Five U.S. cities are participating in a clinical trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health, to test whether mobile clinics offering integrated health services will improve HIV and substance use outcomes among people with opioid use disorder who inject…
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The COVID-19 vaccine rollout significantly cut cases, deaths, hospitalizations and emergency department visits among U.S. adults, according to the CDC's latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published June 8.
Michigan's health department reported the state's first human case of Sin Nombre hantavirus in a Washtenaw County woman June 7. People can contract the disease when exposed to the excrements of infected mice.
The CDC updated its international travel guidance June 8, signaling that dozens of countries pose less of a COVID-19 risk, reports USA Today.
Now that COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are dropping and 42 percent of the country's population is fully vaccinated, contact tracers are able to keep up with identifying people who may have been exposed to the disease, ABC News reported…
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The American Hospital Association will connect hospitals and health systems with businesses interested in hosting on-site COVID-19 vaccination clinics for their employees, the White House said during a June 8 COVID-19 news conference.
There is a risk that the highly transmissible delta variant first identified in India could become the dominant strain in the U.S. if vaccination rates lag, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said…
Kaiser Permanente is launching several programs and initiatives to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations, the Oakland, Calif.-based organization said June 8.
Countries will need at least 80 percent of their population vaccinated against COVID-19 to significantly lower the risk of new clusters or outbreaks fueled by variants, a top World Health Organization leader estimated June 7.
People who received Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna's mRNA vaccine and later contracted COVID-19, known as breakthrough infections, had milder and shorter illness compared to those who were unvaccinated and infected, according to CDC findings published June 7.