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"> If traveling abroad is in your future, this clinic offers travel health information and travel vaccinations for students, faculty, and staff. It is highly recommended to schedule your appointment 6 to 8 weeks prior to traveling. Students can also receive vaccinations other than travel vaccinations, including those required for enrollment.   Travel Appointment at Stamps Important Facts You CANNOT schedule travel appointments online. Travel appointments are NOT available on a same-day basis. It is best to schedule your appointment as soon as your travel itinerary is known. (Preferably 6-8 weeks prior to travel) Complete ...

Valley fever, a fungal infection most notably found in the Southwestern United States, is now likely to spread east, throughout the Great Plains and even north to the Canadian border because of climate change, according to a study in GeoHealth .  "As the temperatures warm up, and the western half of the U.S. stays quite dry, our desert-like soils will kind of expand and these drier conditions could allow coccidioides to live in new places," Morgan Gorris, who led the GeoHealth study while at the University of California, Irvine, told Today.com. As the infection continues to be diagnosed outside the Southwest, here's what you need to know about valley fever. What is valley fever? Valley fever, which commonly occurs in the Southwest due to the region's hot, dry soil, is an infection caused by inhaling microscopic spores of the fungus coccidioides. About 20,000 cases of valley fever were reported in 2019, according to the Centers...

Nurses, aides and other hospital employees will wave picket signs and shout slogans in a series of rallies this week protesting staffing shortages they say compromise patient safety. On Tuesday, nurses from SEIU Local 121RN will rally in front of St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard and then march to a local office of the California Department of Public Health. They'll demand more state enforcement of staffing ratios that mandate how many patients can be assigned to one nurse. In a separate event Tuesday night, members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United union will hold a vigil outside the Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura. They're calling for the county to address staffing and to increase pay and benefits as a way of retaining nurses and other workers. On Wednesday, nursing assistants, respiratory therapists and other frontline workers from the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West will picket in front of Los Robles Regional Medical Cen...

Posted Date: 11/3/2022 Dr. Tom McClellan, third from left, with judges from The Tank: Plastic Surgery Innovation Challenge. Intermed Labs at Mon Health has been awarded the Top Innovator of 2022 for their Fingy3D device during The Tank: Plastic Surgery Innovation Challenge hosted by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the world's largest organization of board-certified plastic surgeons. During the ASPS national meeting on Friday, October 28 in Boston, MA, thousands of plastic, reconstructive, and hand surgeons met from around the world. Dr. Tom McClellan, cofounder of Intermed Labs at Mon Health, presented against three other finalists from Dartmouth, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Washington University who had been selected among numerous applications from across the country. Judges on the panel included distinguished medical innovators, venture capitalists, and the former president of the ASPS. The Top Innovator award also included a $10,0...

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Pictured: Associate Professor Bryan Gibb, Ph.D., left, and biology major Hamza Nagarwala are studying the potential of bacteriophages as a powerful weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections occur each year in the United States, resulting in more than 35,000 deaths. The more an antibiotic is used, the more rapidly bacteria become resistant, reducing drug effectiveness. So what other options might allow clinicians to combat antibiotic-resistant microbes? That's the question that Associate Professor of Biological and Chemical Sciences Bryan Gibb, Ph.D. , and undergraduate biology student Hamza Nagarwala aim to solve as part of a collaborative research project with Washington University in St. Louis. A major area of Gibb's laboratory research focuses on understanding the therapeutic abilities of naturally occurring viruses called ba...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Chatham County Health Department is preparing for an influx in seniors to stop by and get their recommended vaccines. As a part of the Inflation Reduction Act, those vaccines are now free to people on Medicare. Anyone with Medicare Part D will now pay nothing to get vaccines like Shingles, Pneumonia, Tetanus or any others reommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The change went into effect on the first of the year but after one month, the Chatham County Health Department says they want even more people to know about the change to come in and get their vaccines. Even though these vaccines are important the county nurse manager says that the financial burden is enough to keep people from getting the shots and she hopes to see that change. "We're really hoping that will break down some of those barriers that our community has, especially our elderly population so they will come in and get the protection that they need, the Shingle...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ora Ramsey Obituary (1925 - 2023)    Legacy.com

At Patient, we know our readers sometimes want to have a deep dive into certain topics. In this series of articles centred around pneumonia, you can read about the causes, symptoms and treatments - written by one of our expert GPs. What are the symptoms of pneumonia? Most of the symptoms of pneumonia are seen in other more common infections such as bronchitis or upper respiratory tract infections - affecting the throat, nose and sinuses - these include: People with pneumonia usually feel more unwell than they would with other, less serious infections. Other signs of pneumonia, that are rare in mild illnesses and are more concerning for pneumonia, include: Feeling very out of breath - for example, feeling too short of breath to walk around or feeling breathless whilst resting. Chest pain, especially chest pain that is worse on breathing in or coughing. Coughing up blood. Becoming confused or disorientated, particularly in elderly people. Low blood oxygen levels - measured with a pulse o...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —  Today, Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis honored Black History Month with a reception at the Governor's Mansion. At the event, the Governor and First Lady announced the winners of the student and educator contests. The Black History Month Student and Educator Contests are made possible through a collaboration between the Department of Education, Volunteer Florida, the Florida Lottery, and the Florida Prepaid College Foundation. "Black History Month is an important opportunity for students to learn about the achievements of African Americans to both our country and our great state," said  Governor Ron DeSantis . "It was an honor to host this year's art, essay and educator winners at the Governor's Mansion and see what our students have learned over the month." "Our Black History Month essay and art competitions help Florida's students discover and highlight the impressive contri...

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Angus King (I-ME) in reintroducing the  Preventive Health Savings Act . The bipartisan, bicameral bill would direct the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide a more encompassing estimate of preventive health care impacts on the federal bottom line.  "Preventive health care measures allow Americans to live longer, healthier lives and substantially lower the costs passed along to the taxpayer,"  said Senator Cramer . "Our bill updates existing CBO rules to better allow Congress to account for long-term savings generated by investments in preventive care." Currently, the CBO analysis window is capped at 10 years. This legislation would permit congressional leaders to request CBO evaluations of preventive measures for two additional 10-year periods, which would quantify potential long-term savings. To e...

Abstract Game meat is becoming increasingly popular but may be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria such as Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). STEC cause gastrointestinal illnesses including diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis (HC), and the haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of STEC in 92 meat samples from chamois (n = 2), red deer (n = 27), roe deer (n = 38), and wild boar (n = 25), from Switzerland and other European countries. After enrichment, Shiga-toxin encoding genes ( stx ) were detected by PCR in 78 (84%) of the samples and STEC were isolated from 23 (25%) of the same samples. Nine different serotypes and eight different sequence types (STs) were found, with O146:H28 ST738 (n = 10) and O110:H31 ST812 (n = 5) predominating. None of the STEC belonged to the so-called top-five serogroups O26, O103, O111, O145, and O157. Subtyping of stx identified stx1c (n = 9), stx2a (n = 1), stx2b (n = 19), stx2e (n = 2),...