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海角社区: Cash and Counselling Slash Unsuccessful TB Outcomes by Half
Released: 7-Feb-2025 4:35 AM EST
Cash and Counselling Slash Unsuccessful TB Outcomes by Half
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

A new study shows that tuberculosis patients cash-incentivised and counselled have a 52% lower relative risk of having an unsuccessful treatment outcome.

海角社区: AI Accelerates the Search for New Tuberculosis Drug Targets
Released: 6-Feb-2025 8:25 PM EST
AI Accelerates the Search for New Tuberculosis Drug Targets
University of California San Diego

As one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in the U.S. unfolds in Kansas, UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues have published research describing the use of artificial intelligence tools to screen for new antimicrobial candidates to treat the disease.

海角社区: Keeping Your Phone Clean Can Help Prevent You From Getting Sick
Released: 6-Feb-2025 7:55 PM EST
Keeping Your Phone Clean Can Help Prevent You From Getting Sick
Indiana University

A Q&A with an IU School of Medicine infectious disease expert on the everyday germs living on cell phones.

Released: 6-Feb-2025 6:45 PM EST
Two UdeM Researchers Get Close to $6M to Try to Defeat HIV
Universite de Montreal

Nicolas Chomont and Andr茅s Finzi will use the CIHR funds to work to develop a treatment capable of permanently eliminating the human immunodeficiency virus from the body.

Released: 5-Feb-2025 7:00 PM EST
Nasal COVID-19 Vaccine Based on WashU Technology to Enter U.S. Clinical Trials
Washington University in St. Louis

A nasal vaccine for COVID-19 鈥 based on technology developed at Washington University in St. Louis 鈥 is poised to enter a phase 1 clinical trial in the U.S.

海角社区: How Cervical Cancer Screening with HPV Testing Is Saving Lives
Released: 31-Jan-2025 6:30 PM EST
How Cervical Cancer Screening with HPV Testing Is Saving Lives
UT Southwestern Medical Center

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, so it鈥檚 the perfect time to review facts about cervical cancer, HPV-associated risks, and screening recommendations. We鈥檒l also look at self-collected tests that have recently sparked interest.

海角社区: FSU Chemists Advance Biotherapeutics with Innovative Imaging Research
Released: 31-Jan-2025 8:05 AM EST
FSU Chemists Advance Biotherapeutics with Innovative Imaging Research
Florida State University

New research from the Florida State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry shows that a particular type of monoclonal antibody known as NISTmAb retains its structure even if the sugar molecules attached to it are changed.

Released: 30-Jan-2025 6:50 PM EST
RFK Jr. Faces Tough Question in HHS Confirmation Hearing
George Washington University

In a Senate confirmation hearing yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled about his views on vaccines, chronic health conditions, infectious diseases, abortion and other issues. Kennedy is... ...

   
海角社区: The Medical Minute: What Works 鈹 and What Doesn鈥檛 鈹 to Prevent Norovirus
Released: 29-Jan-2025 9:00 PM EST
The Medical Minute: What Works 鈹 and What Doesn鈥檛 鈹 to Prevent Norovirus
Penn State Health

Norovirus, often called the stomach flu, is spreading rapidly in the U.S. A Penn State Health infectious diseases specialist explains why鈥攁nd why hand sanitizer isn鈥檛 effective against it.

Released: 29-Jan-2025 6:10 PM EST
Four Advances for Inactivating Infectious Viruses, Bacteria
American Chemical Society (ACS)

It鈥檚 peak cold and flu season in the northern hemisphere. Four papers published in ACS journals provide insights into novel antiviral compounds and methods to inactivate infectious viral particles and bacteria.

   
海角社区: Study Finds Three New Safe, Effective Ways To Treat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
27-Jan-2025 7:20 PM EST
Study Finds Three New Safe, Effective Ways To Treat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Harvard Medical School

鈥 Study finds three new safe and effective drug regimens to fight multidrug-resistant TB 鈥 The treatments, which include recently discovered TB drugs, give new options for shorter, personalized treatment and are cleared for use for more people than ever

Released: 28-Jan-2025 7:40 PM EST
CDC Reports a Rise in Flu Cases
George Washington University

The US is experiencing a wave of respiratory illness this winter, with a surge in flu cases and an uptick in hospitalizations. A new CDC report shows the rising influenza threat in states, according to news reports.

Released: 24-Jan-2025 5:45 PM EST
Bird Flu Basics From a Rutgers Health Infectious Disease Expert
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The disease is decimating bird populations and spreading into mammals, but human infections remain rare.

海角社区: MSK Researchers Help To Map the Human Virome
Released: 24-Jan-2025 10:30 AM EST
MSK Researchers Help To Map the Human Virome
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

MSK researchers are helping to map the landscape of viruses that infect us all, and to analyze the impact they have on human health and disease.

21-Jan-2025 8:50 AM EST
Long COVID, Italian Scientists Discovered the Molecular 鈥楩ingerprint鈥 of the Condition in Children's Blood
Universit脿 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

A study by the Universit脿 Cattolica, Rome campus - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS and the Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Ges霉 IRCCS, published in the Nature Group journal 鈥楶ediatric Research鈥, identifies the 鈥榩rotein signature鈥 of the condition in plasma, a group of pro-inflammatory molecules present at high concentrations in young patients with the condition.

海角社区: Sweeping Study of Human Viruses by Researchers Including UTHealth  Houston Funded with $20M From NIH
Released: 23-Jan-2025 8:45 AM EST
Sweeping Study of Human Viruses by Researchers Including UTHealth Houston Funded with $20M From NIH
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Unlocking knowledge about the vast and varied collection of viruses that live in and on our bodies is the goal of a $20 million grant from the Common Fund of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to researchers, including a team at UTHealth Houston.



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