Tag: Public Health

Engineers invent way to spray extremely thin wires on 3D objectsCredit: Images: (left) Jonathan P. Singer; (right) Lin Lei Engineers ...

Sea-level rise projections can improve with state-of-the-art model

New ice-sheet 'emulator' focuses on Antarctica, Rutgers research showsCredit: Ted Scambos/NSIDC Projections of potentially dramatic sea-level rise from ice-sheet melting ...

Facemask use has lesser consequences on indicators of cognitive performance than expected

Facemasks do not impair indicators of cognitive performance when performing moderate physical work in hot environmentsCredit: Andreas Flouris A novel ...

Risk of human-to-wildlife transmission of the COVID-19 virus

Credit: Image credit: Sophie Gryseels There's considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to wildlife, according ...

NOAA grant advances UToledo research into Lake Erie bacteria that destroys algal toxins

Project is aimed at developing new technologies to ensure clean drinking waterCredit: The University of Toledo Searching for new ways ...

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 ...

‘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