Do if You Have COVID: Comparative effectiveness of third doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in US veteran; Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave; Why does COVID-19 damage vascular beds?; The COVID Heart—One Year After SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Patients Have an Array of Increased Cardiovascular Risks; Long covid outcomes at one year after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection: nationwide cohort study; Scientists find more evidence that breast milk of those vaccinated against COVID-19 may protect infants; Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations; Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations;God, No, Not Another Case COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn't Have to Happen; For long covid fatigue, a strategy called 'pacing' helps, but at a cost; How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity; The immune system responds more strongly to the strain of a virus that it first met, weakening response to other strains. Can this 'imprinting' be overcome?; COVID can damage testicles, lower sex drive: Study on how coronavirus can affect fertility among men; Association of COVID-19 with short- and long-term risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality: a prospective cohort in UK Biobank; Paxlovid reduces serious risks from Omicron variants; Cardiologists share the latest details on COVID-related MIS-C; New section: Hybrid Immunity; Protective effectiveness of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and hybrid immunity against the omicron variant and severe disease: a systematic review and meta-regression; Heart attacks on dramatic rise for 25-44 age group; Heart palpitations, chest pain among the long-lasting side effects of COVID-19, new research confirms; Why we need to wear better masks;COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among Unvaccinated and Vaccinated Persons Aged 12 years by Receipt of Bivalent Booster Doses and Time Since Vaccination” 24 U.S. Jurisdictions, October 3, 2021-December 24, 2022; Long COVID or Functional Neurological Disorder? Neurologic symptoms in long COVID insufficiently studied, systematic review suggests; Lingering symptoms common after COVID hospitalization; Many adults experience problems like coughing, chest pain, and fatigue six months after their stay; Covid can cause heart problems. Here's how the virus may do its damage.Scientists who studied human hearts found that infection appeared to make it harder for them to beat properly; Heart issues more common after Covid infection than vaccination, CDC reports A new analysis of the rates of myocarditis in young males may be reassuring to those reluctant to get their teenage boys vaccinated; Bivalent boosters provide better protection against severe COVID-19;Overview of the Impacts of Long COVID on Behavioral Health; Heart attacks and strokes late after Covid.The body of evidence expands; After Severe COVID, Cognitive Trajectories Go One of Three Ways - Cognitive impairment persisted for 1 year in some patients age 50 and older; Dissipating the fog: Cognitive trajectories and risk factors 1 year after COVID-19 hospitalization; Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines Including Boosters; Early, high doses of plasma can prevent COVID hospitalizations; What people with 'super immunity' can teach us about Covid and other viruses Do a lucky few have a kind of biological armor against infection? Scientists are just beginning to unlock the mystery of the true Covid dodgers; New section: Super immunity;Persistent prosopagnosia following COVID-19; Sex-Specific Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Offspring of Mothers With SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy; Functional Neurological Disorder Emerges After COVID Infection, Vaccines” Long COVID functional manifestations differ from post-vaccine effects; Risk Factors Associated With Post’COVID-19 Condition A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis; Long COVID Neurologic Symptoms Vary Based on Severity of Initial Infection Distinct pathogenic mechanisms may be at play in each group; Pandemic Jump in ED Visits for Firearm Injuries Continued Into 2022” Biggest increases among kids under 14, CDC says; Emergency Department Visits for Firearm Injuries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic” United States, January 2019 “December 2022; New section: Injuries; Common Enzyme Deficiency Linked With COVID Severity” Certain groups of men with G6PD deficiency had higher odds of severe illnes;
• Sodium Nitrite in Food, Water Tied to Type 2 Diabetes Risk- Observational study serves up "new piece of evidence" for debate over additives;Healthy lifestyle behaviors, mediating biomarkers, and risk of microvascular complications among individuals with type 2 diabetes: A cohort study; Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle in Association With Microvascular Complications Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes; New section: Drugs; Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Risks of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes; Phthalates Exposure Tied to Higher Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in White Women; COVID's aftermath: Persistent organ damage at 1 year, lung abnormalities at 2; Safer In-Person Gatherings; Orthostatic tachycardia after covid-19; COVID-19 linked to 40% increase in autoimmune disease risk in huge study; Childhood adiposity and novel subtypes of adult-onset diabetes: a Mendelian randomisation and genome-wide genetic correlation study; New section: Novel Adult Onset Diabetes; Reversing Prediabetes Alone Doesn't Cut Mortality Risk Reduced risk only seen in physically active patients, Taiwanese study found; Risk of Death Associated With Reversion From Prediabetes to Normoglycemia and the Role of Modifiable Risk Factors;
• Epidemiology A- L Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP): Noncommunicable Disease COVID-19 Toolkit;
• Epidemiology M - Z New Section: Pandemic Origins; Pandemic Origins: Technologies and Challenges for Biological Investigations; Highlights Page, Full Report; Accessible PDF; Pandemic Origins: Technologies, Challenges, and Policy Options to Support Investigations; Full Report; Pandemic influenza risk management: a WHO guide to inform and harmonize national and international pandemic preparedness and response; An Even Deadlier Pandemic Could Soon Be Here; New section: WasteWater Surveillance; Use of Wastewater for Mpox Outbreak Surveillance in California; Pandemic Influenza; Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT) Results - Summary; Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT) Questions & Answers; How to think like an aerosol scientist this holiday season to stay healthy; How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory and a new strategy to thwart them; Scientists say they've solved a 700-year-old mystery: Where and when Black Death began; Bivalent Boosters Block Severe COVID-19;
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• Favorite Music Sites Animated Chart: The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format (1973-2021); It takes 5 seconds to know if you like a song;
• Fitness How Many Times Do You Need to Get Out of Your Chair in an Otherwise Sedentary Day? — Trial tested walking break doses to counter ill effects of prolonged sitting; Breaking Up Prolonged Sitting to Improve Cardiometabolic Risk: Dose-Response Analysis of a Randomized Cross-Over Trial; Literally running away from your problems might just give you new ones; Using running to escape everyday stresses may lead to exercise dependence instead of mental wellbeing; Dose–response effects of exercise and caloric restriction on visceral adiposity in overweight and obese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials; Association of Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity Level With Risks of Hospitalization for 25 Common Health Conditions in UK Adults; Associations of timing of physical activity with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort study;Exercise as medicine for depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression; How Many Steps a Day Keep the Grim Reaper at Bay? Hitting goal of 8,000 steps or more just 1 to 2 days a week tied to health benefits; Association of Daily Step Patterns With Mortality in US Adults; General Physical Activities Defined by Level of Intensity;
• Grants Grants for Low Income ;
• Graphing5 Megatrends Fueling the Rise of Data Storytelling;
• Healthcare Quality Data USA Today Health Data Breach Search; New section: Wearable Device Data; Does deidentification of data from wearable devices give us a false sense of security? A systematic review;
• Healthcare Quality Issues A researcher tried to buy mental health data. It was surprisingly easy. A Duke University report found 11 data brokers agreed to sell information that identified people by issues, including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, and often sorted them by demographic information; How Should State Licensing and Credentialing Boards Respond When Government Clinicians Spread False or Misleading Health Information?; New section: Health Information;
• Health Education Resources How do you break a habit?; Plain Language for Public Health;
• Healthy People 2030 Healthy People Publications; Browse Objectives;
• Healthy People 2020 Healthy People Publications;
• The Last of Us: Could a fungal pandemic turn us all into zombies?; How antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics; A laboratory study unravels ways non-antibiotic drugs can contribute to drug resistance; 9 diseases that keep epidemiologists up at night Climate change may drive fungi to harm our bodies; Hendra virus rarely spills from animals to us. Climate change makes it a bigger threat; New section: Avian Flu/H5N1; Here's Why Experts Are Concerned About Bird Flu - Mink paper sets off alarms about potential for viral recombination; U.S. Case of Human Avian Influenza A(H5) Virus Reported; Bird Flu Current Situation Summary; Recent Bird Flu Infections in U.S. Wild Birds and Poultry Pose a Low Risk to the Public; 2022-2023 Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza; Investigation into the risk to human health of avian influenza (influenza A H5N1) in England: technical briefing 1; Should We Worry About the U.S. Bird Flu Outbreak? — Surveillance teams have an eye out for any human cases; 2022-2023 Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Mammals; Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in farmed minks, Spain, October 2022; Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies; Public Health Threat of Highly Pathogenic Asian Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus; Questions & Answers: H5N1 Genetic Changes Inventory; Tracking the bird flu, experts see a familiar threat — and a virus whose course is hard to predict; Prevention and Antiviral Treatment of Bird Flu Viruses in People; What To Know About Bird Flu pdf; Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies; Public Health Threat of Highly Pathogenic Asian Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus; Bird Flu Virus Infections in Humans; Avian flu's spread to mammals: A timeline; 2022-2023 Confirmations of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Commercial and Backyard Flocks; 2022-2023 Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds; Fungal infections are becoming more common. Why isn't there a vaccine?; Impact of Fungal Diseases in the United States; Avian Influenza Surveillance; Distribution of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in North America, 2021/2022; Explore Search: Avian Influenza; Information on Bird Flu; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) in Birds and Other Animals; Avian Influenza in Birds; Avian Influenza; Avian Influenza; Bird Flu Has Begun to Spread in Mammals—Here’s What’s Important to Know; Current U.S. Bird Flu Situation in Humans; Past Reported Global Human Cases with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) (HPAI H5N1) by Country, 1997-2022; Reported Human Infections with Avian Influenza A Viruses; Past Examples of Possible Limited, Non-Sustained Person-to-Person Spread of Bird Flu; Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in New England Seals; Zoonotic Mutation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus Identified in the Brain of Multiple Wild Carnivore Species; Cumulative number of confirmed human cases for avian influenza A(H5N1) reported to WHO, 2003-2023, 5 January 2023; Novel Avian Influenza A Virus Infections of Humans; Probable limited person-to-person transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in China; Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Avian Influenza A (H5N1); Avian influenza overview September – December 2022; Assessment of risk associated with recent influenza A(H5N1) clade 2.3.4.4b viruses; Epidemiological Alert Outbreaks of avian influenza and public health implications in the Region of the Americas 19 November 2022; Situation Report: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1); THREE GRIZZLY BEARS TEST POSITIVE FOR HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA; Four dead seals test positive for bird flu in Scotland. Experts warn of "step-change™ in avian flu spread as number of cases in mammals continues to grow globally; Avian influenza overview September – December 2022; Assessment of risk associated with recent influenza A(H5N1) clade 2.3.4.4b viruses; Epidemiological Alert Outbreaks of avian influenza and public health implications in the Region of the Americas 19 November 2022;Situation Report: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1); What Bird Flu Reminds Us About Influenza Pandemics We must be prepared and proactive; Summary of Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT) Results; Bird flu isn’t a direct threat to humans yet, experts say, but they're keeping a close eye on the virus; Bobcat dies after being first wild mammal to test positive for avian flu in California; Girl who died of bird flu did not have widely-circulating variant Scientist who sequenced the virus isolated from a Cambodian girl says it is not the strain causing mass deaths in birds globally;Bird flu outbreak in mink sparks concern about spread in people A variant of H5N1 influenza that can spread between mammals could pose an increased risk to people and wild animals; Avian Influenza A (H5N1) - Cambodia; China reports human case of H5N1 bird flu; How to stop the bird flu outbreak becoming a pandemic. From tracking the disease’s spread in wild birds to updating human vaccines, there are measures that could help keep avian influenza in check; Vaccine Makers Are Preparing for Bird Flu; Although most experts say bird flu is not an immediate threat to humans, efforts are underway to produce vaccines for H5N1 or another potential pandemic virus; European scientists highlight worrisome H5N1 avian flu mutations; Technical Report: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses; Scientists May Have Found the Culprit Behind Mysterious Hepatitis Outbreaks in Kids; New section: adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV-2);
• The Last of Us: Could a fungal pandemic turn us all into zombies?; QUIZ: Test your knowledge of spillover viruses, starting with ... what are they?; Trying to crack the Nipah code: How does this deadly virus spill from bats to humans?; Norovirus National Trends; What Do We Know About Marburg Virus Disease? WHO announced that Equatorial Guinea confirmed its first outbreak of the rare disease; Talking about monkeypox? Then you should be talking about sex; How bad of a norovirus wave is the US in for?; Marburg virus outbreak: researchers race to test vaccines; Mpox in people with advanced HIV infection: a global case series; CDC warns about the rise in almost untreatable Shigella bacterial infections The drug-resistant stomach bug, a major cause of inflammatory diarrhea, is a "serious public health threat."; Interim Clinical Treatment Considerations for Severe Manifestations of Mpox — United States, February 2023;Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia lonestari after Tick Bite in Alabama, USA; Oh Good, a New Way That Ticks Can Make Us Sick. A recent study documents the likely first U.S. case of tickborne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia lonestari bacteria; New section: Toxoplasmosis; Four California sea otters died from an unusual strain of a parasite that could pose a risk to humans;JYNNEOS Vaccination Coverage Among Persons at Risk for Mpox United States, May 22, 2022-January 31, 2023;
• Information Quality Trust In US Federal, State, And Local Public Health Agencies During COVID-19: Responses And Policy Implications; New section - Health Information;
• Kids Health The Relationship Between Bullying and Suicide: What We Know and What it Means for Schools;
• Maternal Child Health CDC Extended BMI-for-Age Growth Charts Download; Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2023; COVID Vaccines Added to 2023 Child, Adult Immunization Schedules; Other notable changes include new guidance on polio, MMR, hepatitis B, and pneumococcal vaccines; Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2023; Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older United States, 2023;
• Nutrition Resources Middle-age high normal serum sodium as a risk factor for accelerated biological aging, chronic diseases, and premature mortality; Good hydration linked to healthy aging NIH findings may provide early clues about increased risks for advanced biological aging and premature death; Caffeine, energy drinks and other natural supplements can cause heart damage, cardiologists warn; Higher BMI May Blunt Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation In VITAL study, lower increases in total 25-OHD levels seen for those with greater body weight; People With Cancer Should Be Wary of Taking Dietary Supplements; New study finds a keto-friendly zero calorie sweetener may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Consumers may want to be more mindful about their Truvia intake; Dietary Supplement Ingredient Directory;Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: Effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status; Relationship between food, disease stronger than you may think; How sugary or fatty snacks change your brain activity to make you like them more Introducing even small amounts of high-fat, high-sugar foods into people's diets can rewire their brain circuits, according to a new study; Association of Healthful Plant-based Diet Adherence With Risk of Mortality and Major Chronic Diseases Among Adults in the UK; Comparison of seven popular structured dietary programmes and risk of mortality and major cardiovascular events in patients at increased cardiovascular risk: systematic review and network meta-analysis;
• Association of Eating and Sleeping Intervals With Weight Change Over Time: The Daily24 Cohort; Dose–response effects of exercise and caloric restriction on visceral adiposity in overweight and obese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials; World Obesity Atlas 2023;Comparison of seven popular structured dietary programmes and risk of mortality and major cardiovascular events in patients at increased cardiovascular risk: systematic review and network meta-analysis;
• Public Health Data Mass Attacks in Public Places 2016 2020 from 1/2023 National Threat Assessment Center; County-level estimates of suicide mortality in the USA: a modelling study;
• Public Health Practice Plain Language for Public Health;
• Public Health Sites A - C Seasonal Allergies at a Glance;Teenagers who have positive relationships with their parents tend to have better outcomes as adults Study that describes what a warm relationship is, shows the long-term health benefits of parent-adolescent bonds; HIV Can Persist for Years in Myeloid Cells of People on Antiretroviral Therapy; HIV Can Persist for Years in Myeloid Cells of People on Antiretroviral Therapy;
• Public Health Sites D-G Screen All Surgery Patients for Cannabis Use, New Guidelines Say Regular cannabis users may have more post-operative pain and other complications; Locally caught freshwater fish across the United States are likely a significant source of exposure to PFOS and other perfluorinated compounds; The Health Risks of Gas Stoves Explained Gas stoves produce emissions that can harm human health and the environment. Experts answer questions about the dangers and how to limit them; Xylazine: A Drug That Naloxone Can’t Combat; What Doctors Should Know About Xylazine in Fentanyl - Naloxone still works but additional support may be needed; wound care a challenge; Readout from Dr. Gupta’s Listening Session with Public Health and Safety Leaders on Xylazine and Efforts to Address Trends; Xylazine - NIH fact sheet; Xylazine-Related Deaths Cook County, Illinois, 2017-2021; Xylazine Detection and Involvement in Drug Overdose Deaths United States, 2019; Mapped: The World's Major Earthquakes from 1956-2022; Why the government fails to limit many dangerous chemicals in the workplace; Association of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollution With Late-Life Depression in Older Adults in the US; Nationwide Study Links Parkinson's Disease to Air Pollution Researchers identify a hot spot in the Mississippi-Ohio River Valley; Will Xylazine Become a Controlled Substance? Federal regulators consider scheduling the veterinary sedative; Advisory: Cannabidiol (CBD)Potential Harms, Side Effects, and Unknowns; FDA Takes Action to Restrict Unlawful Import of Xylazine; Agency Aims to Maintain Availability for Legitimate Use in Animals while Preventing Importation for Illicit Purposes; Air pollution associated with incidence and progression trajectory of chronic lung diseases: a population-based cohort study; EPA to limit toxic 'forever chemicals' in drinking water; Skin-rotting drug "tranq" infiltrates big cities:Zombifying bodies; DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine; What to know about xylazine, the drug authorities are calling a public safety threat; Receipt Deceit: Toxic Chemicals in Receipt Paper;
• Public Health Sites H-L: Quantifying the Negative Impact of Fast-food Consumption on Liver Steatosis Among United States Adults with Diabetes and Obesity; Association of Carotid Atherosclerosis With Hearing Loss A Cross-sectional Analysis of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study; Tinnitis - MedlinePlus;
• Public Health Sites M - N Is the umbrella term "Asian American" even accurate anymore?;
• Public Health Sites O-Z Vaginal infection bacteria can be sexually transmitted to men;
• Research Resources on the Net Mistakes happen in research papers. But corrections often don't;
• Search Engines Index The Dark Web Price Index 2022;
• Senior Health Exercise-induced protein may reverse age-related cognitive decline; Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: Effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status; Autopsies Show Relationship Between Alzheimer's Pathology and Diet in Older Adults - Green leafy vegetable intake inversely correlated with pathology in postmortem brain tissue; Racial and Ethnic Differences in Subjective Cognitive Decline United States, 2015-2020; Worst Carbs for Adults Over 50;
• How Does Lack of Sleep Affect Health Risk in Older Adults?;
• Social Media Habitually Checking Social Media May Be Linked to Preteen Brain Changes Could prompt future compulsive social media checking, researcher suggests; 10 things to know about how social media affects teens' brains;
• Cutting Back on Smoking No Help for Dementia Risk - But large study of long-time smokers confirms reduced risk with quitting altogether; Vaping and E-Cigarettes: A Toolkit for Working With Youth;
• US Government Statistics 'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy; U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health;
• Web Resources CISA Phishing Infographic ; Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed A new short film called 'The Dog & The Boy' uses AI-generated art for its backgrounds; AI Spits Out Exact Copies of Training Images, Real People, Logos, Researchers Find. The regurgitation of training data exposes image diffusion models to a number of privacy and copyright risks;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Cannabis May Interfere With Pregnancy. Retrospective study finds exposure linked with higher rates of stillbirth, hypertensive disorders;
• Women's Health Issues Air pollution and decreased bone mineral density among Women's Health Initiative participants;Dietary Inflammatory Index and Fractures in Midlife Women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation; Low to Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: A Narrative Review and Methodological Considerations;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers This dietary supplement could increase cancer risk; Reports of Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) in the Capsule Around Breast Implants - FDA Safety Communication; New section: Breast Density; FDA Will Require Mammography Centers to Report Breast Density to Patients - Updated regulations also strengthen agency's oversight over these facilities; FDA sets new guidelines that require mammogram providers to notify about breast density The updated guidelines could help more women detect breast cancer earlier; Densebreast-info.org; Study finds same small rise in breast cancer risk in many forms of hormonal birth control; Obesity's Impact on Uterine Cancer Risk Greater in Younger Age Groups Overall risk and risk of endometrioid subtype 20- to 30-fold greater in women younger than 35;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Women and men are different, cardiovascular edition; Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women with a Mediterranean diet:systematic review and meta-analysis;
• Writing ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove;At least four articles credit the AI tool as a co-author, as publishers scramble to regulate its use.; New section: ChatGPT; This 22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever; GPTZero; ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative,' and 'nothing revolutionary', says Meta's chief AI scientist; Is ChatGPT Becoming Synonymous With Plagiarism in Scientific Research? - Science will no longer publish research that uses ChatGPT or other AI-generated text programs; ChatGPT maker OpenAI has a free tool that can spot AI-written text. OpenAI's offers a free but "imperfect" tool to detect AI-generated text, and hopes it sparks a debate about AI literacy; AI text classifer; ChatGPT May Be the Fastest Growing App in History The AI-powered chatbot from OpenAI only launched in November 2022 but already has over 100 million monthly active users; Are AI Chatbots in Healthcare Ethical? — Their use must require informed consent and independent review; Plain Language for Public Health; Nonhuman Authors and Implications for the Integrity of Scientific Publication and Medical Knowledge; ChatGPT or human text? Here's one surprising way to tell the difference. There are a few key differentiators between AI-generated text and human-written text. But this one could teach humans a thing or two; Why ChatGPT won't discuss politics or respond to these 20 controversial questions. OpenAI's wildly popular chatbot has boundaries. Some of them are a bit fuzzy though; A Student Used ChatGPT to Cheat in an AI Ethics Class -The worst fears of school administrators are coming true, and let me be the first to say "lol."; Americans are wary of AI tech like ChatGPT, data shows; School Apologizes After Using ChatGPT to Write Email About Mass-Shooting. Students at Vanderbilt University called the use of the AI tool disgusting after a school shooting killed 3 and injured 5 in Michigan last week; Every Day is April Fool's Day Now;

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• Academic Resources Health-Related Behaviors and Academic Achievement Among High School Students, United States, 2015; Making the Connection: Health+Academics; 'Smart' Drugs May Backfire When Used as Cognitive Enhancers Productivity falls when stimulants are used for complex tasks; College students who cut social media use have less anxiety; When College Students Cut Back on Social Media, They Got Happier: Study;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon; Bart Erhman's Armageddon; David Grann's The Wager. A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder; Tania Branigan's Red Memory, The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution;
• A 'Double Whammy' for Gastric Cancer Risk — H. pylori infection and certain pathogenic variants linked with large excess risk; National Cancer Plan; Cancer and Climate Change: The Health Threats of Unnatural Disasters; New details on the link between CVD and cancer, from a study of 27M patients; Blood, Breast Cancer Survivors Stand Out for Heart Risks Over a Decade Later — Research suggests cancer-specific precision monitoring and risk stratification; Many With Cancer Predisposition Diseases Unaware of Genetic Status — Moreover, a significant proportion do not qualify for genetic screening under current guidelines; New section: Cancer Chronotherapy; Does it matter what time of day you get cancer treatment?; Sex moderates circadian chemotherapy effects on survival of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis; Time of day matters when it comes to cancer diagnosis and treatment; A new time dimension in the fight against metastasis; Head and Neck Cancer; Colorectal Cancer Prevention (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version; Testicular Cancer Screening (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version; A Visual Guide to Multiple Myeloma; Red-flag Signs and Symptoms for Earlier Diagnosis of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer; Exercise Increases the Number of Cancer-Destroying Immune Cells in Cancer Patients;Cancer Prevention Overview (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version; Cancer Prevention Overview (PDQ®)–Patient Version;Know Your Chances: Interactive Risk Charts to Put Cancer in Context; Study Identifies Potential Warning Signs of Colorectal Cancer in Younger Adults;
• Chronic Disease Index Know Your Chances: Interactive Risk Charts to Put Cancer in Context;
