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May 24, 2023 - In the field of microbiome science, researchers have long focused on studying the bacteria that live inside and on the human body.But other types of microbes also play an important role in human health and disease, including viruses-both phage viruses that infect bacteria and eukaryotic viruses that infect human cells-and fungi.

About 75% of New York nursing homes must hire more workers or reduce their residents to meet new staffing minimum law, industry officials said.But national labor shortages have forced New York nursing homes to leave about 6,700 beds empty currently, suggesting further cuts could endanger the system, industry officials added.

Many older Americans in need of long-term care are struggling to afford assisted living facilities, home health aides or nursing homes.Inflation is making these services even more expensive than before.Reporters from The New York Times and Kaiser Health News want to hear from people who are under financial strain because of long-term care.

Five people died of Legionnaires' disease over the summer at a New York City nursing home that had been cited repeatedly for improper maintenance of the cooling towers where the Legionella bacteria can spread, The New York Times reported.The outbreak at Amsterdam Nursing Home, a 409-bed facility in upper Manhattan, was the city's worst since 2015 when a cooling tower in the Bronx was blamed for an infection that caused 16 deaths.

A "Now Hiring" sign is displayed on a shopfront on October 21, 2022, in New York City.Leonardo Munoz / VIEWpress The economy added 263,000 jobs in November, again coming in ahead of expectations.Perhaps more importantly, wages continue to grow at a rapid pace, as the October average hourly wage was revised up by 6 cents.

Ontario has used its powers to push through the redevelopment of three long-term care homes run by a company accused of serious mismanagement during the pandemic, including widespread deaths in its facilities.Local residents and seniors said they are outraged by the ministerial zoning orders to speed up the redevelopment of Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ont., another that has been opposed in Port Hope, Ont., and a third in Ottawa all run by Southbridge Care Homes.

Ontario is reviewing pricing practices of nursing agencies involved in long-term care homes, the minister responsible for the file said Wednesday.Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said at the legislature that his deputy minister has formed a technical advisory committee to examine the issue in response to queries about price gouging by nursing agencies.

Nearly 99 per cent of nursing homes in Ontario now have air conditioning in residents' rooms, almost a year after the province set a deadline for the requirement.Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said only nine of the 625 nursing homes in Ontario remain without air conditioning in resident rooms.

Germany will soon drop a mask mandate on long-distance trains and buses, one of the country's last remaining COVID-19 restrictions, the health minister said Friday.The mandate will be dropped on Feb. 2, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced in Berlin.Other European countries already have scrapped mask mandates in public transport, and Lauterbach faced increasing pressure to follow suit in recent weeks.

About six years ago, Keiko Kawano, a radio host, found that when she stopped doing voice-articulation exercises, her smile began to fade.At a certain point, she struggled to lift the corners of her mouth.So Ms. Kawano, then 43, decided to learn how facial muscles work.After using the knowledge to reanimate her smile, she started helping others do the same under the motto, More smile, more happiness.

From Lassie to Balto, pop culture loves stories of a dog coming to a person's rescue.Anecdotally, people experience their dogs coming to their aid every day, like when one of us found herself "trapped" by her children under a pile of pillows only to be "rescued" by her noble collie, Athos.

Caregivers who attend to elderly and disabled people in their homes in Los Angeles County could get a wage boost under a proposal approved Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors.Workers with the In-Home Supportive Services program have been pushing for higher wages for over a year, arguing that L.A. County's current rate of $16 an hour has made it difficult to scrape by amid rising costs for rent, gas and groceries.

On March 20, several viral social media posts claimed that a highly drug-resistant fungal infection was spreading in the United States, and that it can cause death.VERIFY viewer Gabriella recently sent a text to our team asking if these claims were true.Is a drug-resistant fungal infection spreading in the U.S.? Yes, a drug-resistant fungal infection is spreading rapidly in U.S. health care facilities.

A deadly fungal infection is spreading at "an alarming rate" inside health facilities and long-term care hospitals across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.Here's what to know about the highly drug-resistant fungus - a strain of a kind of yeast known as Candida auris (or C. auris for short) that the CDC says "presents a serious global health threat."

NEW YORK U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.The eyedrops from EzriCare and Delsam Phama were recalled in February and health authorities are continuing to track infections as they investigate the outbreak.

By Low De Wei | Bloomberg A deadly drug-resistant fungus spreading across the US saw a dramatic uptick in cases during the Covid pandemic, with more than half of all states now reporting cases.Candida auris (C.auris) was first described in Japan in 2009, with the earliest known infections in the US dating back to 2013.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday that cases of Candida auris, or C. auris - a potentially deadly and drug-resistant fungal infection - are on the rise at U.S. health care facilities.New CDC data published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine showed that the number of infections has grown since it was first detected in the U.S. in 2013.

Each health care provider will now set up its own mask-related rules.Health officials just announced that New York State has ended its mask-related requirements inside healthcare settings, from hospitals to nursing homes and doctors' offices.Moving forward, all facilities will be allowed to come up with their own rules.

New York State will end its requirement that masks be worn in health care settings, including hospitals and nursing homes, starting on Sunday, health officials announced on Friday.After that, such facilities will be allowed to set their own masking rules.The move brings the state's guidance in line with that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which lifted the federal mandate requiring masks in health care facilities in September.

A woman was pronounced dead at the Water's Edge Rehab and Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, N.Y. but hours later, workers at a funeral home discovered she was alive and breathing.Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR Workers at a nursing home on Long Island, N.Y., pronounced an 82-year-old woman dead on Saturday but nearly three hours later, staff at a funeral home discovered the woman was still alive and breathing.

Germany's governing coalition is arguing over whether remaining COVID-19 restrictions should be dropped after one of the country's top virologists was quoted as saying that the pandemic is over.Germany has scrapped the bulk of restrictions imposed at the height of the pandemic but, unlike other European countries, still requires mask-wearing on long-distance trains and buses.

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The  Biden administration is again making some  free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter.

By ZEKE MILLER | Associated Press WASHINGTON   The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter.After a three-month hiatus, the administration is making four rapid virus tests available per household through covidtests.gov

Nurses in Northern Ireland will take to the picket lines for the second time in three years with heavy hearts, but they feel they have been left with no choice.The Department of Health has warned the action will inevitably impact an already fragile health service, while the Western Health Trust has announced that hundreds of appointments will be postponed on Thursday.

Authorities in Chinese capital will no longer require negative COVID test to enter supermarkets, commercial buildings.China's capital Beijing is no longer requiring a negative COVID-19 test to enter supermarkets and commercial buildings, local authorities have said, in the latest loosening of the country's tough zero COVID strategy following rare protests.

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure medications, a government report said Thursday.The evidence released by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services indicates physicians specializing in nursing home care may have traded one controversial practice for another in response to regulatory scrutiny, seeking to sedate dementia patients with anticonvulsant medications rather than antipsychotics.