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Older Adults Can Now Receive Additional Dose of Updated COVID-19 Vaccine
On February 28, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation for adults ages 65 years and older to receive an additional updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine dose. The recommendation acknowledges the increased risk of severe disease from COVID-19 in older adults, along with the currently available data on vaccine effectiveness.
Southern Lawmakers Rethink Long-Standing Opposition to Medicaid Expansion
As a part-time customer service representative, Jolene Dybas earns less than $15,000 a year, which is below the federal poverty level and too low for her to be eligible for subsidized health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace. Dybas, 53, also does not qualify for Medicaid in her home state of...
COVID-19 Reinfections Are Further Disabling People With Long COVID
Becky Letts and her 12-year-old son, Alex, have both had long COVID since early 2020. While the debilitating disease drastically reduced the quality of life for both of them, Becky said multiple reinfections led to new and worse symptoms. So far, she has had six confirmed COVID infections, while Alex has had five.
How do we know that HIV causes AIDS?
Four decades into the epidemic, skeptics still periodically question whether HIV is really cause of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Early in the epidemic in the 1980s, as AIDS ravaged the gay community, several potential causes were suggested. Some, for example, hypothesized that the use of recreational drugs—including inhaled nitrites, or poppers—or frequent anal sex might damage the immune system. In fact, the condition was so closely associated with gay men that it was initially dubbed Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID).
How Fringe Anti-Science Views Infiltrated Mainstream Politics — And What It Means in 2024
Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts about 250,000 kindergartners at risk for measles, which often leads to hospitalization and can cause death. In recent weeks, an infant and two young children have been hospitalized amid an ongoing measles outbreak in Philadelphia that spread to a day care center.
Federal Program to Save Rural Hospitals Feels Growing Pains
Folks in this Mississippi River town hope a new federal program can revive the optimism engraved long ago in a plaque on the side of their hospital. “Dedicated to the Future of Health Care in the Tri-State Area,” the sign declares. “May 11, 1981.”. More recent placards posted...
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