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Share This AMHERST, Mass. – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and the University of Massachusetts continue to gather data on the prevalence and incidence of COVID-19 in the state. As a response to improving COVID rates, the study is shifting focus toward the study of antibody prevalence, as well as COVID infections in the general population.  Image The state DPH is the study’s sponsor. “This effort will help us understand the actual effect of infection and vac...

Many communities scrambled to leave state mosquito spraying program A mosquito PHOTO BY PROVIDENCE JOURNAL/TNS Published: 6/1/2021 7:57:30 PM During the past few months, several western Massachusetts communities have scrambled to meet a May 28 deadline to opt out of the state’s mosquito control spraying program. Northampton became the latest municipality to opt out of the program under the State Reclamation and Mosquito Control Board (SRMCB) following in the footsteps of other towns like Amhe...

Health officials share reason why COVID-19 tests are here to stay Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - From the beginning of the pandemic, testing quickly became a vital step toward containment. While vaccines have taken over the COVID-19 conversation, testing continues to be an important part of the fight against the virus today. Although, it may be nice to envision a world without COVID-19, it is not realistic to think COVID-19 will simply disappear. That is why health...

Spread of HIV in Boston cries out for systemic response Updated April 28, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Bold strategy must include safe consumption sites Re “Officials struggle with HIV cases in Boston” (Metro, April 21): While Boston is certainly not unique in its HIV outbreak among unsheltered people who use drugs, it is exceptional for its public health and medical infrastructure and recent willingness to try bold new strategies, such as providing housing to those who are act...

Health officials struggle to contain Boston HIV outbreak By Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff,Updated April 20, 2021, 2:56 p.m. Email to a Friend AHOPE Sharps team walks through Clifford Playground looking for discarded needles in Boston in 2019. Public health officials are struggling to contain an outbreak of HIV among homeless drug users in Boston. And the virus, which is deadly when untreated, is thought to be spreading undetected among people who inject drugs and lack stable housing.Craig F. Wal...

Panel of experts will answer participants’ questions February 25, 2021 AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst COVID-19 vaccine webinar, featuring a panel of scientists and public health experts, will aim to dispel misinformation and fear about the vaccine and explain why its widespread use around the world is crucial to overcoming the deadly pandemic. Presented by the College of Natural Sciences, the College of Nursing and the School of Public Health and Health Scie...

Doctors under the auspices of the Nigeria Medical Association and Joint Health Sector Unions, representing other unions in the country’s health sector are presently at logger heads with each other over matters relating to the proposal for the Repeal And Re-enactment of Medical And Dental Council Of Nigeria Act, 1988. Though the Bill is still at the early stage of discussion at the National Assembly, it has already generated a lot of heat leading to the threat of industrial action by JOHESU. O...

BERKSHIRE NUMBERS GOOD: Berkshire County has both the lowest positive test rate for COVID-19 among all state counties and the lowest infection rate.

The Maryland-based software company whose technology played a role in the state's COVID-19 vaccine scheduling system fiasco last week appears to have cost Massachusetts almost half a million dollars, according to the Baker administration.

The Maryland-based software company whose technology played a role in the state’s COVID-19 vaccine scheduling system fiasco last week appears to have cost Massachusetts almost half a million dollars, according to the Baker administration.