DAKAR (Reuters) -A new case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in the city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) said on Monday. Testing showed the case was genetically linked to the 2018-2020 outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which killed nearly 2,300 people, said a statement from Placide […]

Can a long-haul trip cause swollen legs? Dr MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions After a long-haul flight in 2016, I developed symptoms of deep vein thrombosis — my lower legs and ankles became red, swollen and hot and the skin was tight and painful. A scan ruled out a DVT but two years later there was no improvement. Now the […]

Children who suffer a relapse of the aggressive cancer known as neuroblastoma have small chances of survival. However, a group including researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now shown that DHODH blockers, which are well-tolerated in humans, isosorbide polycarbonate mitsubishi can cure neuroblastoma in mice if administered in combination with chemotherapy. The study, published in the journal JCI Insight, […]

Patients treated with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) and antiretrovirals (ARVs) for HIV rarely receive drug combinations that are contraindicated, according to real-world data from the EuroSIDA study. Modern DAA therapy has high HCV cure rates, including in people co-infected with HIV, who can be treated with the same DAAs as those with HCV monoinfection, the authors […]

Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade's constitutional protections for abortions. After the June ruling, many reproductive services stand to be prohibited altogether, putting the health of incarcerated women who are pregnant at risk. That threat is particularly urgent in […]

Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade's constitutional protections for abortions. After the June ruling, many reproductive services stand to be prohibited altogether, putting the health of incarcerated women who are pregnant at risk. That threat is particularly urgent in […]

In lower-limb amputees, automated foot strikes from a six-minute walk test (6MWT) can be used to calculate step-based features for fall risk classification, according to a study published online Aug. 18 in PLOS Digital Health. Pascale Juneau, from Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Ontario, Canada, suprax zawiesina ulotka and colleagues evaluated fall risk classification using the random forest model with […]

Adults who quit smoking significantly reduced their risk for mortality from pneumonia; the risk decreased even more with added years of not smoking, according to data from nearly 95,000 individuals. Smoking is associated with an increased risk for pneumonia, but the extent to which smoking cessation reduces this risk long-term has not been explored, wrote Tomomi Kihara, MD, PhD, doxepin […]

GPs resist NHS request to update their registers despite concerns some practices are including DEAD patients The health service has restarted its investigations into so-called ‘ghost patients’  Outsourcing firm Capita will check patient lists do not include dead people BMA called on the NHS to delay checks because they are ‘a bureaucratic burden’ GPs have resisted calls to update their […]

New child cases of COVID-19 made at least a temporary transition from slow increase to decrease, and emergency department visits and new admissions seem to be following a downward trend. There were almost 87,000 new cases reported during the week of Aug. 5-11, which is down by 10% from the previous week after 4 consecutive weeks of increases, according to a […]