The Tour de France ’s Yellow Jersey Had an American Assist
LE MARKSTEIN, France—Sepp Kuss rolled slowly across the finish line, nearly 21 minutes after the leaders, bruised and bleeding profusely from cut above his eye and on his cheek. He had crashed hard on a downhill early during Saturday’s 20th stage of the Tour de France and now, he really needed two…#tourdefrance
Source: Reuters: Health - July 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

USWNT ' s World Cup win over Vietnam captures impressive number of viewers on Fox
You had to see Sophia Smith's dazzling performance in the U.S. women's national team's World Cup win over Vietnam on Friday night to believe it. Millions of viewers did just that. About 5,261,000 viewers tuned in to Fox on Friday evening to see Smith score two goals in the first half and assist on…#sophiasmith #worldcup #vietnam #lindseyhoran #uswnt #aucklandnewzealand #intermiami #mls #lionelmessi #fortlauderdale
Source: Reuters: Health - July 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Michelle Wie West ' s Air Jordan 1 collaboration sells out in minutes
Michelle Wie West said "aloha" to her golf career with an eye-catching collaboration with Jordan Brand. The five-time tournament winner released special edition Air Jordan 1 High Golf sneakers on Tuesday and, according to Complex, they sold out in minutes. They sold for retail at $200 a pair on…#michellewiewest #jordanbrand #complex #nike #aloha #hawaii #korean #wiewest #usopen #pebblebeach
Source: Reuters: Health - July 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

3 Dead After Listeria Outbreak in Washington State
Health officials said five cases of listeriosis in Puget Sound were probably caused by the same unidentified food source. All of those infected were older than 60.
Source: NYT Health - July 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Orlando Mayorquin Tags: Listeriosis Food Contamination and Poisoning Listeria Monocytogenes Immune System Puget Sound Washington (State) Source Type: news

TNF Blockers for IBD Tied to Risk for Immune-Mediated Diseases
(MedPage Today) -- Treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors was paradoxically associated with an increased risk for other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) in a large national study. The...
Source: MedPage Today Dermatology - July 22, 2023 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news

How Gilead Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy
Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.
Source: NYT Health - July 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Robbins and Sheryl Gay Stolberg Tags: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Inventions and Patents Suits and Litigation (Civil) Research Generic Brands and Products Gilead Sciences Inc Merck & Company Inc Truvada (Drug) Source Type: news

Hardship affects the gut microbiome across generations
Key takeawaysA UCLA-led study has shown that hardship experienced by mothers during their own childhood or during pregnancy is reflected in the composition of their 2-year-old children ’s gut microbiome.It was previously understood that in rodents, prenatal stress affects microbiomes into adulthood, but how long after birth the effects lasted in humans was unknown.The changes to this community of microorganisms are likely among the ways that hardship affects a child ’s socioemotional development.Hardship experienced by mothers during their own childhood or during pregnancy is reflected in the composition of their 2-yea...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 21, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Walmart offering half-price Walmart+ memberships for customers on government assistance
Walmart is slashing the price of Walmart+ memberships in half for new and existing customers who receive government assistance like food stamps, now known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The retail giant on Thursday rolled out Walmart+ Assist, a program that offers all the…#assist #walmartassist #paramount #walmart
Source: Reuters: Health - July 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Warning signs detected hours ahead of big earthquakes
Established earthquake warning systems provide at best just a minute or two of notice —and that’s only if the shaking doesn’t start under your feet. Decades of searching for a better warning sign—fluctuations in the geochemistry of groundwater , electromagnetic effects in the upper atmosphere, and even changes in animal behavior—have failed. Many question whether such a precursor signal even exists. Now, researchers say they have identified nearly imperceptible shifts along fault zones up to 2 hours before large earthquakes, according to a report today in Science . Although existing m...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

News at a glance: Ben Franklin ’s anticounterfeiting, science’s English language barrier, and disclosing stigmatized identities to students
INFECTIOUS DISEASES Drugmaker expands access to TB drug A man with tuberculosis undergoes an electrocardiogram at an Indian clinic that treats drug-resistant TB. UNIT PARANJPE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) last week agreed to help make a therapy critical to fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) more widely available and affordable. J&J said it would allow competitors to market generic versions of the lifesaving drug, bedaquiline, in 44 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the company has active patents. The ...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Asymptomatic COVID's Genetic Link; Tornado Hits Pfizer Plant; Thalidomide Survivors
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require subscriptions. A common variant in an immune-system gene was associated with a higher chance of asymptomatic COVID-19. (Nature) Doctors in the Northeast have established a pipeline of legally...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - July 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Far Right Looks to Seize on Spanish Election
VALENCIA, Spain—For decades after the death of dictator Francisco Franco , Spain was viewed as largely immune to the appeal of the far right. That is no longer so. After years in opposition, the far-right Vox party has emerged as a likely kingmaker in Spain’s coming parliamentary elections.#valencia #spain #franciscofranco #vox
Source: Reuters: Health - July 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Suspension-associated dislocation of the jaw in hanging - Glengarry J, Beaugeois M, Bugeja L, Huggins R, O'Donnell C.
Hanging is a common type of death, and the role of the medical investigation of such deaths by a forensic pathologist not only requires the determination of the cause of death but providing information to assist in the determination of the manner of death....
Source: SafetyLit - July 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Effectiveness and Safety of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in HIV Effectiveness and Safety of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in HIV
A systematic review and meta-analysis looks at the immune, efficacy, and safety outcomes of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine among people with HIV compared with people without HIV.AIDS
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - July 20, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS Journal Article Source Type: news

Impact of COVID-19 on HIV Adolescent Programming Impact of COVID-19 on HIV Adolescent Programming
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted access to HIV services for adolescents, which could risk achieved gains in HIV epidemic control.JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - July 20, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS Journal Article Source Type: news

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