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Population health and the COVID-19 pandemic: Emerging stronger next time
New Rochelle, NY, October 6, 2020 —Battling the COVID-19 pandemic and preparing for the inevitable next surge requires a data-driven population health approach. A special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Population Health Management is dedicated to combatting COVID-19. It embraces…
NYUAD researchers discover immune evasion strategy used by Malaria-causing parasite
Findings could lay the foundation for the development of effective therapeutic and malaria vaccine strategies, which has largely been hindered by a lack of understanding of the host immune response
ACC’s Hani Najm Global Scholar Awards announced at Saudi Heart Association
ACC leaders will also present on management of acute coronary syndrome during conference
India’s culture of coping with cancer
Dwaipayan Banerjee’s new book examines the psychological and social terrain of living with cancer in a country where the disease has long been downplayed.
New model may explain rarity of certain malaria-blocking mutations
If people rapidly become immune against severe effects, some protective mutations fail to spread
Comeback of drug-resistant neglected tropical disease tracked through genomic surveillance
Study will influence the global elimination strategy for yaws
Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19
What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and then essentially came to a halt there? That’s what researchers from the University of South Florida are trying to determine in a new study funded…
NIST innovation could improve detection of COVID-19 infections
Technique could increase sensitivity of nasal swab tests up to tenfold through simple software updates
How malaria parasites withstand a fever’s heat
Findings could lead to ways to maximize our existing antimalarial arsenal
‘Repliclones’ fuel perplexing persistence of HIV in the blood of some patients on therapy
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5, 2020 – Increasingly, UPMC’s chief of infectious diseases–a well-regarded expert in HIV/AIDS–is contacted by a perplexed physician describing a patient with HIV who insists they are adhering to the daily medication regimen meant to keep the virus…
UArizona Health Sciences researchers identify new target for creating flavivirus vaccines
The results of a recent study moved University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers one step closer to developing effective vaccinations against flaviviruses, which infect more than 400 million people a year with diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, West Nile,…
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 dwindling
Cause of 1990s Argentina cholera epidemic uncovered
Work allows genomic monitoring for epidemic strains of Vibrio cholerae bacteria
PATH receives grant to combat soil-transmitted helminth infections
SEATTLE–PATH announced today they received a grant from Japan’s Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund to develop a new oral treatment option for soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections. PATH’s Vaccine and Pharmaceutical Formulation team, part of the Medical Devices and Health…
Combating climate change health impacts and fighting COVID-19: Key themes of TropMed20
Attend American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s Virtual Annual Meeting from anywhere!
UC researchers uncover clues for COVID-19 treatment
A team of UC and German researchers look at a natural agent as a promising therapy for the coronavirus
Painting a clearer picture of COVID-19
MU researchers team up with 8th grader, MU undergrad to identify mutations in virus that may be causing its high infectivity
Science Academies submit recommendations to the G20 countries
Joint statement on health, sustainability, and digitization
FoodLAND: Food and local, agricultural and nutritional diversity
Twenty-eight interdisciplinary partners will be coming together from 30 September to 2 October for the kick-off meeting of the FoodLAND project. Due to the current COVID-19 global health situation, the event will take place online. The FoodLAND project, funded with…
How to better understand what makes a virus win during transmission?
Researchers propose a mathematical model to better understand the dynamics of the interactions between microorganisms within hosts and their transmission ability
Something old, something new combine for effective vaccine against parasitic skin disease
Scientists use CRISPR to edit structural gene in organism that causes leishmaniasis
E-in-Singapore robot features faster and more comfortable COVID-19 swabbing
SwabBot™ reduces healthcare worker’s risk of exposure to COVID-19 infection
New research highlights impact of COVID-19 on food security in Kenya and Uganda
CABI scientists have conducted new research highlighting the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on food security in Kenya and Uganda with more than two-thirds of those surveyed having experienced economic hardship due to the pandemic.
