Tag: Public Health

Credit: NIH Image Gallery, 2018 A new low-cost diagnostic test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) quickly delivers accurate results without ...

Single-use N95 respirators can be decontaminated and used again, study finds

Scientists hope new methods can mitigate the chronic shortage of personal protective equipmentCredit: CDC/Debora Cartagena N95 respirators, which are widely ...

AI as good as the average radiologist in identifying breast cancer

Credit: Martin Stenmark Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have compared the ability of three different ...

Premature deaths from alcoholic liver disease rising as gap between men and women narrows

Since the early 2000s, alcoholic liver disease deaths among non-Hispanic whites, particularly women, have increased more rapidly than rates among ...

Racial segregation drives disparities in COVID-19 and HIV diagnoses

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 26, 2020--Across the U.S., COVID-19 and HIV diagnoses are lowest ...

Research will test finger-worn sensor that tracks stroke survivors’ arm movements

UMass Amherst health informatician awarded $2.4 million grant from National Institutes of HealthCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Social distancing is instinctive but hard for humans and animals

Avoiding infectious disease is a protective instinct in humans and animals but the instinct to socialize often wins the dayCredit: ...

COVID-19 — Scenarios for the post-lockdown period in Italy

Infection has been reduced up to 70% as of May 1st. Thanks to developed model, scenarios can be drawn regarding ...

Manolis Kogevinas wins John Goldsmith Award

ISGlobal researcher receives the highest honour in the field of Environmental Epidemiology for his vital contributions to public healthCredit: Barcelona ...

SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected in untreated wastewater from Louisiana

Credit: Masaaki Kitajima/Biorender A group of scientists have detected genetic material from SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewater samples collected in April ...

New device can measure toxic lead within minutes

Researchers create portable lab-on-a-chip that could detect many contaminantsCredit: Azam Gholizadeh Rutgers researchers have created a miniature device for measuring ...

Seizures during menstrual cycle linked to drug-resistant epilepsy

Study finds surprising connection in some women with genetic generalized epilepsyCredit: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health ...

Socially isolated elderly more likely to use hospital and emergency room resources

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 25, 2020--Those over age 65 who self-reported as socially isolated ...

Virtual imaging trials optimize CT, radiography for coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Computational patient models and human phantom with coronavirus abnormalities via multidiagnostic confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 infection yield 'realistic' texture and shapeCredit: ...

Measuring the sensitivity of COVID tests with new material from NIST

Synthetic coronavirus genes from NIST can be used to measure and improve the sensitivity of diagnostic tests for COVID-19Credit: N. ...

WVU-led study aims to identify, relieve anxiety and depression caused by COVID-19

Credit: West Virginia University With anxiety and depression on the rise amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a West ...

Researchers show potential for subseasonal forecasts to predict dengue outbreaks

Estimates of mosquito abundance four weeks outCredit: DiSera et al., GeoHealth, 2020 A new study demonstrates for the first time ...

How effective does a COVID-19 vaccine need to be to stop the pandemic?

This question as well as coronavirus-related discrimination, population vulnerability, anxiety, and depression are explored in recent articles in the American ...

UVA-designed COVID-19 swab to support high-priority testing across Virginia

State to receive 60,000 swabs weeklyCredit: UVA Health The Commonwealth of Virginia will receive 60,000 nasopharyngeal swabs weekly to support ...

Why COVID-19 infection curves behave so unexpectedly