Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Experiencing a bacterial infection? You're generally prescribed antibiotics by your doctor. But how exactly do those antibiotics and your white ...

Signaling through interleukin-10 (IL-10) receptors on gut immune cells plays a critical role in protecting the gut lining and microbiota ...

Credit: Kevin J. Hart, Penn State Disrupting two genes involved in the preservation of RNA molecules inhibits the ability of ...

Digestive Disease Week® media registration now open Bethesda, MD (Jan. 31, 2019) -- Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) will host its ...

Shows oral Ibrexafungerp's ability to treat refractory fungal infections and to provide an alternative to long-term IV therapies JERSEY CITY, ...

Visualizing how some patients successfully fought off deadly coronaviruses could pave the way to combat these respiratory infectionsCredit: Jon Klein ...

Credit: City University of Hong Kong & PNAS In a single sneeze or a cough, as many as 40,000 tiny ...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new assay to accurately and easily ...

PARIS and GENEVA - January 30, 2019 - Marketing authorization of fexinidazole for the treatment of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense human ...

Asian longhorned ticks threaten livestock, but scientists need help telling them apart from two near-identical speciesCredit: Andrea Egizi and co-authors. ...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: The salivary glands of some tick species could become important research tools for studying how viruses are ...

Credit: USF Health Tampa, FL (Jan. 29, 2019) - The 2014-16 Ebola virus epidemic that ravaged Western Africa, killing thousands, ...

Pandemic Response Box harnesses open and collaborative approaches to medical innovation Geneva - 29 January 2019 - Medicines for Malaria ...

First global estimates to determine the impact of improved prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and examine how achievable the WHO elimination ...

Credit: ICES LONDON, ON - People who inject drugs are at a high risk for a number of health issues. ...

Study in healthy adults tests body's immune responseCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--A Phase 1 clinical trial of investigational vaccines intended to ...

Technology would help clinicians tailor therapies depending on progression of diseaseCredit: Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (January 28, 2019) - ...

Immune cells called CD4+ T cells could be important mediators of protection against the Zika virus, according to a study ...

Credit: Kosik et al., 2019 Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered that antibodies that may form the ...

Early-stage trial results show promiseCredit: NIAID The investigational Ebola treatment mAb114 is safe, well-tolerated, and easy to administer, according to ...