Latest 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Stories
Con el verano hay m獺s mosquitos y, temen oficiales, m獺s casos de dengue
El a簽o pasado se reportaron alrededor de 3.700 nuevas infecciones por dengue en Estados Unidos, frente a las 2.050 de 2023, seg繳n los Centros para el Control y Prevenci籀n de Enfermedades.
What the Health? From 窪蹋勛圖厙 News: Courts Try To Curb Health Cuts
Some of the Trump administrations dramatic funding and policy shifts are facing major pushback for the first time not from Congress, but from the courts. Federal judges around the country are attempting to pump the brakes on efforts to freeze government spending, shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, eliminate access to health-related webpages and datasets, and limit grant funding provided by the National Institutes of Health. Meanwhile, Congress is off to a slow start in trying to turn President Donald Trumps agenda into legislation, although Medicaid is clearly high on the list for potential funding cuts. Shefali Luthra of The 19th, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Maya Goldman of Axios News join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Mark McClellan, director of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy and a former health official during the George W. Bush administration, about the impact of cutting funding to research universities.
What a US Exit From the WHO Means for Global Health
By withdrawing from the World Health Organization and overhauling aid, Trumps new executive orders endanger Americans and the globe, researchers warn. The move also cedes U.S. power to other nations.
La creciente desigualdad en la expectativa de vida entre los estadounidenses
La salud de los estadounidenses ha sido desigual durante mucho tiempo, pero un nuevo estudio muestra que la disparidad entre las expectativas de vida de diferentes grupos poblacionales casi se ha duplicado desde el a簽o 2000.
I Was There When Bird Flu First Appeared. Its Different Today.
The H5N1 flu virus and I go way back. In 1997, I watched as more than a million chickens were slaughtered in Hong Kong to combat the first major global outbreak of the disease. Eighteen people were sickened by the virus and six died, all of whom had close contact with the birds. They were […]
La OMS confirma c籀mo se propagan los virus por el aire. Los CDC tal vez miren para otro lado
La OMS concluy籀 que la transmisi籀n a矇rea ocurre cuando las personas enfermas exhalan pat籀genos que quedan suspendidos en el aire, contenidos en peque簽as part穩culas de saliva y moco que, a su vez, son inhaladas por otros.
An Arm and a Leg: John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (Part 2)
The high price of lifesaving tuberculosis drugs makes them inaccessible to many who need them most. On this episode of An Arm and a Leg, hear how a decades-long global fight to reform drug patents is helping to lower the cost.
Jimmy Carter se enfrent籀 al horrible gusano de Guinea cuando nadie m獺s lo hizo. Y gan籀
El Centro Carter inform籀 que en 2022, solo hubo 13 casos humanos registrados de la enfermedad, un n繳mero provisional que se confirmar獺 oficialmente, probablemente este mes.
Jimmy Carter Took on the Awful Guinea Worm When No One Else Would And Triumphed
The effort to end Guinea worm disease relies almost entirely on changes in peoples behavior. There is no cure, no vaccination. When the 39th president of the United States left office, Jimmy Carter campaigned to eradicate the disease.
To Stem the Spread of Monkeypox, Health Departments Tap Into Networks of Those Most at Risk
Although the disease is currently spreading almost exclusively among men who have sex with men, some cases are turning up in other populations and that number is likely to grow if public health officials dont effectively nip the outbreak in the bud.
Igual que con covid, atraso en pruebas y vacunas para la viruela del simio
Los casos de la viruela del simio siguen aumentando, pero la respuesta sanitaria es lenta: escasean las pruebas y las dosis de la vacuna que puede prevenir la infecci籀n.
Vaccine and Testing Delays for Monkeypox Echo Failures in Early Covid Response
Public health officials say monkeypox is not as dangerous as covid and can be handled well with current treatments and if those at risk use caution. But the rollout of vaccines has been slow and led to angst among some at-risk people.
Lo que debes saber sobre la viruela del simio
Generalmente es una enfermedad leve, pero puede ser grave o incluso mortal para las personas inmunodeprimidas, embarazadas, fetos o reci矇n nacidos, mujeres lactantes, ni簽os peque簽os y personas con enfermedades de la piel, como eccema.
What You Need to Know About Monkeypox
For now, monkeypox poses a low risk to the U.S. public, but it could become a problem if the spread is left unchecked. Heres what everyone should know about it.
KHNs What the Health?: The Invisible Pandemic
Covid cases are again climbing, but you wouldnt know it from the behavior of public health and elected officials, much less the general public, all of whom seem to want to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror. Meanwhile, the fallout over the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion continues even as the Senate fails again to muster the votes to write abortion rights into law. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KHNs Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
Travel in the Time of Covid: Getting There Is Easy Its Getting Home Thats Hard
The part of my London visit that I didnt plan was testing positive for the coronavirus. I couldnt get back to the U.S., but the U.K. didnt care what I did or where I went.
Which Companies Arent Exiting Russia? Big Pharma
U.S. and global drug manufacturers invested in Russias sizable pharmaceutical industry contend international humanitarian law requires they continue manufacturing and selling their products there, even while condemning the Ukraine invasion. Not everyone agrees.
Hospitales le piden a Santa suministros: falta de todo, desde sillas de ruedas hasta jeringas
En otra consecuencia de la crisis de la cadena de suministro global, hospitales que gestionan los picos de casos de covid durante las Fiestas y a todos sus otros pacientes se est獺n quedando sin suministros b獺sicos para atenderlos
Never Mind Toys, Its Time to Ask Santa for Crutches and Catheters
As hospitals juggle holiday covid surges and all their other patients, the global supply chain crisis has left them short of critical supplies.
Todo lo que hay que saber sobre omicron y las otras variantes del coronavirus
La variante omicron, conocida oficialmente como B.1.1.529, apareci籀 en noviembre en varios pa穩ses del sur de frica. Las alarmas saltaron en todo el mundo cuando los funcionarios de salud p繳blica de Sud獺frica vieron que empezaba a superar a delta, la cepa dominante hasta ahora.