Archaeology uncovers infectious disease spread – 4000 years ago
New bioarchaeology research from a University of Otago PhD candidate has shown how infectious diseases may have spread 4000 years ago, while highlighting the dangers of letting such diseases run rife. Yaws – from the same bacteria species responsible for…
How we age
Anthropologists compare a composite measure of physiological dysregulation among humans and other primates
Penn researchers discover potential cause of immunotherapy-related neurotoxicity
A single cell atlas aided researchers in identifying previously undiscovered presence of immunotherapy targeted molecule in brain
Mental health in times of the pandemic
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina hosts international virtual panel discussion
Mosquito-borne viruses linked to stroke
A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new research published in the The Lancet Neurology has found. University of Liverpool researchers and Brazilian collaborators have been investigating the link between neurological disease and infection…
Removal of a gene could render lethal poxviruses harmless
The removal of one gene renders poxviruses – a lethal family of viral infections that are known to spread from animals to humans – harmless, a new study in the journal Science Advances reports. During this ground-breaking study, scientists from…
Typhoid: Study confirms Vi-DT conjugate vaccine is safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 months
September 17, 2020 – SEOUL, South Korea – A new study conducted by IVI in collaboration with SK bioscience shows that single-dose and two-dose regimens of Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) are safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 months of…
India 2020: the state of (in)security
Webinar with Dr. Purnima Menon is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute
Tailored education system to benefit kidney transplant patients
Researchers find their computer-tailored education system, ‘Your Path to Transplant’ increases knowledge and readiness to pursue kidney transplant
‘A World in Disorder’
It would take 500 years to spend as much on preparedness as the world is currently losing due to COVID-19; the world cannot afford this cycle of panic and neglect
Tiny Antibody Component Highly Effective Against SARS-COV-2 in Animal Studies
Contact: Allison Hydzik Office: 412-647-9975 Mobile: 412-559-2431 E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Erin Hare Mobile: 412-738-1097 E-mail: [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pitt Scientists Discover Tiny Antibody Component That is Highly Effective in Preventing and Treating SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Animal Models PITTSBURGH, Sept.…
COVID-19 measures deepening health inequalities in slum communities
Efforts to stem the impact of COVID-19 in low to middle income countries could be creating a health time bomb in their slum communities by deepening existing inequalities, according to an international team led by the University of Warwick.
Human norovirus strains differ in sensitivity to the body’s first line of defense
Interferon (IFN) responses are one of the first defenses the body mounts against viral infections, and research has shown that it plays a role controlling viral replication. But when researchers at Baylor College of Medicine investigated whether IFN restricted human…
IVI to ready clinical trial sites for COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trials in 4 countries
September 9, 2020 – SEOUL, South Korea – The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) announced today that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded close to 1.5 million USD to IVI to support clinical trial site preparedness in four African and…
Stanford researchers anticipate rise of some mosquito-borne diseases
All mosquitoes are not created equal. Different species of the flying pest thrive at various temperature ranges and transmit different diseases. From this starting point, a Stanford-led paper for the first time predicts how, when and where in Sub-Saharan Africa…
The Lancet Global Health: Modelling study estimates health-care cost of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries at US$52 billion every four weeks
Massive price tag of COVID-19 response in 73 low- and middle-income countries underscores benefits of investing in pandemic preparedness
Factors that raise the risk of mortality among children with several acute malnutrition
Key Points An estimated 15.7% of children hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition die before they are discharged. Presence of HIV infection, diarrhea, pneumonia, shock, lack of appetite and low weight-to-height ratio raises the risk of mortality among these children, with…
The Lancet: Preliminary results from Russian trials find that vaccine candidates led to no serious adverse events and elicit antibody response
The new paper reports the findings of two open-label, non-randomised phase 1/2 trials looking at a frozen formulation and a freeze-dried formulation of a two-part vaccine. The two-part vaccine included two adenovirus vectors – recombinant human adenovirus type 26 (rAd26-S)…
Wearable, portable invention offers options for treating antibiotic-resistant infections
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The rapid increase of life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infections has resulted in challenging wound complications with limited choices of effective treatments. About 6 million people in the United States are affected by chronic wounds. Now, a team of…
Innovative biocontainment unit shows promise to protect healthcare workers
The U.S. Army partnered with the University of Pittsburg Medical Center to create a biocontainment unit that could help healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients. Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory and UPMC created…
The Lancet: Many countries falling behind on global commitments to tackling premature deaths from chronic diseases, such as diabetes, lung cancer and heart disease
Over the next two weeks, The Lancet will be publishing two reports calling for urgent global action on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The NCD Countdown to 2030 tracks global progress on non-communicable diseases against commitments to reduce deaths from NCDs by…
Safe thresholds for antibiotics in sewage needed to help combat antibiotic resistance
New research reveals current understanding of safe antibiotic levels in rivers may not prevent evolution of antibiotic resistance and fully protect human health. The study suggests the need to introduce thresholds to help fight the spread of resistant bacteria. Around…
COVID-19 and the threat to American voting rights
he COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated three main pathologies of American voting rights, according to Richard Hasen. The pandemic has revealed the lack of systematic and uniform protection of voting rights in the United States, as described in the peer-reviewed Election Law Journal.
Vaccine researchers testing human hookworm vaccines in Brazil
A team at the George Washington University Vaccine Research Unit has developed a controlled human hookworm infection model, accelerating the development of human hookworm vaccines
Antiretroviral therapy fails to treat one-third of HIV patients in Malawi hospital
Researchers call for new rapid tests to combat HIV drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa
COVID-19 and the threat to American voting rights
New Rochelle, NY, September 2, 2020 —The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated three main pathologies of American voting rights, according to Richard Hasen. The pandemic has revealed the lack of systematic and uniform protection of voting rights in the United States,…