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A French Surveillance Analysis Links RSV Season to a Shift in Which Pneumococcal Strains Sicken Children

French surveillance of 4,574 pediatric cases found that the mix of pneumococcal strains causing invasive disease shifted with RSV circulation.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Flu and COVID Vaccines Are Expected This Fall with Insurer Coverage Despite a Stalled Federal Advisory Committee

Infectious disease specialists say updated flu and COVID vaccines will be available and covered this fall even though the federal advisory panel has not acted.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Coronary artery disease killed actor Ray MacDonald

The well-known Thai actor and travel content creator Ray MacDonald, who died suddenly on Wednesday at age 49, was suffering from triple-vessel coronary artery disease, according to his wife and close friends.

Bangkok Post · Aug 20

How Diclofenac Nearly Drove India's Vultures to Extinction, and What the Recovery Programme Has Actually Achieved

The drug that emptied the skyThrough the 1990s, vulture populations across South Asia fell off a cliff so steeply that ornithologists initially suspected a new disease. The Gyps vulture, the genus that includes the white-rumped, long-billed, and slender-billed species, had been among the most numerous large raptors on earth. Surveys…

Times Life · Aug 20

Kashmir Hangul Deer Is Critically Endangered: The Conservation Crisis India Cannot Afford to Ignore

A Species Reduced to a Single ValleyThe Hangul (Cervus hanglu hanglu) is the only surviving subspecies of the Kashmir stag, a large deer whose antlers can carry up to sixteen tines, more than almost any cervid on the subcontinent. It once ranged across the forests of Himachal Pradesh, parts of…

Times Life · Aug 20

Blood Sugar Fluctuations Without Diabetes Are Still Quietly Damaging Your Brain

The spike-crash cycle your report calls normalA fasting glucose of 95 mg/dL looks fine on paper. But if that number climbs to 160 after a meal and drops to 72 two hours later, the brain is absorbing a punishment the report never records. Each spike triggers a surge of insulin.…

Times Life · Aug 20

Where the Body Parks Its Fat May Matter More Than How Much, and One Gene Splits by Sex

A million-person study measured where fat sits, not just how much. Among 59 genes, one showed a notably stronger effect in women than in men.

Medical Daily · Aug 19

New CDC director acknowledges agency problems in first large staff meeting

Dr. Erica Schwartz, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is promising to advocate for the agency while addressing staff burnout and understaffing issues

The Independent UK · Aug 19

Meet Audrey Zheng, the 17-year-old Pennsylvania student who developed a pancreatic cancer test; it correctly identified 87% of patients and 87.5% without the disease

A talented high school student has pioneered a cutting-edge bioengineering method for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. By utilizing magnetic beads to isolate tumor-derived particles from blood samples, her clinical trials demonstrated remarkable accuracy. Her extraordinary research has secured her a spot as a national finalist in a prestigious…

The Times of India · Aug 19

An alternative health treatment killed Hannah’s cousin. Now she’s on a mission to warn others

Wormhole begins quickly. Hannah McElhinney’s cousin, who has travelled to Malaysia for a medical treatment, has sepsis. She’s in a coma. One page later, she’s dead. The pacing of the book’s opening matches the quick, often uncertain feeling of experiencing a medical emergency with a loved one.

The Conversation · Aug 19