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Breast Exam False Positives Scar Women For Life

STAT NEWS – Detecting cancer early in a mammogram can be life-saving. But paradoxically, breast cancer screening also sometimes picks up tumors that would have caused less harm if they’d remained hidden. These cases, known as “overdiagnoses,” may never go on to pose a threat to a patient’s health for a number of different reasons. A new study, published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, suggests they occur in 1 of 7 breast cancer cases detected...

RFK, Jr’s Anti-Vaxx Crusade Anguishes Family

THE NEW YORK TIMES – Kerry Kennedy remembers how much she admired her older brother Robert as they grew up in Hickory Hill, the family estate in McLean, Va. “He was an extraordinary older brother,” she said the other day. She still talks about how he took her along to ford streams, crawl through drainpipes and catch frogs and snakes, ignoring his friends who did not want a 6-year-old girl tagging behind on their outdoor...

More Than 10.6 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Tracker

BLOOMBERG – Over a year into the biggest vaccination campaign in history, more than 10.6 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 27.5 million doses a day. In the U.S., 552 million doses have been given so far. During the last week, shots were administered at an average rate of 210,462 doses a day. More than 10.6 billion doses have been administered—135 shots for...

Why COVID-19 Vaccines Should Not Be Required for All Americans

U.S. News & World Report – Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and editor in chief of MedPage Today, argues that mandating vaccines for "every living, walking American" is, as of now, not well-supported by science. Moreover Makary, author of "The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It," has concerns about the two-dose vaccine regimen for young people. Should all Americans be required to...

Is Omicron Leading Us Closer To Herd Immunity Against COVID?

AP – Is omicron leading us closer to herd immunity against COVID-19? Experts say it's not likely that the highly transmissible variant — or any other variant — will lead to herd immunity. "Herd immunity is an elusive concept and doesn't apply to coronavirus," says Dr. Don Milton at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Herd immunity is when enough of a population is immune to a virus that it's hard for the...

Long-Lasting Pandemic Symptom: Fear

Renata Garza-Silva, a teacher in Los Angeles who had a kidney transplant and takes immune-suppressing drugs, worries that the mask mandate for classrooms will be lifted soon. Millions of Californians at high risk from conditions like heart disease, autoimmune disorders and diabetes feel unprotected and forgotten as the state rolls back its COVID orders.

COVID Cases Fall For 3rd Week, Deaths Also Drop

The number of new coronavirus cases around the world fell 21% in the last week, marking the third consecutive week that COVID-19 cases have dropped, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

A “Striking” Link Between Vitamin D Levels and Omicron

New data reveal an unexpected risk factor for the highly contagious Omicron virus: low levels of vitamin D.Source: Fernando Zhiminicela / Pixabay

State Constitutions Vex Conservatives’ Strategies for a Post-Roe World

KAISER HEALTH NEWS – Republican lawmakers in a handful of conservative states have stumbled on a roadblock to what they thought would be a clear path to setting new restrictions on abortion if the Supreme Court upends the landmark Roe v. Wade decision: right-to-privacy protections enshrined in their own state constitutions. In states where courts have ruled that their constitutions’ explicit privacy rights extend to the right of a woman to have an abortion, the...

Doc Group Pushes Ivermectin for Long COVID

MEDPAGE TODAY As patients with long COVID scour the internet desperate for relief, physicians are concerned they may stumble upon an unproven treatment plan touted by a group known for pushing the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) lists about 20 medications, vitamins, and therapies as part of its "i-recover" protocol for long COVID, with ivermectin at the top of the list. "Profoundly irresponsible and unethical" The group says it developed the...

Omicron Cases In CA Have Dropped 90%. Why Are Deaths Still Rising?

MERCURY NEWS – California’s COVID-19 case rates have plummeted nearly 90% from a month ago. But deaths linked to the virus are only now peaking from last month’s axis-shattering surge from the omicron variant. The Golden State’s climbing death toll now averages more than 200 daily COVID deaths reported each day. That’s the highest it’s been since last March, at the tail end of the state’s deadliest surge of the pandemic as vaccines were still...

Judge Nixes Statewide School Mask Mandate

Washington (CNN) An Illinois appellate court on Thursday dismissed an effort by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker to keep an emergency school mask mandate in effect for the entire state. The court, however, said the ruling does not apply to local mandates. The Chicago Public Schools district -- which was engaged in a bitter dispute with its teachers' union earlier this year over Covid-19 safety protocols -- swiftly said it would continue to require masks. Earlier this...

As Covid Slogs On, Seniors Find Fortitude Waning and Malaise Growing

KAISER HEALTH NEWS – Late one night in January, Jonathan Coffino, 78, turned to his wife as they sat in bed. “I don’t know how much longer I can do this,” he said, glumly. Coffino was referring to the caution that’s come to define his life during the covid-19 pandemic. After two years of mostly staying at home and avoiding people, his patience is frayed and his distress is growing. “There’s a terrible fear that I’ll...

Why “Follow the Science” Failed

"Trusting the experts" and "listening to the science" isn’t always easy, especially when health officials themselves can’t even seem to agree.

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