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A Social Security Administration office in Sebring, Florida. Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Applying for Social Security benefits can be a complicated process. Now President Joe Biden wants to make it easier. This week, the president signed an executive order to streamline processes for Americans to apply for services and benefits at 17 federal agencies. "For millions of people who retire each year, you should be able to apply for Social Security benefits without needing to go to a Social Security office," Biden stated at the signing of the executive order. Other government services are also slated to be improved through new online tools aimed at making it easier to file taxes or help Medicare enrollees access personalized information and expanded customer support. More from Personal Finance: Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment will be hit by inflation How to appeal income-related Medicare premium charges More Americans see inflation as big...

The Trichinella notification rate in Europe almost doubled in 2019 compared to 2018, according to recently published data. In 2019, 12 countries reported 141 cases of trichinellosis of which 96 were confirmed. Bulgaria with 55 confirmed cases, Italy with 10 and Spain with 40 but only 12 confirmed accounted for most of these. Romania recorded 21 cases but only six were confirmed. Trichinellosis, or trichinosis, is a disease transmitted by eating raw or undercooked pork contaminated with the parasite Trichinella. It can take up to eight weeks for symptoms to develop. The highest reporting rate was in males aged 25 to 44 years old. Higher rates in males than females were observed in five out of six age groups. Bulgaria was the only country to report cases in 0 to 4 years old with both being males, according to data published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). In 2018, only 66 infections were reported with 45 of these coming from Bulgaria. Th...

A government advert on a bus stop in London encourages people to get their COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, as the Omicron variant of coronavirus spreads across the globe, Dec. 28, 2021. Vuk Valcic | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images People infected with omicron are less likely to require hospital treatment compared to patients who had delta, according to a large study published by U.K. health authorities on Friday. The latest data from the U.K. Health Security Agency found the risk of hospitalization for people infected with omicron is about a third of that posed by the delta variant. The study analyzed more than 528,000 omicron cases and 573,000 delta cases from Nov. 22 through Dec. 26 in England. However, Chief Medical Advisor Susan Hopkins cautioned that it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions about the severity of illness caused by omicron. "The increased transmissibility of omicron and the rising cases in the over 60s population in England means it remains...

The rain was cold and heavy, but Andrew Hunt's wool socks were thick and his hiking boots sturdy. When an Uber driver dropped him off in line at a drive-through coronavirus testing site at the Lawrence Township school district office, he declined her offer to wait with him, thinking that he'd be done quickly since he got there 20 minutes ahead of the start time. An hour later, the line hadn't moved. "So, yup, here we are," he said, the lone two-legged customer sandwiched in a serpentine line of cars wrapped around the building. Though most coronavirus test hopefuls in Indianapolis took refuge in vehicles or in buildings, their experiences have been largely similar: long lines at testing sites, and no luck finding rapid at-home tests through the retail market. Walk-in testing:  Where you can wait in line for a test Hoosiers are strapped along with the rest of the country, which is experiencing a nationwide shortage of rapid tests amid surging demand from t...

In his lab's early years, John Boothroyd worked with both the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma brucei, and the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, Toxoplasma gondii. His team was one of the first to report mRNA trans-splicing and polycistronic transcription in eukaryotes from their trypanosome research. But about a decade later, Boothroyd started to feel that the trypanosome research field was becoming saturated; he wanted to go back to his early interest in intracellular biochemistry, so he focused his research on the less-explored Toxoplasma. Since then, his lab has made great strides in understanding host–parasite interactions. John Boothroyd Boothroyd has won the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's 2022 Alice and C.C. Wang Award for his seminal contributions to molecular parasitology both in the laboratory and in the greater community. After earning his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1979, Boothroyd ...

Eseye Dereb, 1 Markos Negash, 2 Takele Teklu, 2, 3 Debasu Damtie, 2, 4 Aberham Abere, 5 Firehiwot Kebede, 1 Yalemwork Ewnetu, 1 Eyuel Kasa 1 1 University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Gondar, Ethiopia; 2 Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia; 3 Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences and Medicine, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia; 4 The Ohio State University Global One Health LLC, Eastern Africa Regional Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 5 Department of Medical Parasitology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia Correspondence: Takele Teklu Tel +251 911-806643 Fax +251 46-5514417 Email [email protected] Purpose: To study intestinal parasitosis and its association with viral load and CD4+ T cell count in HIV-infected individuals at the Univer...

Show Caption Hide Caption Kentucky social workers take demands to state Capitol steps State social workers gathered on Nov. 16, 2021 at the State Capitol, hoping to highlight their situation for state lawmakers. Jeff Faughender, Louisville Courier Journal FRANKFORT, Ky. — State social service workers will get an immediate 10% pay raise under steps Gov. Andy Beshear announced Wednesday to improve salaries and working conditions at the beleaguered agency. "Each and every one of our social workers is absolutely essential," Beshear said at a news conference, flanked by a dozen state social service workers. "We need to take immediate action." The workers burst into applause at the news and several said afterward the increase will be a big boost in morale for workers struggling with rising caseloads, low wages and a shrinking workforce...

A nurse Nurse views the lung x-rays of a Covid patient on October 13, 2021 at the Casalpalocco hospital, south of Rome. Alberto Pizzoli | AFP | Getty Images The omicron variant of Covid-19 replicates 70 times faster in human airways than delta, but infection in the lungs appears to be less severe compared to the original virus strain, according to a study published this week by researchers at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Michael Chan Chi-wai and a team of researchers found that the variant replicates much faster in the bronchus, which connects the windpipe to the lungs, 24 hours after infection. Yet it reproduces more than 10 times slower in the actual human lung tissue, they said. The study is under peer review. Researchers have been publishing their findings before peer review is completed due to the urgent nature of the pandemic. Omicron's rapid replication in the airway may explain why it transmits faster than previous variants of the virus, but lo...

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