• New details on the link between CVD and cancer, from a study of 27M patients; Blood, Breast Cancer Survivors Stand Out for Heart Risks Over a Decade Later — Research suggests cancer-specific precision monitoring and risk stratification; Association of Prenatal Depression With New Cardiovascular Disease Within 24 Months Postpartum; Heart-healthy diets: Evidence favors Mediterranean, DASH, plant-based options over keto, intermittent fasting; Association of healthy dietary patterns and cardiorespiratory fitness in the community;Daily marijuana use significantly increases risk of coronary artery disease; Marijuana use linked to heart rhythm issues in older adults; Marijuana, meth, cocaine and opiates all linked to heart rhythm issues; 5 key takeaways from a new study on cannabis and cardiovascular health; A Heart-Healthy Diet for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Where Are We Now?; Grief really can lead to heart problems;
• Even in asymptomatic, CCTA-detected coronary artery disease increases heart attack risk; Marijuana use linked to much higher risk of peripheral artery disease; Heart Attack Adds 6 Years to Brain Age: Study;
• Chinese Culture The work of Chinese railroad workers endangered; The story behind Asian Pacific American Heritage, and why it's celebrated in May; Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: May 2023; Asian American workers: Diverse outcomes and hidden challenges; What can the transcontinental railroad teach us about anti-Asian racism? Chinese immigrants helped achieve "one of the greatest engineering feats in U.S. history." But their sacrifices are seldom remembered; The bloody history of anti-Asian violence in the West One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles; Diverse Cultures and Shared Experiences Shape Asian American Identities About six-in-ten feel connected to other Asians in the U.S.;
• Speed Safety Camera Program and Locations; ConneCT Without Stigma. A collaboration between the Quinnipiack Valley Health District & the New Haven Health Dept; Healthy Connecticut 2020 Performance Dashboard;
• ; COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review; A World First: Effect of Covid Reinfection on People Living With Long Covid; Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Weekly Epidemiological Updates and Monthly Operational Updates;Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants; COVID-19 Variant Dashboard - USA; Tracking XBB.1.16* Lineage Over Time; New section: XBB.1.16; Everything You Need to Know About Arcturus (XBB.1.16), the New COVID-19 Variant; WHO says that XBB.1.16 “Arcturus is the next Omicron variant to watch; Arcturus (XBB.1.16): 400% Increase in Deaths, 205% Increase in Cases in India. Spreads to 10 U.S. States and 14 Countries. Nearly 200% Growth Advantage over XBB.1.5; Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market; Will we ever find COVID-19's 'Patient Zero?'; China must share data on COVID-19's origins 'immediately,' WHO scientist demands; The World Health Organization's COVID-19 technical lead is calling for China to release all its data related to the pandemic's origins; Share all SARS-CoV-2 data immediately; 1st known case of coronavirus traced back to November in China; How early was the novel coronavirus circulating?; Timing the SARS-CoV-2 index case in Hubei province; COVID-19 can cross placenta, harm infants: Case study; Maternal SARS-CoV-2, Placental Changes and Brain Injury in 2 Neonates; New section: Alcohol; Alcohol Consumption and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic; Outbreak.info; Risk factors and vectors for SARS-CoV-2 household transmission: a prospective, longitudinal cohort study; XBB.1.16 may cause new symptom, experts say; ˜Arcturus," a COVID variant sweeping India, is now in the U.S., the CDC says and it's coming in hot. What it means for the future of the pandemic;˜Everyone is kind of tired and has given up on COVID. But this new variant is ˜one to watch," the WHO says; Three Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat. Journalism Needs to Reflect That Too much coverage minimizes the health risks researchers attribute to the virus; Infectious particles of the SARS-CoV-2 virus isolated from hospital air; Diabetes, coronary heart disease increase risk of long COVID, large new study confirms; COVID XBB.1.16 Strain 'One to Watch,' Says WHO Reports so far on highly infectious "Arcturus" subvariant do not indicate a rise in severe cases; A healthy heart can lower the risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms, new research confirms; Pinkeye cases rise in allergy season. It might be a covid symptom, too. Health experts say they haven't conclusively linked the condition, formally called conjunctivitis, to the Arcturus subvariant. New section: Conjunctivitis; XBB.1.16 Initial Risk Assessment, 17 April 2023; WHO issues initial Omicron XBB.1.16 risk assessment; COVID response exposed "collective national incompetence," commission says; Increased physical activity associated with lower risk of severe COVID-19; US should have attacked COVID like a foreign invasion, experts say. Have we learned any lessons?; Are repeat COVID infections dangerous? What the science says; COVID-19 in Immunosuppressed Children;COVID's future: mini-waves rather than seasonal surges; Three years after the start of the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 shows no signs of settling into a seasonal pattern of spread, like influenza has; COVID-19 Mortality Update United States, 2022; Provisional Mortality Data United States, 2022; End of PHE: A shift in data; COVID-19 Surveillance After Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Declaration ― United States, May 11, 2023; Correlations and Timeliness of COVID-19 Surveillance Data Sources and Indicators; United States, October 1, 2020-March 22, 2023; End of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Declaration; COVID-19 Surveillance After Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Declaration ― United States, May 11, 2023; COVID-19 Surveillance After Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Declaration ― United States, May 11, 2023; Fact Sheet: End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency; The CDC’S New COVID-19 Dashboard Hides Transmission Risk; Wastewater Surveillance in the U.S.; COVID-19: Wastewater Surveillance; Biobot Network of Wastewater Treatment Plants; COVIDPoops19 Summary of Global SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Monitoring Efforts by UC Merced Researchers; WastewaterSCAN Dashboard; Senate GOP Covid origins probe finds circumstantial evidence but no "smoking gun" to support lab leak theory; "A Complex and Grave Situation" A Political Chronology of the SARS-COV-2 Outbreak; US Intelligence community releases full declassified report that does not determine origin of Covid-19;Updated Assessment on COVID-19 Origins; Heart Transplants From Active COVID Donors Linked With Higher Mortality — Outcomes from donors with recently resolved COVID similar to those without SARS-CoV-2, however; One million Americans have died of COVID-19 Trace how demographics and locations of COVID-19 deaths shifted throughout the pandemic; GWAS and meta-analysis identifies 49 genetic variants underlying critical COVID-19;Why is COVID life-threatening for some people? Genetics study offers clues; Immune genes could play a part in the risk of needing intensive care when infected with SARS-CoV-2; Air pollution exposure linked to severe COVID-19 outcomes; Catching the Optimal Amount of Z's May Be Protective Against Long COVID Women who had the most healthy prepandemic sleep scores saw a 30% lower risk;Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Incidence of Primary SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Blood Donors, by COVID-19 Vaccination Status United States, April 2021-September 2022; Study finds 27% rate of long COVID in infected health workers; The Origins of Covid-19 Why It Matters (and Why It Doesn't; Low Vitamin D Levels Are Associated With Long COVID Syndrome in COVID-19 Survivors; What makes a COVID superspreader? Scientists learn more after deliberately infecting volunteers; A rigorous study identifies "supershedders" who spew huge amounts of virus into the air" despite having only mild symptoms; Wastewater Data FAQs; Nearly 1.2 million excess deaths may have occurred in first 2 years of COVID pandemic; Poorly controlled asthma associated with increased risk of severe COVID-19; Trends in Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections and Associated Hospitalizations and Deaths Among Adults Aged 18 Years - 18 U.S. Jurisdictions, September 2021-December 2022;
• 💕 COVID-19 leading cause of death ranking;
• 💕; Brain Injury Seen in Two Neonates Whose Mothers Had COVID" Infants were born early in the pandemic, before COVID vaccines were available; COVID-19 can cross placenta, harm infants: Case study; COVID-19 can cross placenta, harm infants: Case study; Maternal SARS-CoV-2, Placental Changes and Brain Injury in 2 Neonates; Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies; Had COVID? Part of the Virus May Stick Around in Your Brain; Experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss following a mild COVID-19 infection; Hearing Loss Is a Side Effect of COVID-19; COVID and Aspergillus Are Dangerous Bedfellows; SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Accumulates in the Skull and Brain ” Whether findings have implications for long COVID is unclear; COVID-19 Plan from the CDC; New section: Diabetes; Association of COVID-19 Infection With Incident Diabetes; Long COVID Neuro Symptoms May Be Shaped By Exposure to Other Coronaviruses— Findings suggest possible role of original antigenic sin; Neural dysregulation in post-COVID fatigue; Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants with resistance to clinical protease inhibitors; Do we need a spring COVID-19 booster?; COVID-19 linked to elevated risk of life-threatening arrhythmia; Biomarker pattern found in kids with COVID 19-linked inflammatory syndrome; COVID-19 vaccine for children after MIS-C appears safe; Why viral reservoirs are a prime suspect for long COVID sleuths; Why Is One Dose Suddenly Enough for the mRNA COVID Vaccines? FDA and CDC have made yet another questionable decision; Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines; How boosters produce broad protection against COVID-19; The Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on the Cognitive Functioning of Patients with Pre-Existing Dementia; Household Pulse Survey Shows 31.1% Reported Symptoms Three Months or Longer After They Had COVID-19; Paxlovid slashed risk of COVID hospital stay in some patients amid Omicron, study suggests; Real-World Effectiveness of Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir on Covid-19-Associated Hospitalization Prevention: A Population-Based Cohort Study in the Province of Québec, Canada; Cytokinopathy with aberrant cytotoxic lymphocytes and profibrotic myeloid response in SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine–associated myocarditis; Immune cells not antibodies cause COVID vaccine-linked myocarditis; Updated Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccine Use; The Biden-Harris Administration Will End COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Employees, Contractors, International Travelers, Head Start Educators, and CMS-Certified Facilities; Update: v-safe after vaccination health checker; Updated Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccine Use; Updated Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccine Use; New section: Waning Immunity; Accelerated waning of the humoral response to COVID-19 vaccines in obesity;Study finds shoppers' masking compliance influenced their in-store behaviors; For Patient Safety, It Is Not Time to Take Off Masks in Health Care Settings; Are We Ready for the Long COVID Long-Haul? The COVID public health emergency may be over, but this condition isn't going away; Long COVID scientists try to unravel blood clot mystery; Improving Ventilation In Buildings; 84% of perinatal women with COVID receiving ECMO lived, but 76% had serious event; Long COVID Now Has a Framework to Define It 12 key symptoms identify the disorder, U.S. researchers say; COVID-19 increases risk of developing Alzheimer's by 50-80% in older adults; Long COVID-19 Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review of Its Effect on Various Organ Systems and Recommendation on Rehabilitation Plans;Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments; The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system; The neurobiology of long COVID; Cognitive Deficits in Long Covid-19; New section: Transplantations; A cause for concern: Death after heart transplant more likely if the donor had COVID-19; OSHA's FAQs Regarding Masks; Many Americans who lose taste, smell over COVID-19 don't fully recover; Researchers identify type of long COVID with persistent inflammation;US data show rise in hospitalizations for fungal infections during COVID-19; New section: Fungal Infections;Strategic Masking to Protect Patients from All Respiratory Viral Infections; SARS-CoV-2 infection reduces quality of sperm parameters; Comparison of COVID-19 Mortality Rates Among Adults Aged 65 Years Who Were Unvaccinated and Those Who Received a Bivalent Booster Dose Within the Preceding 6 Months 20 U.S. Jurisdictions, September 18, 2022-April 1, 2023; Increased Hospitalizations Involving Fungal Infections during COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, January 2020-December 2021; New section: Vaccine Myths/Misinformation; Myths vs. Facts: Making Sense of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation; When so much wrong information is readily available, convincing people to get vaccinated has proven to be a huge challenge; New section: Mental Health Issues; HHS Issues Advisory on Mental Health Symptoms and Conditions Related to Long COVID; Identification and Management of Mental Health Symptoms and Conditions Associated with Long COVID; Clot Risk More Common in Survivors of Severe COVID Versus Flu; However, other medical, mental health risks similar at 1 year for COVID, flu, and sepsis patients; SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset autoimmune diseases; SARS-CoV-2 infection in children, adolescents associated with increased red blood cell deformation; Physician and Biomedical Scientist Harassment on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic;
• Low-Carbohydrate Diet Scores and Mortality Among Adults With Incident Type 2 Diabetes; NSAID use, even for just 2 weeks, increases heart failure risk among patients with type 2 diabetes; Heart Failure Following Anti-Inflammatory Medications in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; Refined carbs and red meat driving global rise in type 2 diabetes, study says; Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries; Association of COVID-19 Infection With Incident Diabetes; What Are the Current Trends in Youth-Onset Diabetes?; Early Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes; A nutritional biomarker score of the Mediterranean diet and incident type 2 diabetes: Integrated analysis of data from the MedLey randomised controlled trial and the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study; Higher Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy Observed in Patients with T2D, Diabetic Nephropathy; Prediabetes, intervening diabetes and subsequent risk of dementia: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study; Does COVID-19 damage the brain?; Long COVID Cognitive, Depressive Symptoms Tied to Brain Inflammation Marker PET scans suggest gliosis may accompany persistent neurocognitive symptoms;More than 1 in 6 unvaccinated COVID survivors report symptoms for up to 2 years; Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection;Accelerometer-measured intensity-specific physical activity, genetic risk and incident type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study; Association of Timing of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity With Changes in Glycemic Control Over 4 Years in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes From the Look AHEAD Trial; Influence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Diabetes Risk and Glycemic Control in a Retrospective Population-Based Cohort;
• Favorite Movie Sites Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far);
• Fitness Evening Exercise Lowers Blood Pressure More Than Morning Workouts for Older Individuals;
• Healthcare Quality Data Bloated patient records are filled with false information, thanks to copy-paste;
• Healthcare Quality Standards For many, a 'natural death' may be preferable to enduring CPR;
• Healthcare Quality Issues Briefing Paper: Cosmetic Surgery Tourism;
• New section: Blastomycosis; Michigan Officials Monitoring Large Outbreak of Fungal Infections Tied to Paper Mill” More than 90 people have confirmed or probable blastomycosis as of April 7; New section: adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV-2); Blastomycosis; A Large Community Outbreak of Blastomycosis in Wisconsin With Geographic and Ethnic Clustering; Human Metapneumovirus: What Is HMPV, the Disease Filling ICUs This Spring?; New section: Human Metapneumovirus; Bird flu shows mutations in Chilean man; New section: Epstein-Barr Virus; About Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV); Study Reveals How Epstein-Barr Virus May Lead to Cancer; A frightening virus is killing a massive number of wild birds Scientists have never seen anything like it; Found a Dead Wild Bird? Here's What To Do Next; Why Lyme disease symptoms go away quickly for some and last years for others New research published by the CDC found an immune system marker in the blood may help explain persistent symptoms;Brazil declares 180-day animal health emergency amid avian flu cases in wild birds; Emergence and Evolution of H5N1 Bird Flu; Doctors say this is the most important virus you've never heard of; Deadly Hemorrhagic Virus Spreading to New Countries, Scientists Warn; New section: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF);
• There's a second outbreak of Marburg virus in Africa. Climate change could be a factor;A deadly disease so neglected it's not even on the list of neglected tropical diseases; NEw section: Noma; Seasonality of Respiratory Syncytial Virus — United States, 2017–2023; The dream of wiping out polio might need a rethink; Epidemiologic and Clinical Features of Mpox-Associated Deaths” United States, May 10, 2022-March 7, 2023; A rare and lethal virus is spreading in Europe, prompting hunt for tests and cures; New section: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF); WHO declares end to mpox public health emergency; Don't Look Now, but Mpox Could Make a Comeback. Health officials in Chicago are reporting a resurgence of the viral disease formerly known as monkeypox; Potential Risk for New Mpox Cases; Zoonotic Diseases: Federal Actions Needed to Improve Surveillance and Better Assess Human Health Risks Posed by Wildlife; Remember monkeypox? It may be back in headlines;
• Information Quality New section - Health Information;
• Maternal Child Health 'Routine Immunizations' Are No Longer Routine — Now is the time "to press reset" and get parents back to good habits, says Ofer Levy, MD, PhD; What Can At-home Genetic Tests Tell Me About My Health?; Human DNA Is All Over the Place, Raising Privacy Concerns; The sheer volume of human genetic bycatch could be used for surveillance, commodification, and other nefarious activities; Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences With Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Midlife;
• Nutrition Resources New section: Dietary Sugar;Dietary sugar consumption and health: umbrella review; Study Offers Dozens of Reasons to Cut Sugar; 5 food additives linked to health risks could be banned under California proposal (red dye No. 3; titanium dioxide, which is used in many candies; potassium bromate, used in some breads; bromated vegetable oil; and propylparaben): Beverage consumption and mortality among adults with type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study; Association of healthy dietary patterns and cardiorespiratory fitness in the community;Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advise; How to cut back on junk food in your child's diet – and when not to worry; TrueFood online food database; WHO warns against use of artificial sweeteners, highlighting CVD and diabetes risks; Use of non-sugar sweeteners: WHO guideline;
• Obesity Driven by Genes Less Harmful for the Heart? Twin study suggests a difference in CVD impact from becoming obese despite "good genes"; Genetically and environmentally predicted obesity in relation to cardiovascular disease: a nationwide cohort study; Associations of Change in Body Size With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Healthy Older Adults; Weight loss may mean a risk of death for older adults, study shows; Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advise; Extremes of both weight gain and weight loss are associated with increased incidence of heart failure and cardiovascular death: evidence from the CANVAS Program and CREDENCE; Here's why obesity grew so quickly worldwide, and where that’s starting to change; New section: Mental Health Aspects; Obesity as pleiotropic risk state for metabolic and mental health throughout life; Association of Healthy Lifestyle Factors and Obesity-Related Diseases in Adults in the UK; Body Fat Index and Body Adiposity Index May Best Characterize Global Obesity; New section: Body Fat Index;
• Public Health Data Estimates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, and Oxycodone: United States, 2021; Overdose mortality rates for opioids and stimulant drugs are substantially higher in men than in women: state-level analysis;Suicide and Homicide Death Rates Among Youth and Young Adults Aged 10–24: United States, 2001–2021; Drug Abuse Warning Network: Findings from Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2022; Drug Abuse Warning Network: Findings from Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2021;
• Public Health DataUnderstanding Firearm Deaths by State—and How to Reduce Them; Mass Violence, Community Violence, and Hate Crimes;
• Public Health Sites A - C Climate Change and Human Health Fact Sheet; Anxiety, Mood Disorders Linked to Alcohol Use Disorder Risk; Why our allergies are getting worse —and what to do about it; Understanding Binge Drinking;
• Public Health Sites D-G Lithium in Local Drinking Water During Pregnancy Tied to Kids' Autism — Researchers found an increased risk in a Danish population-based study; What Are Toxic Chemicals Doing to Our Genitals? Scientists Are Finding Out. One potential effect of our world of plastic? Smaller penises; Herbicide may be cause of kidney disease epidemic; Position Statement Against the Use of Cannabis for PTSD; Marijuana Is Not the Solution for PTSD — Evidence shows it does not treat PTSD in the long-term, and may worsen symptoms; White House Drug Czar Declares Xylazine-Laced Fentanyl an 'Emerging Drug Threat'; 15 Things the Cannabis Industry Doesn't Want You to Know; Air Pollution and Depression; Xylazine — Medical and Public Health Imperatives; If cannabis becomes a problem: How to manage withdrawal; Freshwater fish contaminated with toxic "forever chemicals" found in nearly every state; ‘Forever chemicals’ in freshwater fish - interactive map; Fentanyl Drug Fact Sheet; Recreational Cannabis Use a Negative for Adolescent Mental Health Even "subdiagnostic" use associated with adverse psychological events, study says; Nondisordered Cannabis Use Among US Adolescents; Young men at highest risk of schizophrenia linked with cannabis use disorder NIH study highlights the need to proactively screen for, prevent, and treat cannabis use disorder especially among young people; Parkinson's Linked With Industrial Solvents in Drinking Water" Exposure at age 20 led to 70% higher risk decades later, Camp Lejeune study shows; Marijuana harms development in first trimester of pregnancy, study finds; How wildfire smoke can harm your health, even from far away; Gas Stove Use Linked to Indoor Pollutant Levels Roundup of news on pollution exposures also delves into interstitial lung disease, sarcoidosis; Here’s What to Know About Xylazine, aka Tranq, the Animal Tranquilizer Increasingly Found in Illicit Fentanyl Samples; PLA ‘bioplastic’ could harm aquatic life; Kratom Linked to Outsized Proarrhythmic Risks — OTC agents are not safe alternatives to prescription opioids, study suggests; NYS OASAS Medical Advisory Panel (MAP) Xylazine Guidance; Even Healthy People Should Minimize Exposure to Wildfire Smoke, Experts Say "Generally, if you can avoid being outside, that's what we recommend"; History with Fire in Its Eye: An Introduction to Fire in America; Dirty air can be deadly. Here’s how to protect yourself; Fire and Smoke Map.gov; Airnow.gov; Which Mask Is Best for Wildfire Smoke? Can surgical masks keep out PM2.5?; The 12 biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history;Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavioral Health: Results from the 2021 and 2022 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health; 'Smart' Drugs May Backfire When Used as Cognitive Enhancers Productivity falls when stimulants are used for complex tasks; The Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke and Dangerous Air Quality, Explained by Doctors The EPA says the poor air quality could cause a range of short-term and long-term health issues; The Growing Threat of Xylazine and its Mixture with Illicit Drugs; Public Safety Alert DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine; FDA alerts health care professionals of risks to patients exposed to xylazine in illicit drugs; Map: How vulnerable is your neighborhood to excessive heat? People living in dense cities and remote rural areas are the most at risk during heat waves, data shows; Xylazine, or ‘tranq,’ is making opioid overdoses harder to reverse;
• Public Health Sites H-L: Global incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 63 studies and 1,201,807 persons; New section: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; Perfect Is the Enemy of Good, and So Is Narcan Misinformation; There is no justification to oppose increased access to naloxone; #ImmuneResilience is Key to a Long and Healthy Life;
• Public Health Sites M - N Did the last census overcount Asian Americans? It depends on where you look; New section: Body Dysmorphia; Body dysmorphia in boys and men can fuel muscle obsession, doctors say; Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain; Multiple Sclerosis - NIH.gov; New section: Multiple Sclerosis; Work Conditions and Serious Psychological Distress Among Working Adults Aged 18–64: United States, 2021; New section: Mental Health - Eating Disorders; Eating disorders among teens more severe than ever; The story behind Asian Pacific American Heritage, and why it's celebrated in May; Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: May 2023; Testicular Cancer Screening (PDQ®)Health Professional Version; Severe Depression Linked to Higher Risk of Physical Illness - Observational cohorts point to more hospitalizations for 29 health conditions; AAPI Demographics: Data on Asian American ethnicities, geography, income, and education; 'People need to know the history': Osage citizens excited, nervous as 'Killers of the Flower Moon' hits the big screen; Disaggregation is essential to achieve data justice for Asian Americans. Treating Asian Americans as “the same within data leaves them vulnerable to social and political exclusion; Asian Americans Hold Mixed Views Around Affirmative Action Most are skeptical of considering race and ethnicity in college admissions; 'Hidden fat' puts Asian Americans at risk of diabetes. How lifestyle changes can help; ‘Falling through the cracks’: Why ADHD is under-diagnosed among Asian Americans;
• Public Health Sites O-Z Syphilis cases at highest levels in 70 years in alarming trend. Syphilis cases reached their highest level since 1950, the report found;
• Senior Health What Drives Alzheimer's in Women? Tau levels higher when hormone therapy starts more than 5 years after menopause onset; Evening Exercise Lowers Blood Pressure More Than Morning Workouts for Older Individuals; Why Your Balance Gets Worse With Age and What to Do About It; Could regular internet use lower risk of dementia? New study suggests yes; Regular internet use may be linked to lower dementia risk in older adults, study says; Early Alzheimer's Linked to Gut Microbiome Changes Findings may help identify Alzheimer's disease long before cognitive changes emerge;
• Social Media The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis; Social Media and Youth Mental Health; Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory; Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory (Executive Summary); Psychologists find there are four types of social media user; which one are you?; College students who cut social media use have less anxiety; When College Students Cut Back on Social Media, They Got Happier: Study;
• Mint-Flavored E-Cigarettes Linked to Worse Lung Function;Menthol flavors added to e-cigarette liquids increased particles inhaled, study shows; The Risks of Vaping; Australia to ban recreational vaping in major public health move; Vaping Could Up Teens' Odds for Marijuana Use, Binge Drinking; Kids Who Vape Face Toxin Dangers, Study Finds; 'Secondhand Vaping' May Be Unhealthy” Could Public Bans Be Coming?; E-cigarette Unit Sales by Product and Flavor Type, and Top-Selling Brands, United States, 2020-2022; E-Cigarette “Associated Cases Reported to Poison Centers — United States, April 1, 2022-March 31, 2023;
• US Government Statistics Average Teachers’ Earnings Declining, Lower Than Similarly Educated Workers; 2020 Census Shows Increase in Multiracial Population in All Age Categories; Knowing the Strengths and Limitations of Poverty Measures Can Help Us Better Understand Poverty;
