MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A worrisome international outbreak of monkeypox, a less harmful cousin of the smallpox virus, has now reached the United States and Canada. As of Saturday, 92… [+6925 chars]
U.K. health authorities on Monday said they had detected 36 more cases of monkeypox in England and the first infection in Scotland. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the new cases took the … [+1465 chars]
Theresa Babb was 12 when a birthday gift from a doctor broke her spirit. Doctors were trying to determine why the pre-teen was overweight. A hospital stay in Halifax coincided with her birthday. Wi… [+5134 chars]
LONDON (AP) A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as a random event that might be explained by r… [+4489 chars]
An extensive study of thousands of COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals found links between the severity of their infections and the levels of common air pollutants they experience. "This adds to… [+3266 chars]
Loss or alteration of taste (dysgeusia) is a common symptom of COVID. It's also a side effect of several illnesses and medications, including Paxlovid, the new antiviral medication to treat COVID inf… [+5017 chars]
Summary: Researchers uncover the mechanism behind how a subset of NSAIDs reduces inflammation, which helps explain some of the curious side effects of the anti-inflammatories. Source: Yale Non-ster… [+3544 chars]
Roughly 10 to 30 percent of people who catch COVID dont fully recover for several months, or even years. They instead experience a phenomenon known as long COVID, a constellation of new or ongoing he… [+1889 chars]
