Month: December 2021

A couple was heartbroken to be told their daughter, 6, was riddled with cancer, after what they thought was just growing pains. Little Eden Smith, from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, had been complaining of sore legs for a few weeks in spring this year. But when her health started to go downhill, doctors thought it would be safest to take some scans. Parents Jen, 46, and Lee, 47, never imaged they’d be given the heartbreaking news that their daughter had the late stages of neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. Jen, said: “She didn’t just have a little bit of cancer – it was in her tummy (which we later learned to be the site of the main tumor), her back, her legs, her chest, the back of her head and above her eye.” The family desperately needs £280,000 ($...

Humboldt County Public Health reported today 23 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 10,123 the total number of residents who have tested positive for the virus. Two hospitalizations were also reported, a resident in their 50s and one aged 80 or older. The first known case of the new Omicron variant in the U.S. was confirmed today in San Francisco, Calif. as health officials throughout the state stepped up surveillance testing and contact tracing to identify and control its spread. While there are not yet any known cases in Humboldt County, health officials are requesting doctors to ask their patients about their travel history so that they can identify and test those who may have been exposed. Residents who test positive on at-home tests and have travelled internationally in the past 14 ...

When the new Omicron variant became known last week, there was anxiety about whether it would lead governments to consider new restrictions just as the holidays arrived. And while the variant has now been detected in California, officials say that they don’t think they’ll need to implement significant new restrictions, saying travel plans can be pursued and policies already in place around masks and vaccine verification are the best path for combatting the new strain of the coronavirus. “This has been an extraordinarily long and challenging time, and people are right to feel fatigued,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. “I think the best way to put all of this in perspective is we actually have a lot more powerful tools at our hand right now than we did last ye...

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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden  unveiled on Wednesday a strategy for combating HIV/AIDS that the administration says will focus on the growing population of people with HIV who are aging, along with other changes. More than half of the 1.2 million people in the USA who are living with HIV are over age 50. The plan will recognize racism as a health threat, expand the focus on addressing issues such as homelessness that make it hard to fight HIV/AIDS and encourage reform of state HIV criminalization laws. "This is one area where we can get a lot more done, quickly," Biden said at a White House event recognizing World AIDS Day.  He said the goal of ending HIV transmission is "within striking distance." As in past years, a giant red ribbon  was hung on the north portico of the White House. ...