Among young people, demand for both inpatient and outpatient care for eating disorders grew in the first year of the pandemic, according to a case series study published Nov. 7 in JAMA Pediatrics.
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The CDC issued an Ebola update for clinicians Nov. 7, encouraging them to remain alert amid rising cases in Uganda.
COVID-19 cases are projected to increase by nearly 40 percent over the next two weeks, though it's still unclear whether hospitalizations and deaths may follow suit in November, according to national disease modeling.
Flu activity is ramping up across the U.S., with 4,326 lab-confirmed flu patients admitted to hospitals for the week ending Oct. 29, according to the CDC's latest FluView report.
Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — dubbed 'escape variants' for their immune evasiveness — now account for more than a third of U.S. COVID-19 cases, according to the CDC's COVID-19 data tracker weekly review published Nov. 4
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A new study from researchers in the U.K. suggests monkeypox spread may occur up to four days before symptoms surface, and that presymptomatic transmission might be more "substantial" than previously thought.
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to 130, including 43 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
In the coming months, the U.S. will likely see an increase in COVID-19 cases that is less severe than last winter's omicron surge, experts told Scientific American in a Nov. 1 report.
Here are eight COVID-19-related research findings Becker's has covered since Oct. 7:
During the 2021-2022 influenza season, central Missouri saw a high prevalence of people coinfected with COVID-19 and the flu, according to a study involving 462 patients.