Month: August 2022

The E. coli outbreak, from an unknown food source, has sickened 29 people, the CDC said. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever and vomiting. View original article Contributor: Andrew Jeong

The Biden administration will distribute monkeypox vaccine to jurisdictions that adopt a new protocol using one-fifth the regular dose. Critics called the plan “unscientific.” View original article Contributor: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Sharon Otterman and Apoorva Mandavilli

Facebook said that Children’s Health Defense, a group led by Mr. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, had “repeatedly” violated its guidelines by spreading medical misinformation. View original article Contributor: Sheera Frenkel

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. View original article Contributor: Knvul Sheikh

Dermatologists who specialize in hair loss say that the key ingredient in a topical treatment worked even better when taken orally at a low dose. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata

Before its discovery in New York’s wastewater, the virus made a series of ominous appearances around the world. View original article Contributor: Apoorva Mandavilli

The harmful molecules are everywhere, but chemists have made progress in developing a method to break them down. View original article Contributor: Carl Zimmer

Sunscreen is an important way to protect people from skin cancer and other harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays. But certain chemicals, or filters, in sunscreen have come under scrutiny lately for their potential impacts on the environment and human health. Most of the concern centers on ingredients in chemical sunscreens—like oxybenzone, avobenzone, octocrylene, homosalate, … Read more

NEW YORK — The head of the nation’s top public health agency on Wednesday announced a shake-up of the organization, intended to make it more nimble. The planned changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — CDC leaders call it a “reset”— come amid ongoing criticism of the agency’s response to COVID-19, monkeypox … Read more

More than half of people—56%—who are infected with the Omicron variant are not aware of their infection. That’s the conclusion of a small study published on Aug. 17 in JAMA Network Open. It’s good news, in some ways, since it underscores the fact that Omicron tends to cause relatively mild symptoms (or no symptoms at … Read more