Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

December 23, 2020

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking ...

Results of NIH-sponsored ACTIV-3 trial published

Experimental monoclonal antibody not efficacious in Phase 3 trialCredit: NIAID Preliminary results of a phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial ...

Gates Foundation helps UC study sexual health of South African youth

Researchers show that rural girls look to social and cultural influences, not modern medicine, to prevent pregnancy and diseaseCredit: University ...

Promising clinical data for fenofibrate’s ability to prevent lung damage in COVID patients

Credit: Daniel Hanoch In what has the potential to significantly change how Corona patients are being treated and the severity ...

RedHill’s phase 2/3 COVID-19 study of opaganib passes second DSMB review

Independent DSMB unanimously recommends continuation of the global Phase 2/3 study of orally-administered opaganib in severe COVID-19 based on review ...

Masks not enough to stop COVID-19’s spread without distancing

Even though common mask materials block most of the droplets that spread the virus, that may not be enough at ...

Hand-held device measures aerosols for coronavirus risk assessment

A portable particle detector can determine aerosol concentrations in public spaces.Credit: Daniel Bonn, University of Amsterdam WASHINGTON, December 22, 2020 ...

Antibiotics for C-sections effective after umbilical cord clamped

Rutgers co-authored study challenges current recommendations aimed at preventing infectionsCredit: NIH Antibiotics for cesarean section births are just as effective ...

NIH neuroscientists isolate promising mini antibodies against COVID-19 from a llama

Preliminary results suggest anti-COVID19 nanobodies may be effective at preventing and diagnosing infectionsCredit: Courtesy of Brody lab NIH/NINDS. National Institutes ...

Reston ebolavirus spreads efficiently in pigs

Finding reveals potential for spread to humansCredit: NIAID WHAT: Reston ebolavirus (RESTV) should be considered a livestock pathogen with potential ...

Learning from three centuries of smallpox epidemics in London, UK

Credit: Olga Krylova and David J.D. Earn The current COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge of interest in the study ...

Researchers track and analyze smallpox epidemics over three centuries

Credit: Courtesy of the Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/londons-dreadful-visitation-bills-of-mortality Researchers from McMaster University have studied and analyzed thousands of weekly records ...

Pneumolysis: High altitude specialists explain lung destruction caused by COVID-19

The article by Dr. Gustavo R. Zubieta-Calleja and colleagues in published as open access in Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials, ...

Young people regarded COVID-19 as a threat to the older generation but not to themselves