Author: Shannon Becker
Clinical Center Doctors Testing 3D-Printed Miniature Ventilator
(NIH) Through strategic partnerships, our Clinical Center doctors learned about and joined an international group of engineers, physicians, respiratory therapists, and patient advocates using their engineering skills to create a ventilator that was functional, affordable, and intuitive. After several iterations and bench testing, they devised a user-friendly ventilator. Then, with the assistance of 3D-printing technology, […]
Nov 29, 2022
Stroke and Heart Attack Risk Rises after Shingles Infection
(Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology) Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital report that shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is associated with an almost 30% higher long-term risk of a major cardiovascular event such a stroke or heart attack. Their study “Herpes Zoster and Long‐Term Risk of Cardiovascular Disease” appears in the Journal of the American Heart […]
Nov 29, 2022
Avian flu outbreak wipes out 50.54 mln U.S. birds, a record
(Reuters) Avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak in history, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed on Thursday. The deaths of chickens, turkeys and other birds represent the worst U.S. animal-health disaster to date, topping the previous record of 50.5 million birds that died […]
Nov 29, 2022
A Lasting Legacy of Covid: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths
(NYT) Not long after Randy Watt died of Covid-19, his daughter Danielle sat down at her computer, searching for clues as to why the smart and thoughtful man she knew had refused to get vaccinated. She pulled up Google, typed in a screen name he had used in the past and discovered a secret that […]
Nov 29, 2022
Polio is back in Indonesia, sparking vaccination campaign
(AP) Children in school uniforms and toddlers with their parents lined up Monday for polio vaccinations in the Sigli town square on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, after four children were found infected with the highly contagious disease that was declared eliminated in the country less than a decade ago. The […]
Nov 29, 2022
Covid becomes plague of elderly, reviving debate over ‘acceptable loss’
(Washington Post) In October, Felton’s team logged six deaths due to the virus, many of them among vaccinated people. Their ages: 80s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 90s.They included Betty Witzel, 88, described by her family as a tomboy who carried snakes in her pocket as a child and grew up to be a teacher, mother of […]
Nov 29, 2022
The Virus Formerly Known as Monkeypox
Monkeypox A recent NPR Goats & Soda article reports that the WHO gives us one year to stop using the term Monkeypox, as the disease’s original name plays into “racist and stigmatizing language.” The international monkeypox outbreak drastically raised the disease’s profile in Europe and the U.S., affecting more than 100 countries in all. As […]
Nov 29, 2022
WHO Issues New Name for Monkeypox
(MedPageToday) Monkeypox has been renamed mpox in order reduce stigmatization and racism associated with the name, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. While the process of changing the name of a virus would normally take a couple of years, the process was accelerated in this case. Mpox will enter ICD-10 online within days as a synonym […]
Nov 29, 2022
MRI Highlights Brain Blips Long After COVID Symptoms Have Subsided
(MedPageToday) A specialized type of MRI showed lingering brain abnormalities in patients up to 6 months after they recovered from COVID-19. Data from susceptibility-weighted MRI in 46 COVID-recovered patients and 30 healthy controls showed that the former had significantly higher susceptibility values in regions of the frontal lobe and brain stem, according to Vidur Mahajan, […]
Nov 29, 2022