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Today the world's largest study of the impact of temperature changes and kidney disease reveals that 7.4 percent of all hospitalisations for renal disease can be attributed to an increase in temperature. In Brazil—where the study was focused—this equated to more than 202,000 cases of kidney disease from 2000-2015. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-temperatures-contributed-cases-kidney-disease.html

New coronavirus restrictions came into effect across Russia on Saturday with authorities looking to stem soaring infections and deaths in Europe's worst hit country by fatalities. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-russia-imposes-nationwide-paid-holiday.html

Beijing introduced new COVID-19 curbs on Saturday to stamp out a "serious" outbreak as the Chinese capital maintains its strict zero-tolerance policy, with less than 100 days before it hosts the Winter Olympics. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-china-covid-outbreak.html

Chancellor Angela Merkel sounded the alarm on Saturday over the return of a "certain recklessness" as COVID-19 infection and death rates climb in Germany. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-merkel-alarm-covid-resurgence-germany.html

Is the COVID-19 vaccine safe for children? source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-vaccine-safe-children.html

Russia on Friday recorded another record of daily coronavirus deaths as authorities hoped to stem contagion by keeping most people off work. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-russia-daily-deaths-infections-soar.html

Children with mental health problems were at increased risk of developing a mental disorder as an adult, a new systematic review has found. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-children-mental-health-problems-disorders.html

Patient Choice and Physician Choice awards rank health systems in 26 geographic regions in six specialties. source https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20211028/webmd-best-in-class-health-systems?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Halloween movies often feature kids sitting around a campfire sharing gory, spooky stories, trying to get someone to scream in fear. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-spooked-halloween-ghost-stories-aphantasia.html

A decade ago, genome sequencing revealed a big surprise: about 50 percent of human cancers are linked to mutations in what are known as epigenetic regulators, which control the activity of genes. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-drug-like-molecule-strategies-cancer-therapy.html

In the early stages of kidney disease, a specialized type of kidney cell called the podocyte undergoes damaging changes in both its structure and function. Those changes are key indicators of the ultimately devastating damage that end stage renal disease can cause, but these specialized cells are difficult to detect. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-podosighter-ai-key-indicator-early.html

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report that a recently discovered inflammatory mediator, interleukin-26, appears to have an important role in pneumonia and contributes to the killing of bacteria. The study is published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Immunology. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-potential-drug-pneumonia.html

Not all forms are obesity are the same and brown fat could make all the difference. A study led by Florian Kiefer's research group from the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Department of Medicine III at MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital shows that people who are seriously overweight (obese) who also have active brown fat have a healthier metabolism and use more energy than obese people without brown fat. The new findings suggest that the presence of brown fat may protect against secondary obesity-related diseases. The study has just been published in the international journal Diabetes. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-healthy-metabolism-obesity-brown-fat.html

During the height of the pandemic, people flocked to the park near my home. For those of us who live in neighborhoods where there is access to greenspace, parks allowed us to lounge on the grass and in the shade of the trees, admire flowers, enjoy a walk in the fresh air, or even grow food in a community garden. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-relationships-contribute-human-health-ways.html

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease that affects the body's central nervous system. It can limit a person's mobility, impair physical and cognitive functions, and increase the risk of falling, collectively compromising quality of life. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-vibration-multiple-sclerosis.html

As health leaders call on the UK Government to implement COVID-19 contingency plans, a leading COVID-19 behavioral expert from Swansea University has warned that clear messaging from the UK and devolved governments will be essential to ensure high public compliance if additional measures are introduced. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-lack-clarity-messaging-compliance-restrictions.html

In Australia, one in every five employees are shift workers. But when you work irregular hours, you eat at irregular hours and this can put you at increased risk of weight gain, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-essential-night-shift.html

There's a new drug in development that could prevent the next global pandemic. Researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are testing PUL-042, an inhaled therapeutic that provides broad protection against a range of life-threatening respiratory infections. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-inhaled-therapeutic-drug-results-respiratory.html

Maternal vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy was associated with 44% increased risk of ASD in the offspring when compared to mothers who had sufficient levels of vitamin D during pregnancy. The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, and Columbia University, New York. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-mother-vitamin-d-deficiency-linked.html

