Tag: Public Health

October 6, 2020

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

October 6, 2020

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

October 6, 2020

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