Measles virus ‘cooperates’ with itself to cause fatal encephalitis
Researchers in Japan have uncovered the mechanism for how the measles virus can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a…
Researchers in Japan have uncovered the mechanism for how the measles virus can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a…
Commonly used antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV and hepatitis B reduce immune cells’ energy production FINDINGS New UCLA-led research…
The antiviral drug nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir (Paxlovid) was granted Emergency Use Authorization for treating COVID-19 in December 2021. In clinical…
Many people are experiencing a variety of long COVID-19 symptoms and are relying on some of their own methods to…
The currently used microbiological tests for colistin resistance and other antibiotic resistances did not allow accurate conclusions regarding the spread…
One of the most dreaded effects of the bite of the brown recluse spider (Loxosceles spp) is the appearance of a…
Hospitals have strict hygiene and sanitation protocols to protect patients from bacteria that rarely sicken healthy people but can be…
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus, continues to threaten populations around the world, after killing over 1…
Smallpox was once one of humanity’s most devastating diseases, but its origin is shrouded in mystery. For years, scientific estimates…
Research by two Texas A&M University scientists is focused on improving Lyme disease treatment outcomes by developing a test that’s…
The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern in July 2022. In a study…
Study in California Prisons Found Recent Vaccination and Boosters Reduce Infectiousness, but Infection Risk Remains High Vaccination and boosting, especially…
New research presented this week at ACR Convergence 2022, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows that spine disease,…
Molnupiravir (taken as an 800mg dose twice daily for five days) does not reduce hospital admissions or deaths in vaccinated…
The reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is linked to an ongoing immune assault…
The urge to vomit after eating contaminated food is the body’s natural defensive response to get rid of bacterial toxins….
A rehabilitation programme that helps people with long COVID reduce their symptoms and increase activity levels has shown “impressive” results, say…
In one of the first large, real-world studies comparing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines versus natural immunity in protecting against…
The COVID-19 global pandemic remains a major public health challenge. ASCOT researchers aim to discover which treatments are most effective…
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been devastating the entire world. While the vaccination program is…
Those who reported having COVID in early 2020 were also 1.67 times more likely to display clinically meaningful levels of…
Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous so-called organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these…
The Children and young people with Long Covid (CLoCk) study, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, is the…
Long COVID patients can experience many of the same lingering negative effects on their physical, mental, and social well-being as…
Following a series of consultations with global experts, WHO will begin using a new preferred term “mpox” as a synonym…
Claudia Arevalo and colleagues have developed a mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccine that contains antigens from all 20 known subtypes of influenza…
In a study executed by UMC Utrecht it was demonstrated that after prednisolone does not improve sense of smell after…
An international collaboration of clinicians, established and led by Professor Chloe Orkin at Queen Mary University of London, has published…
Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness and, as its name…
Following COVID-19 infection, there is significant new onset morbidity in children, adolescents and adults across 13 distinct diagnosis and symptom…