Japanese researchers identified chromosome aberrations as a new biomarker in predicting an esophageal cancer patient's risk of experiencing severe chemoradiotherapy side effects. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-chromosome-aberrations-severe-chemoradiotherapy-side.html

Virginia Tech scientists have improved their method to map the zebrafish brain—an advance that could improve understanding of how the human brain functions. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-method-brain-cell-zebrafish.html

For low- and middle-income countries, a COVID-19 vaccination program built on prompt procurement, effective on-the-ground distribution, and a rapid pace of vaccination (the total number of doses given daily) is likely to have a greater public health impact than one focused on relatively small differences in vaccine efficacy, according to a study led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Scientists evaluating clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccination program in South Africa found that an emphasis on these implementation factors in countries with limited resources is likely to dramatically reduce infections, save lives, and curtail overall health care costs through fewer hospitalizations. The study appears in Nature Communications. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-prompt-roll-out-covid-vaccines-important.html

Many COVID-19 patients have reported symptoms affecting the ears, including hearing loss and tinnitus. Dizziness and balance problems can also occur, suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be able to infect the inner ear. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-sars-cov-virus-infect-ear.html

The island nation of Tonga on Friday reported its first-ever case of COVID-19 after a traveler from New Zealand tested positive. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-tonga-covid-case-plane.html

The number of U.S. traffic deaths in the first six months of 2021 hit 20,160, the highest first-half total since 2006, the government reported Thursday, a sign of growing reckless driving during the coronavirus pandemic. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-cites-crisis-road-deaths-first-half.html

Beijing's airports cancelled hundreds of flights on Friday as travel rules were tightened across China to tackle virus clusters as the capital gears up to host the Winter Olympics. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-hundreds-flights-cancelled-china-tackles.html

In women who have experienced trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms may vary over the course of the menstrual cycle, with more symptoms during the first few days of the cycle when the hormone estradiol is low, and fewer symptoms close to ovulation, when estradiol is high, finds research published by the American Psychological Association. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-ptsd-symptoms-vary-menstrual.html

Those who develop a serious course of disease due to COVID-19 infection usually need treatment in a hospital. By October 2021, more than five thousand people had been hospitalized due to COVID-19, according to Norwegian figures from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, NIPH. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-heart-function-people-covid-.html

Three percent of the population suffers from psychotic disorders, which are an important cause of disability in adolescents and young adults. In order to adapt the medical follow-up and to avoid a worsening of the disorder, it is essential to closely monitor the evolution of psychotic symptoms, both in terms of frequency and intensity. Today, this is done through follow-up interviews every three months. However, these interviews must be carried out by trained professionals, last two hours and are not necessarily accessible to everyone. This is why a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has developed an application that makes it possible to monitor the evolution of the symptoms of a person at risk for psychosis on a daily basis. This "remote" monitoring would make it possible to space out face-to-face sessions and make them necessary only when the person is going through a crisis phase or an exacerbation of symptoms. In addition, it will be possible for psychologists to ...

Just like diseases, vaccines cause the body to form an immunological memory. This memory can prevent a second infection or illness caused by the same pathogen. "Put simply, specific immunity is based on antibodies that prevent infection and on immune cells that can kill infected cells," explains Professor Nina Babel, head of the Center for Translational Medicine specialized in immunology. With her colleagues, she has developed a technique that allows insight into the state of the immune system. To this end, the researchers determine in a test tube, so to speak, whether a person has functioning antibodies and immune cells against a certain pathogen. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-dialysis-patients-benefit-covid-vaccination.html

An analysis of PubMed papers has found that 87.7% of all human genes appear in at least one paper that also mentions cancer. In the analysis, appearing in a commentary publishing October 27th in the journal Trends in Genetics, author João Pedro de Magalhães of the University of Liverpool calls attention to how a bias toward cancer may impact which genes are studied and which studies are funded. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-human-genes-featured-cancer.html

Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) shift workers are losing out on valuable sleep due to the design of rosters, individual lifestyle behaviors and the risk of potential prevalence of sleep disorders. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-fly-in-fly-out-workers-significant-loss.html

Reducing unnecessary tests and treatments is one of the methods Australian researchers say can help lower overall healthcare carbon emission levels in the country. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-culling-low-value-healthcare-carbon-emissions.html

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) reduces women's risk of an early death—according to new research from the University of East Anglia. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-beneficial-impact-hormone-therapy.html

A new review of current literature, conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, has found that irregular responses in the brain to challenging tasks and mistakes could be key to understanding common links between abnormal behaviors in a range of mental illness and cognitive disorders. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-brain-common-link-electrical-tremors.html

Bioengineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Arlington, in collaboration with Austin's Shani Biotechnologies, LLC, have developed a new noninvasive technology that may help real-time monitoring of key blood parameters, such as hemoglobin, especially in Black patients. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-wearable-device-racial-disparities-blood.html

Common maternal infections during pregnancy, such as urinary and respiratory tract infections were linked to a child developing leukemia, a new study has found. But the increase in overall risk was small given the rarity of childhood leukemia. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-common-infections-pregnant-mums-linked.html

The Russian capital on Thursday started a nonworking period intended to stem coronavirus infections as new daily cases and deaths from COVID-19 surged to all-time highs. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-moscow-nonworking-period-infections-deaths.html

Attention beach-lovers seeking a break from the pandemic: Rio de Janeiro is lifting its COVID-19 mask requirement for outdoor areas effective from Thursday, the state's governor said, as once-pandemic-battered Brazil advances quickly with vaccinations. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-rio-de-janeiro-outdoor-mask.html

Truck driver Andriy Melnik never took the coronavirus seriously. With a friend, he bought a fake vaccination certificate so his travel documents would appear in order when he hauled cargo to other parts of Europe. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-vaccine-reluctance-eastern-europe-high.html

Is it OK to go trick-or-treating during the pandemic? source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-trick-or-treating-pandemic.html

California Gov. Gavin Newsom rolled up his sleeve Wednesday and received a coronavirus vaccine booster shot, a move he encouraged others to take as the state heads into the time of year that in 2020 ushered in the deadliest spike of COVID-19 cases. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-california-virus-cases-falling-governor.html

New Orleans is largely ending a mandate requiring residents and visitors wear masks indoors as infections of the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus continue to fall, the city's mayor announced Wednesday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-orleans-mask-mandate-coronavirus-fall.html

At a hospital in Spain, a doctor holds a test tube under Encarna Oviedo's nose to see if she can smell anything—a full 18 months after she had COVID. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-nose-spain-covid-recovered-regain.html

China placed a third city under lockdown on Thursday to tackle COVID-19 numbers, with around six million people now under orders to stay home as Beijing chases zero cases before the upcoming Winter Olympics. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-chinese-city-covid-lockdown.html

In a new single-arm study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported that radiation therapy as monotherapy is a safe and effective noninvasive treatment for oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The findings were published today in The Lancet Oncology. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-serial-therapy-safe-effective-alternative.html

An inexpensive repurposed drug called fluvoxamine can save the lives of COVID-19 patients and cut hospital admissions by up to 30 percent, says a study co-led by McMaster University. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-drug-covid-patients.html

In a paper published recently in Pharmacological Reviews, Emory University School of Medicine researchers outlined the impact of inflammation on motivation as it relates to depression. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-outline-inflammation-depression.html

When the delta variant of the coronavirus hit the Sierra Conservation Center—a low- to medium-security prison for men in California—residents who had received the Moderna vaccine were well protected against symptomatic infection, according to Stanford-led research. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-moderna-vaccine-strong-delta-variant.html

Combining three existing drugs—a commonly-used anti-epileptic, a contraceptive steroid and a cholesterol-lowering agent—could form an effective and non-toxic treatment for a range of aggressive blood cancers, a new study reveals. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-triple-drug-combo-key-weapon-cancer.html

COVID-19 patients were more likely to receive a medical diagnosis of physical or psychological symptoms and illnesses more than three months after acute infection than those who were not diagnosed with COVID-19, according to an extensive study of health insurance data. In addition to adults, children and adolescents are also potentially affected by post-COVID: The most documented symptoms and illnesses related to COVID-19 among children and adolescents include feeling unwell, sudden fatigue, cough, sore throat and chest pain as well as anxiety and depression. Common medical diagnoses in adults included loss of taste, fever, cough and respiratory problems. Several German public health insurers participated in the study, which has been coordinated by the Center for Evidence-Based Healthcare (ZEGV) at Dresden University Hospital and the Robert Koch Institute. The findings have been published in as a preprint on the Medrxiv site. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-analysis-hea...

