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Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US after hantavirus outbreak
When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be his home for 35 days as he traveled across the South Atlantic.Now, he is one of 18 Americans under observation at specialized healthcare facilities designed to treat people with dangerous infectious diseases after three people died and others were sickened by a hantavirus outbreak aboard the ship.
Rosmarin, 30, said he expects to spend 42 days at the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Fourteen other American... Read More
French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11
PARIS (AP) — A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11 total reported cases, 9 of which have been confirmed.Three people on the cruise died, including a Dutch couple that health officials believe were the first exposed to the virus while visiting South America.
The French passenger hospitalized in Paris has a severe form of the disease that has caused... Read More
Trump's FDA chief is out after angering pharma CEOs, vaping lobbyists and anti-abortion activists
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists, vaping lobbyists and other allies of President Donald Trump.News of Makary's departure Tuesday came just 13 months after he was confirmed to lead the powerful regulatory agency.
A surgeon and health researcher, Makary came to prominence among Republicans as an outspoken critic of public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he frequently appeared on Fox... Read More
Federal prosecutors seek NYU hospital information on gender-affirming care for children
A New York hospital system says it received a grand jury subpoena from federal prosecutors in Texas seeking information about children who received gender-affirming care and the medical providers who administered it.NYU Langone is the first hospital system to publicly acknowledge receiving a subpoena for such records as part of a federal criminal investigation. But the institution said in its statement Tuesday it was one of several that received a subpoena out of the Northern District of Texas on May 7. It said it was deciding on how to respond.
NYU Langone Health... Read More
The condition PCOS is now called PMOS. What to know about the name change and what it means for care
A hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women around the world just got a new name in hopes of improving care. It Is now called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome instead of polycystic ovary syndrome.Researchers and supporters of the change said the old name, often shortened to PCOS, is inaccurate. It reduced a complex hormonal or endocrine disorder to a misunderstanding about cysts and a focus on ovaries, contributing to missed diagnoses and inadequate treatment, said the Endocrine Society, a global group of physicians and scientists.
“The thought behind that is... Read More
Top Stories in Health
- Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US after hantavirus outbreak
- French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11
- Trump's FDA chief is out after angering pharma CEOs, vaping lobbyists and anti-abortion activists
- Federal prosecutors seek NYU hospital information on gender-affirming care for children
- The condition PCOS is now called PMOS. What to know about the name change and what it means for care
- Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV
- Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups
- Trump is getting another medical checkup at the end of May, the White House says
- Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring
- Supreme Court temporarily extends women's access to a widely used abortion pill
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