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Share on Pinterest A recent study outlines the global impact of antimicrobial resistance. Evgenyi_Eg/Getty Images. There is a broad consensus among scientists, healthcare professionals, and public health organizations that antimicrobial resistance is a prominent global health threat. Robust data on the impact of antimicrobial resistance across the globe are needed to guide region-specific policies and programs to prevent and control infections. A new study provides the first comprehensive estimate of the impact of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria across the globe. The authors conclude that 1.27 million deaths in 2019 could be directly attributed to it. These results emphasize the need for collective global action, such as developing new antibiotics and vaccines and improving surveillance of antimicrobial resistance . Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats to global public health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) . This is because the emergence of bacter...

At Friday's Health and Human Services Board Data Subcommittee meeting, COVID metrics and how they're affecting the county were discussed. The county's Pandemic Operations team gave an update on staffing up — the PanOps team is tasked with providing data and trends for New Hanover County, along with a host of other pandemic-related tasks that have, for the last two years, been on the shoulders of other county employees. Related: New Hanover County's new 'PanOps' director on vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, and challenges on the horizon The subcommittee discussed whether it needed to continue meeting — some board members argued the PanOps team had "stepped up" and provided what was needed. The subcommittee also reviewed the latest Covid-19 data. Between Tuesday and Friday morning, in New Hanover County 1,661 people have tested positive. The current county positivity rate is 38.8% – the State is at 30.4%. At New Hanover Regional Medical Center there are...

Georgia Institute of Technology / Poets&Quants Poets&Quants for Undergrads, the leading online publication for undergraduate business education news, has unveiled its sixth annual Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2022 rankings. Georgia Institute for Technology made the top 10. This year's ranking will include 95 schools, up from 93 last year. For the first time since the launch of this ranking, the methodology has been adjusted. Changes include reducing the weight given to average SAT scores from 35% to 10%. Additionally, the weight given to acceptance rates was lowered from 35% to 30%. The average high school GPA of the most recently enrolled class (15%) was added along with the average percentage of students that reported being National Merit finalists or semi...

Karen Northshield (r) near the Belgian monarchs in March 2021 during a tribute to victims of the 2016 terrorist attack. Belga (POOL BENOIT DOPPAGNE/Belga/Sipa / Cordon Press) On March 22, 2016, 30-year-old Karen Northshield was in Brussels airport when a bomb exploded just a few meters away. It was a terrorist attack by Islamic State (ISIS). A total of 35 people were killed, including the three perpetrators. Now, six years on, the startling story of how Northshield's life was saved has been published in the science journal Nature Communications . Northshield owes her life to an experimental treatment that used a virus to heal an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection, a global health problem that kills more than one million people worldwide every year. After the bombing, Northshield was transferred to the emergency department of Erasmo Hospital in the Belgian capital. Her heart had stopped beating, but doctors were able to revive her. They amputated part of her hip and carried o...

By William Landon, Northern Kentucky University In the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods, 'Italy' was best understood as a geographical descriptor which gave the peninsula its name. Yes, luminaries such as Francesco Petrarch dreamt of a united peninsula—' Italia mia ' or 'My Italy' is what he called it. But Petrarch was an exception. Poetic visions of unity were crushed by a fragmented reality. Every stratum of the society was affected by the Black Death, and a return to the days before the plague was impossible. (Image: Pieter Brueghel the Elder/Public domain) The 'City-states' In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the peninsula was filled with dozens of small states, some of which were ruled by aristocratic families. We can call them principalities. Other cities were governed by bodies of elected officials. Such cities usually self-identified as 'communes'. It might help for us to think of them as...

By Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO (CTV Network) — With cases skyrocketing and many scrambling to book third shots, one question feels more pressing than ever at the start of 2022: When will COVID-19 end? The trajectory of pandemics — a term which refers to an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread over a large region, usually globally — have varied widely depending on the type of disease, the time period, the politics and the quality of health care available. And sometimes, we consider a pandemic to have "ended" long before it ceases to be a problem worldwide. Looking back at some of our previous pandemics or epidemics can give us an insight into how COVID-19 could come to end, both in epidemiological and social terms. 1918 FLU PANDEMIC In the spring of 1918, the first wave of a deadly influenza started to spread. Around 500 million people —one third of the g...

Fortune on Wednesday released its 67th annual ranked list of the 500 companies that generated the most revenue in the previous fiscal year. Several health systems—as well as many other companies in the health care industry—made the list. Cheat sheets: Best places to work About the list Fortune  compiled the list based on the total revenues of for-profit companies for their 2020 fiscal years. To be eligible for the list, companies must have filed financial documents with a state or federal agency. Infographic: The executive's field guide to disruptive innovation This year's  Fortune  500 companies have a total of $13.8 trillion in revenue, equivalent to roughly two-thirds of the U.S. gross domestic product. Fortune  sorted companies on the list based on their sector. Within the health care sector,  Fortune  sorted companies based on different health care industries, including wholesalers, insurance and managed ...