• Women's Health Physical and Behavioral Factors Associated With Improvement in Physical Health and Function Among US Women During Midlife;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle The surprising science of how pregnancy begins; New Biden rule seeks to protect women crossing state lines for abortions; Unsafe Abortion: Unnecessary Maternal Mortality; Abortion Rights in the United States; Americans want abortion restrictions, but not as far as red states are going; New section: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome info from NIH.gov; How post-Roe laws are obstructing clinical care; A Catch-22 for Clinics: State Bans Limit Abortion Counseling. Federal Title X Rules Require It; One year without Roe: Data shows how abortion access has changed in America;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers Longitudinal Analysis of Change in Mammographic Density in Each Breast and Its Association With Breast Cancer Risk; New section: Breast Density;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Sex disparities after heart attack; Risk of Midlife Stroke After Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: The FinnGen Study; Associations of Menstrual Cycle Regularity and Length With Cardiovascular Diseases: A Prospective Study From UK Biobank;
• Writing Which Jobs Will Be Most Impacted by ChatGPT?; To debunk science misinformation, consider these factors;

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• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Andrea Pitzer's Icebound Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World;
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness Levels May Influence Cancer Risk in Men — Higher cardiorespiratory fitness linked to lower risk of death from colon, lung, prostate cancers;How Some Brain Tumors Hijack the Mind to Grow; Factbox: Agents and substances categorized as carcinogenic to humans; How Fatty Liver Disease Helps Cancer Thrive in the Liver; Pioneering Study Links Testicular Cancer Among Military Personnel to "Forever Chemicals"; Global Incidence of Early-Onset Cancer Has Surged Since 1990” Early-onset breast cancer has highest incidence and mortality rates; Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer; Reduced Mortality Seen in Cancer Survivors Who Meet Exercise Guidelines — Survivors classified as exercisers have 25% reduced risk of all-cause mortality, study shows;
• Chronic Disease Index Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among US Adults, 2018;
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness Levels May Influence Cancer Risk in Men Higher cardiorespiratory fitness linked to lower risk of death from colon, lung, prostate cancers;Vegetarian or vegan diets and blood lipids: a meta-analysis of randomized trials; Dementia Tied to Fluctuations in Blood Lipids Over Time — Variability in total cholesterol, triglyceride levels at age 60 and older raised risk;Onset of Cardiovascular Drift during Progressive Heat Stress in Young Adults (PSU HEAT Project); Whether Once a Day or Once a Week, Any Exercise Still Counts Against CVD” Data encourage exercise any way it fits into one's schedule; More People Die of Heart Attacks When Heat, Pollution Spike; Common Food Additives Singled Out for Cardiovascular Risk” Food labels often list emulsifiers linked to long-term health outcomes;Added sugar, total sugar, some fructose associated with higher coronary heart disease risk; Link Between Psoriasis, Heart Disease Tracks to Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction” Lower coronary flow reserve associated with severity, duration of psoriasis; New section: Psoriasis and Heart Disease; Heavy Marijuana Use May Harm the Heart;
• New section: Myocardial Infarction; Extreme Temperature Events, Fine Particulate Matter, and Myocardial Infarction Mortality;Certain SSRIs May Increase Arrhythmia Risk in Select Patients, At recommended dose in people over 65, potentially pro-arrhythmic concentrations predicted in 20%; Atrial Fibrillation; CDC - Heart Disease;
• Chinese Culture 'Fragile Cargo' chronicles the quest to save China's Forbidden City treasures from war; Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership;
• Health in CT (USA Facts);Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences in Connecticut - Data To Action Platform;
• New Covid-19 variant spreading swiftly, doctors warn; Victoria’s Covid wave is slowing but mutant sub strain FU.1 in China, India likely on the way. A new mutant Covid strain called FU.1” spreading in Asia and likely to hit Australia” is being mocked for its name but experts warn is not a joke; New COVID variant FU.1 in Maha's Gadchiroli;Household COVID Omicron spread lower among vaccinated, study finds; Super-spreaders: a historical review; Researchers uncover link between blood type and risk of COVID-19 infection; Blood Type section now under COVID-19 risk factors;Type A blood linked to higher rate of COVID infections; Beijing ordered destruction of early coronavirus samples, secret memo shows; National-Health-Commission-Notice-to-Labs-Jan-3-English; U.S. Intelligence Agencies May Never Find Covid’s Origins, Officials Say; Labs (in Chinese); Undiagnosed Pneumonia E-mail; China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO; Potential Links Between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 6/2023 Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story; Wuhan lab can delete data in explosive legal agreement with U.S. lab; Wuhan lab and web of Chinese red tape that delayed US scientists getting access to coronavirus; U.S.-China relationship, good news with the bad amid public health response to new virus outbreak [Opinion]; What would Jim do?: U.S. virologist close to Wuhan lab quietly called for investigation; Biosafety expert close to Wuhan Institute of Virology urged associates there to address his tough questions about lab origin of SARS-CoV-2; Relationship between blood type and outcomes following COVID-19 infection; Wastewater sampling in Canada suggests COVID case rate 19 times higher than reported;Antibody Seroprevalence; 2022 Nationwide COVID-19 Infection- and Vaccination-Induced Antibody Seroprevalence (Blood donations); This Fall’s COVID-19 Vaccines Will Target Omicron XBB Subvariants, but Who Needs Them Remains to Be Seen; COVID-19: GAO Recommendations Can Help Federal Agencies Better Prepare for Future Public Health Emergencies; Deer Populations Pose COVID Risk to Humans: Study; Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States; Obstructive sleep apnea linked to severe COVID-19; A common allele of HLA is associated with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection; COVID deaths fell 84% in UK cancer patients after vaccine rollout; Coinfections most common in young adults with COVID-19; Wastewater surveillance m;ay be best marker of community COVID-19 prevalence; Use of Wastewater Metrics to Track COVID-19 in the US; Relationship Between Azithromycin and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Unvaccinated Patients With COVID-19 and Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease; New section: EG.5.1 COVID-19 Variant;What to Know About the 'Eris' Variant EG.5 variant gaining ground in the U.S. and U.K.;Pharmacotherapy and pulmonary fibrosis risk after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a prospective nationwide cohort study in the United States; WHO issues standing recommendations for COVID, details Omicron EG.5 variant risk; Decoding SARS-CoV-2 hijacking of host mitochondria in COVID-19pathogenesis;SARS-CoV-2 Exposure in Escaped Mink, Utah, USA; Separating signal from noise in wastewater data: An algorithm to identify community-level COVID-19 surges in real time; Covid-SURGE (Signaling Unprecedented Rises in Groupwide Exposure) toolkit to; Dynamics of inflammatory responses after SARS-CoV-2 infection by vaccination status in the USA: a prospective cohort study; CDC tracking new COVID variant BA.2.86 after highly mutated strain reported in Michigan; WHO adds BA.2.86 to SARS-CoV-2 variant monitoring list; New BA.2.86 variant; US CDC tracks new lineage of virus that causes COVID; New section: BA.2.86; What to Know About EG.5, the Latest SARS-CoV-2 "Variant of Interest"; An Evolutionary Perspective on Why the Lab Leak Theory Is Wrong — It's the initial outbreak that tells us what we need to know; Epigenetic memory of coronavirus infection in innate immune cells and their progenitors; Higher Mortality Risk After COVID Lasts About 6 Months, VA Study Finds "We'll have to wait and see if that remains true for longer periods of time," researcher says;Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert Research is under way to determine whether the mutation-laden lineage BA.2.86 is nothing to worry about” or has the potential to spread globally; Covid-19, a disease with tricks up its sleeve, hasn't fallen into a seasonal pattern” yet; Risk Assessment Summary for SARS CoV-2 Sublineage BA.2.86;Study: China saw almost 2 million excess deaths just after zero-COVID policy ended; Excess All-Cause Mortality in China After Ending the Zero COVID Policy; Wastewater Analysis Update On BA.2.86 In The United States: It's Here, Be Careful; The US has new Covid-19 variants on the rise. Meet Eris and Fornax. Eris and Fornax tell us about the future of the pandemic; New section: FL.1.5.1 (Fornax);New COVID Strain May Evade Vaccines, Alarming Health Officials; Why Blood Type Seems to Be Linked With COVID-19 Risk;COVID patients exhale up to 1,000 copies of virus per minute during first eight days of symptoms First direct measure of SARS-CoV-2 viral copies exhaled over course of infection; COVID-19 Is Mutating In Deer. That Could Become a Problem for People; Report highlights the skyrocket, peak of highly cited COVID-19 research studies; COVID-19 in the Fall of 2023”Forgotten but Not Gone; Genetic variant associated with absence of COVID-19 symptoms; SARS-CoV-2 infection induces DNA damage, through CHK1 degradation and impaired 53BP1 recruitment, and cellular senescence; SARS-CoV-2 can damage mitochondrion in heart, other organ; Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts;Data Update for the United States; Trends in United States COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Deaths, Emergency Department (ED) Visits, and Test Positivity by Geographic Area; Epic Research Data Tracker;Risk of long COVID goes up with previous diagnoses; Vaccination prevents short-term all-cause mortality in vulnerable patients with COVID-19; Transmissibility, infectivity, and immune evasion of the SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 variant; HEALTH & MEDICINE Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19 A rapidly growing list of pathogens are detectable in wastewater; A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes; New section: Vaccine-induced Mutations; Study: 75% of infants hospitalized with COVID-19 born to unvaccinated women; Effectiveness of Maternal mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations in Infants Aged <6 Months During SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Predominance "20 States, March 9, 2022 - May 31, 2023;
• 💕 Data Update for the United States; Trends in United States COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Deaths, Emergency Department (ED) Visits, and Test Positivity by Geographic Area; Epic Research Data Tracker;
• Sperm counts decline even after mild COVID infections;COVID vaccine may boost antibody response to MERS, other coronaviruses; Paxlovid tied to 30% lower risk of severe COVID in patients with chronic conditions; Rare link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness starts to gain acceptance Studies probe unusual cases of neurologic complications, blood pressure swings, and other side effects; Strategic Masking to Protect Patients from All Respiratory Viral Infections; Post-COVID cognitive dysfunction: current status and research recommendations for high risk population; COVID-19 Impaired Fertility Treatments" IVF and sperm injections less effective after infection, Chinese researchers say; Major Update: Masks for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 in Health Care and Community Settings—Final Update of a Living, Rapid Review; The immunology of long COVID; 1 in 6 kids have persistent COVID symptoms for 3 months after infection; Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome;Arcadia, in collaboration with Leavitt Partners’ COVID-19 Patient Recovery Alliance, presents novel findings on patient susceptibility to long-COVID symptoms; Impact of COVID-19 vaccination on the risk of developing long-COVID and on existing long-COVID symptoms: A systematic review; Long-COVID patients performed worse on cognitive tests for up to 2 years; COVID-19 can affect the heart;Pharmacotherapy and pulmonary fibrosis risk after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a prospective nationwide cohort study in the United States; Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection; Persistent endothelial dysfunction in post-COVID-19 syndrome and its associations with symptom severity and chronic inflammation; SARS-CoV-2 can damage mitochondrion in heart, other organs, study finds; Prevalence of Symptoms ≤12 Months After Acute Illness, by COVID-19 Testing Status Among Adults” United States, December 2020–March 2023; Long COVID and Significant Activity Limitation Among Adults, by Age” United States, June 13, 2022, to June 19, 2023; A new clue to the reason some people come down with long COVID; COVID-19 booster vaccination during pregnancy enhances maternal binding and neutralizing antibody responses and transplacental antibody transfer to the newborn; STATISTICAL BRIEF #549: Healthcare Use and Expenditures for COVID-19, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2020; How Common is Long COVID in Adults?; Severe COVID-19 may lead to long-term innate immune system changes; COVID-19 may trigger new-onset high blood pressure; New section: High Blood Pressure/Hypertension; Factsheets & Resources: Choosing Safe, Effective & Affordable Air Cleaners;New study suggests people who tested negative for Covid-19 can still develop long Covid; A Covid FAQ with 300 Sources; "A Heightened Sense of Risk": A Covid FAQ with 300 Sources; COVID risks can linger two years after infection;Lockdowns and face masks unequivocally cut spread of Covid, report finds Royal Society review looks at non-pharmaceutical interventions when applied in packages of several measures; COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions Executive summary; You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid The virus is surging again. Here's how to be your own contact tracer if you get sick; Smart people first in line for COVID-19 vaccines, study suggests; Unraveling long COVID: Here's what scientists who study the illness want to find out; SARS-CoV-2 infections may trigger islet autoantibodies in kids at risk for diabetes; Protein may be linked to exercise intolerance in ME/CFS; Previous immunity shapes immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster vaccination and Omicron breakthrough infection risk; Identification and Management of Mental Health Symptoms and Conditions Associated with Long Covid; Remdesivir is associated with reduced mortality in COVID-19 patients requiring supplemental oxygen including invasive mechanical ventilation across SARS-CoV-2 variants; Long COVID Rare in U.S. Kids, Has Affected 7% of Adults” More common among girls and women; Long COVID Blood Tests Show Distinct Immune and Hormone Function" Algorithm may help predict who gets long COVID; Coronary microvascular health in symptomatic patients with prior COVID-19 infection: an updated analysis;SARS-CoV-2 infects coronary arteries, increases plaque inflammation NIH-funded research sheds light on link between COVID-19 infection and increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke;
• Additional research suggests remission from type 2 diabetes might be possible with the right diet; Diets that prioritize whole foods and plant-based foods are likely to yield the best health outcomes ; People with type 2 diabetes may benefit from exercising in the afternoon, study shows;NAFLD and T2DM Bodes Higher Risk of Liver Decompensation, Cancer Several-fold higher risks compared with NAFLD patients without diabetes; New section: Co-Morbidity Factors; Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Mean Glucose and Hemoglobin A1c; Association between timing and consistency of physical activity and type 2 diabetes: a cohort study on participants of the UK Biobank;History of gestational diabetes in pregnancy increases mortality risk later in life;
• Epidemiology M - Z Tracking health threats, one sewage sample at a time; Wastewater Surveillance Data as a Complement to Emergency Department Visit Data for Tracking Incidence of Influenza A and Respiratory Syncytial Virus — Wisconsin, August 2022-March 2023; Covid-SURGE (Signaling Unprecedented Rises in Groupwide Exposure); Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19 A rapidly growing list of pathogens are detectable in wastewater;
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Did the Anthropocene begin in the 1950s?;
• Fitness Short sleep negates benefits of exercise for the brain, study says; Certain conditions can impact how much exercise you need to ease depression, study finds; Certain conditions can impact how much exercise you need to ease depression, study finds; The association between daily step count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a meta-analysis;Morning workouts may be better for weight loss, study finds.People who got their exercise in between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. had lower BMIs than those who opted to exercise later in the day;The diurnal pattern of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and obesity: a cross-sectional analysis;
• GraphingCan You Read A Bar Graph?;
• Healthcare Quality StandardsKFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll Pilot;
• Healthcare Quality Issues New section: Health Disinformation and Misinformation; Addressing Viral Medical Rumors and False or Misleading Information; Confronting Health Misinformation; Health Misinformation; Stopping Medical Misinformation Requires Early Detection” Help is needed from the medical community and the general public, says media watchdog CEO;
• Health Education Resources Your Healthiest Self: Wellness Toolkits;
• Polish officials probe H5N1 avian flu link to cat deaths; Avian Flu Diary; Polish officials probe H5N1 avian flu link to cat deaths; Bird flu viruses have mutations that might help them spread to humans A human immune system protein called butyrophilin helps to stop bird flu from infecting people, but some viruses currently circulating have mutations that might overcome this barrier; 20 Cats Confirmed with Bird Flu in Poland; Public health concerns as highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus found in cat in France; Global groups warn of ongoing H5N1 avian flu threat to people;Ongoing avian influenza outbreaks in animals pose risk to humans. Situation analysis and advice to countries from FAO, WHO, WOAH; Finland reports H5N1 avian flu in blue foxes on fur farm; WHO weighs in on risks from H5N1 avian flu in Polish pet cats; H5N1 avian flu strikes more Finnish fur farms, second fox species; South Korea detects H5N1 avian flu in shelter cats; H5N1 avian flu strikes more fur farms and other mammals in Europe;H5N1 avian flu strikes more fur farms and other mammals in Europe; Russia and China report new H5N1 avian flu outbreaks in birds; New section: Black Swan Pathogens; 'Black swan' pathogens from ancient permafrost may be getting ready to wake up; ‘We’re nervous.’ Deadly bird flu may be in North America to stay. H5N1 has continued to kill wild birds and poultry this summer. The fall migration could bring it back in force; Dengue Virus Symptoms and Causes Explained; Vigilance Urged Against Bird Flu Amid Ongoing Outbreaks in Mammals; Influenza A(H5N1) in cats – Poland; New section: Chikungunya; Chikungunya virus surges in South America. But a new discovery could help outfox it; Tests confirm H5N1 avian flu in Washington seals;
• Measles and Immune Amnesia; These animal interactions are risks for future pandemics; The next pandemic could spring from the US meat supply, new report finds;A Texas man lost his hands and feet earlier this month after a single flea bite; Mpox (Monkeypox);Health Care Provider Knowledge Regarding Alpha-gal Syndrome — United States, March–May 2022; Geographic Distribution of Suspected Alpha-gal Syndrome Cases” United States, January 2017-December 2022; New section: Typhus; Fleaborne Typhus“Associated Deaths” Los Angeles County, California, 2022; Bird flu researchers turn to Finland's mink farms, tracking a virus with pandemic potential; West Nile remains most common mosquito-borne disease in US; West Nile Virus and Other Nationally Notifiable Arboviral Diseases” United States, 2021; About 1 in 10 mpox patients also had eye conditions, study finds;Another Nipah outbreak in India: What do we know about this virus and how to stop it?; Gastrointestinal Illness Among Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail” Washington, August-October 2022; Norovirus in the wilderness? How an outbreak spread on the Pacific Crest Trail; Water Treatment;Water Treatment Options When Hiking, Camping or Traveling;
• Information Quality New section - Health Information;
• Nutrition Resources Consumers, food-makers face choice as WHO cancer agency set to warn on aspartame sweeteners; Vegetarian or vegan diets and blood lipids: a meta-analysis of randomized trials; Aspartame hazard and risk assessment results released;Saturated fatty acid and trans-fatty acid intake for adults and children: WHO guideline; WHO updates guidelines on fats and carbohydrates; Total fat intake for the prevention of unhealthy weight gain in adults and children: WHO guideline; Carbohydrate intake for adults and children: WHO guideline;Vitamin D Might Ease the Agony of Psoriasis; Eating Fried Food Linked to Depression, Anxiety: Study; Ultraprocessed Foods and Kidney Disease Progression, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the CRIC Study; Common Food Additives Singled Out for Cardiovascular Risk" Food labels often list emulsifiers linked to long-term health outcomes;Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer;Added sugar, total sugar, some fructose associated with higher coronary heart disease risk;Long-Term Artificial Sweetener Intake Linked to Risk for Obesity; Consumption of Ultraprocessed Food and Risk of Depression;
• Obesity associates with increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in adults with asthma; Vegetarian or vegan diets and blood lipids: a meta-analysis of randomized trials; Racial Disparities in Obesity-Related Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States: Temporal Trends From 1999 to 2020; What really causes obesity? It's not what you think;
• Public Health Data Co-involvement of Opioids in Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Cocaine and Psychostimulants, 2011–2021; National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health - MONITORING THE FUTURE PANEL STUDY ANNUAL REPORT 2022 -National data on substance use among adults ages 19 to 60, 1976-2022; Drug Overdose Deaths with Evidence of Counterfeit Pill Use — United States, July 2019–December 2021;Charting the fourth wave: Geographic, temporal, race/ethnicity and demographic trends in polysubstance fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States, 2010-2021;
• Public Health Data Provisional Mortality Data” United States, 2022;CDC Provisional Data: Gun Suicides Reach All-time High in 2022, Gun Homicides Down Slightly from 2021. In 2022, gun suicide rate among Black teens surpassed rate among white teens for first time on record;
• Public Health Sites A - C Dose-dependent Association of Alcohol Consumption With Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Mendelian Randomization Analyses; Just 1 drink a day can raise your blood pressure;
• Public Health Sites D-G Tranq Dope Deaths In the U.S. Are Skyrocketing. Overdoses linked to tranq, the street drug that can cause horrific wounds, have spiked 276 percent, according to the CDC;Nearly half of nation's tap water contains PFAS, a new study finds. Americans living in urban areas are most at risk;Fentanyl Adulterated with or Associated with Xylazine Response Plan;FACT SHEET: In Continued Fight Against Overdose Epidemic, the White House Releases National Response Plan to Address the Emerging Threat of Fentanyl Combined with Xylazine; White House Drug Czar Releases Plan to Combat Xylazine-Laced Fentanyl” Strategy involves a "whole-of-government" response, says Rahul Gupta; Dangerous new form of fentanyl discovered in S.F.’s drug supply; New section: Fluoro-Fentanyl; A Major Climate System Will Collapse Decades Ahead of Schedule and Unleash Devastation, Scientists Predict The collapse would result in natural disasters and turn Western Europe into Alaska, scientists warn in new research;Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought; July 2023 Is Hottest Month Ever Recorded on Earth. Preliminary analyses show that this July is virtually certain to be the hottest month on record for the planet by a wide margin, largely because of global warming; How heat kills: What happens to the body in extreme temperatures;Pioneering Study Links Testicular Cancer Among Military Personnel to Forever Chemicals; The Growing Threat of Xylazine and its Mixture with Illicit Drugs; A Pennsylvania study suggests links between fracking and asthma, lymphoma in children; 'Forever chemicals' found in tampons, period underwear, and more; Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder and Reasons for Use Among Adults in a US State Where Recreational Cannabis Use Is Legal; Blood and Urinary Metal Levels among Exclusive Marijuana Users in NHANES (2005-2018); Opioid overdose; Superbugs catch a ride on air pollution particles. Is that bad news for people?;Stay Safe During an Earthquake; Charting the fourth wave: Geographic, temporal, race/ethnicity and demographic trends in polysubstance fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States, 2010-2021; in Editorial: A Changing Epidemic and the Rise of Opioid-Stimulant Co-Use; New section: Volatile Organic Compounds; Volatile organic compounds emitted by conventional and green cleaning products in the U.S. market; Associations between tobacco and cannabis use and anxiety and depression among adults in the United States: Findings from the COVID-19 citizen science study; Depression Risk Rises in Folks Who Use Both Marijuana & Tobacco;
• Public Health Sites H-L NAFLD and T2DM Bodes Higher Risk of Liver Decompensation, Cancer” Several-fold higher risks compared with NAFLD patients without diabetes; How Fatty Liver Disease Helps Cancer Thrive in the Liver; Ultraprocessed Foods and Kidney Disease Progression, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the CRIC Study;
• Public Health Sites M - N Cardiorespiratory Fitness Levels May Influence Cancer Risk in Men” Higher cardiorespiratory fitness linked to lower risk of death from colon, lung, prostate cancers; Most Asian Americans View Their Ancestral Homelands Favorably, Except Chinese Americans;Pioneering Study Links Testicular Cancer Among Military Personnel to Forever Chemicals; Rural Disaster Behavioral Health; Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS);
• Public Health Sites O-Z An old drug offers a new way to stop STIs; Vitamin D Might Ease the Agony of Psoriasis; Man Gets Extreme, Super-Gonorrhea after Unprotected Sex with Prostitute; New section: doxyPEP; STIs are on the rise in the US. A pill taken after sex could help slow them down;Guidelines, June 2023 Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (Doxy-PEP) to Prevent Bacterial STIs in Men who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Persons who Have Sex with Men;
• Senior Health Half of people worldwide at risk of developing mental health condition by age 75, per new study; Air pollution from different emission sources is associated with incident dementia; Nonfatal and Fatal Falls Among Adults Aged 65 Years” United States, 2020-2021;
• Short sleep negates benefits of exercise for the brain, study says; Clocks Forward, Clocks Back: How Does Your Sleep Suffer?; Lifestyle Factors in the Association of Shift Work and Depression and Anxiety;
• https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-ingredients-components/regulation-and-enforcement-non-tobacco-nicotine-ntn-products; New section: Non-tobacco Nicotine Products; Use of E-Cigs Alone Linked to Respiratory Symptoms” E-cigarette users reported higher rates of symptoms, independent of cigarette, cannabis exposure; Trends in Electronic Cigarette Use Among US Adults With a History of Cardiovascular Disease; HEALTH AND SCIENCE Young people are at risk of harsh respiratory problems after 30 days of e-cigarette use, study says; New section: Dual use (tobacco and other substances); Associations between tobacco and cannabis use and anxiety and depression among adults in the United States: Findings from the COVID-19 citizen science study; Depression Risk Rises in Folks Who Use Both Marijuana & Tobacco;
• US Government Statistics Criminal Victimization, 2022; 100+ Statistics on Crime in US Schools;
• Web Resources Generative AI Defined: How It Works, Benefits and Dangers; Signs your phone or computer is infected with a virus or keylogger;OpenAI, Google and More Agree to White House List of Eight AI Safety Assurances; FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI; Everything You Wanted to Know About AI Security but Were Afraid to Ask;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle 'Forever chemicals' found in tampons, period underwear, and more;
• Women's Health Issues Domestic Abusers Are Using Abortion Bans to Control Their Victims After Roe v. Wade fell, the National Domestic Violence Hotline saw a 99-percent increase in callers reporting that people were trying to control their reproductive choices.;'Forever chemicals' found in tampons, period underwear, and more; New flame retardants found in breast milk years after similar chemicals were banned;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers Women treated for breast cancer may age faster than cancer-free women NIH study finds radiation shows strongest association, less for surgery and endocrine treatments; Breast Cancer: The Basics of Diagnosis, Staging, and Treatment — Also, an overview of epidemiologic and geographic trends; For Your Patients: Breast Cancer Basics” Risk factors, recognition, treatment, and beyond; How Has the USPSTF Draft Updated Breast Cancer Screening?;High levels of particulate air pollution associated with increased breast cancer incidence NIH researchers combined historical air quality data with breast cancer data from large U.S. study.
