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Sustainability in dentistry: Urgent call to action |
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Saturday, January 14, 2023 03:11 PM |
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Our profession deals with issues that rarely improve on their own. In fact, most dental problems will become more challenging unless we intervene with dental treatment. Let us consider a patient with symptoms of a carious lesion that has extended into the dentine. The symptoms will worsen and the caries will progress unless we take surgical action, remove the decay and replace it with a restoration. Read more. |
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NIOSH Launches New Crowdsourcing Competition to Improve Respirator Fit Evaluations |
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Saturday, January 14, 2023 02:58 PM |
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Challenge offers $350K prize to find user-friendly, real-time solutions for respirator fit testing. Read more. |
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A Shopping Mall’s Microbiome Mirrors Its Shoppers |
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Saturday, January 14, 2023 02:55 PM |
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People flock to shopping malls for all sorts of reasons. But money isn’t the only thing they leave behind—and shopping bags aren’t the only things they take home. Read more. |
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MMWR Weekly - January 13, 2023 |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 07:25 PM |
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Weekly / Vol. 72 / No. 2. Read more. |
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The Infection Preventionist’s Formula for Providing Constructive Criticism |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 12:51 PM |
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How should health care workers, especially infection preventionists, give constructive criticism in their positions? Read more. |
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How Dangerous Are Cleaning Products Environmental Hygiene Personnel Use? |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 12:49 PM |
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Have the CDC and EPA given enough correct guidance on how to use cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic, or is it “fundamentally flawed”? Read more. |
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Health care sector decarbonization to accelerate in 2023: How to do it best |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 12:43 PM |
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As health care sustainability enthusiasts, we’re hopeful. Major health care institutions are publicly recognizing both the impact health care sector carbon emissions have on our environment and global health, and the need to do something about it. Read more. |
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The pandemic showed the power of viral sequencing. Now the U.K. plans to decode other respiratory bugs |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 12:33 PM |
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Building on the global boom in viral surveillance during the pandemic, U.K. scientists on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to expand sequencing of the common seasonal respiratory bugs that have received comparatively little attention. Read more. |
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The NIOSH Respirator Fit Evaluation Challenge |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 12:30 PM |
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Compete for $350,000 in total prizes and help to improve the health & safety conditions for all respirator users. Read more. |
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The tripledemic, post-holidays: Where things stand |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 12:28 PM |
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Heading into the second week of the new year, experts have their eye on COVID-19 as respiratory syncytial virus and the flu continue to recede. Read more. |
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Coronavirus variant XBB.1.5 rises in the United States — is it a global threat? |
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Friday, January 13, 2023 12:26 PM |
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Prevalence of a new subvariant of Omicron is increasing, but whether it will cause a big surge in infections or hospitalizations isn’t clear. Read more. |
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Paxlovid reduces serious risks from Omicron variants |
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:52 PM |
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Antiviral treatments can help reduce the risk of serious illness and death from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This is particularly true for those who aren’t fully vaccinated. In 2021, a clinical trial found that a combination of the antiviral drugs nirmatrelvir and ritonavir reduced the risk of severe COVID-19 by almost 90% for unvaccinated people. The combination is sold under the name Paxlovid. Read more. |
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CDC chief details plan to overhaul agency: Bloomberg |
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:50 PM |
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In the wake of criticism over its "delayed and inconsistent response" to COVID-19, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, is moving forward with a new initiative — the CDC Moving Forward project — that will overhaul "top-to-bottom" the fundamental workings of the agency, according to Bloomberg. Read more. |
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XBB.1.5 shows COVID-19 'is still changing' | Infectious disease specialist Dr. Lisa Barrett |
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:47 PM |
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Infectious disease specialist Dr. Lisa Barrett looks at the transmissibility of the new COVID-19 subvariant, Kraken. Read more. |
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UAMS Study Finds One in Four Adults Have Experienced Loss Due to COVID-19 |
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:45 PM |
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One in four U.S. adults has experienced the death of a family member or close friend due to COVID-19, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research. Read more. |
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FDI launches a digital toolkit for mental health and well-being in the dental workplace |
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:00 PM |
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Discover what can be done at the individual, organizational and national levels to support the mental health and well-being of oral health professionals. Read more. |
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Cannabis-related emergency department visits among older adults on the rise |
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:58 AM |
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Study shows a high risk for adverse effects of cannabis use for adults ages 65 and older. Read more. |
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U.S. Must Consider Broader Measures to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission |
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:56 AM |
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To improve surveillance and obtain more useful data, the Administration should consider expanding broader testing strategies that are not defined by a narrow geographic scope. However, testing alone is unlikely to prevent transmission of the virus in the United States. Read more. |
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Back to Basics: Workplace Stress |
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:19 AM |
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Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine workplace stress and OSHA’s recommendations for addressing mental health. Read more. |
