Undiagnosed and untreated disease identified in rural South Africa
A comprehensive health-screening program in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal has found a high burden of undiagnosed or poorly controlled non-communicable diseasesCredit: ...
Tag: Disease in the Developing World
AI app could help diagnose HIV more accurately
Pioneering technology developed by UCL (University College London) and Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) researchers could transform the ability to ...
‘Smart’ segmented ring device delivers medications to stop HIV transmission
Credit: Yannick Traore, a recent University of Waterloo PhD graduate. Researchers have designed a device that delivers two medications that ...
Liver cancer call for help
Indigenous communities missing care -- expertCredit: Flinders University Rising numbers of liver cancer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities ...
A novel tuberculosis regimen shortens treatment course for patients
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere find a new antibiotic regimen that shortens the treatment course ...
How HIV infection shrinks the brain’s white matter
Researchers from Penn and CHOP detail the mechanism by which HIV infection blocks the maturation process of brain cells that ...
Future Pandemic? Consider Radically Altering Animal Agriculture Practices
FAU Bioethicist Offers Plausible Solutions to Mitigate Zoonotic Risk from Agriculture and Food Production for Public HealthCredit: Adam Bernstein As ...
Malaria parasite’s partiality for the spleen
Credit: Woodford J, Gillman A, Jenvey P, Roberts J, Woolley S, Barber BE, et al. (2021) Positron emission tomography and ...
Lundquist investigators in global study expanding genomic research of different ancestries
Paper in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide meta-analysis shows that research into different ancestries leads to better results and better careCredit: The ...
Immunity boost in the gut
Vaccine efficacy link to microbiota, studies showCredit: Flinders University Varying immune response to vaccinations could be countered with microbiota-targeted interventions ...
Can antibiotics treat human diseases in addition to bacterial infections?
UIC researchers prove that drugs designed for bacteria have potential to act on human cellsCredit: Maxim Svetlov/UIC According to researchers ...
Flu fighter: Nanoparticle-based vaccine effective in preclinical trials
The vaccine, made of disease-fighting proteins, could boost efficacy, accelerate production of seasonal flu vaccinesCredit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. ...
People who have had dengue are twice as likely to develop symptomatic COVID-19
This is the main finding of a study.The authors analyzed blood samples collected in a town in the Brazilian Amazon ...
A connection between senescence and stem cells caused by a breast cancer-initiating protein
High levels of RANK protein trigger senescence, which plays a protective role in the early stages of tumours and delays ...
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