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Risk of Stroke Hospitalization After Infertility Treatment;
• Writing Sarah Silverman Sues ChatGPT Creator for Copyright Infringement FLAGRANTLY ILLEGALIf a user prompts ChatGPT to summarize a copyrighted book, it will do so, the suit claims.; We’ve filed lawsuits challenging ChatGPT and LLaMA, industrial-strength plagiarists that violate the rights of book authors. Because AI needs to be fair & ethical for everyone; FTC Civil Investigative Demand (CID) Schedule. FTC File #232-3044, 7/2023; Hallucination, Fake References: Cautionary Tale About AI-Generated Abstracts” Tripped up by nuanced decision-making, chatbots still produced "average-quality" abstracts; Accuracy of Chatbots in Citing Journal Articles; 4 Tips for Spotting AI-Generated Pics Images created by artificial intelligence (AI) software often circulate without disclaimers to say they're fake; 'Dramatically inaccurate': Women's health misinformation is rampant on TikTok;

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• Academic Resources STALKING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: FACT SHEET;
• Short Bursts of Activity May Cut Your Cancer Risk; Lung cancer diagnosis and mortality beyond 15 years since quit in individuals with a 20+ pack-year history: A systematic review; Hyperinsulinemia acts via acinar insulin receptors to initiate pancreatic cancer by increasing digestive enzyme production and inflammation;Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer - Health Professional Version; Cancer Genetics Overview - Health Professional Version Genetics of Skin Cancer - Health Professional Version; Pancreatic Cancer Doesn't Have to Be a Death Sentence - Early detection is the key to increasing survival rates;
• Excessive cannabis use linked to greater risk of heart attack, other cardiovascular events;Study finds higher alcohol intake increases fat deposits in heart, other body parts; Cardiovascular Health of Middle-Aged U.S. Adults by Income Level, 1999 to March 2020. A Serial Cross-Sectional Study; Association between e-cigarette use and myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis; E-cigs associated with increased heart attacks; dual use is worse; Cardiovascular Diseases;
• Heart disease risk, prevention and management redefined; What is CKM syndrome? American Heart Association outlines how to identify and manage a dangerous new condition; Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Health: A Presidential Advisory From the AHA; What is CKM? New heart syndrome linked to obesity, diabetes & kidney disease;Prediabetes and persistent tobacco use may triple risk of stroke in healthy young adults;
• Chinese Culture Invisible in the data: Broad 'Asian American' category obscures health disparities; Health of Asians and Pacifc Islanders in New York City NYC Department of Health;Nanking Massacre;
• Ctdata.org's Town Profiles; Crime in Connecticut, 2022;
• What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?; Evolving peak SARS-CoV-2 loads relative to symptom onset may influence home-test timing; Airborne Toxic Events; Habitual short sleepers with pre-existing medical conditions are at higher risk of Long COVID; Underlying Medical Conditions; COVID-19; Review estimates 69% 3-dose vaccine efficacy against long COVID; Long-term effects of coronavirus disease 2019 on diabetes complications and mortality in people with diabetes: Two cohorts in the UK and Hong Kong; COVID infection can damage the brains of dogs, study suggests; Association Between Guillain-Barré Syndrome and COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination: A Population-Based Nested Case-Control Study; Maternal Covid-19 vaccination offers infants immunity for up to 6 months; New COVID strain dominant in US: 4 notes; New section: HV1; CDC weighs in on JN.1 COVID-19 variant developments; New section: JN.1; What to Know About the JN.1 Variant Descendant of BA.2.86 has a known immune-evasive mutation; SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection Risk in Persons with HIV, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020–2022; What to Know About the Latest COVID-19 Variant, HV.1; Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trends. COVID-19 NWSS Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S.; Studies suggest even one vaccine dose may cut risk of long COVID; Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit covid-19 within minutes; New section: COVID-19 Ocean Surveillance; Tracing the footprints of SARS-CoV-2 in oceanic waters; Peak risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection within 5 s of face-to-face encounters: an observational/retrospective study;Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): How is it transmitted?; New COVID Variant JN.1 Could Disrupt Holiday Plans; COVID study: 40% of children still infectious after symptom resolution; WHO designates JN.1 as separate COVID-19 variant of interest; Sewage Systems Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: Identification of Knowledge Gaps, Emerging Threats, and Future Research Needs;
• Pneumonia, Not Just Inflammation, May Cause Severe COVID;Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Connective Tissue Disorders Following COVID-19; Study suggests higher risk of new-onset post-COVID autoimmune, autoinflammatory disorders; COVID can worsen lower urinary tract symptoms in men; Risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome 6 times higher after COVID infection, study suggests; SARS-CoV-2 persistence, low serotonin may cause long-COVID symptoms; An Explanation for #VaccineHesitancy; Vaccine refusal linked to mistrust in health authorities; COVID Linked to Higher Risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Study; Study: Kids with COVID shed virus for median of 3 days, supporting school-isolation policies; How SARS-CoV-2 contributes to heart attacks and strokes;Convalescent plasma cuts death by 10% in COVID patients on mechanical ventilation, trial finds;Cold virus may set the stage for Long COVID; Covid shots may slightly increase risk of stroke in older adults, particularly when administered with certain flu vaccines;Study: Regardless of variant, half of long-COVID patients fail to improve after 18 months;The long-term health outcomes, pathophysiological mechanisms and multidisciplinary management of long COVID; Masks During Pandemics Caused by Respiratory Pathogens—Evidence and Implications for Action; A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19; SARS-CoV-2 Virologic Rebound With NirmatrelviRitonavir Therapy - An Observational Study; 3-year outcomes of discharged survivors of COVID-19 following the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) wave in 2022 in China: a longitudinal cohort study; Study on brain damage patterns of COVID-19 patients based on EEG signals; High risk of autoimmune diseases after COVID-19; COVID Tied to Changes in Brain Microstructure Alterations seen in both long COVID patients and those who recovered from infection; Study shows infants exposed to COVID in utero at risk for developmental delay; CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19; NIAID Pandemic Autopsy Study Fosters Long COVID Treatment Trial;SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy; MRI Reveals Lasting Brain Changes in Post-COVID Patients; Long-COVID-19: the persisting imprint of SARS-CoV-2 infections on the innate immune system; Almost a third of COVID survivors report symptoms 2 years post-infection;Risk of arrhythmias following COVID-19: nationwide self-controlled case series and matched cohort study; Younger Adults Report Reduced Fitness, Exercise Capacity Following COVID-19; Decreased self-reported physical fitness following SARS-CoV-2 infection and the impact of vaccine boosters in a cohort study;Know Your Treatment Options for COVID-19; Early Paxlovid for COVID-19 halved death, hospitalization in new study; Intestinal Damage in COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Intestinal Thrombosis; New: ENT Issues;Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis Requiring Long-term Tracheostomy After SARS-CoV-2 Infection; COVID contact-tracing study suggests length of exposure biggest factor in disease spread; Long COVID changes heart rate variability, study suggests;
• Alert! A Decade of Type 2 Diabetes Shortens Life by 3.5 Years; Diabetes Report Card 2021; Gestational Diabetes Exposure in Utero Linked to Brain Changes in Kids — These changes may contribute to an increased risk of obesity in kids, researcher says; Too much red meat is linked to a 50% increase in Type 2 diabetes risk; Dietary Sodium Intake and Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabete; Do I have pre-diabetes risk test; More Than One in Three Americans are at Increased Risk for Type 2 Diabetes, but Changing the Outcome is Possible; Chronic Insufficient Sleep in Women Impairs Insulin Sensitivity Independent of Adiposity Changes: Results of a Randomized Trial; Prediabetes and persistent tobacco use may triple risk of stroke in healthy young adults; Walking speed and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis; How fast should you walk to lower your diabetes risk? Researchers may finally have an answer. Walking at least 2.5 mph can significantly lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to a new analysis; Standards of Care in Diabetes-2024;
• Epidemiology M - Z What were the death tolls from pandemics in history?;
• Favorite Movies Out of This World Movies and TV Shows;
• Fitness Short Bursts of Activity May Cut Your Cancer Risk;
• Health Care Information Know the Science of Complementary Health Approaches: What the Science Says;
• Healthcare Quality Standards Nurses First, Doctors Distant Second in Healthcare Provider Ratings;
• Healthcare Quality Issues Health Disinformation Use Case Highlighting the Urgent Need for Artificial Intelligence Vigilance - Weapons of Mass Disinformation; ChatGPT Quickly Authored 100 Blogs Full of Healthcare Disinformation; But Google Bard and Microsoft Bing had guardrails in place to thwart such prompting; Large Language Model Advanced Data Analysis Abuse to Create a Fake Data Set in Medical Research; ChatGPT Created a Fake Dataset With Skewed Results — Findings raise concerns about the ease of generating false medical evidence; Deepfakes could supercharge health care's misinformation problem;
• Healthy People 2030 About Disparities Data;
• CDC Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Anthrax, 2023;
• Neurological manifestations of an emerging zoonosis—Human monkeypox virus: A systematic review;Disease Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Compared with COVID-19 and Influenza Among Hospitalized Adults Aged ≥60 Years IVY Network, 20 U.S. States, February 2022-May 2023;Characteristics and Outcomes Among Adults Aged ≥60 Years Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Respiratory Syncytial Virus — RSV-NET, 12 States, July 2022–June 2023; US animal industry raises risk for cross-species pandemics; CDC panel recommends mpox vaccine for routine prevention in risk groups; APOBEC3 deaminase editing in mpox virus as evidence for sustained human transmission since at least 2016; Mpox virus becoming easier to spread among humans; Many mpox patients have other sexually transmitted infections, study shows; New section: Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Tropical diseases move north. As Earth warms, the creatures that spread neglected tropical diseases are gaining a foothold in Europe. Wealthy countries must prepare themselves for more cases; Progress Toward Measles Elimination” Worldwide, 2000-2022; Is the New Mpox 'Outbreak' Deadlier? Three factors could explain the higher case fatality rate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; U.S. Mpox Wastewater Data; Mpox Caused by Human-to-Human Transmission of Monkeypox Virus with Geographic Spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Study highlights complications of mpox, chickenpox co-infections; Mpox spread via nonsexual contact not common, new data show; Transmission of Mpox to Nonsexual Close Contacts” Two U.S. Jurisdictions, May 1-July 31, 2022; WHO officially recognizes noma as a neglected tropical disease; Noma WHO Fact sheet;
• Kids' Index Page 9 facts about bullying in the U.S.;
• Maternal Child Health ‘We’re absolutely making it too hard’: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders vaccine uptake; Genetic Traits That Are Only Inherited From Our Immediate Family Members; Child & Adolescent Immunization Schedule Recommendations for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2024; Adult Immunization Schedule Recommendations for Ages 19 Years or Older, United States, 2024;
• Nutrition Resources Switching the types of carbs you eat may help prevent weight gain, large study finds; Long-term effects of vitamin D supplementation and maintaining sufficient vitamin D on knee osteoarthritis over 5 years; MIND Diet in Midlife Tied to Higher Subcortical Brain Region Volumes Relationships appear to hold regardless of Alzheimer's genes;Portfolio diet—which focuses on plant-based, cholesterol-lowering foods—reduces risk of heart disease and stroke; Portfolio Diet Score and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Findings From 3 Prospective Cohort Studies; How much ultraprocessed foods are you eating?;
• Risk of Gastrointestinal Adverse Events Associated With Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists for Weight Loss;
• Personality How Does Your Personality Type Affect Your Income?;
• Public Health Data Data Analysis System for SAMHSA Studies; Cardiovascular Diseases;
• Public Health Sites A - C Time to Recognize Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome, AHA Says — Pooled cohort equations will make way for new CKM risk calculator; New section: Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome; Understanding HIV; HIV and AIDS: The Basics; What is CKM syndrome? American Heart Association outlines how to identify and manage a dangerous new condition;Heart disease risk, prevention and management redefined; What is CKM syndrome? American Heart Association outlines how to identify and manage a dangerous new condition; Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Health: A Presidential Advisory From the AHA; What is CKM? New heart syndrome linked to obesity, diabetes & kidney disease; Long-Term Alcohol Consumption Linked to Faster Biological Aging;
• Public Health Sites D-G Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation; Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and longitudinal changes in bone mineral density in adolescents and young adults: A multi-cohort study; New section: Ketamine; If Ketamine Is So Safe, What Happened to Matthew Perry?” While ketamine may prove to aid challenging mental health conditions, it still can be dangerous; Health Risks of Ketamine: What to Know;
• Public Health Sites H-L UK researchers find evidence of 'long cold' syndrome;It's not just long Covid: Symptoms can linger after other illnesses, leading to 'long colds'Researchers in the United Kingdom found that symptoms can persist for weeks after common respiratory infections like the common cold; Long-term symptom profiles after COVID-19 vs other acute respiratory infections: an analysis of data from the COVIDENCE UK study; New Cholesterol Drugs Could Harm Lungs, Warns Groundbreaking Global Study; KDIGO guidelines focus on topics related to the prevention or management of individuals with kidney diseases;
• Public Health Sites M - N New section: Near Death Experiences; People Experience‚¬ËœNew Dimensions of Reality' When Dying, Groundbreaking Study Reports; Scientists Monitored 631 People As They Died. This Is What They Found; Resumption of Cardiac Activity after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures; New section: Brain Death; Brain Death Guidelines Revised” New recommendations address hypothermia, ECMO, pregnancy; Pediatric and Adult Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Consensus Guideline - Report of the AAN Guidelines Subcommittee, AAP, CNS, and SCCM; Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis May Increase the Risk for Falls, Not Fractures; Genetics of Prostate Cancer Health Professional Version; Invisible in the data: Broad 'Asian American' category obscures health disparities; Health of Asians and Pacifc Islanders in New York City NYC Department of Health; Most Men Taking Bodybuilding Supplements Don't Know They Can Harm Fertility;
• Public Health Sites O-Z 40% of young women had HPV within 2 years of starting new relationships with men; Suicide Among Adults Age 55 and Older, 2021; Invisible in the data: Broad ‘Asian American’ category obscures health disparities;Firearm Suicide Rates, by Race and Ethnicity — United States, 2019–2022; Psychosocial Burden of Psoriasis: A Systematic Literature Review of Depression Among Patients with Psoriasis; The Impact of Psoriasis on Well-Being: Depression and Other Comorbidities;
• Senior Health Patterns of Fall Intervention; Getting Your Affairs in Order Checklist: Documents to Prepare for the Future; Organ aging signatures in the plasma proteome track health and disease; Caregiver's Guide to Senior Health;
• Is Daylight Saving Time Good or Bad for You? Research shows that the benefits may outweigh the drawbacks;
• Social Media Meta's Instagram linked to depression, anxiety, insomnia in kids - US states' lawsuit; Most Popular apps;
• Statistical Programs 87 Excel Tips and Tricks: From Beginners to Pros;
• Temperament The 5 work personalities in every team, according to Slack;
• New section: Vaping Cessation; Adoption of Vaping Cessation Methods by US Adolescent E-Cigarette Users; Tobacco Product Use Among U.S. Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2023; Prediabetes and persistent tobacco use may triple risk of stroke in healthy young adults;Trends in US Adult Smoking Prevalence, 2011 to 2022; Association between e-cigarette use and myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis; E-cigs associated with increased heart attacks; dual use is worse; Smoking shrinks your brain; Smoking Can Shrink Your Brain Investigating the Relationship Between Smoking Behavior and Global Brain Volume;
• US Government Statistics Criminal Victimization, 2022; 100+ Statistics on Crime in US Schools; Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics Data Tool;
• Useful Sites Namus 2.0 Home Page - Unclaimed Persons Search ;
• Web Resources Association between self-reported mobile phone use and the semen quality of young men; OpenAI's ChatGPT turns one year old; what it did (and didn't do); During the past 12 months, ChatGPT has fundamentally changed the landscape of AI and, more broadly, technology. While warnings of impending doom from AI self-awareness still hang in the air, generative AI has also surprised many by taking on tasks never thought possible;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Preconception Phthalate Exposure and Women’s Reproductive Health: Pregnancy, Pregnancy Loss, and Underlying Mechanisms; New section: Environmental Exposures;
• Women's Health Issues Cannabis Exposure and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Related to Placental Function;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers Hair relaxer use and risk of uterine cancer in the Black Women's Health Study; Dana Farber's Assess your breast and ovarian cancer risk; False-Positive Mammograms May Indicate Higher Breast Cancer Risk in the Future Swedish cohort study shows a 61% increased risk over 20 years;Genetics of Breast and Gynecologic Cancers -Health Professional Version; New section: Vulvar Cancer; Vulvar Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)“Health Professional Version; Urban environments linked to higher breast cancer incidence;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Stress, Depression Common Among Women With Myocardial Infarction Stress levels higher in women with MI and obstructive coronary artery disease versus MI with nonobstructive coronary arteries;
• Writing Examining the association between social media fatigue, cognitive ability, narcissism and misinformation sharing: cross-national evidence from eight countries; How big is science’s fake-paper problem? An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature;ChatGPT Created a Fake Dataset With Skewed Results — Findings raise concerns about the ease of generating false medical evidence; About 1 in 5 U.S. teens who’ve heard of ChatGPT have used it for schoolwork; Can you Spot fake AI news?; More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023” a new record;

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• Academic Resources STALKING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: FACT SHEET;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Karin Smirnoff's The Girl in the Eagle's Talons; Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle. The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease;
• Annotated Medical Bibliography Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle. The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease;
• Annotated Public Health Practice Bibliography Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle. The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease;
• Annotated Wellness Bibliography Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle. The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease;
• US cancer rates and trends: how have cancer rates and mortality changed over time? One in every five deaths in the US is due to cancer, and one in every three people are expected to have cancer in their lifetime; Cancer Diagnoses After Recent Weight Loss; How cancer hijacks the nervous system to grow and spread A new wave of research is unpicking the relationship between cancer and neurons — and looking for ways to stop the crosstalk;
• Daily marijuana use increases heart failure risk by 34%; Cardiovascular Diseases;Occupational Sitting Time, Leisure Physical Activity, and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality; U.S. heart disease deaths linked with substance use rose 4% per year between 1999-2019; Physical activity is insufficient to counter cardiovascular risk associated with sugar-sweetened beverage consumption; New section: Lipoprotein(a); Lipoprotein(a): What to know about elevated levels; Hypertension, Diabetes in Pregnancy Affects Offspring's Heart Health in Adolescence - Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes are both on the rise; Cleveland Clinic-Led Study Discovers Link between High Levels of Niacin a Common B Vitamin and Heart Disease; Excess Niacin Fuels Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease through Newly Discovered Pathway; Even Modest Lp(a) Elevations Bode Poorly for Cardiovascular Health Researchers estimate thresholds for risky Lp(a) in primary, secondary prevention cohorts; Cannabis Singled Out for Cardiovascular Risk, Findings independent of tobacco and e-cigarette use considered a "call to action"; CVD Risks Tied to Teeny-Tiny Plastics Lodged in Atherosclerotic Plaque - And the prevalence of microplastics and nanoplastics is only increasing; Cardiovascular Disease - complementary health approaches;
• Timing of Meals Can Affect Risk of Heart Disease, Study Finds; Maternal Type 1 Diabetes an Outsized Red Flag for Child Heart Defect Risk But don't ignore maternal overweight, obesity, and gestational diabetes, study says;
• Chinese Culture New section: Great Wall of China; Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn't What We Thought, Study Reveals. The Mongolian Arc, an under-studied section of the Great Wall in modern-day Mongolia, wasn't a defensive structure. Its true nature remains enigmatic; Understanding the Diversity in the Asian Immigrant Experience in the U.S.; The 2023 KFF/LA Times Survey of Immigrants; The Year of the Dragon could be lucky” but only if we're kind to one another, Long-term, it could also be the year in which major conflict can be resolved, if people can focus on empathy, one Chinese folklore scholar said; Lunar New Year 2024: The Year of the Dragon; Food holds special meaning on the Lunar New Year. Readers share their favorite dishes; Celebrating Lunar New Year Traditions, From Red Envelopes to Dumpling Parties;
• Connecticut Broadband Mapping Hub;CT Geodata Portal;
• Cool Sites M - Z FDIC calculator;
• Less than 5% of US preschool cohort hospitalized for COVID were fully vaccinated, study finds; Risk of Death in Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 vs Seasonal Influenza in Fall-Winter 2022-2023; The New Normal: Delayed Peak Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Viral Loads Relative to Symptom Onset and Implications for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Testing Programs; Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Transmission in a Skilled Nursing Facility; Superspreading, overdispersion and their implications in the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature; Coronavirus FAQ: My partner/roommate/kid got COVID. And I didn't. How come?; Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?; New section: JN.1; COVID-19 Activity Increases as Prevalence of JN.1 Variant Continues to Rise; Variation in Government Responses to COVID-19 Final Report; Provisional COVID-19 Deaths, by Week, in The United States, Reported to CDC; How Covid-19's symptoms have changed with each new variant;Update on SARS-CoV-2 Variant JN.1 Being Tracked by CDC; Variants Happen; The John Snow Project @JohnSnowProject; US had COVID sequence in 2019, raising questions about who knew what when; As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Here’s What to Know About JN.1, the Latest SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Interest; AHRQ 2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report; Study: Vaccinated patients have lower risk of long COVID; Updated WHO COVID prevention guidance may endanger rather than protect, some experts say; Is COVID-19 here to stay? A team of biologists explains what it means for a virus to become endemic; The coronavirus could mutate to cause more severe disease, according to experts, JN.1's parent can infect lung cells more efficiently, a mutation that's different from the "milder" Omicron; Why I Hope the COVID Pandemic Isn't Over - More dwindling before it "ends" would promote better health outcomes; Most Immunocompromised Patients Clear Omicron Infections, B-cell malignancies, B-cell treatments associated with longer duration of infection; Viral afterlife: SARS-CoV-2 as a reservoir of immunomimetic peptides that reassemble into proinflammatory supramolecular complexes;Study: COVID-19 raises risk of heart attack in HIV patients; Long COVID Prevalence Among Adults” United States, 2022; New section: BA.2.87.1; CDC's Tracking a New COVID Variant: BA.2.87.1 - More than 30 changes in its spike protein has prompted agency to keep a close eye; CDC Tracks New SARS-CoV-2 Variant, BA.2.87.1; Study shows 43% to 58% lower prevalence of long COVID among vaccinated people; New large study indicates vaccines protective against long COVID; Interim Effectiveness of Updated 2023-2024 (Monovalent XBB.1.5) COVID-19 Vaccines Against COVID-19-Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent Adults Aged 18 Years - VISION and IVY Networks, September 2023-January 2024; New section: Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Gene (IL1RN) Variants=; Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Gene (IL1RN) Variants Modulate the Cytokine Release Syndrome and Mortality of COVID-19; The role of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing post-COVID-19 thromboembolic and cardiovascular complications; Study: Kids with COVID but no symptoms play key role in household spread; Household Transmission Dynamics of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2–Infected Children: A Multinational, Controlled Case-Ascertained Prospective Study;