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Research team to continue studying on biofilm and Bubonic plague HALLIE CROMWELL A WSU research team is studying how fleas can transmit the Bubonic Plague. A research team within the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health is studying how an infectious bacterium causes fleas to transmit the Bubonic Plague via flea bite. The research team is led by Viveka Vadyvaloo, associate professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine. "My research is on [the] infectious disease, the Bubonic Plague," Vadyvaloo said. "[The] part of the disease we study is how this disease or the bacteria that causes this disease, Yersinia pestis, is transmitted from fleas or by flea bite." Yersinia pestis is a bacterium responsible for the plague, she said. The bacterium was discovered and named after researcher Alexandre Yersin in the 1900s. The plague is a zoonotic infectious disease. Zoonosis is when an infectious disease is spread by animals, said Guy Palmer, regents professor of patho...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Insurance companies must now cover cost of at-home COVID tests. Here's how it works.    Raleigh News & Observer

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Antimicrobial resistance: time to repurpose the Global Fund    The Lancet Antibiotic-resistant infections are a 'major global health threat' that's killing millions, scientists say    CNBC Study: Drug-resistant bacteria kill 1.2 million globally    Associated Press Antimicrobial Resistance Linked to 1.2 Million Global Deaths in 2019    Medscape View Full Coverage on Google News

The test positivity rate has fallen below 10% in New York State for the first time since Dec. 20, according to the state health department. Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking at Brookhaven National Lab Friday urged New Yorkers not to "take our foot off the gas" in the fight against the pandemic. "Wash your hands, get the vaccine if you haven't already, get the booster dose, and wear a mask," she said. During the briefing at the lab, Hochul said there is no set positivity-rate number that will trigger a change in the mask mandate for indoor public spaces. "We're going to be driven by data and look at what we what our situation was prior to the mandates and assess," Hochul said. The COVID test positivity rate and the number of new cases per 100,000 people continue to fall in Suffolk County and across the state. The test percent-positive rate was just over 11% Friday and declining, according to data published by the Suffolk County Department of Health ...

With the latest additions to its network, Summit Health now includes more than 2,500 providers and 12,000 employees across more than 340 locations in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Central Oregon. Summit Health unveiled partnerships with Westmed Medical Group and New Jersey Urology on Jan. 19. The company formed by the 2019 merger of CityMD and Summit Medical Group also said Westmed CEO Anthony Viceroy would serve as president and chief operating officer of Summit Health, while NJU President Dr. Martin Goldstein will be chief of urology for the provider. Alter "An important lesson of this pandemic is how vital it is to expand access to care. The addition of Westmed and NJU enables Summit Health to meet the needs of even more patients through our highly connected care model," said Chief Executive Officer Jeff Alter in a statement. "Health care remains a local phenomenon and this expansion will help show that the more we can develop a long-stan...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Gwinnett County Public Schools, health department co-hosting COVID-19 vaccination clinics at local high schools    Gwinnettdailypost.com

While the COVID-19 pandemic has been an inflection point of modern history, it is nowhere close to being the deadliest pandemic in human history. That dubious distinction belongs to the infamous "Black Death," a bubonic plague that swept through Europe and the Near East in the mid-14th century. Like COVID-19, the bubonic plague was a terrible way to die, but with very different symptoms. The most notorious were the dreaded buboes (hence 'bubonic plague'), severe inflammations of the lymph nodes that oozed pus and broke out over the groin, armpits and neck. A victim's skin and flesh would eventually turn black and rot, although long before this happened they would experience intense nausea, vomiting, fever, headaches and aching joints. Within days — or, at most, a couple weeks — the infected person would die. One might imagine that a disease this terrible would have been burned into humanity's collectiv...

With the coronavirus spreading at an unseen rate in Michigan and beyond, it can be hard to imagine any end in sight. But University of Michigan immunologist and professor Dr. Jim Baker says he thinks the pandemic will come to an end in 2022. Dr. Baker joined us on Flashpoint this week to discuss the current state of the pandemic and its future. "When we talk about pandemic, this huge wave of infection that goes around the world, we usually see a lot of different phases," Dr. Baker explained to Devin Scillian on Sunday's Flashpoint program. "The more people are immune to the virus, the more people have a vaccine, the less likely they're going to have a serious effect from this." Dr. Baker has been keeping a pandemic blog and recently wrote about the pandemic ending this year. "We have been focused on number of infections with COVID-19 because of the very sensitive and accurate diagnostic tests (PCR) we have developed. In contrast, as we look at the end o...

Image for representation. Credits: YouTube/AFP. The Bubonic Plague struck Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. In October 1347, 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina and so the plague arrived in Europe. Throughout the history of human civilisation, several pandemics have occurred and left a lasting impact. Besides Ebola virus and HIV AIDS, the coronavirus pandemic is the most devastating medical disaster of the twenty-first century. However, history has shown how our ancestors faced similar epidemics. One such pandemic that continues to find its mention even today is the Bubonic plague also known as the Black Death. The Bubonic Plague struck Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. In October 1347, 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina and so the plague arrived in Europe. People who gathered on the docks witnessed a horrifying sight as most sailors aboard the ships were dead. Those who were still alive were critically il...