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U.S. City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care Access

Tue, 2024-04-09 10:20 — mike kraft
City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care Access - KFF Health News People in their prime working years living in rural America are 43% more likely to die of natural causes, like diseases, than their urban counterparts, a disparity that grew rapidly in recent decades, according to a new federal report. khnkytjaw KFF Health News

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EU’s Covid recovery fund under pressure to allocate unused funds

Tue, 2024-04-09 09:23 — mike kraft
€500B remains unspent from EU’s Covid recovery fund Capitals urge European Commission to slash red tape fearing that huge amounts of money won’t ever be used. POLITICO

BRUSSELS — Governments have received less than a third of the EU's original €723 billion pot to help boost post-Covid economic recovery and are now heaping pressure on the European Commission to speed up payments.

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Long covid linked to blood issues; signs of ongoing inflammatory responses --preliminary British study

Mon, 2024-04-08 17:40 — mike kraft
Long covid linked to signs of ongoing inflammatory responses in blood People with long covid after a serious covid-19 infection have raised levels of many immune molecules in their blood. Better understanding how these molecules can vary could lead to more targeted treatments #author.fullName} New Scientist
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U.S. COVID-19 patients in rural areas have higher death rates following hospital stays --study

Mon, 2024-04-08 17:27 — mike kraft
Rural COVID-19 patients have higher death rates following hospital stays, data reveal A new analysis of US national data from researchers at the Mayo Clinic shows that patients from rural counties had higher death rates and trended toward higher readmission rates following COVID-19 hospitalization than those from urban counties. The difference persisted after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines.  CIDRAP

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FDA Authorizes COVID Drug Pemgarda for High-Risk Patients

Mon, 2024-04-08 11:21 — mike kraft
FDA Authorizes COVID Drug Pemgarda for High-Risk Patients A Yale Medicine expert explains the significance of a new preventive medication to protect certain immunocompromised people against COVID-19. Yale Medicine

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to a medicine meant to protect certain immunocompromised people against COVID-19.

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Bird Flu: CDC advises doctors to look out for bird flu infections among dairy farm workers

Mon, 2024-04-08 10:45 — mike kraft

 

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COVID infections down in 29 states, up in only 2--CDC

Mon, 2024-04-08 10:26 — mike kraft

 

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Vigorous exercise may be OK for people with long COVID-new Swedish study

Mon, 2024-04-08 10:11 — mike kraft
No need to avoid exercise with long-COVID diagnosis, researchers say Recommendations that people with long COVID, or post-COVID condition (PCC), should avoid vigorous exercise are probably too strict, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open from researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. CIDRAP
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CDC issues health alert for bird flu infection in US

Fri, 2024-04-05 18:20 — mike kraft
CDC issues health alert for bird flu infection in US The U.S. CDC on Friday issued a health alert to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza in a person who had contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with the virus. Reuters Reuters

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Paxlovid does not shorten COVID symptoms among fully vaccinated--study

Fri, 2024-04-05 10:21 — mike kraft
Among fully vaccinated, study shows Paxlovid does not shorten symptoms A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that, for those fully vaccinated against COVID-19 but having at least one risk factor for severe COVID, the antiviral drug Paxlovid did little to reduce symptom duration, but experts caution the findings might not apply to older patients. CIDRAP

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