HIV, Ebola and most recently, COVID-19 viruses have had an enormous impact on our societies world-wide. All these viruses are ‘enveloped viruses,’ viruses that have an...
Study design and data source This retrospective cohort study followed STROBE and RECORD reporting guidelines. We used data from administrative health datasets managed by Public Health...
In a recent study published in the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, researchers investigated the persistence of...
Twelve years ago, cancer researchers at University of California San Diego identified a molecule that helps cancer cells survive by shuttling damaging inflammatory cells into tumor...
Dexamethasone is one of the most important drugs in the treatment of severe COVID-19, but patients respond very differently to the therapy. Researchers at the German...
For this study, Bloom’s team tested the effect of mutations on functions critical to the virus’ evolution, including the spike protein’s ability to grab onto...
A multinational team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators developed a test that will help measure the persistence of HIV in people affected by viral strains...
Eduardo Cuevas | USA TODAY Health officials detail bird flu transmission to humans. What we know. Health officials are urging caution with where consumers get their...
Participation in school-based and household-based surveys 2021 and 2022 The number of children and household members enrolled and the overall results of the baseline school-based and...
An indigenous 28-year-old woman from Guaviare, a southern-central region state of Colombia originally inhabited by the indigenous Nukak people, presented to a local hospital with a...
Dengue fever: What you need to know about virus and symptoms U.S. cases of dengue usually occur among travelers coming back from places like the Caribbean...
Joyner MJ, Carter RE, Senefeld JW, et al. Convalescent plasma antibody levels and the risk of death from Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2021;18(11):1015–27. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2031893. Article ...