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FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- With monkeypox cases continuing to climb in the United States, federal health officials said Friday they have ordered another 2.5 million doses of monkeypox vaccine and boosted national testing capacity to respond to the outbreak.The news comes not a moment too soon, as demand for the vaccine outstrips supply and clinics in some American cities run out of supplies almost as soon as they arrive. In New York City, the demand for vaccine appointments was so high this week that the city's appointment system crashed on Thursday. As of July 14, 1,470 cases of monkeypox have been identified in 44 jurisdictions in the United States, and that number will keep rising, officials said. The majority of cases are occurring among gay and bisexual men."With...

FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Whether presenting a closing argument to a jury as a lawyer or singing on stage as a professional musician, Valerie Giglio of Stoneham, Massachusetts, knows how to work a crowd."You're performing either way," she said.When she was 42, she lost the ability to do both. All because of a sudden head turn.The motion caused a sharp pain in her neck that persisted for several days. It bothered Giglio enough that she went to the hospital. Doctors told her it was probably a pulled muscle and sent her on her way.The next morning, she felt dizzy and had double vision; the world was spinning. Her husband called 911. The ambulance transported her to the same local hospital she had just visited.Still unable to definitively diagnose the cause...

FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A virus dangerous to infants is spreading across the United States, and parents and pediatricians should be on the lookout for symptoms, federal health officials say.Parechovirus has caused at least one infant death and has cropped up in multiple states since May, according to a health advisory issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Human parechoviruses are common childhood pathogens that are transmitted via respiratory droplet or by the fecal-oral route, the CDC says.Symptoms like upper respiratory tract infection, fever and rash are common in children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Most children have been infected by parechoviruses by the time they start kindergarten.But the viruses can cause severe illness...

FRIDAY, July 15, 2022 (HealthDay Now) -- As a teenager, April Summerford suffered from extremely painful periods that made her suspect something was wrong with her body.Summerford didn’t know it, but she had endometriosis — a condition in which tissue similar to that which lines a woman’s uterus grows outside the uterus, causing pelvic pain and irregular menstrual cycles.She finally scheduled an appointment with a female obstetrician-gynecologist hoping to get some answers.Instead, she says that she was gaslighted by the doctor.“I thought, OK, I'm going to go talk to a female doctor. She's going to listen to me. We'll have a conversation,” Summerford said in a HealthDay Now interview. “And she's like, 'Well, you're a woman, and so that means periods are painful and so...