• Study shows COVID leaves brain injury markers in blood; Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists at follow-up despite attenuated cytokine and autoantibody responses; Neurologic Disabilities Linked to Long COVID Risks — Certain persistent symptoms more likely compared with other COVID patients;Brain Health After COVID-19, Pneumonia, Myocardial Infarction, or Critical Illness; New section: Musculoskeletal Issues; A discovery in the muscles of long COVID patients may explain exercise troubles; COVID-19 survivors at higher risk for digestive diseases, study suggests; Meta-analysis reveals high rates of heart complications in long-COVID patients; MRI study spotlights impact of long COVID on the brain; Preventing COVID-19 using the Swiss Cheese Model; New section: Blood issues; Study finds blood changes in long-COVID patients; Chinese study suggests COVID temporarily affects sperm quality; Review reveals poor outcomes for diabetes patients amid COVID-19 pandemic;More Americans Could Benefit from Paxlovid for COVID Infection Paxlovid is a tremendous tool that's completely underutilized; New COVID studies show varied viral clearance time in patients with lower immunity; What Is Long COVID (PASC)?; Cognitive Slowing May Be a Hallmark of Long COVID" Reaction time to visual stimuli shows promise as a cognitive marker; Cognitive slowing in long COVID patients; Overview of the Impacts of Long Covid on Behavioral Health - SAMHSA 1/2023; Ending Isolation and Precautions for People with COVID-19: Interim Guidance; Acute COVID-19 treatment is not associated with health problems 2 years after hospitalization; Solving the puzzle of Long Covid. Long Covid provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease'; Undiagnosed Cancer Cases in the US During the First 10 Months of the COVID-19Pandemic; Another COVID Toll: Over 134,000 Undiagnosed Cancers During Height of Pandemic; Researchers identify mechanism behind brain fog in long COVID;Blood–brain barrier disruption and sustained systemic inflammation in individuals with long COVID-associated cognitive impairment;Study shows persistent COVID-19 infections fairly common; SARS-CoV-2 fragments may cause problems after infection; Measurable Cognitive Deficits Linked to Long COVID” Large population study in England shows losses of 6 to 9 IQ points; New section: Cognition Issues; Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample; Measurable Cognitive Deficits Linked to Long COVID - Large population study in England shows losses of 6 to 9 IQ points; Study reveals high number of persistent COVID-19 infections in the general population; COVID tied to higher risk of inflammatory autoimmune diseases for 1 year; SARS-CoV-2 RNA can persist in blood, tissue, may play role in long COVID, research suggests; Study of 1 million US kids shows vaccines tied to lower risk of long COVID; Surveillance for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children - United States, 2023; Severe lung infection during COVID-19 can cause damage to the heart - NIH supported study shows that the virus that causes COVID-19 can damage the heart without directly infecting heart tissue; COVID-induced lung infection linked to heart damage; COVID's toll on the brain: new clues emerge. A leaky blood–brain barrier and inflammation might account for some of the cognitive symptoms of COVID-19; Cognitive Slowing May Be a Hallmark of Long COVID - Reaction time to visual stimuli shows promise as a cognitive marker; Cognitive slowing in long COVID patients; Not wearing a mask during COVID-19 health emergency isn’t a free speech right, appeals court says; Persistent increase of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in COVID-19 patients: a 3-year population-based analysis;
• Maternal Type 1 Diabetes an Outsized Red Flag for Child Heart Defect Risk— But don't ignore maternal overweight, obesity, and gestational diabetes, study says; Many diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes may have a different form of the disease; New section: LADA - Latent Autoimmune Diabetes; Latent Autoimmune Diabetes; Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Incident Diabetes in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study;
• Epidemiology A- L New section: Crimson Contagion;Crimson Contagion 2019 Simulation Warned of Pandemic Implications in US. The 2019 pandemic exercise pointed to areas of concern for state and federal officials; Crimson Contagion 2019 by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE; The Crimson Contagion 2019 Exercise Series; SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics;
• Epidemiology M - Z Disease X: What to know about the hypothetical pandemic world leaders hope to prevent; Disease X doesn't exist, at least not yet. That's why health officials are taking the steps to ensure the world is prepared for an unknown deadly virus that could trigger another pandemic; How many people die from the flu? The risk of death from influenza has declined over time, but globally, hundreds of thousands of people still die from the disease each year; Is COVID-19 here to stay? A team of biologists explains what it means for a virus to become endemic;
• Favorite Movies Cigarettes and cinema, an inseparable pair: Only one Oscar best-picture nominee has no smoking;
• Fitness Women Get More Health Gains From Exercise Compared to Men; Women may realize health benefits of regular exercise more than men; Do the associations of daily steps with mortality and incident cardiovascular disease differ by sedentary time levels? A device-based cohort study;
• Healthcare Quality Standards Deaths of U.S. Citizens Undergoing Cosmetic Surgery — Dominican Republic, 2009-2022;
• Healthcare Quality Issues Deaths of U.S. Citizens Undergoing Cosmetic Surgery Dominican Republic, 2009-2022; Blood, Organ, and Bone Marrow Issues for BIPOC and Mixed Races;
• Avian flu detected for first time in Antarctica's sea mammals; Cambodia reports 2 more human H5N1 avian flu infections; Candida Auris: What to Know About the Fungal Infection Spreading Across the U.S. - The multidrug-resistant organism colonizes skin, lingers on surfaces; New section: Candida Auris;New section: Alaskapox; Alaska reports fatal Alaskapox case; Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE);Bird flu strain raises alarm as H5N1 virus kills South American wildlife; Bird-flu threat disrupts Antarctic penguin studies; Projects have been cancelled in an effort to curb the virus's spread; Avian flu detected for first time in US livestock; Sick cows in 2 states test positive for avian flu;
• Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing and of toilet bowl cleaning on viral contamination of surfaces in United States restrooms; New section: Transmission; Data shows at least 8,500 U.S. schools at greater risk of measles outbreaks as vaccination rates decline; So you think you know all about the plague?; Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE);Map: See where measles cases are being reported across the US;Measles' Deadliest Sequelae - How much do you know about its most dire consequences?; Underdetected dispersal and extensive local transmission drove the 2022 mpox epidemic; Vaccination Is the Best Protection Against Measles; Battling Bites. Blocking Mosquito-Borne Diseases; Increase in Global and Domestic Measles Cases and Outbreaks: Ensure Children in the United States and Those Traveling Internationally 6 Months and Older are Current on MMR Vaccination; People more often are origin of infectious diseases in animals than vice versa, data suggest;
• Maternal Child Health Hypertension, Diabetes in Pregnancy Affects Offspring's Heart Health in Adolescence; Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes are both on the rise;
• Nutrition Resources Consumption of foods and beverages rich in added sugar associated with incident metabolic syndrome: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study; Dejunking Your Diet - The Drawbacks of Ultra-Processed Foods; Physical activity is insufficient to counter cardiovascular risk associated with sugar-sweetened beverage consumption; What Is Erythritol?;
• Personality How Does Your Personality Type Affect Your Income?;
• PHENOM Careers Page ECONOMY The 20 Fastest Growing Jobs in the Next Decade;
• Public Health Data Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders by Race and Ethnicity, 2015-2019 Issue Brief; Suicide Facts and Statistics;
• Public Health Data Is the U.S. Overcounting Maternal Deaths? New Study Stirs Controversy - The CDC counters that the methods used in the new study "produce a substantial undercount";Mortality in the United States, 2022 - NCHS Data Brief No. 492, March 2024;
• Public Health Practice 4 habits of highly effective communicators;
• Public Health Sites A - C Climate Central, org; Coastal Risk Screening Tool; Understanding sex differences in autoimmune disease; Understanding the Many Different Types of Hives; Study Offers New Clues to Why Most People with Autoimmune Diseases Are Women; New topic under Autoimmune Diseases: Psoriasis; A Visual Guide to Psoriasis WebMD; Health Problems Linked to Psoriasis; New hope for patients as genetic mutation causing psoriasis is identified; Psoriasis; Psychosocial Burden of Psoriasis: A Systematic Literature Review of Depression Among Patients with Psoriasis; The Impact of Psoriasis on Well-Being: Depression and Other Comorbidities; Vitamin D Might Ease the Agony of Psoriasis;
• Public Health Sites D-G Daily marijuana use increases heart failure risk by 34%;Plastics, EDCs & Health: Authoritative Guide; The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food; Icelandic Met Office; Nearly 75% of the US is at risk from damaging earthquakes, new map reveals; FDA issues new warning about supplements containing tianeptine Neptune's Fix, also known as "gas station heroin," contains an antidepressant not approved in the U.S. They have been linked to seizures, loss of consciousness and death; What to Know About Ketamine; A Brief History of Opioids in the U.S.; Proposal to List Nine Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Compounds as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Hazardous Constituents;What to Know About Nitazenes, a Class of Potent Synthetic Opioids. This unapproved drug class is turning up in more overdose deaths across the country; Higher naloxone doses have no impact on overdose survival, study shows; Comparison of Administration of 8-Milligram and 4-Milligram Intranasal Naloxone by Law Enforcement During Response to Suspected Opioid Overdose — New York, March 2022–August 2023; How the drug industry uses fear of fentanyl to extract more profit from naloxone; Systematic Review of Naloxone Dosing and Adverse Events in the Emergency Department; NOT 'Just Weed': Four Times More Dangerous in Three Decades; Xylazine-Laced Fentanyl Overdose: 'Make Sure They're Breathing'-"We don't really need people to wake up. We need them to breathe," clinician says; Cannabis Singled Out for Cardiovascular Risk” Findings independent of tobacco and e-cigarette use considered a "call to action"; 2023 World Air Quality Report;
• Public Health Sites H-L Clues to a better understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome emerge from a major study;
• Public Health Sites M - N Mind and Body Approaches for Stress and Anxiety: What the Science Says;
• Public Health Sites O-Z Study links high-risk HPV infection to increased heart-related deaths;Background and Rationale — CDC Guidance for Communities Assessing, Investigating, and Responding to Suicide Clusters, United States, 2024; New hope for patients as genetic mutation causing psoriasis is identified;
• Research Resources on the Net OpenMd: OpenMD's medical reference directory now indexes over 850 freely-accessible medical information sites;
• Senior Health The Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults;Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden (ACB) Scale; Does Long-Term Benadryl Use Increase Dementia Risk?;
• New section: Sleep & Cognition; Association Between Sleep Quantity and Quality in Early Adulthood With Cognitive Function in Midlife; Sleep disruptions in 30s and 40s linked to cognitive decline a decade later, study finds; Popular myths about sleep, debunked;The lost ancient practice of communal sleep; Why Daylight Saving Time Messes With Your Brain To spring forward is more damaging to our health than to fall back, according to some surprising science; Changing Clocks to Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Your Health. A neurologist explains why our bodies fare better when aligned with the natural light of standard time;
• E-cigarettes are less effective at helping smokers to quit; Smokers Who Quit and Stick With It See Greatest Reduction in Cancer Risk Cessation at any age proved helpful for lowering cancer risk; Smoking impairs immune response, even after quitting, new study says; Characteristics of Young Adults Aged 18-24 Who Had Ever Used an Electronic Nicotine Product, 2021;
• US Government Statistics A Map of Which States People Want to Stay In, Move To, or Leave. The population data of locals versus new comers is more easy to see than ever;
• Web Resources WHO releases AI ethics and governance guidance for large multi-modal models; Why did NIH abruptly halt research on the harms of cell phone radiation? The Language of AI: Defining the Most Common Terms; This glossary can help those interested in healthcare AI find their footing in the field;
• Women's Health Women Get More Health Gains From Exercise Compared to Men; Women may realize health benefits of regular exercise more than men;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Urgent Maternal Warning Signs; Few Women in Abortion Ban States Terminate Rape-Related Pregnancies — Researchers suggest exceptions don't work for rape survivors;Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans; Hypertension, Diabetes in Pregnancy Affects Offspring's Heart Health in Adolescence — Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes are both on the rise; Amid the battle over abortion rights, a failure to agree on how to define abortion;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers Annual Screening Associated with Lower All-Cause Mortality Risk After Breast Cancer Diagnosis Compared to Screening Every Two Years; Invasive cervical cancer incidence following bivalent human papillomavirus vaccination: a population-based observational study of age at immunization, dose, and deprivation;
• Writing The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse. Deepfakes are blurring the lines of reality more than ever before, and they're likely going to get a lot worse this year.; For better science; Combating Deepfakes (GAO.gov);

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• Stress-Induced Immune Changes May Help Cancer Spread;Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries; Stress-Induced Immune Changes May Help Cancer Spread;The artificial sweetener erythritol and cardiovascular event risk;Genetic links between type 2 diabetes and multiple cancers discovered in new research; Embracing cancer complexity: Hallmarks of systemic disease;CDC's Cancer Statistics; U.S. Cancer Statistics Colorectal Cancer Stat Bite; U.S. Cancer Statistics Lung Cancer Stat Bite;U.S. Cancer Statistics Prostate Cancer Stat Bite; Highlights from 2021 Cancer Incidence with Comparisons to Previous Years;
• Cardiovascular Disease Rates in Young Adults Have More Than Doubled Since 2010; Air pollution and depression linked with heart disease deaths in middle-aged adults; More Evidence That Flu Is Linked to Heart Attacks Of surprise was the finding that the risk was highest for patients without CAD hospitalization;
• Stroke in Young Adults: Nontraditional Risk Factors Have Greater Effect;What Are the Differences in Left vs. Right Brain Strokes?; Prevalence of Stroke, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2011-2022;
• Chinese Culture Locke, California: The only town in the US built for Chinese people;
• Connecticut Town Profiles -Two-page reports of demographic and economic information for Connecticut's towns; AdvanceCt;
• Aerosols and Transmission of Respiratory Viruses 101 by Linsey Marr; Covid ignited a global controversy over what is an airborne disease. The WHO just expanded its definition; Toxic: How the Search for COVID's Origins Turned Politically Poisonous "The trail to find the source has now gone cold; China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins; US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins rejects some points raised by lab leak theory proponents; Predominant airborne transmission and insignificant fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a two-bus COVID-19 outbreak originating from the same pre-symptomatic index case; What to Know About the "FLiRT" Variants of COVID-19; New section: FLiRT/KP.2 Varians; Quiz: Can you pass our 9 question test on the latest theories of COVID-19 transmission; Wastewater testing near homeless camps shows COVID-19 viral mutations; WHO Overturns Dogma on Airborne Disease Spread. The CDC Might Not Act on It. The report "is a complete U-turn," according to one expert; Wastewater surveillance lessons from COVID; Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19; KP.2 is now the dominant COVID variant. Experts say US may see a summer increase in cases. KP.2 currently makes up an estimated 28.2% of cases in the U.S., CDC data shows; Honesty About Covid is Essential for Progress; What to Know About JN.1, the Latest Omicron Variant Vaccines, tests, and antivirals are still effective tools in the latest COVID surge; What to Know About COVID FLiRT Variants Virologists are keeping an eye on several COVID variants that have all picked up the same set of mutations. Here's what that means; COVID Still Deadlier Than the Flu-But the Gap Is Narrowing - VA study finds 35% higher mortality rate in hospitalized patients; Does COVID-19 Persist? An unexpected idea gains traction and may provide clues about long COVID; Before vaccines, 44% of COVID-19 patients in ICU died; Post-COVID conditions following COVID-19 vaccination: a retrospective matched cohort study of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection; Study reveals persistent risk of death, symptoms in COVID survivors at 3 years; Erratum for the Research Article, The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic by M. Worobey et al.; China's top-secret search for the origins of coronavirus;Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: "Our World in Data estimates of January 2020 to December 2022; Epidemiologic Features of Recovery From SARS-CoV-2 Infection; Data suggest hybrid immunity protects against long COVID; What doctors wish patients knew about COVID-19 reinfection; Cannabis use linked to worse COVID-19 outcomes; Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Epidemiological Updates and Monthly Operational Updates;Cannabis use tied to greater risk of severe COVID;
• Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19;
• How lung distress from SARS-CoV-2 can cause heart damage; As Recommendations for Isolation End, How Common is Long COVID?; Blood donor study finds 21% incidence of long-term symptoms attributed to COVID-19;Study identifies inflammation and symptom patterns in long COVID; Research progress of post-acute sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection; Analysis spotlights sperm defects in month after COVID infection, but not at 90 days; Severe COVID in older adults may be due to greater viral load, weaker immune response; Long COVID: plasma levels of neurofilament light chain in mild COVID-19 patients with neurocognitive symptoms; Long Covid Models of Care; COVID-19 patients with neurologic symptoms have worse outcomes for up to 3 years, data show; ARIA (Airborne Risk Indoor Assessment); A Potentially Fatal New COVID-Related Syndrome Has Emerged - Anti-MDA5 positive dermatomyositis; MDA5-autoimmunity and interstitial pneumonitis contemporaneous with the COVID-19 pandemic (MIP-C); Covid Causes Much More than Brain Fog - A mountain of evidence tells us that even mild Covid is bad for your brain; Genetics Played Role in Rare Blood Clots Linked to COVID-19 Vaccines, Researchers Find; COVID virus can infect your eyes and damage vision;Newfound autoimmune syndrome tied to COVID-19 can trigger deadly lung scarring (MIP-C); Long COVID: The Enduring Pandemic; Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Children With Long COVID: A Case-controlled Study; Kids with long COVID have impaired exercise capacity;Early use of antivirals linked to reduced risk of long COVID; Assessing avian influenza in dairy milk; Side effects of COVID-19 vaccinations in patients treated for breast cancer;A Long COVID Definition A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences (2024); Long-Term Health Effects of COVID-19 Disability and Function Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection(2024); Three-year Outcomes of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 5/2024; Imaging study reveals 'significant deformities' in lungs of some COVID patients; Rogue antibodies might cause long COVID; COVID-19 vaccine side effects associated with greater antibody response, study finds; COVID-19 vaccine side effects associated with greater antibody response, study finds The association between worse symptoms after vaccination and higher antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2 in subsequent months could be used to encourage reluctant patients to be vaccinated, study authors suggested;Study confirms no causal link between COVID-19 and ischemic priapism; Remdesivir tied to 54% lower risk of death among hospitalized COVID patients; New study aims to define long COVID through phenotypes of patients;
• Timing of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity, Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, and Microvascular Disease in Adults With Obesity;Food additive emulsifiers and the risk of type 2 diabetes: analysis of data from the NutriNet-Sant© prospective cohort study; American Diabetes Association Guidelines Slide Deck; Standards of Care in Diabetes; 2024 Abridged Standards of Care;Even two years after recovery, damage to multiple regions of the brain persists in COVID patients; Genetic links between type 2 diabetes and multiple cancers discovered in new research; Diabetes in 2 pregnancies seriously ups later diabetes risk;
• Epidemiology A- L Global technical consultation report on proposed terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air; After COVID, WHO defines disease spread 'through air'; Aerosols and Transmission of Respiratory Viruses 101 by Linsey Marr; Global health groups propose new terminology for pathogens that spread through the air;The Medieval Disease That Killed Thousands of People and Then Vanished From History. Known for killing people within a day of symptoms starting, the true origins of the "sweats" that plagued the 1500s remain unknown to this day; Mild at First: A Brief History of The 1918 Bird Flu Pandemic History doesn't repeat. It mutates;The dark history of medical educatio;
• Epidemiology M - Z GISAID - Global Genomic Surveillance; A Standard Framework for Evaluating Large Health Care Data and Related Resources; Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19; WastewaterSCAN Dashboard;
• Evaluation Resources & Report Cards New section: Practical Measures Approach (Education); Classroom Measures; How to Use Practical Measures to Transform School Systems Research Brief; Practical Measurement Course; Practical Measurement for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: A Toolkit for Educators; What We're Learning: Using Practical Measures to Support School Improvement Initiatives; Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19;
• Favorite MoviesUnderstanding movie genre emotions;
• Fitness Timing of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity, Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, and Microvascular Disease in Adults With Obesity; Why is exercise good for you? Scientists are finding answers in our cells. Decades of evidence shows that exercise leads to healthier, longer lives. Researchers are just starting to work out what it does to cells to reap this reward; Exercise changes the brain in a way that helps heart health, especially for people with depression;
• Health Care Information New section: Find and Access Preventive Services: the Basics; take Action;
• Healthcare Quality Data New section: Demographic Data Standards; Changes to the federal standards for how race and ethnicity data are collected and reported; Measuring Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790-2010 Mapped to 1997 U.S. Office of Management and Budget Classification Standards Census.gov; What Updates to OMB's Race/Ethnicity Standards Mean for the Census Bureau; Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19;
• Healthcare Quality Issues New section: Health Policy; KFF's Health Policy 101; National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB);
• Health Education Resources New section: Practical Measures Approach (Education); Classroom Measures; How to Use Practical Measures to Transform School Systems Research Brief; Practical Measurement Course; Practical Measurement for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: A Toolkit for Educators; What We're Learning: Using Practical Measures to Support School Improvement Initiatives;
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Animals: Interim Recommendations for Prevention, Monitoring, and Public Health Investigations (3/29/2024); Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection Reported in a Person in the U.S.; H5N1 avian flu found in Texas individual who apparently was infected by dairy cows; Technical Update: Summary Analysis of Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses in Texas; What we know about H5N1 bird flu in cows and the risk to humans;Wider bird flu spread raises concern for humans, animal health body says; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus: Identification of Human Infection and Recommendations for Investigations and Response; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Detections in Livestock; Questions and Answers Regarding Milk Safety During Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Outbreaks; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus: Identification of Human Infection and Recommendations for Investigations and Response; Bird flu outbreak in US cows: why scientists are concerned. A virus that has killed hundreds of millions of birds has now infected cattle in six US states, but the threat to humans is currently low; H5N1 bird flu in U.S. cattle: A wake-up call to action; The H5N1 Outbreak Is Not a Test Run, It's a Warning Shot - A true public health success would be preventing the virus from further adapting to humans; USDA faulted for disclosing scant information about outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu in cattle; Recommendations for Worker Protection and Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Reduce Exposure to Novel Influenza A Viruses Associated with Severe Disease in Humans; Protect Yourself From H5N1 When Working With Farm Animals; USDA Publishes H5N1 Influenza A Virus Genetic Sequences on publicly available site; Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data; Is There a Vaccine for H5N1 Influenza? And how quickly could it be deployed should it be needed?; Scientists find clues in early analysis of newly shared US H5N1 avian flu sequences; Remnants of Bird Flu Virus Found in Pasteurized Milk, FDA Says Agency stressed that the material is inactivated;Genetic analysis reveals H5N1 flu virus outbreak in cows likely started earlier than thought; USDA releases H5N1 bird flu genetic data eagerly awaited by scientists; USDA orders H5N1 testing of some dairy cows to limit spread of bird flu;USDA Actions to Protect Livestock Health From Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza. Federal Order to assist with developing a baseline of critical information and limiting the spread of H5N1 in dairy cattle; Dairy cattle must be tested for bird flu before moving between states, agriculture officials say; 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments, FDA says. Milk sampled from areas with infected herds of dairy cows was more likely to be positive; Updates on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI); Why Experts Are Worried About Bird Flu in Cows; H5N1 avian flu infects Colorado dairy cows as global experts weigh in on virus changes;1 in 5 US retail milk samples test positive for H5N1 avian flu fragments;There’s never a good time to drink raw milk. But now's a really bad time as bird flu infects cows; Bird flu cases are likely being missed in dairy workers, experts say. Experts maintain the milk supply is safe. Their focus is on keeping the people who work with cows from getting sick; Bird flu is spreading through U.S. farms. What are the risks to people?; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.4.4b Virus Infection in Domestic Dairy Cattle and Cats, United States, 2024; How humans can and can't catch bird flu;Interim Guidance on the Use of Antiviral Medications for Treatment of Human Infections with Novel Influenza A Viruses Associated with Severe Human Disease; Pasteurization inactivates H5N1 bird flu in milk, new FDA and academic studies confirm; The U.S. may be missing human cases of bird flu, scientists say; Updated Interim Recommendations for Worker Protection and Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Reduce Exposure to Novel Influenza A Viruses Associated with Disease in Humans; Considerations for Veterinarians: Evaluating and Handling of Cats Potentially Exposed to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus; Updates on H5N1 Beef Safety Studies; How a Dairy Worker Got Infected With Bird Flu; Case report bolsters evidence for H5N1 avian flu spread from cow to Texas dairy worker;CDC sequencing of H5N1 avian flu samples from patient yields new clinical clues; Technical Update: Summary Analysis of Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses in Texas; Avian influenza (H5N1): implications for intensive care; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection in a Dairy Farm Worker; Supplementary Appendix; Officials warn of H5N1 avian flu reassortant circulating in parts of Asia; Brief Summary for Clinicians: Evaluating and Managing Patients Exposed to Birds Infected with Avian Influenza A Viruses of Public Health Concern; Interim Guidance on Follow-up of Close Contacts of Persons Infected with Novel Influenza A Viruses and Use of Antiviral Medications for Chemoprophylaxis; Texas Department of State Health Services. Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease Guidelines (EAIDG) 2024;Officials warn of H5N1 avian flu reassortant circulating in parts of Asia; Stay vigilant with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1); Contaminated meat likely source of avian flu that killed bush dogs in UK zoo, preprint suggests; Potential First Known Case of Mammal-to-Human Bird Flu Transmission Detailed Genetic evidence strongly suggests dairy farm worker contracted H5N1 from cattle; Studies yield more clues about H5N1 avian flu susceptibility, spread in dairy cows; Preliminary report on genomic epidemiology of the 2024 H5N1 influenza A virus outbreak in U.S. cattle (Part 1 of 2); Preliminary report on genomic epidemiology of the 2024 H5N1 influenza A virus outbreak in U.S. cattle (Part 2 of 2); Emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle; Human cases of avian flu worry WHO; WHO's top scientist learned a hard lesson about H5N1 two decades ago: Stopping it takes more than biology; With H5N1 avian flu silently spreading in US cattle, wastewater testing could be key; USDA reports more H5N1 detections in poultry, wild birds; Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Seals, St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada; ‘Most’ Cases of Avian Influenza in USA Cattle Likely Undetected;Avian flu virus in cattle highlights urgent need for ramped up efforts to prevent spillover of viruses from animals to people; Avian Influenza A(H5N1) - United States of America; Colorado officials probe source of H5N1 in cows as USDA confirms more infected mammals; Bird flu in US cows: where will it end? Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endemic in cattle, which would aid its spread in people; Large amount of bird flu virus in milk suggests asymptomatic cows are infected with H5N1; Technical Notes: Clarification to Inquiries Received on April 24 Federal Order; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus: Identification of Human Infection and Recommendations for Investigations and Response; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus: Identification of Human Infection and Recommendations for Investigations and Response;Wastewater testing finds H5N1 avian flu in 9 Texas cities; CDC A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update; Updated OFFLU Statement on high pathogenicity avian influenza in dairy cows; HPAI Detections in Livestock; CDC launches new influenza A wastewater dashboard; states report more H5N1 in dairy herds; Monitoring for H5 in people; Wastewater Dashboard;Bird Flu Outbreak in Dairy Cows Is Widespread, Raising Public Health Concerns;Want to Stay Safe From Bird Flu? Cook Meat at Recommended Temperature, USDA Says - No H5N1 has been found in the meat supply, but cooking meat well would kill it if it appeared; Antibodies to Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Hunting Dogs Retrieving Wild Fowl, Washington, USA; Could bird flu in cows lead to a human outbreak? Slow response worries scientists; The H5N1 virus is a long way from becoming adapted to humans, but limited testing and tracking mean we could miss danger signs; Dairy industry wastewater treatment plants for farms and processors; As bird flu spreads in cows, here are 4 big questions scientists are trying to answer; OSHA - Avian Flu Food Handlers; How annual bird migration could spread avian flu #H5N1;United States of America - Influenza A viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (non-poultry including wild birds) (2017-) - Follow up report 51;Analysis of cow, cat H5N1 avian flu samples raises concerns about spread to other animals; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Updates in Michigan - Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD);New U.S. Human Case of Bird Flu Reported - H5N1 in Michigan farmworker becomes second human case associated with outbreak in dairy cows; First case of influenza A (H5) detected in Michigan resident May 22, 2024; High H5N1 influenza levels found in mice given raw milk from infected dairy cows; Mice administered raw milk samples from dairy cows infected with H5N1 influenza experienced high virus levels in their respiratory organs and lower virus levels in other vital organs;Who is at Risk Amid the H5N1 Influenza Outbreak? Characteristics and Health Coverage of Animal Production Workers; Nationwide-Dairy-Labor-Survey_FARM-Workforce-Development; Clues From Bird Flu's Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle;Bird Flu Virus Detected For First Time In Beef From Sick Dairy Cow: USDA According to officials, the USDA discovered the virus during routine testing of beef tissue from 96 dairy cows; Updates on H5N1 Beef Safety Studies USDA Announces Positive Finding in Muscle Sample from a Condemned Dairy Cow; No Meat from Dairy Cow Entered Food Supply; Limited testing of raw milk for bird flu leaves safety questions unanswered; USDA experiments suggest H5N1 not viable in properly cooked ground beef; Wastewater testing for H5 avian flu virus could provide early warning, outbreak insights; States and territories able to test for highly pathogenic H5N1; US, European nations consider vaccinating workers exposed to bird flu; Alpacas infected with H5N1 avian flu in Idaho; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 Detections in Alpacas;Farmers Must Kill 4.2M Chickens After Bird Flu Hits Iowa Egg Farm; First U.S. Bird Flu Case With Respiratory Symptoms Emerges; The third human case of H5N1 occurred in a Michigan dairy farm worker; CDC Confirms Second Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Michigan; Third Case Tied to Dairy Outbreak Risk to general public remains low; US allows bulk milk testing for bird flu before cattle transport; Fact Sheet: In Response to H5N1, HHS and USDA Focus on Protecting Farmworkers; Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming; Pasteurization neutralizes avian flu viruses in milk, researchers find; How Michigan became ground zero for H5 avian influenza in the US;Latest human H5N1 bird flu case in US is 1st to cause respiratory symptoms; New section: Avian Influenza:H5/N2; Avian Influenza A (H5N2) - Mexico; Exclusive: Cows infected with bird flu have died in five US states;Technical Report: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses; 1st known human case of H5N2 bird flu kills person in Mexico;CDC Reports A(H5N1) Ferret Study Results; Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus of clade 2.3.4.4b isolated from a human case in Chile causes fatal disease and transmits between co-housed ferrets; Seal outbreak shows bird flu virus is adapting to mammals; USDA reports reveal biosecurity risks at H5N1-affected dairy farms; 2024 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) - Michigan Dairy Herd and Poultry Flock Summary; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Genotype B3.13 in Dairy Cattle: National Epidemiologic Brief; Infectious H5N1 influenza virus in raw milk rapidly declines with heat treatment; The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research; Thailand beat avian flu 20 years ago. What can we learn from their strategies?; H5N1 Is Highly Lethal, but Only in Some Animals. Scientists Want to Know Why. And what if the virus mutates in a way that changes all that?; Some Pasteurization Methods May Not Clear H5N1 in Heavily Infected Milk - In experimental study, trace infectious virus detectable in some samples heated for short periods; Advances in Breast Cancer Detection and Treatment; Studies find little to no immunity to H5N1 avian flu virus in Americans; New section: Avian Flu/Human; How CDC is monitoring influenza data among people to better understand the current avian influenza A (H5N1) situation; Table: Human cases of H5N1 bird flu;Another 36 house mice in New Mexico test positive for H5N1 bird flu; New section: Drug-resistant Influenza (Combination of I233V and S247N Strains); CDC identifies drug-resistant flu variant in the U.S. Two cases have been identified so far; Experiments show H5N1 risk to dairy cows not exclusive to subtype infecting US herds; 'We're Flying Blind' on H5N1: Experts See Repeat of CDC's Missteps on COVID Testing - Agency not moving fast enough to remove barriers blocking clinical labs from testing, critics say; ASPR’s Response to H5N1 Bird Flu;U.S. is 'flying blind' with bird flu, repeating mistakes of COVID, health experts say; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Animals: Interim Recommendations for Prevention, Monitoring, and Public Health Investigations; Symptom Monitoring Among Persons Exposed to HPAI; Increased Risk of Dengue Virus Infections in the United States; Study shows persistence of H5N1 in unpasteurized milk and on milking unit surfaces; Dengue Fever Is on the Rise. Here’s What to Know About the Virus;Cow's Milk Containing Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus” Heat Inactivation and Infectivity in Mice;
• Mpox Surveillance Data - CDC.gov ;Mpox is on the rise: Who's eligible for a vaccine, and do you need a booster? Mpox, formally known as Monkeypox, cases are on the rise, CDC says; Measles - United States, January 1, 2020-March 28, 2024; High risk of animal-to-human diseases developing in some China fur farms, animal protection group says; Avian Flu - Food Handlers; Tuberculosis — United States, 2023; U.S. Preparedness and Response to Increasing Clade I Mpox Cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - United States, 2024;What's worse for disease spread: animal loss, climate change or urbanization?; Monkeypox Virus Infections After 2 Preexposure Doses of JYNNEOS Vaccine - United States, May 2022-May 2024; The Scents and Colors Mosquitoes Are Drawn to;
• Maternal Child Health Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years. Every ten seconds, one child is saved by a vaccine against a fatal disease;
• Nutrition Resources Outbreak of Human Trichinellosis” Arizona, Minnesota, and South Dakota, 2022; Naturally Occurring Plant Toxins in Foods, from Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) Germany; Common low-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds; Sugar Substitute Linked to Heart, Thrombotic Risk — Series of experiments sends a "serious warning signal";The Best Way to Decaffeinate Tea Yourself; Xylitol may affect cardiovascular health;Energy drinks and sudden cardiac arrest: There’s smoke, and there may be fire;
• Timing of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity, Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, and Microvascular Disease in Adults With Obesity;
• PHENOM Careers Page When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead;
• Public Health Data;
• Public Health Data Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health;
• Public Health Practice SAMHSA's Reframing Language infographic; 'Uncertainty' Is Indeed a Bad Word: A Second Opinion on Pandemic Communication - Information should be presented to the public using a three-part approach, 6/2024;
• Public Health Sites A - C Know Which Medication Is Right for Your Seasonal Allergies; Prescription for Disaster: How Teens Misuse Medicine.Global Climate Dashboard;
• Public Health Sites D-G Air pollution boosts Alzheimer's disease risk; Understanding Drug Use and Addiction Drug Facts';Age-dependent association of cannabis use with risk of psychotic disorder; LGBTQIA+ glossary; GHS, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals; Endocrine Disruptors and Your Health; Endocrine Disruptors;
• Public Health Sites H-L LiverTox;Real-World Analysis Identifies Meds Tied to Higher Risk of Liver Injury, Case reports may not be as reliable, researchers say;
• Public Health Sites M - N SAMHSA's Reframing Language; 2024 Mental Health Awareness Month Toolkit; From margins to mainstream: Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hollywood; Bipolar Disorder; ADHD Prevalence Among U.S. Children and Adolescents in 2022: Diagnosis, Severity, Co-Occurring Disorders, and Treatment; The State of the Asian American Middle Class. Who is in it and key trends from 2010 to 2023; The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes;
• Public Health Sites O-Z CDC Clinical Guidelines on the Use of Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis for Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention, United States, 2024; First case of rare, sexually transmitted form of ringworm reported in the U.S. The fungal infection has been increasingly found in Europe, mostly among men who have sex with men; New section: Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII;Urologic Diseases in America;
• Americans Sleeping Less, More Stressed. Women, particularly those under age 50, report sleeping less than they need and higher stress levels than men; 7 surprising facts about dreams - why we have them and what they mean; Popular myths about sleep, debunked; Sleep myths: An expert-led study to identify false beliefs about sleep that impinge upon population sleep health practices; What Are Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency?;
• E-Cigarettes Tied to Heart Failure - Association seen with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; Searchable Tobacco Products Database; The Relative Risks of Tobacco Products; Searchable Tobacco Products Database Additional Information; Teen Vaping Linked to Higher Lead, Uranium Levels - Use poses potential harm for brain and organ development, researchers say; Forecasting vaping health risks through neural network model prediction of flavour pyrolysis reactions; Media Use Tied to Higher Odds of Smoking, Vaping in Youth - Odds more than doubled in kids logging 7 hours or more a day on social media; Exclusive: Nicotine-like chemicals in U.S. vapes may be more potent than nicotine, FDA says;
• US Government Statistics Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Broad Public Support for Legal Abortion Persists 2 Years After Dobbs. By more than 2 to 1, Americans say medication abortion should be legal;Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe; Texas abortion ban linked to 13% increase in infant and newborn deaths; This might foreshadow what is happening in other states, said Johns Hopkins public health researcher Alison Gemmill. "Texas is basically a year ahead";The Unintended Consequences of the Texas 'Heartbeat Law' June 24, 2024 F. Perry Wilson Abortion restrictions may have led to a dramatic increase in infant mortality;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers Screening for Breast Cancer. US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement; New section: Invasive Ductal Carcinoma; Histological grade concordance between diagnostic core biopsy and corresponding surgical specimen in HR-positive/HER2-negative breast carcinoma; Understanding Your Pathology Report; Your Breast Pathology Report: Breast Cancer; Your Breast Pathology Report: Benign Breast Conditions; Your Breast Pathology Report: Atypical Hyperplasia (Breast); Your Breast Pathology Report: Lobular Carcinoma In Situ (LCIS); Your Breast Pathology Report: Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS); UNDERSTANDING YOUR PATHOLOGY RESULTS; Diagnostic accuracy of core biopsy for ductal carcinoma in situ and its implications for surgical practice; Core-Needle Biopsy for Breast Abnormalities; The Accuracy of Ultrasound, Stereotactic, and Clinical Core Biopsies in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, With an Analysis of False-Negative Cases; Breast Biopsy; Subtypes of Breast Cancer; Cribriform breast cancer;U.S. Cancer Statistics Breast Cancer Stat Bite;
• Writing The 'Sift' strategy: A four-step method for spotting misinformation; Tineye.com; Yandex.com;

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• Academic Resources Non-cognitive skills: The hidden key to academic success. New research reveals the growing importance of emotional intelligence in shaping educational outcomes; 72% of U.S. high school teachers say cellphone distraction is a major problem in the classroom;Belief in academic ability key factor in academic success for low-income students;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Martha Wells, System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries);
• Biostatistics/Statistics Sites Online Statistical Calculators;
• Cancer Incidence Trends in Successive Social Generations in the US;Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019; How a common chemo drug causes heart damage Doxorubicin. Common brands: Lipodox, Lipodox 50, Doxil; When Cancer Spreads. Improving Treatments for Metastasis;Coping with Cancer; Heavy Cannabis Use Tied to Increased Head and Neck Cancer Risk - Study findings have "substantial public health implications," researchers say; Spouses of Cancer Patients May Be at Increased Risk of Suicide - Risk was highest in the year following spouse's diagnosis;Cancer diagnoses lagged into year 2 of pandemic;AACR Cancer Progress Report > Contents > Reducing the Risk of Cancer Development;Cancer cells may be using lipids to hide from the immune system;Cancer-Causing Substances in the Environment;
• Chronic Disease Index Healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults residing in 14 European countries; Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019; Healthier behaviors may prevent millions of cancer cases annually; Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019;
• Heavy Lifetime Cannabis Use and Mortality by Sex; How excess niacin may promote cardiovascular disease; How a common chemo drug causes heart damage Doxorubicin. Common brands: Lipodox, Lipodox 50, Doxil; These Metals in Urine Predict Heart Disease and Death - Exposure may come from food, water, and air; These Metals in Urine Predict Heart Disease and Death - Exposure may come from food, water, and air; CVD hospitalizations linked to much higher risk of depression, anxiety or suicidal thoughts;9 Weird Symptoms Cardiologists Say You Should Never Ignore;Babies born to women consuming a high fat, sugary diet at greater risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in later life;Unhealthy behaviors contribute to more coronary artery disease deaths in the poor. Four behaviors explain a majority of the socioeconomic disparities observed in the disease;Metal Exposure Also Linked to More Coronary Artery Calcium - Impact of contaminant exposure considered on par with traditional risk factors;
• Twenty Years of Progress Toward Understanding the Stroke Belt; A visit to the stroke belt of the United States; Global Stroke Belt: Geographic Variation in Stroke Burden Worldwide; Targeting Stroke in the Stroke Belt; Why Do We Have a Stroke Belt in the Southeastern United States? A Review of Unlikely and Uninvestigated Potential Causes; Chronic Loneliness Raises Stroke Risk Independently and Need for Regular Assessments;
• Chinese Culture Amazing China in 1917 in color [AI enhanced and colorized];Oral History Archive. Waves of Identity: Chronicling the Chinese American Experience from 1980s to Present; Oral History Archive Projects; New initiative to disaggregate AAPI data, reveal diverse needs;Breast Cancer Rises Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women;State of Chinese Americans Survey 2024: Executive Summary September 25, 2024;
• CT Wiz - CT WiZ is Connecticut’s secure web-based Immunization Information System (IIS);
• Consumer Health Professional Resources - Nutrition Fact Sheets;Is 'Wellness' Bad News for Healthcare?” The growing industry is a double-edged sword;
• Colorado COVID Wastewater Monitoring Data Trends;Precision symptom phenotyping identifies early clinical and proteomic predictors of distinct COVID-19 sequelae; Sleep disturbances linked to worse COVID-19 outcomes; Serologic Testing of US Blood Donations to Identify Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 and other Coronaviruses, December 2019-July 2020; Study suggests reinfections from the virus that causes COVID-19 likely have similar severity as original infection. NIH-funded analysis of health record data shows severe reinfections often follow severe first infections;Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 KP.3, LB.1, and KP.2.3 variants;Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron Eras; Risk of long COVID declined over course of pandemic; Drop attributed mostly to vaccination but remaining risk still significant; Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19 keeps evolving. Here’s what you need to know; Sleep Disturbances Increase Susceptibility to COVID-19; Widespread exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife communities; Incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination; New section: Protective Factors;Healthy pre-COVID lifestyle may protect against severe infection; Risk of heart attack, stroke drops after COVID vaccination, data show; COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated depression in adults with diabetes; Tracking of hCoV-19 Variants; COVID-19 deaths - Our World in Data; Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here's what that means; COVID-19 and Mental Illnesses in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People; Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?;Severe COVID Linked to Mental Illness in Weeks, Months After Infection - Risks for depression and serious mental illness highest among unvaccinated people; Widespread SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Among Wildlife in the US; 'I hope you die': how the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists. Dozens of researchers tell Nature they have received death threats, or threats of physical or sexual violence; Obesity raises risk of COVID infection by 34%, study estimates;Autoimmune Sequelae After Delta or Omicron Variant SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Cohort;As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Here’s What to Know About JN.1, the Latest SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Interest;Prevalent Metformin Use in Adults With Diabetes and the Incidence of Long COVID: An EHR-Based Cohort Study From the RECOVER Program; Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic; Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins;New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It's controversial;Origin of COVID-19: Dismissing the Mojiang mine theory and the laboratory accident narrative;COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study. The finding comes from a reanalysis of genomic data; Outbreak.info; New section: XEC variant; What to know about the new covid-19 XEC variant. A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against it; Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study; New COVID Variant XEC May Outpace Others This Fall. No signs of meaningfully different symptoms or vaccine response, experts say;COVID vaccine protects against symptoms 6 weeks after infection, study shows; COVID-19 reinfection ups risk of long COVID, new data show;Long COVID and associated outcomes following COVID-19 reinfections: Insights from an International Patient-Led Survey;
• Evidence Mounts That About 7% of US Adults Have Had Long COVID; Study shows abnormal immune-cell activity with long COVID;Having 2 or more underlying conditions increase the risk of severe COVID-19 almost 10-fold in kids, data show; COVID patients at higher risk for respiratory complications well after infection, study finds; COVID-19 Vaccination in the First Trimester and Major Structural Birth Defects Among Live Births; COVID remnants still show up on PET scans years after infection; Tissue-based T cell activation and viral RNA persist for up to 2 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection; 1 in 10 pregnant women with COVID-19 go on to develop long COVID, study finds; COVID May Affect Type 1 Diabetes in Kids, and Not in a Good Way - Clinical disease incidence jumped after infection; Paxlovid After a COVID Exposure Fails to Reduce Household Transmission - Nearly all trial participants had some level of immunity at baseline, howeve; Does COVID-19 Persist? An unexpected idea gains traction and may provide clues about long COVID; SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC); Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling; Personal protective effect of wearing surgical face masks in public spaces on self-reported respiratory symptoms in adults: pragmatic randomised superiority trial; COVID Communications Cheat Sheet;Long COVID primary care visits marked by breathing, sleeping problems;COVID can trigger changes to the immune system that may underlie persistent symptoms; New section: Hearing Loss; Young adults at higher risk of hearing loss after COVID infection, data suggest;Study spotlights psychiatric, cognitive problems years after severe COVID-19; How widespread is long COVID?; Psychological factors associated with Long COVID: a systematic review and meta-analysis; Long COVID science, research and policy; Researchers decipher MIS-C, the scary illness that followed COVID in some kids; Routine lab tests can't reliably distinguish long COVID from other illnesses, NIH study suggests; COVID-related loss of smell tied to changes in the brain; New studies estimate long-COVID rates, identify risk factors;The risk of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults diagnosed with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis; New Section: COVID-19 and Women; Peripartum outcomes and immune responses after SARS-CoV-2 infection in the third trimester of pregnancy; Long COVID Differs Between Kids and Adolescents, Study Finds - While 14 symptoms were common in both groups, differences also emerged; Severe COVID Linked to Mental Illness in Weeks, Months After Infection - Risks for depression and serious mental illness highest among unvaccinated people; Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States; Vaccines & Immunizations; Spike mutations help SARS-CoV-2 infect the brain. This could help us understand neurological symptoms of COVID-19; Myocarditis complications more common after COVID infection than vaccination, 18-month data suggest; You’re More Likely to Get Heart Issues From COVID-19 Than the Vaccine; Virus that causes COVID-19 uses a secret 'back door' to infect the brain; Pain identified as dominant symptom in long COVID;Discovery of how blood clots harm brain and body in COVID-19 points to new therapy; Preventing Spread of Diseases on Airplanes: Guidance for Cabin Crew; Definitions of Signs, Symptoms, and Conditions of Ill Travelers; New section: Pemgarda; Fact Sheet for Patients, Parents, and Caregivers Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of PEMGARDA (pemivibart) for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); FDA announces Evusheld is not currently authorized for emergency use in the U.S.;New report: COVID more severe, longer-lasting than other respiratory diseases; Long-COVID rate among disabled people double that of able-bodied; COVID-19 lockdown effects on adolescent brain structure suggest accelerated maturation that is more pronounced in females than in males;Long COVID Essentials a resource sheet series;Prevalence of Long COVID Among Adults Who Have Ever Had COVID-19, by Selected Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, Spring 2023;MRI findings linked to cognitive issues in patients with long COVID 2 years post-infection;Evidence growing for COVID antivirals to cut poor outcomes, long COVID, experts say;MRI study pinpoints neural roots of lingering fatigue post-COVID infection;Study sheds new light on severe COVID's long-term brain impacts; Remdesivir-Dexamethasone Tied to Fewer Deaths in Severe COVID - However, study fails to answer key questions, expert says; Cognitive Impacts of COVID Equivalent to 20 Years of Brain Aging; Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 cognitive deficits at one year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and grey matter volume reduction; pemivibart (Pemgarda) COVID Preventive Drug Should Work Against Circulating Variants, FDA Now Says - The agency has issued a revised fact sheet for healthcare providers;-
• Type 1 diabetic dads nearly twice as likely to pass it on to kids; Sitting time may increase risk of all-cause mortality in adults with diabetes; Gestational Diabetes Won't Raise Women's Odds for Breast Cancer;Possible explanation for link between diabetes and Alzheimer's; Consuming iron-rich meats linked to greater risk for type 2 diabetes; High and Low HbA1c Values Associated with Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease in Diabetic Patients; Two slices of ham a day can raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, research suggests. Cambridge-led study of 2m people globally is most comprehensive evidence yet of red meat link to diabetes; Study reveals best exercise for type-1 diabetes patients; Type 2 diabetes increased by nearly 20% in 10 years;Lignan Intake and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence Among US Men and Women;Both diabetes and prediabetes accelerate brain aging, MRI analysis shows;Chronic Steroid Use Could Raise Diabetes Risk;
• Epidemiology M - Z Infectious Disease, HLA and ABO Donor Qualification Testing. Blood donations are tested for multiple disease markers; Fur farming a 'viral highway' that could spark next pandemic, say scientists. Study in China finds viruses that could infect people are rampant in farms breeding mink, raccoons and foxes for their fur.
