Should younger and older people receive different treatments for the same infection?
Dealing with an infection isn’t as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and…
Dealing with an infection isn’t as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and…
Once a medical miracle, antibiotics are now losing their power. Across the world, common infections are becoming harder—and sometimes impossible—to…
In a paper publishing in the Cell Press journal Trends in Immunology on December 4, scientists and doctors highlight the importance of studying long COVID in the context of…
OHIS stands for One Health Integrated Surveillance, i.e. the monitoring of antibiotic resistance in the sense of a holistic, interdisciplinary…
Hundreds of malaria patients participating in a Phase 3 clinical trial in Gabon in West Africa were cured via a…
The bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii)is a haunting presence in many hospitals in the United States, where more than one in…
New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School confirms that testing for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) at birth using the…
Two healthcare workers get COVID-19 vaccinations on the same day. Both show strong antibody responses initially, but six months later…
Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility…
New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School is providing important insights into how COVID-19 persists in cancer patients…
Scientists have discovered why older people are more likely to suffer severely from the flu, and can now use their…
A new HIV antiretroviral shows promise as a long-acting, oral prophylactic agent, according to a new study by Izzat Raheem,…
Multidrug resistant bacteria kill five million people each year, with newly resistant germs emerging faster than scientists can develop treatments….
A groundbreaking study led by a global research consortium offers new hope for patients with mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease….
The drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, have demonstrated strong antimicrobial activity and a notably better safety profile compared to linezolid, with…
People who have survived cancer as children are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, even decades after their diagnosis….
Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet – in the fight against antibiotic resistance….
Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, a University of Minnesota research team demonstrated that measuring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater continues to…
Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility…
Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on…
There were over 1.5 million “missing Americans” in 2022 and 2023, deaths that would have been averted if US mortality…
WEHI scientists have uncovered a promising new way to enhance the effectiveness of vaccines by tapping into the potential of…
Patients suffering from long COVID may exhibit persistent inflammation in the heart and lungs for up to a year following…
By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly…
Unvaccinated children and adolescents were up to 20 times more likely to develop long COVID than their vaccinated peers, according…
Antibiotic resistance tends to stabilize over time, according to a study published April 3, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS…
COVID infection has been linked to higher risk of autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. But why…
Among 289 million adults in 18 European countries, more than 16 million years of life were lost from 2020 through…
A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications has revealed novel insights into bacterial resistance and offers a promising strategy for…
An advanced type of MRI uncovers significant lung abnormalities in children and adolescents with long COVID, according to a new…