Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: Temple University Health System Temple University Hospital is now participating in a variety of clinical trials that are testing ...

Engineering a new model for respiratory infection treatment

Pitt ChemE professor receives $547K NSF CAREER Award for designing immune-targeted treatment of respiratory infectionCredit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (April ...

NIH mobilizes national innovation initiative for COVID-19 diagnostics

Initiative aims to speed delivery of accurate, easy-to-use, scalable tests to all AmericansCredit: NIH The National Institutes of Health today ...

COVID-19 vaccine with patch delivery technology enters preclinical testing at UC Davis

Credit: Rudy Meyers Photography Verndari Inc., a stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it will begin preclinical testing this week ...

Physio support in COVID-19 recovery

New guidelines to help patients 'get moving'Credit: Flinders University New physiotherapy guidelines are targeting COVID-19 patient recovery for respiratory management, ...

Rapid-release gases to speed up cleaning of Covid-19 ambulances: Tests get green light and funding

Credit: Swansea University Swansea University has successfully won funding to reduce the time it takes to sanitise ambulances after carrying ...

Prestigious £250k grant to research the social impact of COVID-19 on young people

Huddersfield researchers Professor Barry Percy-Smith & Dr Leanne Monchuk will be working with Ecorys - final report due September 2021Credit: ...

Virologists show that sample pooling can massively increase coronavirus testing capacity

Credit: Rüdiger Koop, UKS The new procedure will help to meet the high demand for testing in the mass coronavirus ...

Virus genomes help to explain why a major livestock disease has re-emerged in Europe

Credit: Ciriaco Ligios Livestock diseases like bluetongue virus (BTV) can have devastating economic and health consequences, but their origins can ...

Entos Pharmaceuticals partners with EpiVax to develop a pan-coronavirus DNA vaccine

Credit: Michael Wong EDMONTON, Alberta, April 28, 2020 -- Entos Pharmaceuticals (Entos), a healthcare biotechnology company that develops next generation ...

Making transitions from nursing home to hospital safer during COVID-19 outbreak

Advance care planning even more important during pandemicCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted nursing home ...

Offspring may inherit legacy of their father’s Toxoplasma infection

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Australian researchers have revealed for the first time that males infected with the ...

New HKBU-led study unveils COVID-19 transmission patterns and reopening plans

Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in lockdowns in different parts of the world, from the ...

Machine learning tool could provide unexpected scientific insights into COVID-19

Berkeley Lab's COVIDScholar uses text mining algorithms to scan hundreds of new papers every dayCredit: Berkeley Lab A team of ...

Can an existing HIV medication slow the spread of COVID-19?

Team of Toronto researchers launches clinical trial to find out if existing HIV medication could prevent COVID-19 infectionCredit: MAP Centre ...

CUNY SPH Weekly COVID-19 Survey update week 7

Coronavirus testing ramps up in the city and more New Yorkers benefit from public and private assistanceCredit: CUNY SPH Coronavirus ...

Making sense of the viral multiverse

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University In November of 2019--likely, even earlier--a tiny entity measuring just a few ...

Virus-infected honey bees more likely to gain entrance to healthy hives

Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow ...

Antibiotic exposure can ‘prime’ single-resistant bacteria to become multidrug-resistant

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Antibiotics save lives -- but using them also helps antibiotic-resistant strains evolve ...

WVU business experts partner with the National Guard to forecast PPE needs