The first statewide population-based study of COVID-19 symptoms and clinical outcomes has found disparities across different groups, particularly by race/ethnicity and geographic location (rural vs urban). Older adults, males and Black individuals were more likely to experience hospitalization and death, with rural residents facing a particularly high risk of death. Compared to White individuals, Hispanic/Latino patients were more likely to have moderate/severe symptoms while Asian patients were less likely. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-picture-covid-severity-outcomes-south.html

A clear-cut seasonal pattern of respiratory viruses has been identified by University of Alberta researchers, and could help hospitals plan ahead for waves of sick patients. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-infections-respiratory-viruses-seasonal-pattern.html

University of Utah Health scientists are leading an effort to determine if salivary glands infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 could diminish a person's long-term immunity to the disease after being immunized or after recovering from the illness. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-salivary-glands-infected-covid-relapse.html

Researchers Prof. Judith Haendeler from the Medical Faculty and the molecular biologist Prof. Joachim Altschmied from the Department of Biology, together with their teams, have shown for the first time in the cardiovascular system that telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) within the mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cells, has a protective function in myocardial infarction. This work, which was performed together with other groups from the University Hospital Düsseldorf and the University Hospital Essen within the frame of the Collaborative Research Center 1116, was recently published in the journal Circulation. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-immortality-protein-mitochondria-myocardial-infarction.html

New research suggests around 300 deaths a year could be avoided if just five Aussie food manufacturers cut salt in packaged foods such as processed meat, bread, chicken nuggets and sausages down to government target levels. Of these five companies the top three were major supermarkets—by reformulating their home brand products in these categories to meet the government's new voluntary sodium targets, they could together make up around half of all deaths averted. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-companies-deaths-year-salt-products.html

Kawasaki disease (KD) is rare, with fewer than 6,000 diagnosed cases per year in the United States. It is most common in infants and young children and causes inflammation in the walls of some blood vessels in the body. KD is a common cause of acquired heart disease in children around the world, causing coronary artery aneurysms in a quarter of untreated children. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-treatment-kids-kawasaki-disease-rare.html

Chronic pain associated with nerve injury and chronic bone pain from metastatic cancer are unmet medical needs. This sober assertion does not begin to capture the crushing and devastating impact of these pain conditions on the lives of people affected by them, nor the effects on their families. Indeed, people's social and professional lives can be upended by these conditions. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-life-cancer-drug-reprograms-pain.html

Around the world, the coronavirus pandemic has put unprecedented strain on intensive care resources. In some places, including parts of Italy, the United States, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific, ICUs have been overwhelmed. Reports from Italy found doctors were "weeping in the hospital hallways because of the choices they were going to have to make." source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-hospitalisations-patients-prioritised-icu.html

Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Bryan P. Schneider, MD, is leading a novel nationwide study to better understand how to treat patients with triple-negative breast cancer based on their own unique genetic data. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-personalized-therapies-triple-negative-breast-cancer.html

The right of working-age people living with dementia to receive adequate and timely guidance and counseling is not realized properly, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. Study participants highlighted shortcomings in the continuity of guidance and counseling, as well as in equal access to guidance and counseling services. The study was published in Ageing & Society. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-working-age-people-dementia-inadequate-guidance.html

The German parliament will not extend the "epidemic situation of national scope" when it expires next month, but will keep in place certain measures to check the spread of the coronavirus, lawmakers said on Wednesday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-germany-national-epidemic-situation-month.html

