by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
To prevent a repeat of last winter’s “tripledemic” of respiratory illnesses, Americans will be encouraged this fall to receive vaccines to stave off the flu, a new COVID variant, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Last year’s convergence of seasonal...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Only a third of Americans infected with hepatitis C from 2013 to 2022 were treated and cured, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that pointed to barriers to diagnoses, drugs, and preventive services. The Viral Hepatitis...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning doctors and public health officials about a handful of locally acquired cases of malaria. Four people in Florida and one person in Texas seem to have been exposed to the disease locally. The four...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jun 26, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Efforts to develop the next generation of Covid vaccines are running up against bureaucratic hassles and regulatory uncertainty, scientists say, obstacles that could make it harder to curb the spread of the coronavirus and arm the United States against future...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Today marks the end of the public health emergency in the United States, more than three years after it was first declared to combat the novel coronavirus by unlocking powerful tools to detect and contain the emerging threat. Several core aspects of America’s...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released new guidance Tuesday advising that women begin receiving annual breast cancer screenings at age 40 instead of its previous recommendation of 50, citing updated science. The independent volunteer panel of physicians’...
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