Infectious/Emerging Diseases

A team of researchers from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Centre's Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre (ViREMiCS) found that immune cells undergoing stress and an altered metabolism are the reasons why some…
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Credit: CDC/Dr. Lucille K. Georg MADISON - Ten years ago, in Marathon County, Wisconsin, 55 people were sickened by an uncommon fungal infection called blastomycosis. Thirty patients were hospitalized. Two people died. The…
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Credit: CCDC ARL RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (July 15, 2019) - U.S. Army game-theory research using artificial intelligence may help treat cancer and other diseases, improve cybersecurity, deploy Soldiers and assets more…
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Study will enroll men who have sex with men and transgender people; complementary study in women is ongoingCredit: NIAID The National Institutes of Health and partners today announced plans to conduct a Phase 3 HIV vaccine efficacy…
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Los Angeles, Calif. - Investigators from the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the world's largest and longest-established HIV research network, today announced that the Journal of Clinical Investigation published new findings from the…
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Podcast post-embargo link: https://soundcloud.com/cmajpodcasts/190559-com Strong political support and strong public health systems are necessary to combat measles outbreaks, which are growing in frequency around the world, argue public…
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Projects seek solutions to health issues including heart disease, infections, cancer and diabetes EDMONTON, ALBERTA (Friday, July 12, 2019) - Between April 1 and June 30, 2019, the Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet) awarded $885K in…
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ECDC study looks at the factors and response optionsCredit: ECDC The number of syphilis cases has been consistently going up across Europe since 2010, mostly affecting men who have sex with men living in urban areas. In 2017,…
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The study, from the Dulbecco Telethon Institute and the University of Trento in collaboration with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, will open up new research avenues to design drugs against incurable neurodegenerative…
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Drug that kills slow-growing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus may be powerful treatmentCredit: Mikkaichi et al. Mathematical modeling suggests that the rate at which a patient's immune system clears slow-growing variants of…
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Invasive mammal, introduced by maritime trade, influences parasite populations The humble house mouse has dramatically shaped parasitic Toxoplasma gondii populations in West Africa and around the world, according to research in PLOS…
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Credit: Emanuel Siddig (CC BY 4.0) Mycetoma is a common neglected disease caused by either fungi or bacteria which organize themselves into grains--areas of inflammation surrounded by a collagen capsule. Now, researchers reporting in…
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Researchers say new strategies needed for anal cancer prevention in women living with HIV The prevalence of anal high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), which precede anal cancer, is much higher in women living with HIV than…
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On-the-ground findings and modified tools reveal complex feeding behavior, transmission routes Riley Tedrow, PhD, a medical entomologist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has uncovered new findings about malaria…
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