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Health news • May 11

The system didn’t catch the hantavirus threat. Biology saved us.

Dr. Ashish K. Jha served as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator under President Joe Biden and is a physician and public health researcher.

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Health news • May 11

First Real-Time Brain-Controlled Hearing Device

Researchers demonstrate a real-time brain-controlled hearing device that selectively enhances voices based on a listener's neural activity.

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Health news • May 11

CT virologist weighs in on deadly cruise ship hantavirus. ‘We need total rethinking’

A professor at Southern Connecticut State University who specializes in virology, the study of viruses, weighed in on the deadly Andes Hantavirus that...

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Health news • May 11

Moderna Stock Loses Steam. Hantavirus Trade Fizzles as Officials Dismiss Pandemic Risk.

and peer stocks rallied Monday as investors continued to bet on a global hantavirus outbreak, but those gains evaporated midday as health officials...

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Health news • May 11

Why hantavirus is not like COVID, according to infectious disease experts

The deadly cruise ship outbreak of hantavirus, a rare, rodent-borne illness, may have evoked some memories of the early days of COVID-19 — but infectious...

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Health news • May 11

Norovirus-hit cruise docks at Port Canaveral after 115 fall ill on nightmare voyage

A Princess Cruises ship linked to a norovirus outbreak that sickened more than 100 passengers and crew members arrived at Port Canaveral.

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Health news • May 11

A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works

Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product...

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Health news • May 11

A Single Infusion Could Suppress H.I.V. for Years, Study Suggests

A study of a few patients, to be presented this week, showed promise for a type of therapy that has already cured some blood cancers.

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Health news • May 11

Moderna stock extends gains on hantavirus research

Moderna rallies 7% on hopes of hantavirus research.

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Health news • May 11

Where did the hantavirus outbreak start, and where has it spread?

The US and France are the latest to confirm hantavirus cases as evacuations from a cruise ship are under way.

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Health news • May 11

The Next Frontier for Hantavirus: Finding Vaccines and Treatments

Drug hunters have searched for years for a treatment for the rare infectious disease hantavirus, which caused an outbreak on a cruise ship that global...

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Health news • May 11

Princess Cruises ship with more than 100 sick from norovirus arrives to Port Canaveral

A Princess Cruises ship with more than 100 passengers on board that had caught norovirus during its sailings arrived to Port Canaveral on Monday morning,...

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Health news • May 11

Hantavirus Cruise Ship: American Patients Arrive—U.S. Downplays Risk( Live)

One of the American evacuees tested positive while another is showing mild symptoms, the HHS said.

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Health news • May 11

Exclusive | Ozempic and Mounjaro masked our cancer symptoms — even doctors were unconcerned

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro can cause side effects that may resemble early cancer symptoms. The Post spoke to two women who say the drugs...

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Health news • May 11

Cruise ship with norovirus outbreak docks in Florida. Illness facts

The Caribbean Princess docked at Port Canaveral May 11 with more than 110 people sick from a norovirus outbreak.

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Health news • May 11

Hantavirus cases spark brief surge in pharma and biotech stocks — here’s why trading is so volatile

The outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise ship has led to biotech and pharmaceutical stocks surging on reports of firms developing vaccines.

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Health news • May 11

Princess Cruises crew dis­in­fects ship after norovirus outbreak, departs Port Canaveral

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Princess Cruises ship that docked in Port Canaveral on Monday after completing a cruise that saw a norovirus outbreak that sickened...

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Health news • May 11

Three enjoyable ways to slow your brain's ageing

Our brains thrive on a challenge, but it doesn't all have to be hard work to see the health benefits. Here are three simple and fun ways to protect your...

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Health news • May 11

Are You Frail? What to Know and How to Reduce Your Risk

In the 1980s and '90s, doctors diagnosed frailty largely based on their intuition. “We used to say, 'You know it when you see it,'” said Dr. Peter Abadir,...

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Health news • May 11

AHA Reframes Brain Health as a Lifelong Process

A new AHA scientific statement says sleep, mental health, pollution, and childhood adversity can shape cognitive aging and dementia risk, underscoring that...

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