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COVID drug Paxlovid was hailed as a game-changer. What happened? |
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:16 AM |
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Insufficient investment and fears about rebound and side effects are driving down use of a lifesaving antiviral. Read more. |
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Do you have COVID XBB.1.5? Symptoms doctors say to look for in new, ‘crazy infectious’ variant |
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:14 AM |
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If you are one of the lucky folks who has managed to evade COVID-19 at this point in the pandemic, this week brings bad news. Read more. |
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COVID-19 infection rates and mitigation strategies in orthodontic practices |
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:12 AM |
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COVID-19 has impacted and increased risks for all populations, including orthodontic patients and providers. It also changes the practice management and infection control landscape in the practices. This study aimed to investigate the COVID-19 infection and vaccination status of orthodontic providers and mitigation approaches in orthodontic practices in the United States during 2021. Read more. |
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New variant XBB.1.5 is ‘most transmissible’ yet, could fuel covid wave |
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:10 AM |
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Three years after the novel coronavirus emerged, a new variant, XBB.1.5, is quickly becoming the dominant strain in parts of the United States because of a potent mix of mutations that makes it easier to spread broadly, including among those who have been previously infected or vaccinated. Read more. |
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CDC releases report on COVID-19 vaccine rates in children, adolescents |
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Monday, January 09, 2023 10:27 AM |
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its weekly Morbidity and Mortality report where they took a look at COVID-19 vaccines as it relates to children, and health experts say the numbers aren’t where they should be. Read more. |
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Rethinking Medicare’s “Medically Necessary” Dental Coverage |
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Monday, January 09, 2023 10:25 AM |
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Since its inception in 1965, Medicare has provided essentially no coverage for dental care. In November 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released Calendar Year 2023 Physician Fee Schedule final rules, which included a new guarantee to cover dental services “when that service is integral to treating a beneficiary’s medical condition.” While CMS has set some guidelines for what will be included in initial years, this nonspecific term also sets a precedent for expanding who is eligible and what care is covered in the future. Read more. |
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CDC: New Most Contagious COVID Strain May Now Be Up to 81% of NY Cases, Less in US |
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Monday, January 09, 2023 10:22 AM |
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As a top White House official said this week, if you haven't been infected lately with COVID or gotten vaccinated since the bivalent booster came out, your protection against XBB.1.5 probably isn't so good. Read more. |
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When the Infection Prevention Epidemiologist Gets COVID-19 |
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Monday, January 09, 2023 10:20 AM |
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The public expects infectious disease experts to know how to protect them—and themselves—from getting ill from infectious diseases, including COVID-19. So, what happens when the infectious disease specialist gets ill herself? Read more. |
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Severe strep in the US: 4 updates |
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Monday, January 09, 2023 10:17 AM |
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Severe strep in the US: 4 updates. Read more. |
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This Week’s Top 5 Infectious Disease Stories |
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Sunday, January 08, 2023 01:12 PM |
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So far, these are Contagion's 5 most-read stories of 2023. Read more. |
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Update on SARS-CoV-2 variants: ECDC assessment of the XBB.1.5 sub-lineage |
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Sunday, January 08, 2023 01:09 PM |
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XBB.1.5 is a sub-lineage of the SARS-CoV-2 lineage XBB, and is currently estimated to have a large growth advantage over previously circulating lineages in North America (139%) and Europe (137%), although these estimates are associated with significant uncertainty. There is a possibility that this variant could have an increasing effect on the number of COVID-19 cases in the EU/EEA, but not within the coming month as the variant is currently only present in the EU/EEA at very low levels. Read more. |
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Omicron XBB.1.5: Yet Another COVID-19 Variant to Know |
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Sunday, January 08, 2023 01:07 PM |
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The CDC genomic surveillance found that the XBB.1.5 variant has increased from causing 1% to over 40% in only a month. Read more. |
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Canada detects poliovirus in wastewater samples |
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Sunday, January 08, 2023 01:04 PM |
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Two days before Christmas, Canada reported vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) from two wastewater samples to the World Health Organization (WHO), the WHO's Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in a Dec 30 epidemiologic update. Read more. |
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England set to eliminate hepatitis C – five years ahead of target |
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Sunday, January 08, 2023 01:02 PM |
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England is set to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, thanks to an NHS drive to identify people with the virus, and treat them using antiviral drugs. In the past five years, 70,000 people have been cured of the disease, which spreads through blood-to-blood contact and can cause liver cancer and liver failure. The NHS said it was on track to eliminate the virus in the community by 2025, five years ahead of a World Health Organisation target. Read more. |
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Why 'herd immunity' is as outdated as 'the earth is flat' when it comes to COVID: Opinion |
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Saturday, January 07, 2023 02:35 PM |
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There is no such thing as “Herd Immunity” for COVID-19. In this context it is a concept as antiquated as the “Earth is Flat”. The theory was based upon the work of William Farr in 1840 who proposed a bell-shaped curve which illustrated the body’s ability to mount a lasting response to an unchanging pathogen. Read more. |
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January JADA examines barriers to HPV-related discussions in dental settings |
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Saturday, January 07, 2023 02:33 PM |
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Guidelines, policies could help encourage conversations. Read more. |
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