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Towards More Broadly Effective Influenza Vaccines
Might it be possible to develop a vaccine that works on every strain of influenza, rather than going through a seasonal exercise of vaccination every year? Or at least many strains, rather than just a few? In today's research materials, scientists discuss a possible approach, identifying a novel part of the influenza virus to target, a part of the viral structure that may mutate less readily than the usual vaccine targets. Viruses mutate aggressively when they infect large population, a challenge to both vaccination and natural immunity. The immune system recognizes small parts of a virus, epitopes, and the epitopes most r...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 30, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Flu During Pregnancy May Increase Child’s Risk for Bipolar Disorder
Pregnant mothers’ exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared underlying causes and illness processes with schizophrenia, which some studies have also linked to prenatal exposure to influenza.
Alan Brown, M.D., M.P.H, of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, a grantee of the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), said:
Prospective mothers should take common sense preventive measures...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - June 6, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: NIH Newsbot Source Type: blogs
Why Big Pharma is bad for your health
Just take one and you’ll feel better. Promise (Image from shutterstock).On Wednesday I came down with a stinking cold. Loaded up with all the cold and ‘flu medication I could find on the pharmacist’s shelves I headed into the office where I found on my desk a pre-ordered copy of Ben Goldacre’s new book Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients.I had read and enjoyed Goldacre’s previous book ‘Bad Science‘, an accessible and entertaining exploration of the world of medicine. I have not touched a homeopathic sugar pill or written an ill-informed scientific article since. Not that...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 22, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
This is the deadly virus you need to look out for
Days are getting shorter and evenings are getting cooler in temperate regions in the Northern hemisphere. This also means that the flu season will be around the corner soon. Most people group influenza (flu) and cold together and refer to the “cold and flu season” as the time of the year when we expect to come down with a “flu bug” and consider it “normal” or customary. Some are even convinced that they “never get the flu.” These attitudes presume the flu to be just like a “bad cold.” This is far from the truth: Influenza is nothing like a cold! The flu and the common cold are caused by different viruse...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melvin-sanicas" rel="tag" > Melvin Sanicas, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Cardiology Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Flu vaccination in pregnant women reduces risk of hospitalization
Influenza is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable deaths in the United States. Influenza also tops the list of the burden of disease and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) according to a Eurosurveillance article.
The flu is more likely to cause severe illness and harm pregnant women as compared to women who are not pregnant. Changes in the immune system, heart, and lungs during pregnancy make pregnant women (including women up to two weeks following childbirth) more susceptible to severe illness from flu, including illness that directly results in hospitalization. Pregnant women with influenza also have a higher ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melvin-sanicas" rel="tag" > Melvin Sanicas, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Influenza Vaccine Use Correlates with Lower Risk of Alzheimer ' s Disease
Researchers here note a correlation between receiving influenza vaccination, even once, and the later risk of Alzheimer's disease. This is interesting in the context of the present debate over the mechanisms of Alzheimer's, particularly regarding whether or not persistent viral infection is an important driver of the condition. Inflammation and immune system dysfunction are also clearly important in the progression of neurodegenerative conditions. How exactly influenza vaccines might influence this complex decline is an open question. One might hypothesize that this is mediated by something other than biology - that people...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Have All Your Staff Vaccinated and We Will Give You £1.4 Million Extra Funding, Says UK Government
Conclusion
Nurses have always been thought of as natural born carers. To force them to have vaccinations by dangling a nice juicy carrot in front of them with a vaccine syringe on the end and saying that their patients will suffer if they do not have the vaccination is pure evil. This is nothing short of emotional blackmail.
Why should the government think that it is right to deny hospitals much-needed funds all year and then say that the money is only available if they vaccinate their staff with dangerous and unnecessary vaccines?
Let’s face it. If all staff members do decide to have the flu vaccine, “for the ...
Source: vactruth.com - September 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Flu Vaccine Flumist force-vaccinating FORCED VACCINATION Mary Tocco Source Type: blogs
Twitter Proves Effective for Flu Tracking in New York City
Twitter is a host to an unlimited amount of chit-chat, gossip, and poorly written sentences. While it can be hard to get a grasp on the overall picture of what the talk is all about, having access to all the tweets can be surprisingly handy if you ha...
