eHealth Week

By The Associated Press Pfizer asked U.S. regulators Monday to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11. Elementary school-aged children already received kid-sized doses of Pfizer’s original vaccine, a third of the dose given to everyone 12 and older — two primary shots plus a booster. If the Food and Drug Administration agrees, […]

Robust and expanded surveillance systems should be implemented throughout Canada as part of a new approach to detecting novel and re-emerging respiratory pathogens, public health experts say. In addition to current clinical and outbreak management (COM) platforms, a new platform should include wastewater testing, population-based testing, and genomics, they added. Isha Berry “While each of these tiers has to some […]

Why even mild Covid is now being linked to long-term heart trouble: Millions of us have had the infection – and recovered in days. Now worrying research suggests there could be a nasty sting in the tail Two weeks after falling ill with Covid TV doctor Xand van Tulleken thought he was on the mend, when he suddenly took a […]

A literature review has examined the relationship between having HIV infection and disease of the heart muscle or arteries. The review of 45 studies by researchers from The School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is published today in JAMA. People with HIV are much more likely to die of […]

An unhealthy gut triggers changes in normal breast tissue that helps breast cancer spread to other parts of the body, new research from UVA Cancer Center reveals. The gut microbiome — the collection of microbes that naturally live inside us — can be disrupted by poor diet, long-term antibiotic use, obesity or other factors. When this happens, the ailing microbiome […]

Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, or NH/PIs, comprising more than 20 ethnic groups hailing from Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, are understudied despite being the third fastest growing racial group in the United States. Two studies now report that NH/PIs have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Andrew Subica at the University of California, Riverside, led research groups that surveyed more than […]

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is a type of cancer affecting the mucus-secreting glands of the lower esophagus—the tube connecting the throat to the stomach. It is the most common form of esophageal cancer and often preceded by Barrett’s metaplasia (BE), a deleterious change in cells lining the esophagus. Though the cause of EAC remains unclear, cell mutations have been linked, perhaps […]

Life expectancy in the United States is dropping and COVID is to blame, says the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In 2020, life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.8 years — the biggest drop since World War II, according to new figures from the federal organization. All 50 states and the District of Columbia saw drops in life expectancy. […]

Cancer research will get a boost in Missouri through a new collaboration between Siteman Cancer Center and University of Missouri Health Care’s Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia. The aim is to improve cancer care throughout Missouri. Siteman is based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. A major focus of the collaboration involves scientists […]