Even though young patients with metastatic colorectal cancer tend to be more fit and receive more intensive treatment than older patients, both groups survive for roughly the same amount of time, according to a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-survival-similar-younger-older-patients.html

Australia on Wednesday authorised booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines for over-18s, with the third dose expected to be offered to the entire population from next month. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-australia-vaccine-booster-shots-adults.html

Vietnam on Wednesday started to vaccinate children as part of an effort to reopen schools after more than half a year of closures due to COVID-19. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-vietnam-vaccinating-kids-effort-reopen.html

Louisiana is ending its statewide indoor mask mandate after emerging from its latest and worst coronavirus spike of the pandemic and seeing a sharp decline in new COVID-19 infections, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-louisiana-mask-mandate-sharp-covid.html

Midlife women are known to have the highest prevalence of depression compared with all other age groups, and women have higher depression rates than men. A new study suggests that midlife vision impairment is associated with increased odds of future depressive symptoms for midlife women. Study results are published online today in Menopause. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-impaired-vision-depression-midlife-women.html

New research published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) says that the use of facemask ventilation during routine surgery should not be classed as an aerosol-generating procedure and does not increase the risk of COVID-19 transmission compared with normal breathing/coughing of patients. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-facemask-ventilation-patients-surgery-covid-.html

Hundreds of programs over the past four decades—from the removal of junk food from school vending machines to Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign—have tried to get kids in the U.S. to eat healthier food and exercise more often. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-kids-obesity-family-friends-diet.html

Green tea is seen as healthy and promotes a longer life, supposedly due to its high level of antioxidants. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now cast doubt on previous assumptions about how these ingredients work. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-green-tea-catechins-oxidative-stress.html

As Aotearoa New Zealand moves from elimination to suppression, we need to understand how this could change the nature of transmission from Auckland's Delta outbreak to the rest of New Zealand. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-restrictions-auckland-wont-amplify-delta.html

Prostate cancer, the second-most common cancer in men behind skin cancer with nearly a quarter of a million cases in the U.S. diagnosed annually, plays favorites. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-prostate-cancer-african-american-men.html

Bronchial asthma causes symptoms such as wheezing and cough due to chronic airway inflammation, but there is no fundamental treatment for it, leaving a desire for new prevention and treatment methods. Now a new study reveals that a fermented soy product called ImmuBalance suppresses airway inflammation in animal models of asthma. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-fermented-soybeans-suppress-asthma-induced-airway.html

Pets are not the only ones who experience separation anxiety; their people do too. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-college-students-pet-anxiety.html

A high-level medical panel of US government advisors will meet Tuesday to decide whether to authorize the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11 years old. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-authorizing-pfizer-covid-vaccine-younger.html

Moderna says it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-moderna-africa-million-covid-doses.html

Good sleep can be hard to come by. But a new study finds that if you can make up for lost sleep, even for just a few weekend hours, the extra zzz's could help reduce fatigue-induced clumsiness, at least in how you walk. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-feet-lack-affects.html

Mexico on Monday began COVID-19 vaccinations for adolescents with chronic diseases in the capital, the latest step in an immunization drive in one of the countries hit hardest by the pandemic. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-mexico-city-covid-vaccinations-minors.html

Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Tuesday that it is reviewing the future of its generic medicines division, Sandoz, with all options on the table—from retaining it to a sale. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-novartis-options-table-sandoz.html

A year-and-a-half into the coronavirus pandemic, the world has still done far too little to respond and has failed to learn from its mistakes, a global health monitor said Tuesday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-world-lessons-pandemic.html

China placed a city of four million under lockdown on Tuesday in a bid to stamp out a domestic coronavirus spike, with residents told not to leave home except in emergencies. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-china-city-million-covid.html

New Zealand's government said Tuesday it will expand a vaccine mandate to include thousands of workers who have close contact with their customers—including employees at restaurants, bars, gyms and hair salons. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-zealand-vaccine-mandate-workers.html

Hong Kong will tighten COVID-19 restrictions despite a lack of local outbreaks to better align with China's policies and increase chances of quarantine-free travel between the territory and mainland, leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-hong-kong-tighten-covid-china.html

