Study led by NTU Singapore finds that microbes work as a network in causing lung infection
Credit: NTU Singapore Traditionally, an infection is thought to happen when microbes - bacteria, fungi, or viruses - enter and ...
Tag: Public Health
‘No level of smoke exposure is safe’
Study links secondhand smoke during pregnancy to epigenetic changes in babiesCredit: VCU Massey Cancer Center Nearly a quarter of pregnant ...
WVU researchers find disparities for COVID-19 testing and positivity rates
Issues were identified in Black communities and in areas with food insecurity in West VirginiaCredit: WVU Photo In studying COVID-19 ...
Nanofiber filter captures almost 100% of coronavirus aerosols
The filter could help curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virusCredit: Yun Shen A filter made from polymer nanothreads blew three ...
People who have had dengue are twice as likely to develop symptomatic COVID-19
This is the main finding of a study.The authors analyzed blood samples collected in a town in the Brazilian Amazon ...
New wound care best practice consensus document for pharmacy teams
Credit: University of Huddersfield and Wounds UK DURING the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacists have increasingly played a key role as being ...
New testing platform for COVID-19 is an efficient and accurate alternative to gold-standard RT-qPCR tests
A microchip technology test kit may facilitate point-of-care testing in remote locations, clinics, and airports while providing similar accuracy to ...
COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies reduce risk of hospitalization and death
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2021 - Monoclonal antibodies, a COVID-19 treatment given early after coronavirus infection, cut the risk ...
Alcohol problems severely undertreated
Heavy drinkers see doctors regularly, but few receive treatment for disorderCredit: Washington University School of Medicine Some 16 million Americans ...
Planting seeds and growing hope
Sandia Labs gives more than half million dollars to nonprofits this springCredit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- National ...
More kids seeing doctors virtually but some parents still hesitant
1 in 5 parents in new national poll say their child had a virtual health visit over the past year, ...
The Lancet: Experts call for urgent action to reduce global burden of cardiovascular disease in women by 2030
Credit: The Lancet The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission outlines 10 ambitious recommendations to improve health outcomes for millions ...
Scientists rewrite the genesis of mosquito-borne viruses
Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika now possibleCredit: Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly Better designed vaccines for ...
To prevent next pandemic, scientists say we must regulate air like food and water
Credit: Martin Visser, Unsplash Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe ...
Ventilation in buildings: where water sanitation was in the 1800s
Credit: Jude Palmer/Royal Academy of Engineering A group of the world's leading experts in the transmission of airborne pathogens is ...
Researchers identify a missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle
Credit: Virginia Tech Epidemic. Pandemic. These terms have become second nature to us, popping up in everyday conversation, and for ...
Treating the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ as an epidemic
How to counter viral misinformation and disinformation: Surveillance, diagnosis, responseCredit: The New England Journal of Medicine ©2021 Writing in the ...
Study: Drivers with shift work sleep disorder 3x more likely to be in crash
Researchers at the University of Missouri College of Engineering also examined the relationship between vehicle crashes and two other sleep ...
Ticking upward: MU researcher studies rise of tick-borne diseases in Midwest
Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease ...
UMD awarded funds to head off tick-borne infection before it begins
Research represents one of many funding sources dedicated to translational research to develop therapeutics and vaccines and reduce the burden ...
