Month: November 2023

They’re a global nightmare. First they haunted Paris last month, before panic over potential outbreaks gripped Europe and the U.S. Now, bedbugs are terrifying a number of countries in Asia, where surges in infestations of the pest are fueling fresh anxieties among the public and stirring governments to action. Read More: Bed Bugs Aren’t Just … Read more

There’s little to suggest that treating flat feet helps anything. View original article Contributor: Ian McMahan

President Biden will put pressure on Xi Jinping to crack down on the Chinese facilities that make chemical compounds used in potent drugs. View original article Contributor: Ana Swanson and Keith Bradsher

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – when microbes evolve to resist the medicines designed to kill them – is an urgent global threat. In England, resistant infections rose by 4% in 2022 after decreasing during the pandemic. Action is needed to curb inappropriate antibiotic use, a key driver of resistance. In 2013, we set up the English … Read more

Diverse data from the Million Veteran Program has already contributed to hundreds of medical studies, and the V.A. is continuing to recruit more participants. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata

U.S. women are now projected to live about six years longer than U.S. men, as COVID-19 and drug overdoses claim more male than female lives, according to research published Nov. 13 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Overall U.S. life expectancy has declined in recent years and, as of the latest estimate, sits at around 76 years. … Read more

COVID-19 has become less of an urgent threat than it was in 2019 largely because of vaccines and growing immunity from natural infections, but antiviral treatments have also changed the course of the disease. The most popular of these is nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, sold under the brand name Paxlovid, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and … Read more

On Sept. 25, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration announced that it will be investing some $200 million in the youth mental health crisis. Since youth mental health was declared a national emergency in 2021, multiple experts, including the U.S. Surgeon General, have cited social media and the COVID-19 pandemic, among other things, as major contributing factors.  [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But what has not … Read more

The report highlights the need for better messaging about screening for lung cancer, which is still the nation’s leading cause of cancer-related deaths. View original article Contributor: Sabrina Malhi