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Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Since HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra's February 9, 2023, letter to Governors announcing the planned end of the COVID-19 PHE, the Department has been working closely with partners—including Governors; state, local, Tribal, and territorial agencies; industry; and advocates—to ensure an orderly transition out of the COVID-19 PHE. Today, HHS is releasing a Fact Sheet with an update on current flexibilities enabled by the COVID-19 emergency declaration and how they will be impacted by the end of the COVID-19 PHE on May 11. What has been accomplished: Due to the Biden-Harris Administration's whole-of-government approach to combatting COVID-19, we are now in a better place in our response than at any point o...

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents on Friday approved moving forward with planning for an infectious diseases air transport training facility at UNMC. The Infectious Diseases Air Transport Training Facility will be a new free-standing building on an existing UNMC parking lot on the south edge of the Omaha campus.  In collaboration with internationally recognized experts, the up to $20 million facility will establish biocontainment patient transport training to safely and effectively care for patients with high consequence infectious diseases. "UNMC has a long history of partnering with the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies to manage patients with high consequence infectious diseases," said UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD. "Our work was front and center during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa when we cared for patients in our biocontainment unit. We have continued to serve our nation in regard ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Trichinella T9 in wild bears in Japan: Prevalence, species/genotype identification, and public health implications    ScienceDirect.com

By Editorial Staff March 25, 2024 - The rapid proliferation of value-based care arrangements, driven by electronic health record (EHR) adoption and the subsequent explosion of big data, has given providers the opportunity and the financial imperative to focus on delivering holistic, preventive healthcare to their patients.  Instead of simply addressing acute ailments as they arise, healthcare organizations are transitioning to a longer-term view of patient wellness in an effort to keep individuals as healthy as possible for as long as possible. But, to transition from reactive to proactive healthcare, providers must understand the likely trajectory of an individual's illness or chronic condition.  This requires clinicians to have access to a wealth of background information, including comprehensive data on the outcomes of similar patients who have faced comparable clinical, economic, and social challenges. Providers can then use the less...

Overview The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life"  (1). Intimate partner violence  refers to behaviour by an intimate partner or ex-partner that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviours. Sexual violence  is "any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, or other act directed against a person's sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting. It includes rape, defined as the physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration of the vulva or anus with a penis, other body part or object, attempted rape, unwanted...

Abstract We aimed to explore the association between FFP transfusion and outcomes of DC patients with significant coagulopathy. A total of 693 DC patients with significant coagulopathy were analyzed with 233 patients per group after propensity score matching (PSM). Patients who received FFP transfusion were matched with those receiving conventional therapy via PSM. Regression analysis showed FFP transfusion had no benefit in 30-day (HR: 1.08, 95% CI 0.83–1.4), 90-day (HR: 1.03, 95% CI 0.80–1.31) and in-hospital(HR: 1.30, 95% CI 0.90–1.89) mortality, associated with increased risk of liver failure (OR: 3.00, 95% CI 1.78–5.07), kidney failure (OR: 1.90, 95% CI 1.13–3.18), coagulation failure (OR: 2.55, 95% CI 1.52–4.27), respiratory failure (OR: 1.76, 95% CI 1.15–2.69), and circulatory failure (OR: 2.15, 95% CI 1.27–3.64), and even associated with prolonged the LOS ICU (β: 2.61, 95% CI 1.59–3.62) and LOS hospital (β: 6.59, 95% CI 2.62–10.57). In sensitivity analysis, multivariate analysi...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A measles case has been reported in Lake County, Illinois, the health department said Saturday. The Lake County Health Department said the case is related to the ongoing outbreak in Chicago. The Lake County Health Department said anyone at any of the locations on the dates below might have been exposed to measles: The Lake County Health Department said anyone at any of the locations on these dates might have been exposed to measles. Lake County Health Department This comes after the Chicago Department of Public Health reported two more measles cases in the city on Friday. That brought the total number of confirmed cases in Chicago to 17. Most of the cases in Chicago are among migrants living in a shelter in Pilsen. Eleven of the cases are in children younger than 5 years old. CDPH said it has now vaccinated about 4,000 people at new arrival shelters and at the landing zone in-take center. Meanwhile, the East Chicago Health Department in Indiana is investigating a ...