More kids seeing doctors virtually but some parents still hesitant
1 in 5 parents in new national poll say their child had a virtual health visit over the past year, ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
How plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics
Credit: Tara Stewart Merrill Whether it's plankton exposed to parasites or people exposed to pathogens, a host's initial immune response ...
Scientists rewrite the genesis of mosquito-borne viruses
Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika now possibleCredit: Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly Better designed vaccines for ...
A Z-RNA nanoswitch encoded by “junk DNA” turns-off immune responses against self
Left-hand RNA and self-recognitionCredit: Alan Herbert In a paper published in the May 13th, 2021 issue of PLOS Genetics, a ...
To prevent next pandemic, scientists say we must regulate air like food and water
Credit: Martin Visser, Unsplash Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe ...
Treating the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ as an epidemic
How to counter viral misinformation and disinformation: Surveillance, diagnosis, responseCredit: The New England Journal of Medicine ©2021 Writing in the ...
Ticking upward: MU researcher studies rise of tick-borne diseases in Midwest
Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease ...
UMD awarded funds to head off tick-borne infection before it begins
Research represents one of many funding sources dedicated to translational research to develop therapeutics and vaccines and reduce the burden ...
Australia accelerates new COVID-19 vaccine to fight mutant strains
Credit: University of South Australia A leading South Australian immunologist has been awarded $3 million from the Federal Government to ...
Jab-free dengue immunity could be just a click away
Credit: The University of Queensland A dengue virus vaccine candidate has passed an important milestone, with promising results in animal ...
No lasting benefit to tubes over antibiotics for childhood ear infections
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 12, 2021 - There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young ...
Research reveals ancient people had more diverse gut microorganisms
Credit: UM photo by Tommy Martino MISSOULA - Only an anthropologist would treasure millennia-old human feces found in dry caves. ...
COVID-19 is not influenza, but it offers lessons on beating it, say Concordia researchers
The absence of a 2020-21 flu season shows how effective simple public health measures are at limiting virus transmissionCredit: Concordia ...
UCLA scientists decode the ‘language’ of immune cells
The advance, researchers say, is like the discovery of the Rosetta stone and could eventually lead to new treatments for ...
Using ultrasound stimulation to reduce inflammation in COVID-19 in-patients
Credit: Photo courtesy of SecondWave Systems. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have begun a pilot ...
Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers results within 4 minutes with 90 percent accuracy
Low-cost biosensor test developed by Penn Medicine could extend reliable COVID-19 testing to remote and disadvantaged areasCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--A ...
‘Pre-bunk’ tactics reduce public susceptibility to COVID-19 conspiracies and falsehoods
Credit: University of Cambridge A short online game designed to fight conspiracies about COVID-19 boosts people's confidence in detecting misinformation ...
COVID-19 vaccine does not damage the placenta in pregnancy
Study adds to growing evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are safe in pregnancyCredit: Northwestern University CHICAGO --- A new Northwestern Medicine ...
Gene editing expands to new types of immune cells
Gladstone researchers fine-tuned CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to work on human immune cells called monocytesCredit: Photo: Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes In the ...
Phenomenon explains why patients who survive sepsis die sooner after hospital discharge
A review article by Brazilian researchers shows that alterations in the defense cell metabolism may explain why many patients who ...