Are online grocery stores being designed to support consumer nutrition information needs?
Online grocery stores are becoming more popular and may affect the health and nutritional choices of consumers, according to a ...
Tag: Public Health
‘Brain fog’ following COVID-19 recovery may indicate PTSD
Psychiatric disorders and brain damage can share similar symptoms but require different treatments.Credit: UCLA Health A new report suggests that ...
Community health workers could play a key part in combating COVID-19 in Brazil, study says
An article in The Lancet stresses the vulnerability of these health workers, whose readiness to counter fake news with trustworthy ...
Story Tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat
Credit: Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Census - Remote population counting Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists helped count the ...
Liquid gel in COVID patients’ lungs makes way for new treatment
Credit: Lena Mustonen In some patients who died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly was formed in the ...
UQ tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis
Credit: The University of Queensland Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyse genetic material could be used for cheap, ...
Dried blood spot sampling offers inexpensive way to widen access to antibody testing for COVID-19
Credit: University of Birmingham Using dried blood spot samples (DBS) is an accurate alternative to venous blood in detecting SARS-CoV-2 ...
Supercharged clones spark scarlet fevers re-emergence
Credit: The University of Queensland A University of Queensland-led team of international researchers says supercharged "clones" of the bacteria Streptococcus ...
Targeting our second brain to fight diabetes
Credit: UCLouvain Since 2004, Claude Knauf (INSERM) and Patrice Cani (UCLouvain) have been collaborating on molecular and cellular mechanisms in ...
‘Repliclones’ fuel perplexing persistence of HIV in the blood of some patients on therapy
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5, 2020 - Increasingly, UPMC's chief of infectious diseases--a well-regarded expert in HIV/AIDS--is contacted by a ...
Impact of HPV vaccination mandates on social inequalities
Policy has limited impact on vaccine uptake because of individual decision making, UC Riverside study findsCredit: UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
Harvard Wyss Institute’s nasal swab and toehold switch technologies licensed to Agile Biodetection
The two technologies function at different points of the diagnostic process and could help detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the ...
NIH intramural researcher Dr. Harvey Alter wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Credit: NIH National Institutes of Health intramural researcher Harvey J. Alter, M.D., has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
Promising breath-test for cancer
Potential for early warning of head, neck cancerCredit: Flinders University The global quest to use a person's breath analysis for ...
Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19
Credit: University of South Florida What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and ...
DECT in the ED: better diagnoses, less follow-up, more savings
Dual-energy CT adds value to routine interpretation of emergency department imaging studies by increasing radiologists' diagnostic confidence, leading to a ...
New COVID test doesn’t use scarce reagents, catches all but the least infectious
Addresses major testing need in developing world; also in US, where reagent supplies are again dwindlingCredit: Brian Jenkins A major ...
nTIDE Sept 2020 Jobs Report: Unease rises as numbers fall for Americans with disabilities
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report--featuring more on the 2020 Kessler Foundation National Employment and Disability Survey ...
Face masks unlikely to cause over-exposure to CO2, even in patients with lung disease
Credit: ATS New research findings contradict statements linking wearing face masks to carbon dioxide poisoning by trapping CO2. During the ...
Vaccine opposition online uniting around ‘civil liberties’ argument
Growing 'freedom of choice' position and increase in state-level Facebook pages could impact vaccine-related legislation, researchers sayCredit: Valerie Morgan/UMD WASHINGTON ...
