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Earlier Treatment for Perinatally Acquired Hepatitis C Leads to Better Outcomes
Starting direct-acting antiviral therapy for children with perinatally acquired hepatitis C at age 3 was linked to a longer life and lower health care costs, according to a mathematical modeling study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be passed from mother to child. According to the Centers...
White House Delays Finalizing FDA Rules to Prohibit Menthol Cigarettes
[On Friday, April 26], the White House announced it is indefinitely delaying finalization of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed rule to end the sale of menthol cigarettes, without mention of eliminating all flavors in cigars, despite an overwhelming amount of evidence demonstrating menthol flavoring is a serious public health risk.
Healthy Recipe: Almond Milk Chai Tea
A chai is sometimes the perfect sweet pick-me up on a really cold day. But going to a fancy coffee shop is sometimes out of reach or just too expensive. Coffee shop chai can be made right on your stove, and you’ll end up with something quite delicious that is lower is sugar than a traditional chai latte. You can buy any brand of chai tea that you like for this Almond Milk Chai Tea, if you get one that is already naturally flavored with vanilla, slowly add vanilla to taste so you don’t end up with something too sweet. Click here for the video!
NIH "Ending the HIV Epidemic” Projects Bridge Gaps Between HIV Research and Public Health Practice [VIDEO]
The National Institutes of Health recently issued $26M in awards to HIV research institutions in its fifth year supporting implementation science under the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative. These awards are the latest investments in a program that is rapidly and rigorously generating evidence to inform the unified domestic HIV response by agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Latino and Black People Feel More Confident Performing CPR
Between 2021 and 2023, the proportions of Latino and Black Americans who feel confident performing conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (also known as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) increased, according to a new American Heart Association (AHA) survey. The survey involved nearly 1,300 Americans ages 18 to 80. The survey found that 44% of...
$2.97M Grant to Improve PrEP HIV Prevention Among Black Women
Although Black cisgender women are disproportionately affected by HIV, less than 2% of eligible women in this group use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV. Available as daily pills and a long-acting injectable, PrEP can reduce the risk of getting HIV by 99%. To increase HIV prevention awareness among Black...
Conservative Justices Stir Trouble for Republican Politicians on Abortion
Abortion opponents have maneuvered in courthouses for years to end access to reproductive health care. In Arizona last week, a win for the anti-abortion camp caused political blowback for Republican candidates in the state and beyond. The reaction echoed the response to an Alabama Supreme Court decision over in vitro...
NIH RECOVER Makes Long COVID Data Easier to Access
Secure data from more than 14,000 adults who participate in National Institutes of Health observational research on long COVID are now available to authorized researchers through BioData Catalyst (BDC). BDC is a cloud-based ecosystem developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH, to accelerate research on heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
FDA Approves New Type of Immunotherapy for Early Bladder Cancer
On April 22, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Anktiva (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept), a novel type of immunotherapy that promotes the activity of natural killer cells and T cells, for people with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. The new treatment is expected to be available in the United States by mid-May.
More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.
When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned yellow. She was 36 at the time and working as a physician liaison for a hospital system on the South Carolina coast, where she helped build relationships among doctors. Privately, she had struggled with heavy drinking since her early 20s, long believing that alcohol helped calm her anxieties. She understood that the yellowing of her eyes was evidence of jaundice. Even so, the prospect of being diagnosed with alcohol-related liver disease wasn’t her first concern.
Rapid Rise in Syphilis Hits Native Americans Hardest
From her base in Gallup, New Mexico, Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who crisscross the sprawling Navajo Nation searching for patients who have tested positive for or been exposed to a disease once nearly eradicated in the U.S.: syphilis. Infection rates in this region of the...
Bird Flu Is Spreading Among Cattle but Milk Supply Appears Safe
The H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading among dairy cattle in the United States, and viral fragments have been detected in milk from grocery stores, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). So far, however, scientists have not found active virus, and health officials say pasteurized milk is considered safe. What’s more, no unusual trends in flu-like illness have been reported to date.
Lack of Sleep May Worsen Inflammation in People With HIV
Inadequate sleep can contribute to increased inflammation in people living with HIV, and a compensatory mechanism that normally counteracts this process and encourages sleep may be ineffective, according to research presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024) in Denver. Studies have shown that many people with...
Short-Term Incentives for Exercise Can Lead to Sustained Increases in Activity
Adults with heart disease risks who received daily reminders or incentives to become more active increased their daily steps by more than 1,500 after a year, and many were still sticking with their new habit six months later, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health that published in Circulation.
Stem Cell Changes Rejuvenate Immune System in Aged Mice
Aging is associated with a reduced ability to generate immune responses against novel infections, as was recently illustrated by the high mortality among older people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a mouse model of human aging and disease, NIAID scientists and Stanford University colleagues have shown that immune systems of...
Commonwealth Report Highlights U.S. Health Disparities
The 2024 Commonwealth Fund State Health Disparities Report found stark racial disparities in health and health care across all states. For the study, researchers collected data for over a dozen indicators of how state health systems performed. Researchers focused on health outcomes, access to care and quality and use of health care services among Black, white, Latino, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), and Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations.
Ancient DNA Reveals Origin of Racial/Ethnic Disparity in a Childhood Cancer
There are 40% more Hispanic/Latino kids diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) than white non-Hispanic/Latino children; actually, Hispanic/Latino individuals have the highest risk of ALL in the United States. However, the basis for this difference is not well understood. Researchers recently identified a genetic variant that accounts for the increased risk of B-cell ALL in Hispanic/Latino children, and using ancient DNA, they traced the mutation all the way back to the first migrants who entered the Americas [about] 13,000 years ago.
Dine Out and Help End HIV on April 25 (and Many Other Dates)
Make your dinner reservations! Thursday, April 25, marks the annual kickoff for Dining Out For Life (#DOFL), a unique HIV fundraising event in which thousands of restaurants in cities across the United States and Canada donate portions of the day’s proceeds to local HIV and AIDS organizations. Though some...
Bernie Sanders Seeks Feedback on $10 Billion “Moonshot” for Long COVID
Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a “moonshot” for Long COVID, which would allocate $1 billion a year for the next 10 years to mandatory research into the disease. The Senator and the United Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) are currently seeking email feedback on a draft of this legislation, not yet formally introduced to the Senate, until April 23, 2024.
Addressing Cancer Disparities Among Minorities Is a Mission for the CU Cancer Center
Cancer rates are not the same for everyone — and the fact that they differ by race and ethnicity, among many other categories of people, leads to the realization that health inequity is a factor in those disparities. That realization drives a number of initiatives at the University of...
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