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As turkey season approaches, wild birds are free of avian flu

Despite the arrival of avian influenza in Pennsylvania, there is no evidence the state's wild turkeys are infected a week before the one-day junior and mentored youth gobbler hunt April 23, and two weeks prior to the monthlong season that begins April 30.

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Dad 'feels pregnant' with stomach ballooning like a beach ball due to rare illness

Professional magician David Burgess, 37, is in hospital awaiting a liver transplant after being diagnosed with Wilson's disease

Wales Online

Consumer Health: Recognizing symptoms of Parkinson's disease

April is Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month, which make this a good time to learn about the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Tribune News Service

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Commentary: US playing politics with migrant lives

The Trump administration’s three-year campaign to block access to asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border led to its use of a scorched-earth tactic at the start of the coronavirus pandemic — border expulsions under orders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tribune News Service

What’s behind mysterious rise in liver disease among children?

As experts investigate a surge in cases of hepatitis among children, Dr Khan explains the symptoms to look out for.

Al Jazeera

A moment that changed me: my dream job healed my excruciating pain

The autoimmune disease lupus had ruined my life until I landed an interview at the Southbank Centre. After years of trying to fit in I’d found my tribe – and a way to get better

The Guardian - UK

Yr 4-Min Explainer On Why TF Dental Is Not Covered By Medicare In 2022

Good dental health is crucial and without it you can develop serious health issues like heart disease. So why is dental care not on medicare?

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Dad 'feels pregnant' after stomach swells to size of beach ball

David Burgess is now awaiting a liver transplant after being complications of Wilson's disease

Liverpool Echo

China's capital in race to detect COVID cases, avoid Shanghai's distress

Millions of people in Beijing took their second COVID-19 tests of the week on Wednesday as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak numbering in the dozens from spiralling into a crisis like the one the locked-down city of Shanghai is enduring.

Reuters

Global mystery hepatitis outbreak spreads to Asia and Canada

Japan reports child with acute liver disease of unknown origin, and Canada investigating similar cases, with nearly 200 now recorded worldwide

The Guardian - AU

Immunization requirements are common in US schools but few states have added COVID-19 vaccine mandates

States control vaccine mandates for school students. Some vaccines are required nationwide.

USAFacts

Medtronic vs. Edwards Lifesciences: Which Medical Device Stock is a Better Buy?

Growing demand from an aging population to track their diseases and increased focus on critical surgical procedures with lesser COVID-19 pressures on hospitals make the medical devices industry’s prospects bright. Moreover, the integration of emerging technologies and continued innovations should drive the industry’s growth. Therefore, prominent players in this space,…

StockNews.com

Wild horses quarantined in Fremont County facility after unknown disease kills 57

The Wild Horse facility in Cañon City, Colorado is quarantining their animals after the breakout of a highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease broke out, the Bureau of Land Management announced Monday.

Tribune News Service

Mexico says coronavirus now endemic, not pandemic

The Mexican government says COVID-19 has passed from a pandemic to an endemic stage in Mexico, meaning authorities will treat it as a seasonally recurring disease

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Daily aspirin to prevent heart disease and stroke no longer recommended for people 60 and older

This might be a tough pill to swallow.

The Independent UK

Majority of Americans, including 3 out of 4 children, have had Covid-19, CDC finds

US has reached ‘inflection’ point in public health crisis as infections climb

The Conversation

Disease-causing parasites can hitch a ride on plastics and potentially spread through the sea, new research suggests

Typically when people hear about plastic pollution, they might envision seabirds with bellies full of trash or sea turtles with plastic straws in their noses. However, plastic pollution poses another threat that’s invisible to the eye and has important consequences for both human and animal health.

The Hindu

COVID-19: Survey shows 30% of respondents who had taken third dose vaccine contracted disease during third wave in India

Questionnaire-based survey conducted by a group of Kochi-based doctors among 5,971 adults across the country to assess the community level experience of the pandemic

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Benzinga

Valneva - Pfizer Post Encouraging Data From Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate

Valneva SE (NASDAQ:VALN) and Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) have reported Phase 2 pediatric data for their Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15. In pediatric participants (5-17 years old) who received VLA15 in either the two-dose schedule (N=93) or three-dose schedule (N=97), VLA15 was found to be more immunogenic than in adults with both vaccination schedules tested. These…

Benzinga

Editas Medicine's EDIT-301 receives FDA Rare Pediatric Disease designation for Beta Thalassemia

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation to EDIT-301, an investigational, gene-edited medicine for the treatment of beta thalassemia from leading genome editing company, Editas Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDIT).

Benzinga

Prothena Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for PRX012 for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

Prothena Corporation plc (NASDAQ: PRTA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) antibody therapy drug candidate PRX012 for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

Daily Record

Claim PIP for chronic pain and DWP could give you up to £156 each week

Successful PIP claimants could receive between £97.80 and £627.60 every four weeks.

Wales Online

'No link' found as global cases of mysterious hepatitis liver disease in children increases to 190

10 British children have required liver transplants as a result of the disease.

The Conversation

How Robert Langer, a pioneer in delivering mRNA into the body, failed repeatedly but kept going: 'They said I should give up, but I don't like to give up'

The mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19 owe a lot to the work of Robert Langer, a pioneer in the delivery of mRNA. Langer, who is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology David H. Koch Institute Professor and director of the Langer Lab, helped lay the foundation for the underlying delivery mechanism…

Wales Online

Devastated dad's heart-breaking diagnosis after pain from 'trapped nerve' in foot

Chris Thurston was actually suffering from foot drop, which is an early signal of incurable Motor Neurone Disease

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