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Tom Kertscher  |  PolitiFact.com Show Caption Hide Caption If you had COVID and were double vaccinated you may not need a booster Research suggests COVID infection plus vaccination provides the strongest protection against a wide range of variants, possibly for a long time. Just The FAQs, USA TODAY Several days before the Tuesday start of the National Basketball Association season, a widely circulated headline said a 26-year-old NBA player suffered blood clots shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. The headline, shared in an Instagram post, referred to guard Brandon Goodwin, who played for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks last season and before that with the Denver Nuggets and at Florida Gulf Coast University. Goodwin, who is not currently with an NBA team, said himself in an October video that he blamed the vac...

Candida is a yeast that lives both inside and outside of your body. It can be found in your gut, mouth, vagina, and on your skin. This yeast particularly likes the warm, dark, moist folds of your skin, and the underside of your breasts is a prime place for it to take up residence. Under normal circumstances, Candida doesn't cause any problems. But in some people—because of things like underlying health conditions or the size of their breasts—skin can break down, causing a rash (called intertrigo). That rash can allow yeast to penetrate, causing a yeast infection under your breasts. Yeast infections are technically fungal infections. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library / Getty Images What Does a Yeast Infection Under the Breasts Look Like? A yeast skin rash can appear under the breasts and along the upper torso, where breast skin rubs against torso skin. In fact, the rash under a breast is often a mirror image of the rash on the oth...

image: This image shows typical spherical to oval cells of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, with extensive capsules and a budding daughter cell view more  Credit: Phan Hai Trieu (CC BY 4.0) Hopes that tamoxifen could improve survival for a deadly form of fungal meningitis have been dashed by clinical trial results published in eLife. The study finds that adding tamoxifen to standard antifungal treatment was no better at speeding up the clearance of fungal infection from the spinal fluid of people with meningitis. ...

TEL AVIV, Israel and RALEIGH, N.C. , Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDHL) ("RedHill" or the "Company"), a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced the presentation of four new analyses of Phase 3 Talicia ® (omeprazole magnesium, amoxicillin and rifabutin)[1] and Movantik ® (naloxegol)[2] data at the ACG 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting, taking place October 22-27, 2021 . The first Talicia analysis evaluated physician-directed therapy data, confirming high utilization of clarithromycin and low rates of H. pylori eradication. Inappropriate use of clarithromycin persists despite American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) recommendations to avoid clarithromycin when treating H. pylori patients who have a history of macrolide exposure, where local resistance rates are ≥ 15% or unknown, and/or when the patient has been previously treated with a clarithromycin-containing regimen. Utilization data based on U.S. prescriptions con...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Yes, you should still get the COVID-19 booster even if you are fully vaccinated or had the virus    WZZM13.com Covid-19 vaccination and pregnancy: are babies protected post-birth?    Clinical Trials Arena Opinion: When school vaccines were routine, accepted    Atlanta Journal Constitution Misinformation mania    The News International With COVID-19 vaccine for kids on the horizon, questions raised about how many parents will agree | Saltwire    SaltWire Network View Full Coverage on Google News

Since the 'Black Death', a plague that killed an estimated 200 million people, outbreaks of infectious diseases had been well documented — and have shaped the world as well as medical science. Image Credit: File / Gulf News Also in this package ATM 2021: Dubai shows the world how to reconnect after COVID-19 Splash of colour: UK beach huts brighten pandemic gloom UAE COVID-19: 10 Tips for occupying kids on a pande...

Dr Sherri Tenpenny. The Ohio Channel A prominent anti-vax doctor had her medical license renewed this month, the Ohio Capital reported. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny told Ohio lawmakers in June that COVID-19 vaccines could make people magnetic. Tenpenny was recently...