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Reuters - Ancient Olympic Games;
• Favorite MoviesWhy are movie box office results reported in dollars, rather than tickets sold?; Brain research: Study shows what your favorite film genres reveal about your brain;
• Fitness Steps to Better Health with All of Us; 'Weekend Warrior' Exercise Pattern May Reduce Risk for Neurologic Diseases;
• Grants Tips for Writing Grant Applications;
• H5N1 Bird flu is widening its reach. Maps show US counties affected by outbreak; Pathology, Molecular Biology, and Pathogenesis of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans; Human Transmission But No Pandemic in Indonesia; Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Avian Influenza A (H5N1);What's Driving Avian Influenza Virus Evolution? Human Food Systems - What we do next really matters; Scientists wary of bird flu pandemic unfolding in slow motion; Raw milk is a trend, but health officials say it's a dangerous one; Colorado now has the worst outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle in the country. The state has seen nearly one-quarter of its herds affected, most in the past month; CDC confirms 4th human case of H5N1 avian flu as more dairy herds in Colorado hit; With Bird Flu Tests Hard to Get, How Will We Know When to Sound a Pandemic Alarm? - If government doesn't prepare to ramp up testing, U.S. could be caught off guard again;As More US Dairy Herds Infected with Avian Flu, Americans in the Dark on the Risks of Raw Milk;Reducing Risk for People Working with or Exposed to Animals; Cambodia reports new human case of H5N1 bird flu;Table: Human cases of H5N1 bird flu; H5N1 traces found in muscle from culled dairy cow; Michigan reports 3 more affected herds; Features of H5N1 influenza viruses in dairy cows may facilitate infection, transmission in mammals. H5N1 virus did not efficiently transmit via respiratory route to ferrets; Animal experiments shed more light on behavior of H5N1 from dairy cows; H5N1 avian flu infects 2 children in Cambodia;Information for Farm Workers Exposed to H5N1 Bird Flu;Reducing Risk for People Working with or Exposed to Animals; Bird flu strains: Where are they spreading around the globe?; If bird flu sparks a human pandemic, your past immunity could help Older populations might be more protected than younger ones because of exposure to ‘matched’ strains during childhood, but an H5N1 pandemic is likely to take a major toll all the same; Colorado state health officials identify possible cases of avian flu in Colorado poultry workers; Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detected in Oklahoma Dairy Herd;Bird flu found in Oklahoma dairy herd, showing bigger US outbreak; US, Colorado probe additional H5N1 bird flu cases in poultry farm; Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing? Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind;Colorado reports avian flu infections in 5 people who culled sick poultry; Tests confirm H5N1 in Oklahoma dairy herd; 13 states now affected;Chicken culling, disposal raise concern as bird flu spread; No Asymptomatic Bird Flu Infections in Dairy Farmworkers, Small Study Finds - But officials announce two more cases among farmworkers in Colorado; Summary of H5N1 Seroprevalence Studies; Potential First Known Case of Mammal-to-Human Bird Flu Transmission Detailed” Genetic evidence strongly suggests dairy farm worker contracted H5N1 from cattle; Another Person Tests Positive for Bird Flu, CDC Says” Colorado dairy worker becomes the fourth human case tied to dairy cattle outbreak; Distribution of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5 and H5N1 in North America, 2021/2022; Avian flu infects two more Colorado poultry cullers, one at second farm; Are Doctors Missing Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu in People Who Drink Raw Milk? - What would the infection look like, and would doctors recognize it and test for it?; Testing transmission and infection of H5N1 from cows; CDC Confirms Three Human Cases of H5 Bird Flu Among Colorado Poultry Workers; U.S. and China report 3 more human cases of bird flu, UN calls for urgent action; Health Monitoring, Testing, and Case Identification Among Persons Exposed to Influenza A(H5N1) - Michigan, 2024; With the U.S. bird flu outbreak uncontained, scientists see growing risks; China reports fatal H5N6 avian flu case; New section - H5N6;Colorado orders weekly bulk tank avian flu testing for dairy farms; In Bird Flu Fight, CDC Plans Seasonal Flu Shot Push for Farmworkers - Co-infection with seasonal influenza, H5N1 raises concerns about human adaptation, CDC says; Bird Flu Cases Are Going Undetected, New Study Suggests - "I am very confident there are more people being infected than we know about," researcher says; FAO Calls for More Efforts to Combat Avian Flu as Cases Rise Worldwide; Avian Influenza Weekly Update Number 954; Halting the Bird Flu Outbreak in Cows May Require Thinking Beyond Milk; Three months into bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows, experts see deep-rooted problems in response; Spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus to dairy cattle;Fighting Blind: There Remains Much We Don't Know About the H5N1 Outbreak - Here are key questions we need to answer to prevent larger crises; USDA Actions to Protect Livestock Health From Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza;Are We Testing Enough for H5N1? Experts question whether U.S. has a handle on the scope of the outbreak in dairy cattle; CDC urges livestock workers get seasonal flu vaccine to cut pandemic risk;Previously undetected H5N1 avian flu cases in farmworkers revealed in new report; Avian Flu Diary; H5N1 Bird Flu Circulating in Dairy Cows in the United States;Study: Bird Flu in Dairy Cows May Spread More Easily to Other Mammals;Health officials confirm human cases of avian flu in Colorado poultry workers; Déjà Vu All Over Again — Refusing to Learn the Lessons of Covid-19; New section: Cats; Bird flu cases now detected in domestic cats in Colorado; US to expand bird-flu testing of beef in slaughterhouses; Updated joint FAO/WHO/WOAH assessment of recent influenza A(H5N1) virus events in animals and people; High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza in Cattle; FAO recommendations for Global Avian Influenza Viruses with Zoonotic Potential. Recommendations for affected countries and those at risk; A(H5N1) influenza in dairy cattle in the United States of America;US undercounts bird flu in cattle as farmers shun testing; Bird flu cases among farm workers may be going undetected, a study suggests; Domestic cats in Colorado are dying of bird flu. Is your cat at risk?; How does bird flu cross species barrier to infect mammals?; New insights on how bird flu crosses the species barrier; Cambodia reports fatal H5N1 avian flu case;How U.S. Farms Could Start a Bird Flu Pandemic. The virus is poised to become a permanent presence in cattle, raising the odds of an eventual outbreak among people; With Only Gloves To Protect Them, Farmworkers Say They Tend Sick Cows Amid Bird Flu; With Only Gloves to Protect Them, Farmworkers Say They Tend Sick Cows Amid Bird Flu - Employers fail to provide PPE while concerns grow over undiagnosed cases; Bird Flu Is Infecting Pet Cats. Here’s What You Need to Know. As bird flu spreads in cats, cows and other animals, it has more opportunity to adapt to easily infect humans;How avian influenza has spread to Antarctic islands;H5 Influenza Vaccines—Moving Forward Against Pandemic Threats; Farmed fur animals harbour viruses with zoonotic spillover potential; Person infected with bird flu in Missouri had no contact with animals. The case adds to growing anxiety about the risk of the H5 virus spreading among humans; CDC Confirms Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Missouri;First case of bird flu not directly linked to sick animals is found in Missouri; Circulating H5N1 Bird Flu Spotted by Wastewater Monitoring During Summer — Signal has generally trailed off, but more sensitive method showed virus lingering in Texas;CDC says close contact of Missouri bird flu patient showed symptoms; In a report Friday, the agency said the second person was not tested and has recovered;Is bird flu spreading among people? Data gaps leave researchers in the dark; Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human transmission;Review finds serious gaps in steps to control avian flu in mammals;The global H5N1 influenza panzootic in mammals; Updates on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI); US farmers call for vaccine option to fight bird flu as wildfowl migration begins;CDC Reports Human Case of Bird Flu Not Linked to Animals; Missouri investigates more possible human-to-human H5N1 avian flu spread; CDC A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update September 27, 2024;
• Healthcare Quality Issues SCOTUS Case Could Weaken the Impact of Regulation on Key Patient and Consumer Protections; Supreme Court Decision May Have Sweeping Effects on Healthcare, Experts Say - Chevron ruling curbs federal power, could upend drug approvals, Medicare drug price negotiation;FTC Releases Interim Staff Report on Prescription Drug Middlemen. Report details how prescription drug middleman profit at the expense of patients by inflating drug costs and squeezing Main Street pharmacies; New section: Pharmacy Benefits Managers;
• Healthy People 2030 Key Indicators for Healthy Aging;
• H5N1 now has its own page; DENGUE GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND CONTROL;
• Zika can have long-term consequences for immune system;New section - Prion Disease; Two men die after eating deer meat infected with Prion disease;Mpox cases spiking in 10 African nations;WHO considers public health emergency as mpox cases mount in Africa; Mpox Caused by Human-to-Human Transmission of Monkeypox Virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Spread to Neighboring Countries; Mpox is Becoming More Deadly. We Need Global Action Now to Prevent Another Pandemic. A new, more dangerous variant has emerged; New mpox strain in DR Congo 'most dangerous yet'; Clinical Overview of Measles; One Health Investigation into Mpox and Pets, United States; New section: Oropouche Virus; Oropouche virus 101: A guide to a little-known virus that's raising concern this year; Questions and answers about mpox;Increased Oropouche Virus Activity and Associated Risk to Travelers; About Oropouche;European officials say more imported clade 1 mpox cases likely;How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them; Smallpox; 2022-24 Mpox (Monkeypox) Outbreak: Global Trends World Health Organization Produced on 22 August 2024; Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down. The recently discovered cue is one of many the insects integrate across various distances; Measles can harm a child’s defense against other serious infections. The virus can do this by giving certain immune memory cells a case of 'amnesia'; Mpox in Pregnancy — Risks, Vertical Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment;Mpox Is Back in the News. Here's What Clinicians Need to Know. This new surge is different, WHO leader says;Mpox: Lessons From 2022 for Future Preparedness - We must be ready for possible systemic complications;Changes in sexual behavior tied to curbing previous mpox outbreak;
• Koo Sar Net Lead and arsenic intoxications by traditional and alternative medicine: men are more sensitive than women;
• Maternal Child Health Patterns of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neurocognitive Development;
• Nutrition Resources Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Foods; Can Food Really Change Your Hormones?; Why, Exactly, Are Ultraprocessed Foods So Hard to Resist? This Study Is Trying to Find Out. Understanding why they’re so easy to overeat might be key to making them less harmful, some researchers say; Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses;Plant-based Food and Drink Labeling Is a Battlefield - Public health considerations are missing in action; Anti Inflammatory Diet;Is your family eating rocket fuel? Consumer Reports study finds chemical in food, water. Perchlorate is a chemical found in rocket fuel, fireworks, matches and possibly your breakfast cereal, a new study from Consumer Reports shows; Professional Resources - Nutrition Fact Sheets;7 Processed And Dehydrating Grocery Items That Promote 'Premature Aging,' According To Dermatologists; Spilling the Beans: How Much Caffeine is Too Much? Caffeine can be part of a healthy diet for most people, but too much caffeine may pose a danger to your health; New section: Food Contact Chemicals; Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals;Does heat-damaged DNA in food raise cancer risk?;Hazardous chemicals in food packaging can also be found in people;
• Obesity in Adolescents. A Review; Obesity in Adults; Greater belly and arm fat raises risk of Parkinson's, related diseases. Large study of adults in UK supports body composition as affecting health; New section: Fasting; Benefits and downside of fasting. Fasting helps intestinal stem cells to regenerate and heal injuries but also leads to a higher risk of cancer in mice;Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps; Adult Obesity Maps by State and Territory, 2011-2023; Endocrine Disruptors and Obesity; What Are Obesogens, and Should We Be Concerned?; People who exercise have healthier belly fat, new study finds;
• PHENOM Careers Page Customized Employment Competency Model; Competency Models: A Review of the Literature and The Role of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA); Competency Framework For Human Resource Management and Development; What Is a Competency Model? +Benefits, Examples (2024); Competency Framework; Competency Model Clearinghouse;Life coach or therapist? Know the differences;Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. Here's why; What Is Quiet Quitting—and Is It a Real Trend?; Bosses are firing Gen Z grads just months after hiring them—here’s what they say needs to change;1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant To Hire Recent College Graduates;
• Public Health Data National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Reports; Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health; 2023 Companion nfographic Report: Results from the 2021, 2022, and 2023 nal Surveys on Drug Use and Health;
• Public Health Data Gratitude and Mortality Among Older US Female Nurses; Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023;Mortality in the United States” Provisional Data, 2023; U.S. Mortality Data of all kinds;
• Public Health Practice How to Lie with AI—and Why Public Health Agencies Should Care;Supreme Court decision on ‘Chevron deference’ may bring drastic changes for public health;
• Public Health Sites A - C Alcohol Consumption Increasingly Viewed as Unhealthy in U.S. Young adults aged 18 to 34 are leading the charge to drink less for better health; Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Guide for Expecting Parents, Caregivers, and Families;
• Public Health Sites D-G Reported Xylazine Use Among Adults Aged 18 Years Evaluated for Substance Use Treatment - United States, July 2022-September 2023; LGBT+ rights have become more protected in dozens of countries, but are not recognized across most of the world; Heavy Lifetime Cannabis Use and Mortality by Sex; Marijuana/Cannabis Fact Sheet;NOT 'Just Weed': Four Times More Dangerous in Three Decades;Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Foods;Methanol; EPA Issues Emergency Order to Stop Use of Pesticide Dacthal to Address Serious Health Risk (dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA or Dacthal); Heavy Cannabis Use Tied to Increased Head and Neck Cancer Risk - Study findings have "substantial public health implications," researchers say; Strongest Tornado Ever Recorded In Every US County;Is your family eating rocket fuel? Consumer Reports study finds chemical in food, water. Perchlorate is a chemical found in rocket fuel, fireworks, matches and possibly your breakfast cereal, a new study from Consumer Reports shows; Ketamine; Nitazenes Have Entered the Drug Scene. Now What? We can prepare for this drug class in the supply without reinventing the wheel; Tropical Storm Hone; Risk of death from CVD skyrockets when women use cannabis; Medical Cannabis: Understanding dosing, concentrations, and delivery routes; When Your Friend Overdoses on Drugs; Posters and Graphics - EarthScope Consortium operates the NSF Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE) and NSF Seismological Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (SAGE);'Forever chemicals' influence the development and function of the brain;Girls may start puberty early due to chemical exposure.Some endocrine-disrupting chemicals are of concern, study suggests;Microplastics in the Olfactory Bulb of the Human Brain;Cannabinoids Used for Medical Purposes in Children and Adolescents A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis; Myclobutanil: Why are some licensed cannabis producers using this banned pesticide?;Long-Term Cannabis Use Linked to Sleep and Memory Issues;Waste & Recycling Statistics in 2024; New section: Waste Disposal;
• Public Health Sites H-L Detection of anaerobic and aerobic bacteria from commercial tattoo and permanent makeup inks;Air Pollution and AECOPD: Higher Pollutant Levels Linked to Exacerbation Onset; Angiomyolipoma of the Kidney; Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Recommended Vaccinations for Adults, Easy-To-Read Format. Aged 19 Years and Older, United States, 2024;
• Public Health Sites M - N New section: Brain Toilet; Does Your Brain Drain Well? Brain Toilet Obstruction (BTO); Anxiety Disorders; Suicide Rates Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Youths—A Cause for Alarm; New initiative to disaggregate AAPI data, reveal diverse needs; In 2020, AAPIs saw the highest increases in voter turnout; Chinese Americans: A Survey Data Snapshot; Filipino Americans:A Survey Data Snapshot; Indian Americans: A Survey Data Snapshot; Japanese Americans:A Survey Data Snapshot; Korean Americans: A Survey Data Snapshot; Vietnamese Americans: A Survey Data Snapshot; 'FoMO' is a key risk factor for mental health and burnout at work; Encephalitis;Breast Cancer Rises Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women; Why do we forget things we were just thinking about?; Asian Language Resources;
• Public Health Sites O-Z Psoriasis and Your Health; Tertiary Syphilis - What Is It, Causes, Treatment, and More;High-risk HPV lowers sperm count, may affect fertility; Chlamydia can settle in the intestine; The biology of smell is a mystery — AI is helping to solve it Scientists are beginning to crack the fiendishly complex code that helps us to sense odours;
• Senior Health Dementia Is Often Preventable. Here’s What You Can Do, According to the Latest Research;Key Indicators for Healthy Aging; The link between sleep and healthy aging; Aging: What are the 2 ages the body undergoes major changes?;Undulating changes in human plasma proteome profiles across the lifespan; Variety is the spice of learning, memory study suggests. Older adults learned a memory task best after practicing multiple related tasks, suggesting that diverse cognitive training supports mental sharpness as we age;Light pollution at night may increase risk of Alzheimer’s, study finds. Research says outdoor light exposure in evening increases prevalence of the disease, especially in people under age 65;
• New section: Brain Toilet; Does Your Brain Drain Well? Brain Toilet Obstruction (BTO); The link between sleep and healthy aging; Brain creates three copies for a single memory;Sleep resets neurons for new memories the next day;Journey into sleep. An illustrated tour of why scientists are finding that sleep matters more than we know;
• Statistical Procedures Online Statistical Calculators; How to Lie with AI”and Why Public Health Agencies Should Care;
• Statistical Programs Online Statistical Calculators;
• Vaping in Youth; E-Cigarette Use in Adults; Controversial FDA Decision Authorizes Menthol-Flavored E-Cigarettes Despite Risks to Youth; "Denicotinized"; What Are E-Cigarettes? Fact Sheet; E-Cigarette Use in Adolescents and Adults”A JAMA Collection; Supporting Adolescents’ Desire to Quit E-Cigarettes; Variability in Constituents of E-Cigarette Products Containing Nicotine Analogues; A Vaping Cessation Text Message Program for Adolescent E-Cigarette Users A Randomized Clinical Trial;Some E-Cigarette Chemicals Mimic Nicotine, Possibly Bypassing Regulation; New section: Synthetic Nicotine; Vaping damages young people's lungs as much as smoking, study suggests. Research challenges idea that vaping could be healthier alternative to smoking, say authors of research;
• Web Resources Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline;Online Health and Safety for Children and Youth: Best Practices for Families and Guidance for Industry; AI poses no existential threat to humanity, new study finds. Large language models like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills, meaning they pose no existential threat to humanity; Would you prefer AI to make major life decisions for you? Study suggests yes — but you'd be much happier if humans did; Anatomy of an Attack; Why the NSA advises you to turn off your phone once a week. Powering off your phone regularly, disabling Bluetooth, and using only trusted accessories are just a few of the NSA's security recommendations. Here's what else to know; Regular mobile phone use may increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, study suggests. A new study investigates the association between mobile phone use, risk of heart diseases, and modifiable lifestyle factors; New section: Digital History; We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?;Social media platforms are using what you create for artificial intelligence. Here’s how to opt out;
• Women's Health Gratitude and Mortality Among Older US Female Nurses; 2024 State Scorecard on Women's Health and Reproductive Care;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle About Pesticides and Reproductive Health; What You Should Know About the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; Some OB-GYNs aren't getting abortion training, report finds, while pregnancy complications are on the rise. House Democrats, in a monthslong investigation, interviewed leaders of OB-GYN residency programs and found worrisome effects of abortion restrictions; Abortion Bans Harm Not Just Pregnant People - They Harm Newborns and Infants Too; U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2024; When Abortion Wasn't a Dirty Word. The medical term once encompassed any form of pregnancy loss, including miscarriage. Pesticide exposure linked to stillbirth risk in new study; Abortion Experiences, Knowledge, and Attitudes Among Women in the U.S.: Findings from the 2024 KFF Women's Health Survey;Current, prior substance use tied to hot flashes, other bothersome menopause symptoms;Sticky fallopian tube fluid holds key to causes of infertility; New section: Infertility; Dobbs Has Fundamentally Changed Obstetric Care, Study Finds” Report details real examples of how abortion bans have led to poor medical care;Changes in Permanent Contraception Procedures Among Young Adults Following the Dobbs Decision;Certain chemicals may trigger early puberty in girls; New section: Puberty;Poor Sleep in Pregnancy Linked to Developmental Risks;
• Women's Health Issues Cannabis Use in Pregnancy May Mean Worse Outcomes for Moms - Retrospective study suggests greater risk of preeclampsia, other adverse maternal health outcomes;Poor Physical Function Likely the Main Reason for Higher Fracture Risk in T2D- Skeletal characteristics may not be to blame among older women;A study found toxic metals in popular tampon brands. Here's what experts advise;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers How Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tools Work; Surgery to Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer; New section: Information - Surgical; Regional Anesthesia to Your Breast, Armpit, or Chest Wall; Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome: Defining Perioperative Etiologies to Guide New Methods of Prevention for Plastic Surgeons; Chronic Pain After Mastectomy and Chest Surgery; Pectoral nerve block as the sole anesthetic technique for a modified radical mastectomy in a comorbid patient; Innovative regional anesthesia technique reduces pain, opioid use after mastectomy for breast cancer; Nerve Blocks for Breast Surgery; Pectoral nerve blocks and postoperative pain outcomes after mastectomy: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials; Analgesia for Breast Surgery — A Brief Overview; Nerve Blocks For Surgery; How Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tools Work; Risk of Ovarian Cancer Higher in Women With Endometriosis - Risk was highest in women with deep infiltrating endometriosis and/or ovarian endometriomas; Jackson-Pratt (JP) Drain; Evaluating imaging-pathology concordance and discordance after ultrasound-guided breast biopsy; Surgery to Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer; Bilateral Mastectomy and Breast Cancer Mortality; Bilateral Mastectomy Reduces Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk, but Not Mortality Findings question interpretation that contralateral cases represent a new primary tumor; Bilateral Mastectomy and Breast Cancer Mortality; Post-Operative Activity Guidelines and Exercises; Mastectomy Surgery and Recovery: What to Expect; Modified Radical Mastectomy; Breast Reconstruction Following Prophylactic or Therapeutic Mastectomy for Breast Cancer; Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy; New approach to robotic mastectomy can preserve full breast and nipple sensation; What your breast looks like after surgery; Mayoclinic Mastectomy; Hopkinsmedicine Mastectomy.Mastectomy (Breast Removal); Mastectomy – What You Need to Know; Mastectomy (Breast Removal Surgery); Mastectomy - surgery to remove your breast; AJCC - Breast Cancer Staging System; Physician to Physician AJCC 8th Edition Breast; Breast Cancer Stages; Atypical ductal hyperplasia: What it is and how it's treated; Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia (ADH); Atypical hyperplasia of the breast;4 questions about breast calcifications, answered; High Risk Screening and Genetics Clinic; Mammograms & Breast Examination; BRCA Gene Mutations: Cancer Risk and Genetic Testing; Clinicopathological characteristics of BRCA-associated breast cancer in Asian patients;What to know about chest tightness after a mastectomy; Double mastectomy; Postmastectomy pain syndrome (PMPS); Post-mastectomy Pain Syndrome- Cancer.org; How Fast Does Breast Cancer Grow?; Gestational Diabetes Won't Raise Women's Odds for Breast Cancer; 90% of breast imaging centers now offer 3D tomosynthesis;Mammography Quality Standards Act and Program;Endometriosis types and ovarian cancer risk; Adjusting to Body Changes After Breast Cancer Treatment; Odds of late-stage cancer diagnosis double when women put off annual breast cancer screening; Breast density notification laws: How will the FDA's updates affect radiologists and referring providers?; A Practical Guide to Understanding BIRADS; Bi-RADS for Mammography and Ultrasound 2013 Updated version; >Key discovery advances fight to reduce breast cancer recurrence. The surprising discovery that cellular protein G 13 may actually protect against -- rather than promote growth of -- the most commonly relapsing type of breast cancer signals potential for more effective and innovative treatments;Breast cancer cases spike among Asian Pacific women; New section: Demogrpahics and Breast Cancer; Breast Cancer Rises Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women; Breast Cancer Rises Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women;The debate over when women should start breast screenings; Breast Cancer Facts & Stats; Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers;FDA's dense breast notification requirement explained;Atypical hyperplasia of the breast; Hyperplasia of the Breast; Active Surveillance for Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia and Ductal Carcinoma In Situ;New ACR Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines call for earlier and more-intensive screening for high-risk women;Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality from Digital Mammography Screening: A Modeling Study;Talk to Your Doctor About Your Breast Cancer Risk by Age 25;Digital Breast Tomosynthesis May Reduce Development of Advanced Cancers - Retrospective study suggests benefits over digital mammography;Ten-year study shows tomosynthesis improves breast cancer detection;Radiologists report fewer false positives when they have access to prior mammograms;A Visual Guide to Breast Cancer; Breast and ovarian cancer newly linked to thousands of gene variants; Breast Cancer May Spread by Recruiting Nearby Sensory Nerves; Diet Tips for Breast Cancer;Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy vs No Axillary Surgery in Patients With Small Breast Cancer and Negative Results on Ultrasonography of Axillary Lymph Nodes. The SOUND Randomized Clinical Trial;Breast Cancer - Health Professional Version; Breast Cancer - Health Patient Version;Breast tomosynthesis reduces recalls, could soon replace routine 2D mammography;Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds;Application of the Key Characteristics Framework to Identify Potential Breast Carcinogens Using Publicly Available in Vivo, in Vitro, and in Silico Data;Breast Cancer Hormone Receptor Status;3D mammograms show benefits over 2D imaging, especially for dense breasts;Beyond Survival: Why Many Women Opt for a Double Mastectomy;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke CVD presents differently in women than it does in men guidelines should reflect that; The state of US women's heart health: A path to improved health and financial outcomes; Risk of death from CVD skyrockets when women use cannabis; Single blood test predicts 30-year cardiovascular disease risks for women. Measuring inflammation and lipids in midlife may support earlier detection, treatment;
• Writing The 'Sift' strategy: A four-step method for spotting misinformation; Tineye.com; Yandex.com; How different are preprints from their published versions? 2 studies have some answers Both studies find that most COVID-19 research papers don’t drastically change between the time they are posted on a preprint server and when they're published in an academic journal;Anatomy of a 'conspiracy loop': Do we need a new way of looking at the spread of fake claims?; Study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style. The convoluted 'legalese' used in legal documents conveys a special sense of authority, and even non-lawyers have learned to wield it;

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• Academic Resources Cannabis Use During Adolescence and Young Adulthood and Academic Achievement. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis; Cannabis Use in Teens, Young Adults Linked to Lower Academic Success. Frequency of use and age of onset also implicated in worse outcomes;Is the Internet Impairing Your Medical Memory? Digital convenience can foster an illusion of competence and knowledge;Why We’re Wired to Love Simple Solutions;Where Companies Go Wrong with Learning and Development;
