Month: February 2022

A pharmacy technician grabs a bottle of drugs off a shelve at a pharmacy. Photo: George Frey (Getty Images) In a new case report this week, medical professionals in California say that at least two of their patients have experienced substantial and rapid relief from their long covid symptoms with the help of over-the-counter antihistamines. Importantly, the findings are only anecdotal at this point, but they may point to new avenues of research for understanding and treating this complex condition. The report, published Monday in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners, concerns two middle-aged women believed to have caught covid-19 during the first year of the pandemic. Both were generally healthy and regularly exercised prior to their illness, and both developed a variety of lingering ...

Nearly 20 white-tailed deer in New York were infected with Omicron this winter, research suggests. The virus seems widespread among US deer, raising concerns about the spillover of new variants. For now, scientists are hopeful that deer won't pass the coronavirus to humans. Loading Something is loading. Vaughn Cooper sees white-tailed deer every day in his neigh...

Humboldt County Public Health reported today the death of a resident in their 50s due to COVID-19. Staff in the Department Operations Center extend their condolences to all who have lost a loved one to the virus. One new hospitalization, a resident in their 30s, was reported. Thirty-five new cases were also reported, and an additional 43 cases were removed from the case count. Because Public Health counts people and not tests, staff conduct ongoing manual de-duplication efforts to make sure a person who has received more than one test is being counted only once. The total number of confirmed positive cases of the virus in the county stands at 18,192. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that he will let a statewide indoor mask mandate expire next week for people who have been vaccinated agains...

Teens may soon have one less thing to be angsty about. A breakthrough new study gives hope that a cure for acne could soon be on the way. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications on Monday, details the genetic mechanisms behind what causes unsightly blemishes — which could hold the code for new treatments. The findings could improve the quality of life for acne suffers everywhere, said study co-author Catherine Smith in a statement reported by HealthDay. These acne-cursed “individuals describe consequent profound, negative impacts on their psychological and social well-being,” said Smith, a professor of dermatology at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in Britain. “It’s exciting that this work opens up potential avenues ...

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