Tag: Public Health

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 30, 2020--A new study of medical staff treating COVID-19-infected patients ...

New report: Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production

Investment in transdisciplinary research and training for future generations of African scientists is crucial to advancing sustainable development in African ...

New evidence for optimising malaria treatment in pregnant women

A new way to accurately estimate COVID-19 death toll

Rutgers engineer's mathematical model can predict cumulative deaths in USCredit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A Rutgers engineer ...

New evidence for optimizing malaria treatment in pregnant women

Credit: Susan Elden, DFID The research, published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases is the fruit of joint project between ...

Antibodies from llamas could help in fight against COVID-19

Credit: Tim Coppens The hunt for an effective treatment for COVID-19 has led one team of researchers to find an ...

Support teams key to reducing hospitalizations from nursing homes

Credit: MU Sinclair School of Nursing COLUMBIA, Mo. - Nursing home residents are often cared for by a variety of ...

Temple offering clinical trials, investigational treatment options for COVID-19 patients

Credit: Temple University Health System Temple University Hospital is now participating in a variety of clinical trials that are testing ...

COVID-19 has led to more deep cleaning: Which disinfectants and masks work best together?

Credit: University of Texas at Austin The spread of coronavirus has spurred massive efforts to consistently disinfect everything from office ...

The new smartband iFeel-You is able to read body temperature and enforce social distancing

The prototype originates from the research results at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in the framework of the European-funded project An.Dy. ...

NIH mobilizes national innovation initiative for COVID-19 diagnostics

Initiative aims to speed delivery of accurate, easy-to-use, scalable tests to all AmericansCredit: NIH The National Institutes of Health today ...

A diet of high-iron beans improves health of anemic women in Rwanda

An 18-week diet of high-iron beans improved the physical performance of women at a university in Rwanda. The study shows ...

Virologists show that sample pooling can massively increase coronavirus testing capacity

Credit: Rüdiger Koop, UKS The new procedure will help to meet the high demand for testing in the mass coronavirus ...

AGS COVID-19 brief offers roadmap to government action for assisted living facilities

Variation in how side effects are reported clouds drug safety

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center An important goal of early-phase clinical trials is to discover a drug's possible side ...

New study finds biases against physically dirty people take root as early as age 5

Biases against the physically unclean extend to the sick, holding implications in the COVID-19 eraCredit: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology ...

Startups develop system that detects fever remotely in people near hospital front desks

AI-based technology developed by a startup supported by FAPESP is in use at Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital, in São Paulo, ...

Agricultural pickers in US to see unsafely hot workdays double by 2050

Credit: Tigchelaar et al./Environmental Research Letters The global pandemic has put a focus on essential workers, those we rely on ...

Making transitions from nursing home to hospital safer during COVID-19 outbreak

Advance care planning even more important during pandemicCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted nursing home ...

Study reveals pharmacy-level barriers to treatment for opioid use disorder in Appalachian Kentucky