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Among the nearly 600,000 survey responses, trust in doctors and hospitals plummeted from 72% to 40% across socioeconomic groups
Among participants with diabetes and no history of depression, the incidence of new depression was 13%.
The increase in antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections coincides with the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, South Korean officials say.
The chances of pediatric HPV vaccination were twice as high for mothers than for fathers.
The CDC is offering support for targeted programs and vaccine supplies to states, part of a plan to cut the risk of H5N1 reassortment with seasonal flu.
Participants with diabetes had higher odds of both hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss.
Changes in infection control practices and strategies to conserve personal protective equipment may have played a role in MDRO outbreaks at US hospitals, CDC researchers found.
Prescriptions for respiratory tract infections were 64% more common in virtual urgent care compared with in-person urgent care in the Cleveland Clinic Health System.
Twenty-nine percent said they never use a thermometer to check food temperatures.
The company said its manufacturing facilities can make more than 500 million doses a year.
The top predictor of needing respiratory support was B-lines.
Public-facility patients also had 38% lower odds of receiving a clinician recommendation for the vaccine than those at private centers.
The number of favorable lifestyle factors was tied to the risk of long COVID in a dose-dependent manner.
So far, humans who have been infected with H5N1 via contact with infected cows have also exhibited mild illness.
Deer mice, opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, Eastern cottontail rabbits, and Eastern red bats had signs of infection, and isolates from an opossum showed a unique mutation closely matching the Omicron variant in circulating in humans at the time.
Across two large pediatric academic medical centers, 75% of antibiotic prescriptions for acute otitis media were for 10 days.
Liverwurst is the main suspect, but investigators are examining if other deli meats are involved in the outbreak.
The trial will also assess if vaccinated individuals who contract mpox have more mild courses of illness.
High rates of resistance to older and newer antibiotics were found in 17 countries across 4 continents.
Michigan's outbreak in dairy cows is its second of the month and is the first in Van Buren County.
