Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Parents in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois varied in their support for risk-reduction measures like random COVID-19 testing and face mask ...

Brazilian startup seeks to develop a wholly indigenous COVID-19 diagnostic test

The project is supported by FAPESP's Innovative Research in Small Business Program. The firm plans to produce ELISA kits that ...

Children more resilient against coronavirus, study reveals

Texas team reviews 131 studies of children from 26 countriesCredit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO - The majority of ...

FCC grant to expand UVA Health’s COVID-19 telehealth care

More than $750,000 to support remote patient monitoring, virtual urgent careCredit: UVA Health The Federal Communications Commission awarded UVA Health ...

Research shows COVID-19 is an independent risk factor for acute ischemic stroke

Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Journal Name: American Journal of Neuroradiology: http://www.ajnr.org/content/ajnr/early/2020/06/25/ajnr.A6650.full.pdf Title of the Article: COVID-19 is an independent ...

USask medical researchers awarded $900,000 to help fight COVID-19

Credit: University of Saskatchewan/Kristen McEwen The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded three University of Saskatchewan (USask) research ...

Tracking the spread of mosquito insecticide resistance across Africa

Credit: Penelope Hancock In a step toward better control of the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, researchers have mapped the patterns ...

USask researchers to develop saliva-based COVID-19 home testing kit

Credit: University of Saskatchewan/David Stobbe University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers are part of two COVID-19-related projects awarded major federal funding ...

New study looks at post-COVID-19 emerging disease in children

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. (June 24, 2020) - In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition ...

Race, rurality play prominently in Georgia areas hardest hit by COVID-19

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University While counties in populous metropolitan Atlanta had the highest number of COVID-19 cases ...

Dangerous tick-borne bacterium extremely rare in New Jersey

The mystery behind the rise in spotted fever cases continuesCredit: Jim Occi/Rutgers University-New Brunswick There's some good news in New ...

Researchers discover improved treatment for children with sickle cell anemia

Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: IU School of Medicine A team of international researchers has ...

Researchers find best way to treat children with sickle cell anemia in sub-Saharan Africa

Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, and KAMPALA, Uganda ...

New sensor may soon test for coronavirus and flu simultaneously

Credit: Dmitry Kireev, University of Texas at Austin The novel coronavirus has been compared to the flu almost from the ...

You’re using disinfectants wrong. Here’s what you actually need to do (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 25, 2020 -- Sure, you've got a product that says "kills germs" under ...

From Jekyll to Hyde: New study pinpoints mutation that makes E. coli deadlier