Health tab dump
2025-12-15 18:38:35.17603+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Bich Nguyen @bicmay@med-mastodon.com
“'We estimate that over a seven-year follow-up period, the shingles vaccine averts one in five new dementia diagnoses,' says Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and senior author of the study.
The findings were replicated in a similar study in JAMA this year, looking at seniors in Australia when the government rolled out a similar shingles-vaccine program."
🎁🔗: WSJ: The Unexpected Ways Vaccines Could Boost Your Health
Study links health-care privatization with higher mortality rates (Via)
I may have already linked to this one: COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults Aged 18 to 59 Years in France. Via and Via.
Learning from the omicron BA.4/5 dominance: Strategies for future vaccination preparedness, which, among other things, notes that "Vaccination-first pathways consistently outperformed infection-first pathways." Via
A screencap from Our World In Data on Thee long-run history of child mortality. ❄️mari-lwyd odent❄️ @oldenoughtosay.com notes:
Vaccine for smallpox invented in in 1796. Vaccines for TB, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and whooping cough came out between 1921-1926. Polio in 1952, MMR (individually) by 1970.