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Headache is a frequent complaint among children, but it is typically mild and usually not serious. However, recurrent headaches can affect a child's behavior and may prevent them from performing daily activities. One in five American school-aged children are prone to having headaches. Before puberty, headaches are more common in boys, and after puberty, they are more common in girls. Headaches can upset children and cause undue worry to parents or caregivers. However, most headaches are mild and go away in a few hours. Less than 5% of headaches are due to severe conditions. This article discusses headaches in children, symptoms, and when to consult with a doctor. Adults and children typically experience the same headache types, but they may experience them differently. The International Headache Society (IHS) classifies headaches into two categories — primary and secondary. Primary headaches have no known cause, while secondary headaches result from another condition. Primary heada...

It's too soon to know whether the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron variants will take off in the U.S. as they are in South Africa. But some experts are anxious. Show Caption Hide Caption Biden administration plans to make antiviral Paxlovid more accessible The Biden administration plans to double the availability of Paxlovid, a COVID-19 antiviral medication, in the coming weeks. Damien Henderson, USA TODAY COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in South Africa, as they did in the earliest days of the omicron outbreak. It's too soon to know whether that will have any implications for the United States, but omicron exploded here right after Thanksgiving, only a few weeks after it took off there. The viruses now spreading in South Africa are variants of omicron, dubbed BA.4 and BA.5.  The original omicron variant, called BA.1, now represents only about 3% of cas...

If you thought the worst thing that could happen to you during a makeout session was getting a slobbery tongue shoved down your throat, you could be seriously mistaken. Apparently, it's very possible to contract a bacterial skin infection when the person you're macking on has facial hair. Don't believe me? One TikTok content creator shared her own story as proof. In the video uploaded in late March, she documented what happened to her face after kissing her boyfriend, who has facial hair. The results involve what looks to be lots and lots of skin irritation. I'll let the video speak for itself. @jaleighrobbins2023 it was a long two weeks #LizzosBigGrrrls ♬ original sound - frankiesaudios How does this happen? How can this be prevented? Should you now only swipe right on bare-faced individuals on Tinder? We spoke with Mamina Turegano, MD, FAAD, board-certified dermatologist at Skintap, for all the answers. How Can You Contract a Skin Infection From Kissing...

PEPPERELL — Local resident Jessica Lundeen has been appointed as the town's first community social worker. In her role, Lundeen will provide outreach support to other residents in regard to mental health, housing, financial assistance and other issues they may face. She will also serve as a liaison to local committees and regional civic groups. Lundeen will also respond, assist and coordinate social service needs along with the Police Department, Fire Department, Health Department, School Department, Senior Services and other regional partners. Lundeen said she is not only excited to get to work, but to be the first to serve in the role for the town. "It's scary because there is an unknown here — the position is new, they never had it before," Lundeen said. "But it's exciting, too, because I get to kind of build up the position from the bottom up." "There's a lot that, given my past experience, I could bring to the job that they might n...

As 2021 drew to a close, the highly contagious Omicron variant of the pandemic virus was racing around the globe, forcing governments to take drastic actions once again. The Netherlands ordered most businesses to close on 19 December, Ireland set curfews and many countries imposed travel bans in the hope of taming the tsunami of COVID-19 cases filling hospitals. Amid the wave of desperate news around the year-end holidays, one group of researchers hailed a development that had seemed as though it might never arrive. On 23 December, the World Health Organization (WHO) uttered the one word it had previously seemed incapable of applying to the virus SARS-CoV-2: 'airborne'. On its website, a page titled 'Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): How is it transmitted?' was quietly edited to state that a person can be infected "when infectious particles that pass through the air are inhaled at short range", a process otherwise known as "short-range aerosol or short-rang...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Chest pain and coronary endothelial dysfunction after recovery from COVID‐19: A case series    John Wiley

A sore throat that comes and goes is a nuisance but usually not a serious cause for concern.  Allergies, smoking, infections, and heartburn can all cause an intermittently chronic sore throat.  A chronic sore throat can be a sign of throat cancer if it comes with other tell-tale symptoms. A sore throat happens when the pharynx — a tube located between your tonsils and voice box in the back of your throat — becomes inflamed. This causes your throat to feel swollen and tender, and can even make it difficult and painful to swallow or talk.  Sore throats, aka pharyngitis, are fairly common, and not typically cause for concern on their own. While they usually improve within a week or two, some people experience a sore throat that comes and goes over time. A recurring sore throat can be caused by a variety of different ...

LISBON, Portugal — During the pandemic, critical and acute care hospitals with medium and high rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) showed significant increases in antibiotic prescriptions and longer durations of antibiotic treatment among all hospital admissions, and also in those patients who were bacterial culture-negative, according to a large US-based study. The analysis across 271 US hospitals also showed that AMR rates were significantly higher for pathogens during the pandemic period compared with the prepandemic period in patients who were tested for SARS-CoV-2, and highest in SARS-CoV-2 positive patients. More than a third of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients who were prescribed antibiotics were bacterial culture-negative. Findings of the study were presented by Vikas Gupta, PharmD, director of Medical Affairs at medical technology firm Becton, Dickinson and Company, at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & In...

En español   The Social Security Administration (SSA) offers customer service online, by phone and at field offices across the country, which fully reopened April 7 after being largely closed for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. You can conduct most routine business, including applying for benefits and filing appeals, at the Social Security website or by calling the SSA's national customer service line (800-772-1213). Getting help online: My ...