Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

One in FIVE Americans live with chronic pain – here are 5 NON-MEDICINE ways to relieve pain

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A staggering 21 percent of Americans contend with chronic pain, an umbrella term that encompasses a range of debilitating conditions.

Over one in five Americans experienced chronic pain between 2019 and 2021, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows. 

Doctors have many tools in their arsenal to treat conditions that cause severe, persistent pain, such as chronic back pain and frequent migraines. One of those tools is opioid painkillers which, while effective, carry a substantial

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All you need to know about Marburg – one of world’s deadliest viruses that’s now spreading in Africa

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An untreatable Ebola-like virus — which kills up to nine in 10 of everyone it infects — is currently spreading in Africa. 

Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already killed nine in Equatorial Guinea.

Two suspected cases have since been spotted in neighbouring Cameroon, sparking fears that the virus may be spreading under the radar.

The World Health Organization has deployed teams to Equatorial Guinea, who are working at ‘full steam’ to ‘save lives and halt

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XBB.1.5 is NOT more likely to kill or hospitalize patients, experts say

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Concerns about a new deadly Covid wave are ramping up after infections caused by a highly transmissible new variant doubled in a week – but experts say there is no need to panic.

XBB.1.5 — another spinoff of the Omicron strain — was behind 40 percent of positive cases across America in the last week of 2022, up from 22 percent the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

It has been dubbed the most

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Fury as CDC quietly removes the word ‘women’ from flu vaccine advice for ‘pregnant people’

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The terms ‘women’ and ‘woman’ have been quietly scrubbed from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance on flu vaccines during pregnancy.

DailyMail.com found all gender-specific terms — also including ‘she’, ‘her’ and ‘mother’ — were wiped from the CDC webpage when it was updated last August.

They have been replaced by the gender-neutral terms ‘pregnant people’, ‘their’ or erased entirely.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) said there was ‘no logical scientific reason’, claiming it was

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Monkeypox vaccines to be rolled out at large LGBT events, health chiefs say

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Another 1.8million doses of the monkeypox vaccine will be rolled out from next week, health chiefs announced Thursday as officials prepare to roll out jabs at large LGBT events and U.S. cases hit 13,517.

The latest delivery of the shots — equivalent to 360,000 five-dose vials — was revealed by White House monkeypox response leader Dr Robert Fenton at a press conference. It marks a 50 percent surge in supply with 700,000 vials dished out so far.

He also revealed

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Children under five begin to receive Covid vaccines in ‘the only country in the world doing this’

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Americans children under the age of five have begun to receive the COVID-19 vaccine – with President Joe Biden exclaiming Tuesday that the nation is the only one in the world to jab children as young as six months old. Some experts are slamming the decision, and the subsequent discussion around the shots as dishonest and discrediting.

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were approved by both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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CDC reports NINTH presumptive case of monkeypox in Virginia

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A woman in Northern Virginia has become the ninth case of monkeypox to be detected in the U.S., it was revealed Thursday amid warnings the virus may now be spreading in the country.

State health chiefs said the patient recently returned from an African country ‘where the disease is known to occur’. She is isolating at home, and has a mild illness.

It was not clear whether the latest case was linked to the current outbreak, which is mostly among

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Americans traveling abroad urged to take ‘enhanced precautions’ against monkeypox

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Americans traveling abroad are being told to take ‘enhanced precautions’ to protect themselves from the monkeypox virus — as testing confirms two cases in Utah, bringing the tally of verified infections to three.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued the Level 2 warning Wednesday, which is one rung off the top-level which advises against all but ‘non-essential’ travel.

It told those outside the U.S. to avoid sick people and animals, not to eat game meat, and not

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Massachusetts officials confirm first human case of monkeypox

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Health officials in Massachusetts have detected a monkeypox infection in a man who has recently returned from Canada.

Its Department of Health said the individual was hospitalized, but in a ‘good condition’. They are now tracing his close contacts.

It is the first confirmed infection with the virus in the U.S. this year, and comes a day after CDC officials said they were monitoring six potential cases.

These individuals sat within three rows of an infected patient on a flight

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Blue states gang up on Biden: Gov Ned Lamont says Dems worked TOGETHER to drop school mask mandates

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East Coast Democrat governors banded together to drop school mask mandates, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont said on Thursday, even as President Joe Biden continues to drag his feet on lifting Covid-19 restrictions. 

The president is following the lead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is still clinging to pandemic health guidelines despite Covid infections plunging 43 percent nationwide.  

‘We worked on this together as Governors throughout the region. We thought this is a good time,’ Lamont

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