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In COVID-hit Beijing, funeral homes and crematoriums are busy

Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday while workers at the city's dozen funeral homes were busier than normal, days after China reversed tight pandemic restrictions.

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New COVID model predicts over 1 million deaths in China through 2023

China's abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the U.S.-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

Reuters

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

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County Durham Santa bike run takes place for eighth year in memory of farmer who died of brain tumour

Adam Forster died in 2014 after an 11-month battle with a brain tumour

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'Vaccinating' frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic – but it does provide another option for conservation

When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me were not too surprised. Some were intrigued it hadn’t happened sooner; after all, it is our job to observe, describe and study pandemic dynamics in animals.

The Conversation

Is legislation to safeguard Americans against superbugs a boondoggle or breakthrough?

With time running out in the 2022 congressional session, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and infectious disease specialists is scrambling to pass a bill aimed at spurring the development of antibiotics to combat the deadly spread of drug-resistant pathogens.

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Changes in sleep, exercise, and diet can put people at risk.

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$11 for a head of California lettuce? Here’s what’s behind the shortage causing ‘outrageous’ prices

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Don’t look now — the price of lettuce is soaring across the Bay Area.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Is Paxlovid the best treatment? Is it underused in the U.S.?

The drug is the most effective way to cut the risk of severe disease. It's heading to China now. Yet the drug is underused in some places. Why? And are there options if you're not a good candidate?

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RSV treatments for young children are lacking, but the record 2022 cold and flu season highlights the urgency for vaccines and other preventive strategies

For many parents, respiratory syncytial virus – or RSV – which has been causing record numbers of hospitalizations of children during the fall of 2022, may sound like a relatively new and unheard-of threat. But in fact, RSV is a common respiratory virus that circulates every fall and winter and…

The Conversation

14 symptoms of pancreatic cancer you’re most likely to ignore

A pancreatic Cancer UK specialist nurse outlines easy-to-ignore signs of the disease

The Independent UK

Study Method Finds Two Blood Pressure Drugs Equally Effective

A large VA clinical trial found that the blood-pressure">blood pressure drug chlorthalidone (CTD) was not superior to hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) for the prevention of cardiovascular disease or non-cancer death. Read on for details:

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Woman, 24, lives with two stoma bags, suffered a stroke and had part of her vagina removed

Cambridgeshire teaching assistant Sophie Anderson was just 22 when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer after first showing symptoms at the age of 18

The Independent UK

We've run out of cholera vaccines, WHO official says as disease surges

The global stockpile of cholera vaccines the World Health Organization helps manage is "currently empty or extremely low", a WHO official said on Friday amid a resurgence of the disease around the world.

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Heart Issues: Scientists Discover New Immune Target To Treat Cardiovascular Disease

Targeting the immune component central to the development of atherosclerosis is the Holy Grail for the treatment of heart disease. Read on for details:

Chicago Tribune

HIV/AIDS advocate and her family work to promote testing and fight stigma. ‘I feel like I’m not just existing, that I’m living’

CHICAGO -- Eighteen years ago, Chatrivia Kennedy learned she was HIV positive when her partner was hospitalized with an HIV-related illness. She was eight months pregnant.

Tribune News Service

Why should I be evaluated for a penicillin allergy?

Taking action to be evaluated for a penicillin allergy can impact your health, safety and wallet. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10% of the U.S. population reports a penicillin allergy, but less than 1% is allergic after testing. Common penicillins include ampicillin, amoxicillin and Augmentin.

The Independent UK

Africa has peaceful polls in 2022 but hit by coups, droughts

Elections, coups, disease outbreaks and extreme weather are some of the main events that occurred across Africa in 2022

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A rare disease in the Top End affects muscles for speech. Here's how we're designing alternative ways to communicate in Yolŋu languages

Machado-Joseph-Disease (MJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects muscles in the body, including those required for speech. It is prevalent in some remote First Nations communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Belfast Live

Northern Ireland ducks and geese set to be better fed thanks to new initiative

Excess bread is harmful to ducks and can cause malnutrition, disease and bad behaviour

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Will immigration surge as asylum rule ends?

Ever since the pandemic began the U.S. has been using a public health rule intended to limit the spread of disease to expel migrants seeking asylum

Inverse

Why are there still rodent plague outbreaks? New research hints at the answer

Scientists think they’ve figured out how fleas transmit plague to wild rodents, which could help explain why periodic spikes in the disease still occur.

Manchester Evening News

Four cases of potentially life-threatening Strep A recorded in Oldham

Strep A can cause scarlet fever and the serious Invasive Group A Streptococcal disease

Fortune

The WHO just released a stark new warning about Strep A cases afflicting children around the world and warns countries to 'be vigilant'

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also looking into a "possible increase" in such cases among children, according to the agency's website Thursday.

Evening Standard

Strep A: At least 19 children die in the UK from invasive illness as officials admit penicillin shortage

Three further deaths were recorded in Belfast and Wales

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