Researchers find clue to epidemics in 'bursty' social behavior
NYU Tandon researchers discover that feed back loop in human interactions can play a big role in how diseases spread ...
Tag: Disease in the Developing World
Novel mechanisms of dengue and Zika virus infections and link to microcephaly
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine New insights into how dengue and Zika viruses cause disease reveal shared and virus-specific mechanisms. ...
Face masks may protect hog farm workers and their household members from staph bacteria
Study finds that workers who wore face masks consistently on the job were much less likely to carry antibiotic-resistant staph--and ...
Drug targets for Ebola, Dengue, and Zika viruses found in lab study
Insight into how three of the world's most devastating viruses interact with human cells opens the door for much-needed treatments ...
Correlation of stroke and dementia with death: A study from the Swedish dementia registry
This article by Dr. Ana Subic et al. is published in Current Alzheimer Research, Volume 15 , Issue 14 , ...
Ebola-fighting protein discovered in human cells
Drug that mimics function of protein could one day become an effective therapy to fight Ebola virusCredit: Northwestern University Human ...
Control HIV by treating schistosomiasis, new study suggests
Credit: Wetzel and Shaefer, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, 2001 Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 ...
Exploring ways to reduce child deaths in low-income countries
A simple algorithm could contribute to reducing the high mortality among newborns and babies in the month following their hospital ...
Half a million tests and many mosquitoes later, new buzz about a malaria prevention drug
Researchers tested chemical compounds for their ability to inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier lifecycle stage than most current ...
Interventions in dog populations could reduce rabies in rural China
Credit: Tian H, et al. (2018) Domestic dogs play a key role in the transmission and expansion of rabies in ...
Silicosis is on the rise, but is there a therapeutic target?
Credit: David Gosset / P@CYFIC facility / CBM / CNRS Researchers from the CNRS, the University of Orléans, and the ...
Distinguishing resistance from resilience to prolong antibiotic potency
Defining pathogen responses to first-line antibiotics could prolong their usefulnessCredit: Duke Photography DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University ...
Sugars and microbiome in mother's milk influence neonatal rotavirus infection
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Using a multidisciplinary approach, an international team of researchers from several institutions, including Baylor College ...
BU study: Modified malaria drug proven effective at inhibiting Ebola
Derivatives from a commonly used anti-malarial can prevent Ebola virus from entering cellsCredit: Photo by Cydney Scott, Boston University Photography. ...
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