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As the nation's public health emergency expires on May 11, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop reporting its color-coded Covid-19 Community Levels as a way to track the spread of the infection.Instead, the CDC will keep tabs on Covid-19 largely by tracking hospitalizations and monitoring wastewater in some areas, according to a source familiar with the agency's plans.

Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.Stephanie Nano (AP) Pfizer's Covid-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers Thursday, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval by the Food and Drug Administration.The medication has been used by millions of Americans since the FDA granted it emergency use authorization in late 2021.

WASHINGTON Pfizer's COVID-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers Thursday, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval by the Food and Drug Administration.The medication has been used by millions of Americans since the FDA granted it emergency use authorization in late 2021.

Babies born to opioid users had shorter hospital stays and needed less medication when their care emphasized parent involvement, skin-to-skin contact and a quiet environment, researchers reported Sunday.Newborns were ready to go home about a week earlier compared to those getting standard care.Fewer received opioid medications to reduce withdrawal symptoms such as tremors and hard-to-soothe crying, about 20% compared to 52% of the standard-care babies.

In July, Jennifer O'Brien got the phone call that adult children dread.Her 84-year-old father, who insisted on living alone in rural New Mexico, had broken his hip.The neighbor who found him on the floor after a fall had called an ambulance.Ms. O'Brien is a health care administrator and consultant in Little Rock, Ark., and the widow of a palliative care doctor; she knew more than family members typically do about what lay ahead.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of a monoclonal antibody shot aimed at preventing a potentially lethal pathogen, respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., in infants and vulnerable toddlers.The treatment, called Beyfortus by its developers Sanofi and AstraZeneca, would be the second such therapy that the F.D.A. has allowed to be given to very young children to prevent R.S.V., which is a leading killer of infants and toddlers globally.

Despite gaining Legacy Business status in 2022, time-tested favorite Sai's Vietnamese beneath the Transamerica Pyramid needed to find a new home.Thankfully the restaurant just found new life at 42 Columbus Avenue, the location of North Beach restaurant Bask.The San Francisco Business Times reports Sai owner Charles Vong bought Bask with financial aid from Shvo, the development group that owns the Transamerica Pyramid.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will cease tracking community levels of Covid and the percentage of tests that come back positive, a metric used to calculate transmission rates, the agency announced on Friday.The decision is linked to the end of the public health emergency on May 11.The emergency designation, first declared in January 2020, had allowed the C.D.C. to demand certain kinds of data on Covid's spread from state officials.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved GSK's vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., for adults who are 60 and older, the company said.The vaccine, to be sold as Arexvy, appears to be the first in the world approved for sale to protect older adults.Image An transmission electron microscopic image of R.S.V.Credit...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The F.D.A. estimates that R.S.V. is associated with 6,000 to 10,000 deaths each year in adults 65 and older and at least 60,000 hospitalizations in that age group.

For years they overlapped in New York politics, two brash sons of Queens rising through the worlds of real estate and government, as Donald J. Trump donated to Andrew M. Cuomo's campaigns and made a virtual appearance at his bachelor party.Then they were antagonists, with Mr. Cuomo, a powerful Democratic governor of New York, embracing chances to serve as a foil to the divisive Republican president.

62, 65, 67, 70.All these ages are important when it comes to Social Security and Medicare.And these ages are also targets in the contentious debate over how to shore up the shaky finances of the massive entitlement programs.Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently zeroed in on raising the retirement age for Americans in their 20s as a way to reform Social Security, saying it should match their life expectancy.

Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series!Josh Fischman: On this show, we highlight the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.Every episode, we dive into one topic.We discuss diseases, treatments, and some controversies.

A new COVID-19 variant is making its way through the Bay Area.But health experts say there's no need to panic yet.The XBB.1.16strain - dubbed "Arcturus" by some online - was added to the World Health Organization's list of variants of interest in April, and has been detected in California, according to wastewater surveillance systems.

It's no secret that kids in the U.S. are struggling with mental health issues in increasing numbers.Now, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association emphasizes the severity of the situation: Pediatric mental health hospitalizations are rising, and many more kids are being hospitalized for attempting suicide.

The portion of American hospital beds occupied by children with suicidal or self-harming behavior has soared over the course of a decade, a large study of admissions to acute care hospitals shows.An analysis of 4,767,840 pediatric hospitalizations by researchers at Dartmouth, published on Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA, found that between 2009 and 2019, mental health hospitalizations increased by 25.8 percent and cost $1.37 billion.

Even a one-hour change in the clock can disrupt the body's circadian rhythms, especially when the clock "springs forward."Charlie Riedel/AP Millions of us may lose sleep when clocks "spring forward" by one hour this Sunday, as most states switch to daylight saving time.The time change brings darker mornings and extends light in the evening.

Image Some Americans will now need to pay co-payments or deductibles for Covid tests.Credit...Erik S Lesser/EPA, via Shutterstock For the last three years, the United States has been operating an experiment in single-payer health care for one disease.That era largely came to an end last week as the public health emergency for Covid-19 expired.

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the country in the summer of 2021, another virus-an endemic one spread by mosquitoes-thrashed residents of one Arizona county, causing a record-shattering outbreak that left 101 people dead, according to a study published today by Arizona health officials.The virus is West Nile, which constantly lurks in hundreds of bird species in the US and spreads to humans via mosquito bites.

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New York state officials said they will allow COVID-19-related masking requirements for staff, patients and visitors in hospitals and other health care facilities to lapse on Sunday.Acting Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said that while the pandemic is not over, "we are moving to a transition."

A five-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California's most at-risk Medicaid patients including the homeless and those with severe drug addictions resulted in fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits that saved taxpayers an estimated $383 per patient per year, according to a review released Wednesday.