Federal health officials on Monday extended for nearly three more months its rules that cruise ships must follow to sail during the pandemic. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-cdc-cruise-line-health-mid-january.html

Belgium is poised to reinforce pandemic measures in an attempt to stunt a sharp increase of coronavirus cases, with officials indicating Monday that they are looked at increased mandatory use of face masks and virus passports. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-belgium-poised-boost-covid-counter.html

A randomized controlled trial found that the addition of genotypic resistance testing to routine care did not improve virologic suppression among persons whose first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) failed in public-sector HIV clinics in Uganda and South Africa. These results reinforce the critical need for and persistent challenge of finding effective interventions for persons who have virologic failure after ART initiation in the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-addition-genotypic-resistance-virologic-response.html

Americans are struggling with the basic decisions required to navigate daily life as the effects of pandemic-related stress continue to take a toll, especially on younger adults and parents, according to a national survey from the American Psychological Association. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-stress-america-pandemic-impedes-basic.html

A new paper featuring college students' experiences with loss during the COVID-19 pandemic shows that although few directly experienced a close death, everyone lost something that impacted their lives. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-shadow-loss-young-adults-cope.html

A new paper in The Economic Journal indicates that a large-scale government subsidy aimed at encouraging people to eat out in restaurants in the wake of the first 2020 COVID-19 wave in the United Kingdom accelerated a second COVID19 wave. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-stimulus-restaurant-workers-covid-cases.html

For more than 40 years a goal that too often has proved elusive is a pharmaceutical defeat of the human immunodeficiency virus—HIV. And the thrust in recent years has emphasized bringing newer, stealthier weapons to the fight. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-page-covid-therapy-playbook-unleashing.html

Living guidelines for the clinical care of children and adolescents with COVID-19 have been developed with 20 recommendations including the use of corticosteroids as first-line treatment for those who require oxygen. A summary of the guidelines is published today by the Medical Journal of Australia. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-guidelines-kids-teens-covid-.html

The UK is likely to face a substantial wave of COVID-19 infections, hospitalisations and deaths this winter, new modeling suggests. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-winter.html

The EU's medicines watchdog said Monday it had started a review of an oral COVID medication from the US pharmaceutical firm Merck, raising hopes for an easy-to-administer treatment to reduce serious or deadly cases. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-eu-medicines-agency-merck-oral.html

People in Estonia no longer can use negative test results to obtain the coronavirus certificates needed to attend sporting events, movie showings, indoor public meetings and other events. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-estonia-tightens-virus-certificate-criteria.html

Despite being uniquely vulnerable to the hazards of climate change, Australia does not have a national plan to address the health risks it faces, says a national assessment of health and climate change released this week in the Medical Journal of Australia's 2021 MJA-Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-australia-strategy-minimise-climate-health.html

Lipopolysaccharide, a virulence factor produced by bacteria, is a toxin that can cause a systemic inflammation via the circulation. In a recently completed study, genetic markers were discovered which are associated with a heightened lipopolysaccharide level in the blood. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-genes-affect-bacterial-toxins-bloodstream.html

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is re-evaluating recommendations on the use of aspirin to prevent colorectal cancer. According to media reports and a review by the agency—charged since 1984 with issuing guidelines on steps that might prevent disease—recent studies have clouded evidence of aspirin's anticancer benefits. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-aspirin-cancer-dose-nuance-expert.html

If you've had COVID-19 and you received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, should you still get a booster if you are eligible? The answer is yes, according to Michael Lin, MD, MPH, an infectious disease specialist and associate professor at Rush. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-booster-covid-.html

Throughout most of medical history, physicians have diagnosed individuals with various diseases based upon their description and presentation of clinical symptoms. In recent years, investigations using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have helped scientists understand genetic factors involved in different diseases. In a newly published article in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at Osaka University and Harvard Medical School performed GWAS in biobank samples from various populations to identify specific genomic loci related to a diverse array of medical indications and traits. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-redefining-human-diseases-lens-dna.html

