Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

ApolloBVM, an open-source bag valve mask automation device, could help patients in treatment for COVID-19Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - ...

Coronavirus Vaccine: Where are we and what’s next? (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 3, 2020 -- You might have heard that COVID-19 vaccine trials are underway ...

Closing in on a COVID-19 vaccine

Rapid progress in South AustraliaCredit: Flinders University South Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud technology and vaccine technology developed by ...

Coronavirus: Virological findings from patients treated in a Munich hospital

Comprehensive research data now published in NatureCredit: Photo: Müller/Charité In early February, research teams from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, München ...

Clues to COVID-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from an antibody against SARS

A Scripps Research study reveals a likely site of vulnerability on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.Credit: Meng Yuan and Nicholas Wu LA ...

Scientists show how parasitic infection causes seizures, psychiatric illness for some

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists show how infection rewires brainCredit: Virginia Tech Think about traffic flow in a city - ...

Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues

'There is hope for this horrible pandemic,' says UBC scientist Dr. Josef PenningerCredit: IMBA/Tibor Kulcsar An international team led by ...

Trial drug may block early stages of COVID-19, study in human cells shows

Credit: Bildmakarna A drug already tested against lung disease could potentially inhibit COVID-19 by reducing the coronavirus load that enters ...

Checklist for emergency department team’s COVID-19 surge

Translating disaster medicine theory into practiceCredit: European Centers for Disease Control The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to many health ...

Advanced liver disease patients and transplant recipients need specific care during COVID-19

EASL and ESCMID have issued a Position Paper, providing recommendations for clinicians caring for patients with liver diseases during the ...

UIC clinical trials investigate COVID-19 treatments

Trials study Ebola, rheumatoid arthritis drugs in hospitalized patientsCredit: UIC The University of Illinois at Chicago is participating in two ...

Penn State engineer developing device that may be able to test for COVID-19

Credit: Gihoon Choi, Penn State A point-of-care testing device that may help diagnose the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is under ...

New CT scoring criteria for timely diagnosis, treatment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Updated CT scoring criteria from AJR considers both lobe involvement and changes in CT findings to quantitatively and accurately evaluate ...

PREDICT receives extension for COVID-19 pandemic emergency response

Early laboratory detection of SARS CoV-2, tracking animal source among prioritiesCredit: Courtesy USAID PREDICT PREDICT will provide emergency support to ...

Rutgers launches genetic testing service for new coronavirus

Thousands of samples can be analyzed dailyCredit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Rutgers' RUCDR Infinite Biologics has launched ...

NYU researchers rush to capture human interactions with surfaces likely to carry COVID-19

Team from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and School of Global Health will share information gathered from New York City ...

Healthy Nevada Project participants report on COVID-19

14,000 Nevadans quickly report on signs and symptoms to enhance predictive public health models for NevadaCredit: DRI Reno, Nev. (March ...

Blocking the iron transport could stop tuberculosis

Credit: Imre Gonda, University of Zurich One of the most devastating pathogens that lives inside human cells is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ...

UM receives over $10 million for research center on population health

March 31, 2020

Credit: UM photo by Tommy Martino MISSOULA - As emergent pathogens like coronavirus and climate-related health challenges like wildfire smoke ...

The architecture of a ‘shape-shifting’ norovirus