libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2025-05-09

BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: U.S. Infant Mortality Dropped in 2024. Experts Partly Credit RSV Shots.: (MedPage Today) -- The nation's infant mortality rate dropped last year after 2 years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau.Some experts think one reason for the drop could be a vaccination campaign against respiratory [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/rsv/11550300:28
BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Health: New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations → https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/baby-hospitalizations-from-rsv-fell-up-to-71-with-new-vaccine-treatment/00:38
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Assessment of the impact of multi-cancer early detection test screening intervals on late-stage cancer at diagnosis and mortality using a state-transition model: Objective Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests are novel technologies that detect cancer signals from a broad set of cancer types using [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/5/e08664801:17
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Retaining doctors in organisations in socioeconomically deprived areas in England: a qualitative study: Objectives To identify factors that improve retention in under-doctored areas that experience difficulties in maintaining sufficient medical workforce. Design Qualitative study based on [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/5/e10069406:51
BrainstormNew from StatNews: In the Lab: STAT+: From pandemic preparedness to precious frozen spit, NIH contract terminations cut deep → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/09/trump-ordered-nih-contract-terminations-cut-deep/10:39
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): It is not conclusive evidence; it is yet another piece of the puzzle, indicating a likely zoonotic origin of SARS-Cov-2. The ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in bats far from the sites of their emergence in humans and as recently as 1-6 years before [... want %more?] → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11447738028901778312:25
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Trump drug-pricing plan, an AstraZeneca court loss, and more → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/05/09/trump-medicaid-medicines-pharma-biotech-shortages-astrazeneca-humira-biosimilars-ai-finasteride-suicide/15:21
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations | Interim Evaluation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization Rates Among Infants and Young Children After Introduction of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prevention [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1kij2yb/new_rsv_vaccine_treatment_linked_to_dramatic_fall/16:09
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: US Businesses Are Here to Help the Trump Administration Keep its Pledge to End HIV: A coalition of over 100 US companies is supporting the federal initiative to end the HIV epidemic by 2030, but legal and funding threats now [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/us-businesses-are-here-to-help-the-trump-administration-keep-its-pledge-to-end-hiv17:08
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): The risk of Long Covid symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11447877141429562518:31
BrainstormNew from Science Daily: Novel, needle-free, live-attenuated influenza vaccines with broad protection against human and avian virus subtypes: A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in developing broadly protective, live-attenuated influenza vaccines (LAIV). These innovative LAIV platforms offer [... want %more?] → https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250509122258.htm20:16
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: New global report: 'Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale': Health disparities are shortening lives by decades in high- and low-income countries alike, the World Health Organization says. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-global-report-social-injustice-killing-people-grand-scale20:26
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): US flu activity now at low levels, but CDC confirms 10 more kids' flu deaths → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/us-flu-activity-now-low-levels-cdc-confirms-10-more-kids-flu-deaths20:55
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: There are currently FOUR ways that you can help to maintain access to vaccines this fall, especially Novavax. Comments, emails, calls, and faxes are all extremely helpful. → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1kir3qa/there_are_currently_four_ways_that_you_can_help/21:33
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): mRNA technology helps reinvigorate the hunt for cancer vaccines → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11448010163050703623:57

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