• Annotated Great Books Bibliography Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know;
• Annotated Medical Bibliography Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know;
• Annotated Public Health Practice Bibliography Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know;
• Cancer Statistics - Our World in Data;Starving cancer cells of fat may improve cancer treatment;Prevention of Anal Cancer in High-Risk Individuals; Seven Steps You Can Take Right Now To Reduce Your Cancer Risk; Renal Cell Carcinoma A Review; Ancient immune defense system plays an unexpected role in cancer; New section: Immune System Aspects; Coping with Advanced Cancer Long Term; Mapping how cancers form and spread; Even low levels of arsenic in drinking water raise kidney cancer risk. New study shows that current arsenic regulations might be insufficient to protect public health;In five cancer types, prevention and screening have been major contributors to saving lives. NIH modeling study looked at the individual and combined impacts of cancer prevention, screening, and treatment; Screening efforts have helped avert millions of cancer-related deaths in recent decades;Early-onset colorectal cancer cases surge globally;Early-onset colorectal cancer cases surge globally; Brain tumors hijack circadian clock to grow; Microplastics in the air may be leading to lung and colon cancers.A review of 3,000 studies also suggests these minute plastic air particles may be causing male and female infertility;HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer; New section: Infectiou Aspects: What share of cancers are caused by infections?; Researchers Develop Groundbreaking Technology To Revert Cancer Cells Into Normal Cells.The new approach offers a systematic way to reverse cancer cells to their normal state, potentially revolutionizing future treatments;
• Chronic Disease Index Early-life sugar intake affects chronic disease risk;Global Burden of Disease (GBD). The GBD study is the largest and most comprehensive effort to quantify health loss across places and over time, so health systems can be improved and disparities eliminated;
• COVID-19 Is a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent and Exhibits a Genetic Interaction With ABO Blood Type;The heart has its own 'brain'; Long-term exposure to air pollution linked to blood clots in veins that bring blood to the heart. An observational study of more than 6,500 adults is one of the most detailed in the U.S.;
• New guideline: Preventing a first stroke may be possible with screening, lifestyle changes;
• Chinese Culture ;
• Cool Sites A- L 6 tips for taking better photos;
• Reduced risk of serious cardiovascular disease after COVID vaccination; COVID-19 a CV risk equivalent to prior heart disease; type O blood may be protective;Key SARS-CoV-2 enzyme behind virus's infectiousness, researchers say; Obesity May Raise Risk of Long COVID in Youth. Researchers observed dose-response relationship for increasing BMI and long COVID risk;Prevalence of Long COVID Among Adults Who Have Ever Had COVID-19, by Selected Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, Spring 2023; Recent COVID-19 vaccination tied to lower risk of long COVID;17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19;We Can Do This: An Assessment of the Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Public Health Campaign;Immunocompromised Patients With Persistent COVID-19 Can Harbor Drug-Resistant Variants Following Treatment; What to Know About XEC, the New SARS-CoV-2 Variant Expected to Dominate Winter's COVID-19 Wave; Provisional COVID-19 Mortality Surveillance;Men more likely than women to develop COVID-19 pneumonia, research suggests;Analysis of 25 studies shows reduced risk of long COVID after vaccination;Estimated cumulative excess deaths per 100,000 people during COVID-19, Jun 17, 2024;FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward; Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID. Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute;
• COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations and Maternal Vaccination Among Infants Aged <6 Months COVID-NET, 12 States, October 2022-April 2024;
• 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19;
• COVID-19 Affects Memory and Cognition for Up to a Year; COVID-19 Is a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent and Exhibits a Genetic Interaction With ABO Blood Type;First wave of COVID-19 increased risk of heart attack, stroke up to three years later; COVID-19 Damages A Major Brain Control Center, Ultra-Powerful MRI Scans Reveal;Ultra-high field MRI implicates long COVID in brainstem damage; Quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7 T in COVID-19: brainstem effects and outcome associations; Type 2 Diabetes Diagnoses Emerge in Teens Months After COVID - Risk of new diabetes diagnosis was higher compared with non-COVID respiratory infections;Persistent Virus May Drive Long COVID; History of COVID-19 doubles long-term risk of heart attack, stroke or death; Missing immune cells may explain why COVID-19 vaccine protection quickly wanes.New insights on what stimulates long-lived antibody production could spur better vaccines;Measurement of circulating viral antigens post-SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multicohort study;ffectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines; New section: Vaccine Disinformation; The Disinformation Dozen; Long COVID inflammation damages the heart, study finds; Long-Term Risk of Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Connective Tissue Disorders Following COVID-19;SARS-CoV-2 infection increases risk of intracranial hemorrhage; Paxlovid cuts COVID hospitalization, death risk and speeds symptom relief, studies find;SARS-CoV-2 and its Multifaceted Impact on Bone Health: Mechanisms and Clinical Evidence; New section: Bone Issues; The Latest Research About Paxlovid: Effectiveness, Access, and Possible Long COVID Benefits; Neurologic Manifestations of Long COVID Disproportionately Affect Young and Middle-Age Adults;Spike Protein Lingers in Brain, Fuels Long COVID;Having COVID-19 doubles long-term risk of heart attack, stroke, new Clinic study suggests;Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19; A dial for tuning the immune system: Discovery sheds light on why COVID makes some sicker than others. Findings offer insight into what drives autoimmune diseases, Long COVID and more; About 8% of US adults have ever had long COVID, survey find; 2024 Update of the RECOVER-Adult Long COVID Research Index;Study: 6% of US adults have long COVID, and many have reduced quality of life;Long COVID and Significant Long COVID-Associated Activity Limitation Among Adults, by Jurisdiction United States, 2023;
• Ultra-processed foods pose unique dangers for people with type 2 diabetes. Researchers found ultra-processed foods, even diet ones, bring distinct risks for people with diabetes;People with type 2 diabetes who eat low-carb may be able to discontinue medication; DSMES Health Literacy Tool: Plain Language Glossary; DSMES Health Literacy Tool: Tools for Learning;Prevalence of Total, Diagnosed, and Undiagnosed Diabetes in Adults: United States, August 2021-August 2023;Mortality Risk Higher Among Patients With T1D Than T2D;Low-Carbohydrate Diet May Boost β-Cell Function in Mild Type 2 Diabetes; Food additive carrageenan (E 407) could disrupt the intestinal barrier and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, study finds;Long COVID and Significant Long COVID–Associated Activity Limitation Among Adults, by Jurisdiction United States, 2023;
• Epidemiology M - Z New setion: Taxonomy; NCBI Taxonomy: Upcoming Changes to Viruses; 'Silly and pompous': Official new names for viruses rile up researchers. An overhaul of viruses' scientific naming system has incensed some virologists, but others are more accepting; Binomial nomenclature for virus species: a consultation; Current Taxonomy Spreadsheet; Current ICTV Taxonomy Release Taxonomy Browser;
• Favorite MoviesThe transformative power of movies; This is your brain on movies; Who's the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis;
• Favorite Music Music and Health: What You Need To Know. Can music be good for you? Yes, according to a growing body of research. Listening to or making music affects the brain in ways that may help promote health and manage disease symptoms; Music listening helps recovery from surgery; We Don’t Want New Music Anymore;
• Fitness Different exercise patterns bring health benefits; Five minutes of extra exercise a day could lower blood pressure.Findings show importance of activities that raise heart rate for blood pressure control; Fitness Level May Offset Genetic Dementia Risk. In middle-age and older adults, high cardiorespiratory fitness was linked with better cognition;
• H5N1 Four more health care workers reported illnesses after caring for bird flu case in Missouri. It is not clear if any of these people were actually infected with H5N1; More Healthcare Workers Tied to Missouri H5N1 Bird Flu Case Developed Symptoms. All four will have serology testing to determine whether they, too, had H5N1 infection;California investigating possible case of bird flu in dairy worker; H5N1 infects second farm worker in California as feds bolster vaccine supply;Two New Cases of Avian Flu Spotted in California. Investigation of Missouri case also continues amid complications;6 dairy workers infected in California as bird flu outbreak spreads; Bird Flu Is Primarily Transmitted Among Dairy Cattle Through Milking, Study Suggests;Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health. When dairy cows in Texas began falling ill with H5N1, alarmed veterinarians expected a fierce response to contain an outbreak with pandemic-sparking potential. Then politics—and, critics say, a key agency’s mandate to protect dairy-industry revenues—intervened;CDC Report on Missouri H5N1 Serology Testing;Health Departments Struggle to Track Human Cases of Bird Flu, Emails Reveal We need to take steps today to prevent the worst-case scenario, says expert; Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Action to Halt the Spread of Bird Flu, including in California and Washington;Bovine H5N1 influenza from infected worker transmissible and lethal in animal models. Some antiviral drugs highly effective against bovine H5N1;California Current Bird Flu Situation;Updates on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI);Bird flu has been found in a pig for the first time in the U.S.;Federal and State Veterinary Agencies Share Update on HPAI Detections in Oregon Backyard Farm, Including First H5N1 Detections in Swine; New section: H5N1/Pigs; Exclusive: US to begin bulk milk testing for bird flu after push from industry; Bird flu spreading faster than 2023 in the EU, data shows;USDA announces first H5N1 avian flu detection in US pigs;Study of H5N1 from an infected person;Serologic Evidence of Recent Infection with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5) Virus Among Dairy Workers Michigan and Colorado, June-August 2024;Personal Protective Equipment Use by Dairy Farmworkers Exposed to Cows Infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses” Colorado, 2024; Scientists track emergence of novel H5N1 flu reassortant in Cambodia; A human bird flu case is thought to be found in Canada for the first time; Studies describe deadly avian flu outbreaks among seals, terns;Oregon confirms first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza; The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary; California Case Is the First Confirmed Bird Flu Infection in a U.S. Child. No evidence virus spread from child to other people; CDC confirms H5N1 in California child as Hawaii details testing results; CDC confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in a Child in California; Why a teenager's bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists. A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from person to person;What Are the Symptoms of Bird Flu?; Here's why bird flu fears are intensifying;H5N1 Bird Flu continues to take its toll in the United States, also affecting British Columbia;The Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Getting More Dangerous;A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors; Scientists identify mutation that could facilitate H5N1 'bird flu' virus infection and potential transmission in humans. New findings underscore the importance of ongoing surveillance for H5N1 mutations that pose risks to public health;Single mutation in H5N1 influenza surface protein could enable easier human infection;Under certain conditions, a single H5N1 flu virus mutation could lead to spread among people; USDA Announces New Federal Order, Begins National Milk Testing Strategy to Address H5N1 in Dairy Herds; USDA issues national milk testing order; Bird flu virus isolated from hospitalized Canadian teen shows signs of human adaptation; CDC confirms first case of bird flu in a child in California. State health agencies maintain that the risk for the virus spreading is low; Possible H5N1 bird flu case in Marin County child; source of infection unknown;Bird flu from drinking raw milk;Son Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk: Murrieta Mom's Journey. Raw milk made recent headlines, but Mary McGonigle-Martin of Murrieta has warned of its dangers since 2006; Avian flu suspected in cats that drank raw milk as virus kills animals at Arizona zoo;First H5N1 Bird Flu Infections in Pigs Raises Concerns;U.S. reports first severe human case of bird flu, in a patient hospitalized in Louisiana. The CDC said the person was most likely exposed to the virus from sick or dead birds in a backyard flock; CDC Confirms First Severe Case of H5N1 Bird Flu in the United States;Governor Newsom takes proactive action to strengthen robust state response to Bird Flu; Los Angeles County confirms avian flu in cat deaths as more cases suspected; Confirmed H5 Bird Flu Detected in Los Angeles County Cats That Consumed Recalled Raw Milk - Public Health Investigating Additional Possible Cases in Cats;CDC confirms first severe H5N1 case in US patient;Public Health Warns Against Feeding Pets Raw Food Following H5 Bird Flu Virus Detection; Getting Ahead of H5N1: Declare a Public Health Emergency, Expand Wastewater Testing, and Increase Vaccine Research and Availability—Sooner Rather Than Later; Bird flu has killed 20 big cats including cougars at a U.S. wildlife sanctuary;Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses Identified in a Person in Louisiana; Bird poop may be the key to stopping the next flu pandemic. Here's why;
• Health Care Information Are You Considering a Complementary Health Approach?;
• Healthy People 2030 Leading Health Indicators Infographics;
• How do people die of the flu?;How long is the flu contagious?; Lassa Fever Suspected in Death of U.S. Traveler Returning from West Africa; One genomic test can diagnose nearly any infection; Next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF proves its effectiveness in quickly diagnosing almost any kind of pathogen -nMGS test;1 Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection. Next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF proves its effectiveness in quickly diagnosing almost any kind of pathogen; Bartonella quintana Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients from Donor Experiencing Homelessness, United States, 2022; New section: Bartonella quintana infection, also known as trench fever;
• The end of smallpox was ... the beginning for mpox; Mpox Cluster Caused by Tecovirimat-Resistant Monkeypox Virus — Five States, October 2023–February 2024;Risk of Clade II Mpox Associated with Intimate and Nonintimate Close Contact Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Adults — United States, August 2022–July 2023;Marburg Virus' Latest Eruption. A veteran fighter against hemorrhagic fevers shares candid thoughts; CDC issues interim recommendations to prevent sexual Oropouche virus spread; Case report: Live Oropouche virus found in semen 16 days after symptom onset; Preventing Oropouche; Replication-Competent Oropouche Virus in Semen of Traveler Returning to Italy from Cuba, 2024; WHO analysis of 67 years of mpox surveillance data reveals patterns in spread, mutations over time; About Marburg; Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000-2023; How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa. He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children;First Case of Clade I Mpox Diagnosed in the United States;What Is Polio?;
• Nutrition Resources Pervasiveness of inflammation-inducing foods in American diet. Anti-inflammatory foods can combat disease; New section: Inflammatory Foods; What are healthy diets?;Cocoa or green tea could protect you from the negative effects of fatty foods during mental stress; Systematic review of the potential adverse effects of caffeine consumption in healthy adults, pregnant women, adolescents, and children; Eating high-processed foods impacts muscle quality, study finds; New section: Raw Milk; Raw Milk and the First Amendment: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice; Is fake meat good to eat? Processed plant-based meat alternatives linked to depression risk in vegetarians;
• National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990-2021, and forecasts up to 2050; Dieting: Cause of the yo-yo effect deciphered; Fat in the Belly Correlates With Brain Amyloid. Lower HDL cholesterol also linked with high amyloid in the brain, says researcher;
• Personality Personality Traits Linked to Physical Activity and Sedentary Patterns;
• PHENOM Careers Page Want a new job in science? Six charts to help you land it. More than 1,100 research leaders from 77 countries told Nature about where and how they recruit scientists — and who makes the cut;What are the fastest-growing professions in America? Wind turbine service technician is the fastest-growing occupation in the country; the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects open roles for the job could grow 60% by 2033;
• Public Health Continuing Education Opportunities Cultural Competency Program for Disaster and Emergency Management;
• Public Health DataNational Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS) 2023; Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries;
• Public Health Practice
• Public Health Sites A - C The Myth of Moderate Drinking and the New Rules on Booze; New section: Bone Health; Consider All Prior Fractures During Osteoporosis Assessment, Study Suggests. Even bone breaks in early adulthood were linked with a higher risk for fracture in older adults; FRAX Fracture Risk Assessment Tool;10-Year Fracture Risk Calculato;
• Public Health Sites D-G Airborne plastic chemical levels shock researchers. Phthalates are known reproductive toxins and carcinogens; It all adds up: Study finds forever chemicals are more toxic as mixtures. Research also finds that PFOA and PFOS are major contributors to toxicity; Common consumer product chemicals now tied to cardiac electrical changes. Analysis of Fernald data shows environmental phenols associated with heart toxicities;Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome;It could take over 40 years for PFAS to leave groundwater; Daily Sea Surface Temperature; Hurricane Milton is tied for the fastest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record. It could become the new normal; We may need a new 'Category 6' hurricane level for winds over 192 mph, study suggests; New section: Fragrances; What is fragrance?; Skin Deep -Your guide to safer personal care products;High potency cannabis use leaves unique signature on DNA, study shows; New section: Pink Cocaine; What Is the Recreational Drug 'Pink Cocaine'? It rarely contains cocaine and is more likely to contain ketamine; Millions in the U.S. May Be Drinking Groundwater Tainted With 'Forever Chemicals'; PFAS in US Groundwater Interactive Dashboard;Pregnant women and babies face 'terrifying' threat from xylazine addiction; Low-level lead poisoning is still pervasive in the US and globally; Exposure to particular sources of air pollution is harmful to children's learning and memory;Ketamine Detection and Involvement in Drug Overdose Deaths - United States, July 2019-June 2023;Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Cancer Risk; Where There's Wildfire Smoke, There's Respiratory Infection, We're only just beginning to understand what wildfire smoke is capable of; New section: Accidental Poisoning; What Is Accidental Poisoning?;What Parents Should Know About Naloxone, a Medication That Reverses Opioid Poisoning or Overdose;20th century lead exposure damaged American mental health. Pernicious lead exposure in air, water, soils cost 151 million Americans some well-being;Psychosis Risk Tied to Heavy Cannabis Use and Genetic Factors; Drug Scheduling;
• Public Health Sites H-L Renal Cell Carcinoma A Review;Influenza, COVID-19, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccination Coverage Among Adults” United States, Fall 2024; Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease;New scan method unveils lung function secrets; New scan method unveils lung function secrets;
• Public Health Sites M - N ADHD in Adults: 4 Things to Know; Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: What You Need to Know; Asian American Diversity and Representation in the Health Care Workforce, 2007 to 2022;How Depression Alters Stress, Health, and Lifespan;BRCA1, BRCA2, and Associated Cancer Risks and Management for Male Patients A Review;New Study Reveals Hidden Suicide Risk Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Youth;Microplastics in the air may be leading to lung and colon cancers. A review of 3,000 studies also suggests these minute plastic air particles may be causing male and female infertility
• Public Health Sites O-Z What Is Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis?; New section: Doxycycline PEP; Human sense of smell is faster than previously thought, new study suggests;Loss of sense of smell may cause changes in breathing patterns, study suggests. Anosmia has been previously linked to a wide variety of mental and physical health challenges, ranging from dulled emotions and depression to a shortened lifespan;These Are the Days When Suicide Risk Is Highest, Global Study Finds Scientists examined data from 26 countries, finding that suicides are more likely to happen on certain days of the week and holidays;Smell loss linked to 100-plus diseases. Research shows scent therapy may reduce inflammation and boost health; HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer;Four cases of sexually transmitted fungal infection reported in New York; Notes from the Field: Trichophyton mentagrophytes Genotype VII — New York City, April-July 2024;What Is Genital Herpes?; Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infection; Syphilis had its roots in the Americas. Syphilis originated in the Americas prior to the arrival of Columbus, and European colonialism made it globally dominant;
• Senior Health Alzheimer's genetic risk factors spark inflammation in females; Alzheimer's timeline shows changes start as trickle, become torrent; An Overview of Bereavement and Grief Services in the United States Report to Congress, 2023;
• Scientists discover a secret to regulating our body clock, offering new approach to end jet lag; Why Do People Sleepwalk?;Sleep Disorders and Complementary Health Approaches; Sleep apnea contributes to dementia in older adults, especially women.Women with known or suspected sleep apnea were more likely than men to have symptoms or a diagnosis of dementia at every age level;Why Sleep Is the Key to Living Longer; Why deep sleep is helpful for memory Slow brain waves make neocortex especially receptive;
• Vaping with e-cigarettes linked to multiple cardiovascular risks; Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities—A Report of the Surgeon General;Vaping may affect vascular function as much or more than smoking, MRI study shows; Persistent tobacco smoking from childhood may cause heart damage by the mid-twenties;
• Useful Sites SaferProducts.gov; United States Consumer Product Safety Commission: Products Under the Jurisdiction of Other Federal Agencies and Federal Links; Vessel Sanitation Program - Advanced Cruise Ship Inspection Search;
• Web Resources Timeline: 15 Notable Cyberattacks and Data Breaches; Deepfakes: Federal and state regulation aims to curb a growing threat;"Nudify" deepfake bots remove clothes from victims in minutes, and millions are using them; New section: Deepfakes; Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘='AGI'. We finally have a real definition of the elusive "AGI."; When Online Content Disappears 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later;
• Women's Health - Life Cycle Adiposity in Midlife Linked to PFAS Exposure During Pregnancy;Red meat consumption linked to earlier onset of girls’ menstrual cycles; Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Executive Function and Aggressive Behavior at Age 5 Years; Pregnant women and babies face 'terrifying' threat from xylazine addiction; Catastrophic Health Expenditures for In-State and Out-of-State Abortion Care; Using personal care products during and after pregnancy can increase exposure to toxic chemicals; Endometriosis and uterine fibroids and risk of premature mortality: prospective cohort study; New section: Endometriosis; Microplastics in the air may be leading to lung and colon cancers. A review of 3,000 studies also suggests these minute plastic air particles may be causing male and female infertility;States' Abortion Laws Associated With Intimate Partner Violence-Related Homicide Of Women And Girls In The US, 2014-20;
• Women's Health Issues What are uterine fibroids;Microplastics in Every Human Placenta, New UNM Health Sciences Research Discovers;Blood Pressure Control in Early Adulthood; New section: High Blood Pressure, Hypertension; Domestic Violence Statistics;State Divorce Laws, Reproductive Care Policies, and Pregnancy-Associated Homicide Rates, 2018-2021; Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault;
• Women's Health - Breast and Other Cancers Younger women with breast arterial calcifications are at markedly higher risk of major cardiovascular events; New section: Calcifications; What to Expect at a Mammogram; Breast cancer statistics 2024; USPSTF Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Do Not Go Far Enough; Hormonal Contraception Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1 Carriers. Higher risk for ever use, increasing duration of use but no increase in BRCA2 carriers; What does breast cancer look like on mammography; Breast Health: Follow-up after an Abnormal Mammogram; Risk Factors for Early Breast Cancer; Breast cancer prevention: How to reduce your risk; Breast Cancer and Mammograms;Everyday Habits to Lower Breast Cancer Risk;Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer; BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Mutation Testing & Associated Cancers; Breast cancer and osteoporosis; Breast Cancer Statistics; About the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; HPV and Pap Test Results: Next Steps after an Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Test; Diethylstilbestrol (DES) Exposure and Cancer; Gynecologic Cancers; About Mammograms; Breast Cancer; Lymphedema After Breast Cancer Surgery; Mastectomy vs. Lumpectomy; Breast Cancer Surgery Options; Lesson Breast Cancer 2: Surgery Is Often the First Step; Breast Cancer Resource Center; What Helps Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence?; When Breast Cancer Comes Back;Family History and mTNBC: What to Know; Breast Cancer: What Does 'Metastatic' Mean?; New sections:Cancer growth; Prognosis; Breast Cancer Staging; How Fast Does Breast Cancer Start, Grow, and Spread?; Breast Cancer Tumor Size Chart; How does tumor size relate to breast cancer stage?; Breast Cancer Prognosis;Hormonal IUDs Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk - Absolute risk remains low, however; Why breast cancer spreads to bone; Early puberty may contribute to increase in breast cancer among younger women. Doctors aren’t clear why there’s been an increase in diagnoses of a specific type of tumor, but hormones are likely a key driver;Tyrer-Cuzick Risk Assessment Calculator; 10 Critical Breast Cancer Statistics;Breast Cancer Symptoms You May Not Know;When to See a Doctor About Breast Cancer Symptoms;Breast Cancer Causes and Risk Factors;How ovarian cancer disables immune cells; Novel role of BRCA1 in tumor suppression.Mechanisms by which the gene prevents breast and ovarian cancers understood;Breast Cancer Risk Factors; Breast cancer rates among women in their 30s are on the rise; Breast Cancer Incidence Still Rising Despite Decline in Death Rates; ACOG Updates Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines;How hypoxia helps cancer spread;Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman with breast cancer in The Flood(Sistine Chapel, Rome)?;Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment Guidelines Expand to Meet Growing Understanding of Hereditary Risk;A Visual Guide to Breast Cancer;Distant Recurrence Risk in Early Breast Cancer on the Decline. Trials now enroll lower-risk women who get better treatment, analysis suggests; New section: Recurrence;The Alcohol and Breast Cancer Connection;Healthy women have cells that resemble breast cancer; Breast tissue contains normal cells with genetic changes found in invasive breast cancers, which may guide future approaches to early detection; Abnormal prenatal blood test results could indicate hidden maternal cancers. NIH study finds some abnormal results due to colorectal, breast, lung and pancreatic cancers; How breast cancer cells survive in bone marrow after remission. Collaborative research approach unveils an important factor in why certain cancers come back; More than 400 chemicals in plastic products linked to breast cancer – study. Exposure to these toxic compounds, found in everyday items, could be elevating cancer risk in young women; Why the UN Treaty on Plastics Can Reduce Early Onset Cancers;Chromosome abnormalities found in healthy breast tissue; Is It Time to Abandon Surgery for Low-Risk DCIS?; Major Shift in Cervical Cancer Screening: What the Proposed Guidelines Mean for Women. A new proposal recommends replacing routine pap smears with HPV testing every five years for women over 30, signaling a serious shift in cervical cancer screening guidelines; No Apparent Harm From Omitting Lymph Node Dissection in Selected Breast Cancers. Nearly identical 5-year outcomes with no surgery, sentinel lymph node biopsy; New section: Lymph Node Dissection; Mammography; Changes to the US Preventive Services Task Force Screening Guidelines and Incidence of Breast Cancer;
• Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Very small amounts of intense physical activity may cut heart disease risk for women; Prediction of Major Adverse Coronary Events Using the Coronary Risk Score in Women;

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