Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: West Virginia University A global pandemic, a worried wife and a campus that, like its home state, is full ...

AJR review of COVID-19 studies cautions against chest CT for coronavirus diagnosis

Regarding sensitivity, specificity, and clinical practice, CT should be reserved for evaluation of complications of COVID-19 pneumonia or for assessment ...

Mystery solved, rotavirus VP3 is a unique capping machine

Credit: CDC / Bryon Skinner After eluding researchers for more than 30 years, the VP3 protein of rotavirus has finally ...

New universal Ebola vaccine may fight all four virus species that infect humans

Early preclinical tests in lab models are encouragingCredit: NIAID CINCINNATI - Infectious disease scientists report early development of a potential ...

Call for palliative care to be adapted for severely ill Covid-19 patients

Credit: Lancaster University Emergency-style palliative care needs to implemented to meet the needs of Covid-19 patients who wouldn't benefit from ...

IVI, INOVIO, and KNIH partner with CEPI in a Phase I/II trial of INOVIO’s COVID-19 vaccine

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) grants funding $6.9 million to INOVIO and IVI to conduct clinical testing in ...

Guide for COVID-19 remote consultation by primary carers designed by NTU Singapore scientist & peers

Credit: NTU Singapore Primary care health workers now have a guide for conducting remote consultation of suspected COVID-19 patients, developed ...

COVID-19 — Impact of containment measures in Italy: 200,000 hospitalizations avoided in March

Italian researchers say: 'It is possible to reconstruct the map of disease diffusion' infection has been reduced up to 45% ...

Caring for those most vulnerable to COVID-19 requires vigilance

Leading geriatrician provides key updates and resources for front-line nursing home staff and cliniciansCredit: Florida Atlantic University As the coronavirus ...

Scripps Research expands international effort to rapidly repurpose drugs against COVID-19

An international research network centers around ReFRAME, the world's leading collection of drugs known to be safe in humansCredit: Calibr/Scripps ...

Temple treats 1st patient in US in trial of gimsilumab for patients with COVID-19 and ARDS

Credit: Temple University Health System Temple University Hospital has treated the first patient in the United States in the BREATHE ...

Australia’s Centre for Digestive Diseases cures Crohn’s disease in new study

The Centre for Digestive Disease headed by Professor Thomas Borody has cured Crohn's disease as reported today by Dr Gaurav ...

The Cath Lab during COVID

Paper Published by Le Bonheur Children's Physician in the Journal of Invasive CardiologyCredit: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Interventional cardiologists should ...

WPI researcher’s paper on COVID-19 published in Viruses journal

Professor Dmitry Korkin's peer-reviewed paper draws parallels to SARS virus; Says 3D roadmap of novel coronavirus can be used "to ...

COVID-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication

May prevent or reduce severity of acute respiratory distress syndromeCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Regular exercise may reduce the ...

Chemist developing 3D simulations of coronavirus spike proteins

Research will show how the virus binds to human cell receptors and will aid the development of vaccines and therapeuticsCredit: ...

Your nose may know more when it comes to COVID-19

UC expert says loss of smell could be an early indicator of infectionCredit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative + Brand A University ...

Miller School researchers alert otolaryngologists about high COVID-19 transmission risk

Credit: University of Miami Health System A harsh reality has emerged as COVID-19 has spread around the globe. Several thousand ...

Anesthesiologists on the front lines of treating surgical COVID-19 patients

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 14, 2020--A new study examined the knowledge and attitudes of ...

Scoring system empowers surgery departments to prioritize medically necessary operations