Tag: Public Health

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

October 1, 2020

Growing 'freedom of choice' position and increase in state-level Facebook pages could impact vaccine-related legislation, researchers sayCredit: Valerie Morgan/UMD WASHINGTON ...

Tufts University to lead $100M program to reduce risk of zoonotic viral spillover, spread

Program will involve large consortium of wildlife and human disease experts and networks from around the worldCredit: Anna Miller/Tufts University ...

2020 $100k Jean Mayer Prize from Tufts Nutrition awarded for tackling COVID-19 food crisis

Recipients honored for response and commitment to COVID-19 crisis to improving food access, nutrition, communities and cultureCredit: Tufts University BOSTON ...

Developing algorithms to detect earliest signs of COVID-19 from biometric smartwatch data

Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Certain changes in a person's heart and breathing rates could precede ...

How a toxic chromium species could form in drinking water

Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03922 The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, brought much-needed attention to ...

UK Govt labels University of Huddersfield KTP with Swiss Re ‘a market innovation’

September 29, 2020

A two-year KTP between the University of Huddersfield and one of the world's leading reinsurance companies could revolutionise the way ...

Why do veterans take their own lives? New study finds surprising answers

September 29, 2020

A George Mason University study of US veterans found that while social determinants of health can predict suicide, they are ...

New MaskCountTM app allows citizen scientists to contribute to effort to contain COVID-19

Mask usage has been difficult to measure; new app available in 15 languagesCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- A new app ...

Team develops wearable sensor to help people with inflammatory bowel disease

Researchers' device tracks biomarkers in sweat, may indicate flare-upsCredit: University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Dallas researchers ...

COVID-19: Saliva tests could detect silent carriers

Credit: Isao Yokota et al., Clinical Infectious Diseases, September 25, 2020 Testing self-collected saliva samples could offer an easy and ...

1 in 3 parents plan to skip flu shots for their kids during COVID-19 pandemic

National poll: COVID-19 may not influence parents' beliefs about the flu vaccine, with just 1/3 believing it's more important for ...

US hospital admissions for non-COVID-19 have only partially rebounded from initial decline