Delhi outbreak highlights challenge of reaching herd immunity in face of Delta variant
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in Delhi, India, in 2021 showed not only that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV2 is…
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in Delhi, India, in 2021 showed not only that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV2 is…
More than half of the 236 million people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 worldwide since December 2019 will experience…
An anti-viral gene that impacts the risk of both Alzheimer’s disease and severe Covid-19 has been identified by a UCL-led…
Redness and swelling of the hands and toes, known as chilblain-like lesions, have been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. A…
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much uncertainty about how long immunity lasts after someone who is unvaccinated is…
Press release: Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics today announced that…
A set of 7 symptoms, considered together, can be used to maximize detection of COVID-19 in the community, according to…
Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In this commentary the authors Xin Li, Kelvin Kai-Wang To and Kwok-Yung…
COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing hospitalizations and emergency department visits caused by the Delta variant, according to data from a national…
Although metabolic conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes have been linked to an increased risk of COVID-19, as…
Understanding how pathogens evolve is a fundamental component of learning how to protect ourselves and our world from pests and…
Federal and Kaiser Permanente researchers combing the health records of 6.2 million patients found no serious health effects that could…
Research continues to mount indicating that many people who’ve had COVID-19 go on to suffer a range of adverse conditions…
Researchers from the CEOsys project(link is external) collaborated with the LSTM-based Cochrane Infectious Disease Group (CIDG(link is external)) to carry out a…
The body’s first encounter with SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, happens in the nose and throat, or nasopharynx. A new…
A single dose of the Sputnik V vaccine may elicit significant antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2, finds a study published July…
New research has shown that early testing for blood clots in patients who had received the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine led to…
A connective tissue protein known to support the framework of organs also encourages immune responses that fight bacterial infections, while…
Malaria still kills millions. Researchers are excited by a new intervention: giving people a drug which kills mosquitoes that bite…
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation resulting from the inflammatory response to coronavirus infection may be the cause of previously unexplained long…
Vivid photos of the red “COVID arm” rash and reports of facial swelling in patients who have received dermatological fillers…
A review of more than 9,000 U.S. patients with severe COVID-19 infection showed less than 1% contracted the illness again,…
A joint research project based in Kumamoto University, Japan has developed a new, highly sensitive analytical method that can detect…
While previous research early in the pandemic suggested that vitamin D cuts the risk of contracting COVID-19, a new study…
It’s long been known that people living with HIV experience a loss of white matter in their brains. As opposed…
A multidisciplinary team from MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), Brigham and Women’s Hospital and other institutions have identified the mechanism…
An international team of scientists from the Menzies Health Institute Queensland (MHIQ) at Griffith University and from City of Hope,…
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a trio of science communication researchers proposes to treat the Covid-19 misinformation…
Gram-negative bacteria are the bane of health care workers’ existence. They’re one of the most dangerous organisms to become infected…
It’s widely understood that people taking a common class of antibiotics, like ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin, run the risk of tendonitis…