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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
Global Warming and Disease
BY MIKE MAGEE
A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.”
The search for origin in pandemics is not simply an esoteric academic exercise. It is practical, pragmatic, and hopefully preventive. The origin of our very own pandemic, now in its third year and claiming more than 1 million ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Uncategorized Bird Ecology Global Warming Source Type: blogs
What you need to know about monkeypox
Recently, several European countries have reported outbreaks of monkeypox following the first case (index case) reported in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2022, linked to a traveler from Nigeria. Monkeypox belongs to a family of other pox-like viruses and is a rare viral disease characterized by flu-like symptoms and a blistering rash that typicallyRead more …What you need to know about monkeypox originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/tejas-sekhar-and-divya-srinivasan" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Divya Srinivasan and Tejas Sekhar < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Does The ADHA Have Any Idea About What It Is Meant To Be Doing?
This appeared last week: Interview Highlight: Australian Digital Health Agency · Description In this highlight, Peter Greco learns about the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) from Dr Amandeep Hansra. The ADHA is encouraging everyone to not overlook having their flu and COVID vaccines and screening as well as having regular preventative check-ups. Australia has one of the best healthcare systems, but there are still opportunities for improvement. Whether it's a secure connection to doctors, electronic prescriptions or telehealth, through the ADHA progress is being made ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Naming the anti-Asian racism of U.S. COVID-19 policy
It started as the “Chinese virus.” Then the “kung flu.” Then came the boycotts of Chinatowns, the rise in harassment, assaults, and murders. The recognition of hate and discrimination against Asian Americans was long overdue. However, anti-Asian racism doesn’t just manifest in hate speech or violence; it has undermined the U.S. COVID-19 policy response. InRead more …Naming the anti-Asian racism of U.S. COVID-19 policy originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/michelle-ko" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Michelle Ko, MD, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Flu Is Making Comeback. Here ’s What We Can Do About It
Jeffrey A. SingerAfter being nearly absent in 2020 and 2021, influenza cases are making a comeback. In fact, cases are up ‐tickingunusually late in the year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)reported on April 15 that the majority of cases are H3N2, “antigenically different from the vaccine reference viruses.” This explains why the latest flu vaccine is only16 percent effective in reducing the chances of a moderate to severe infection. As of April 15, the CDC reported at least 4.3 million flu illnesses, 42,000 hospitalizations, and 2,500 deaths from the flu.Public health experts attribu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 18, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
TWiV 887: Bonfire of the monocytes
TWiV explains why this season's influenza vaccine is not protecting against mild to moderate disease caused by H3N2 virus, and that antibody-dependent entry of SARS-CoV-2 into monocytes is a major contributor to severe COVID-19.
Source: virology blog - April 10, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antibody dependent enhancement coronavirus COVID-19 Fc receptor fucosylation glycosylation H3N2 inflammation influenza vaccine pandemic SARS-CoV-22 viral viruses Source Type: blogs
No, it isn ' t over
The country as a whole, including apparently the CDC, has decided that the Covid-19 thing is over and done with. The Republicans in congress even insisted on stripping funding for Covid-19 testing and relief from the recent appropriation bill, and the Democrats went along with little protest. While it is true that most of the country right now is experiencing a lull, there has been a bump up in hospitalizations in Europe. Look at the far right of the chart: As you can see the uptick so far is small, but it ' s just beginning. It ' s because of the new Omicron BA.2 variant, which is more transmissible ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 28, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Lymphoid Follicle Chip Models Complex Immune Responses
Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have created a microfluidic chip that contains lymphoid follicle-like structures, allowing them to model complex immune responses to various pathogens and vaccines. The breakthrough could let scientists to mo...
Source: Medgadget - March 23, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Pathology Public Health Source Type: blogs
More on why we Stay Alive
A couple of days ago I referred to the doubling of human life expectancy in 100 years, and the importance of pasteurization of milk in making that happen. Our next installment is about water. There ' s nothing more basic than good old H2O, but it used to kill city dwellers about as often as milk. People actually figured this out even before Pasteur and Koch came up with the germ theory of disease.Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholera, which is spread through contaminated water or food. The disease causes severe diarrhea that can last for several days. Depending on the strain of bact...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 21, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
TWiV 878: Shape matters sometimes
TWiV revisits chronic wasting disease of cervids and the ability of the prions to infect meadow voles and raccoons, and the suggestion that stochastic assembly of influenza virus particles may play a role in phenotypic diversity.
Source: virology blog - March 20, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology cervid chronic wasting disease influenza virus prion transmissible spongiform encephalopathy viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Looking back on 2 years of uncertainty, adversity and more than a few silver linings
Since the beginning of COVID-19, we have recognized the truth of philosopher George Santayana’s oft-quoted 1905 writing—“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”— and looked for lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu, the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. Much was different, yet so much the same. ThereRead more …Looking back on 2 years of uncertainty, adversity and more than a few silver linings originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/rosanne-iversen-josh-welch-julie-kinkler-hannah-meyer" rel="tag" > Rosanne Iversen, MD, Josh Welch, MD, Julie Kinkler, AGNP-C, and Hannah Meyer, FNP-BC < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Whither Covid?
I recommend this Twitter thread by John Burn-Murdoch, as most Americans and their political leaders have apparently decided that the pandemic is over. It isn ' t, although here in the U.S. we are in a better place than we were a year ago. In a nutshell, new cases and hospitalizations are rising in much of the world, including much of Europe. This isn ' t so much because of loosened mitigation measures, but because of the emergence of a new variant, Omicron B.A2 which is evidently even more contagious than the original Omicron and perhaps a bit better at getting around existing immunity. It ' s just starting to show up...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)
By DAVID WARMFLASH, MD
This is part 2 of David Warmlash’s takedown of Robert W. Malone’s appearance (transcript) on the Rogan podcast. Part 1 is here
Menstruation and Fertility
Much more than the line about reproductive damage in the Wisconsin News clip that we used to open the story, Malone used the Rogan interview to dive more deeply into the topic, starting with:
…there’s a huge number of dysmenorrhea and menometrorrhagia…
By that, he meant excessive menstrual cramping and very heavy, often irregular, bleeding, which he followed up with:
…they DENY it…
Judging by other parts ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy antivaxxer COVID-19 vaccine David Warmflash Joe Rogan Robert Malone Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: The Stupidity Vaccine
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
For my health care tidbits this week, I think we need a new vaccine. We need one that prevents stupidity.Look I get that some people don’t think the flu vaccine is effective and don’t think the effects are too bad, so they don’t get one every year. Many people don’t get a vaccine for shingles. But as someone who had shingles long before the recommended ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt vaccines Source Type: blogs