Researchers at the Catharina Heart and Vascular Center, together with Eindhoven University of Technology, have developed a new measurement method to analyze the smallest capillaries of the heart by measuring blood flow and resistance. The new method to assess coronary microcirculation allows cardiologists to make a clearer diagnosis. Until recently, the tests used for this purpose were not comprehensive. In Dutch, disease of the capillaries of the heart is also called "woman's heart." source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-diagnosis-heart-capillary-disease.html

In the blink of an eye, we've gone from 18 months of zero tolerance for COVID to accepting huge case numbers as the norm for Australia's foreseeable future. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-doesnt-rampant-ways-cases.html

New research by the Freemason's Centre for Male Health and Wellbeing (FCMHW) at SAHMRI has found a potential link between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and a type of fat found in the blood known as triglycerides. OSA is a condition where the airway closes off during sleep and so the lungs cannot oxygenate the blood adequately. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-fat-blood-linked-obstructive-apnea.html

An international research group led by the Centenary Institute has developed a world first genetic risk score (GRS) test able to identify patients at high-risk of developing alcohol-related cirrhosis. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-genetic-alcohol-related-cirrhosis-liver.html

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted unprecedented changes in cancer care in Australia, with high-value practices across all levels set to continue post-pandemic, adding considerably to optimal cancer care, according to the authors of a consensus statement published today by the Medical Journal of Australia. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-silver-liningimproving-cancer.html

The mechanisms we use to sense quantity are located in our pupils. This is the result of a study conducted by the School of Psychology of the University of Sydney, in collaboration with the Universities of Pisa and Florence (Italy), recently published in Nature Communications. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-detectors-magic-eyes-pupils.html

People in Tokyo can eat and drink in bars and restaurants later in the evening starting Monday as officials ease social distancing rules with the country's daily coronavirus cases reaching their lowest levels in more than a year. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-tokyo-eateries-hours-virus-cases.html

Russia reported another daily record of confirmed coronavirus cases Monday as a surge in infections has prompted the Kremlin to tell most people to stay away from work starting later this week. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-russia-daily-covid-cases.html

A northwestern Chinese province heavily dependent on tourism closed all tourist sites Monday after finding new COVID-19 cases. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-chinese-province-tourist-sites-virus.html

A calculator to help people understand their risk factors for COVID-19 infection and vaccination has been launched by the Immunization Coalition in collaboration with Australian researchers. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-tool.html

Survivors of childhood cancer have increased risks of experiencing various challenges, such as emotional distress, impaired quality of life, and financial burdens. A new study indicates that many long-term survivors of childhood cancer may also face an elevated risk of suicide, although their absolute risk is still low. The findings are published by Wiley early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-long-term-survivors-childhood-cancer-higher.html

Germany's seven-day coronavirus incidence rate reached 100 infections per 100,000 people on Saturday for the first time since May, following a surge in cases in recent weeks. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-germany-covid-highest.html

Ukraine's coronavirus infections and deaths reached all-time highs for a second straight day Friday, in a growing challenge for the country with one of Europe's lowest shares of vaccinated people. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-ukraine-high-virus-deaths-infections-1.html

Unvaccinated people in Austria could face new lockdown restrictions if coronavirus case numbers continue to rise, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-austrian-chancellor-threatens-lockdown-unvaccinated.html

Russia is reporting a record high number of coronavirus infections and COVID-19 deaths as the country approaches a week of nonworking days aimed at stemming the sharp surge in cases. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-russian-covid-spike-persists-death.html

Namibia has discontinued the use of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine following concerns raised by neighbouring South Africa, the health ministry said on Saturday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-namibia-halts-sputnik-jabs-safrican.html

Bulgaria said on Saturday it was days away from sending coronavirus patients abroad as a vicious fourth wave overwhelms its health system and forces neighbouring Romania to ramp up restrictions. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-crisis-hit-bulgaria-moots-virus-patients.html

Serbia on Saturday is set to launch partial COVID-19 passes while Croatia and Slovenia reported high daily rates of infections, as countries with low vaccination rates grapple with a persisting virus surge. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-virus-surge-persists-serbia-croatia.html

In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world's poorest people. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-african-effort-replicate-mrna-vaccine.html