Study describes COVID-19 transmission pattern
Model developed by Brazilian researchers predicts spatial and temporal evolution of epidemic diseases and can help plan more effective social ...
Tag: Epidemiology
Higher suicide risk among older immigrants with untreated depression
Credit: Photo by Kristina Bath and Johan Wingborg The risk of suicide is clearly elevated in the category of older ...
Liquid gel in COVID patients’ lungs makes way for new treatment
Credit: Lena Mustonen In some patients who died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly was formed in the ...
‘Repliclones’ fuel perplexing persistence of HIV in the blood of some patients on therapy
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5, 2020 - Increasingly, UPMC's chief of infectious diseases--a well-regarded expert in HIV/AIDS--is contacted by a ...
Impact of HPV vaccination mandates on social inequalities
Policy has limited impact on vaccine uptake because of individual decision making, UC Riverside study findsCredit: UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
Harvard Wyss Institute’s nasal swab and toehold switch technologies licensed to Agile Biodetection
The two technologies function at different points of the diagnostic process and could help detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the ...
Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19
Credit: University of South Florida What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and ...
Researchers reveal which benign breast disease is most likely to develop into cancer
Credit: Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain Benign breast diseases (BBD), which are non-cancerous disorders of the breast, ...
University of Ottawa study finds self-harm may be socially contagious among adolescents
Credit: University of Ottawa A new study led by University of Ottawa epidemiologist Dr. Ian Colman suggests non-suicidal self-injury--behaviours like ...
Bacteria virus combo may be cause of neonatal brain infections in Uganda
Credit: Schiff Lab, Penn State A newly identified bacteria and a common virus may be the underlying cause of infection-induced ...
Thousands of excess deaths from cardiovascular disease during the COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: University of Leeds A major new study has identified 2085 excess deaths in England and Wales due to heart ...
Painting a clearer picture of COVID-19
MU researchers team up with 8th grader, MU undergrad to identify mutations in virus that may be causing its high ...
COVID-19: Saliva tests could detect silent carriers
Credit: Isao Yokota et al., Clinical Infectious Diseases, September 25, 2020 Testing self-collected saliva samples could offer an easy and ...
A new twist on public health tick surveillance
UMass Amherst scientists to capture the outdoor locations of people with tick-borne diseasesCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst ...
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