West Nile alert issued as two fatalities confirmed in Minnesota

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been detected in the city for the first time this year, officials said.

A new study has uncovered a key difference between the immune system of males and females—and it comes down to a single gene. The study is published in The Journal of Immunology.

Using a care pathway focused on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can lead to shorter hospital stays, increased referrals to pulmonary rehabilitation, and improved standardization of care, according to a study published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation.

Tailored exercise programs, vitamin D supplements, and better nutrition are proven to help prevent falls in aged care homes, reveals a new study from Flinders University.

The genetic disorder Fragile X syndrome occurs when individuals don't make the Fragile X protein known as FMRP. Essential for normal brain development, FMRP helps control when and where proteins are made in the brain, supporting its ability to change and adapt in response to things we experience and the environment around us.

"My son was diagnosed with congenital CMV, a virus that can cause hearing loss. As part of this diagnosis, he will be required to have routine hearing tests every few months until he is 10 years old. I reached out to you because I wanted to know why my son's hearing tests weren't covered by our insurance and why we needed to pay for it," said Anna Deutscher, 29, from Minnesota, writing about her infant son, Beckham.

By many measures, coronavirus is a thing of the past.

Microbes inside cancerous tumors can influence the spread of disease and the effectiveness of treatment. Those roles make them appealing targets for new therapies and offer ways to better predict risk. Tumor microbiota-based tools could help identify high-risk patients and people most susceptible to metastases, and possibly be used to improve prognosis tools, report a group of microbiologists at Nankai University in Tianjin, China.

Dr. Thimo Ruethers, who is based at James Cook University's Tropical Future Institute in Singapore and serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Townsville, was a co-investigator of the study conducted at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne.

Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as autobiographical hypermnesia, or hyperthymesia. This fascinating condition remains poorly understood, and each new case contributes to our understanding.

A recent survey commissioned by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC–James) focused on Americans' awareness of the signs and symptoms of prostate cancer. The survey results show most people (80%) don't know early-stage prostate cancer often presents with no physical symptoms, typically only diagnosed with a blood test.

Both the Nail Psoriasis Severity Index (NAPSI) and the Nijmegen-Nail Psoriasis Activity Index Tool (N-NAIL) provide accurate cutoffs for diagnosing nail psoriasis, with better accuracy seen for the N-NAIL, according to a study published online in the International Journal of Dermatology.

U.S. regulators have approved updated versions of the COVID vaccine, though a much smaller group of people will be eligible to receive them this fall after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at the shots earlier this year.

During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But studying those changes in juvenile mice is challenging because scientists don't have a way to repeatedly image the same animal's neural pathways as they grow.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent letters to health care providers alerting them to the importance of following manufacturer instructions for the safe use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) devices.

For women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), pregnancy can be an uncertain time due to limited clinical data about how IBD medications impact pregnancy outcomes and infants who have been exposed to IBD medications in utero.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressive memory loss and a decline in mental (i.e., cognitive) abilities. Statistics suggest that between 500,000 and 900,000 people are diagnosed with this disease every year, while several hundreds of thousands experience dementia or other aging-related cognitive decline.

SHEA is deeply disappointed by the sudden departure of the CDC director so soon after her confirmation, at a time when the agency most needs stability and authority to carry out its vital mission of protecting the health and safety of all Americans.