Source: Medgadget - March 21, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Net News Public Health Source Type: blogs
So the flu shot is only 10 percent effective. Here are 5 reasons to still get it.
So you heard the flu shot is 10 percent effective.
With so many sources of information available, the primary care provider’s role increasingly becomes that of educator. It is important to me that the parents of my patients make informed decisions, so when I have a parent decline the influenza vaccine, I make an effort to ask why. The number one response I hear has been “What’s the point? The flu shot is only 10 percent effective this year.”
In my discussions with parents, I’ve pinpointed several issues that are raised repetitively. Here’s five of them.
1. The effectiveness of your child’s flu shot is unknown...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jennifer-variste" rel="tag" > Jennifer Variste, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Is “man flu” really a thing?
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This one got by me. I’d never heard of “man flu” but according to a new study of the topic, the term is “so ubiquitous that it has been included in the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries. Oxford defines it as ‘a cold or similar minor ailment as experienced by a man who is regarded as exaggerating the severity of the symptoms.’”
Another reference called it “wimpy man” syndrome. Wow. I’d heard it said (mostly in jest) that if men had to carry and deliver babies, humankind would have long ago gone extinct. But wimpy man syndrome? I just had to learn more.
What is man flu?
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Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Health Infectious diseases Men's Health Source Type: blogs
Harvard Health Ad Watch: When marketing puts your health at risk
The goal of advertising is, of course, to catch your attention and sell you a product. But when it comes to health-related products, inaccuracies in advertising can be detrimental to your health.
Perhaps you’ve seen a Vitamin Water ad recently that touts the health benefits of Vitamin Water while seeming to discourage getting a flu shot as out of fashion. It originally appeared in 2011 but has mysteriously resurfaced online. The text of the ad states, “Flu shots are so last year,” and subheadings add “more vitamin C, more immunity, less snotty tissues.” The average customer seeing this ad could conclude that flu ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Complementary and alternative medicine Health Vaccines Vitamins and supplements Source Type: blogs
Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Viral Infection-CT
CT findings of peribronchovascular and subpleural ground-glass opacities and consolidation resembling organizing pneumonia may suggest the diagnosis of S-OIV infection.
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - March 1, 2013 Category: Radiologists Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
TWiV 634: 1000 hours of the sunlight of TWiV
TWiV reviews a new H1N1 swine influenza virus from China with pandemic potential, Ad5 vectored SARS-CoV-2 oral vaccine candidate, Operation Warp Speed vaccine candidates, FDA guidance on vaccine approval, and answer listener email. Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 634 (72 MB .mp3, 120 min)Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv
Source: virology blog - July 2, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology adenovirus COVID-19 FDA vaccine guidance Operation Warp Speed SARS-CoV-2 viral viruses Source Type: blogs
What Can We Expect From 2021: The COVID Perspective
Nearing the end of 2020, we are globally far from seeing the end of the pandemic that ruled (and ruined) 2020. Every day we see hundreds of thousands of new cases of coronavirus infections, with the WHO reporting a record one-day rise, while people have a hard time complying with the strict safety measures again. We are all waiting for this nightmare to stop, but will it ever? How long, ‘till we need to keep masks on and stay away from grandma? After this dystopian 2020, how are we looking at 2021?
No one knows for sure. With countries being knee-deep in the second wave, everyone is waiting for the vaccines to put an ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 15, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Science Fiction fake news vaccination covid covid19 pandemic vaccine hoax flu Oxfam COVAX olympics Source Type: blogs
Influenza Vaccination Associated with a 40% Reduced Risk of Alzheimer ' s Disease
Researchers here note a sizable reduction in Alzheimer's disease risk in that part of the aged population that receives influenza vaccines. There is the usual question as to whether vaccination is a proxy for conscientiousness in health matters throughout later life, but here the focus is on biological mechanisms that might explain the effect. The most plausible to my eyes is the phenomenon of trained immunity, in which vaccination for a specific pathogen can provoke a general improvement in all functions of the innate immune system. This improvement includes reduced inflammation, and the chronic inflammation of aging is c...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 1, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
