Tag: Public Health

Males and whites make up the majority of individuals subjected to gun violence restraining ordersCredit: UC Davis Violence Prevention Program ...

Global team develops open-source N95 respirator

UMass Amherst lab produces 3D prototype pieces for design consultancyCredit: UMass Amherst In one of the latest COVID-19 response projects ...

US cities with pro sports see more flu deaths

Credit: West Virginia University Sports leagues may want to consider calling a timeout on reopening their doors to fans, based ...

Boston partnership leverages local manufacturing to quickly produce reusable face shields

Credit: Dr. James Rathmell Researchers at a major Boston academic medical center designed, fabricated, tested, and implemented a reusable face ...

COVID-19 collaboration reduces infections in long-term care facilities

Credit: UVA Health A collaborative program developed at UVA Health to work with local long-term care facilities control COVID-19 is ...

AJR: Chest CT can distinguish negative from positive lab results for COVID-19

CT of patient cohort with negative initial nucleic acid test results less likely to indicate pulmonary consolidation (p Credit: American ...

9 in 10 Americans concerned pharma will use COVID-19 pandemic to raise drug prices

Fears abound of COVID-19 crisis worsening affordability challenges of US healthcare systemCredit: Gallup-West Health Cost of Healthcare Study, May 2020 ...

Silicosis: Ominous resurgence of an occupational lung condition reported

New research in the journal CHEST sounds an alarm about long-term health consequences, including massive pulmonary fibrosis, for workers who ...

CUNY SPH weekly COVID-19 survey update week 12 — Vaccines

Lack of knowledge may stop many New Yorkers from taking a COVOD-19 vaccine, but personal experience of disease may encourage ...

Research grant for biochemist to go ‘back to the future’ to get to grips with COVID-19

Dr Cooper is the academic lead for a project titled SARS-CoV-2 in silico protein modelling and determination of novel therapeutic ...

New family of enzymes reveals the Achilles’ heel of fungal pathogens

GlycoNet scientists share findings that could lead to therapeutics to treat fungal infectionsCredit: University of Toronto (Dr. Lynne Howell), McGill ...

UVA physicians, medical students launch COVID-19 podcast

Series offers health tips, closeup look at coronavirus care, researchCredit: UVA Health UVA School of Medicine physicians and students have ...

Tick surveillance and control lagging in US, study shows

First-ever survey of tick-management programs shows clear public health gapCredit: Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases Annapolis, MD; ...

Researchers study COVID-19, health disparities on caregivers of people with ADRD

Credit: Northern Arizona University Sixteen million family members in the US are caregivers for the more than 6 million people ...

Two NAU research centers receive Flinn Foundation funding to support COVID-19 response

Grants to support testing of vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus in NAU's Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI) and disease-intervention ...

COVID-19: Impact on environmental justice

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 16, 2020--COVID-19 is like a heat-seeking missile that targets the ...

Nanofiber masks can be sterilized multiple times without filter performance deterioration

Bouillon fortified with a new iron compound could help reduce iron deficiency

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Iron fortification of food is a cost-effective method of preventing iron deficiency. But finding ...

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control

Combining self-isolation and contact tracing with moderate physical distancing measures, such as limiting social gatherings and remote working, could enable ...

Refugee camps vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks