Medical research
Promising study offers hope for Menkes disease patients
A Texas A&M AgriLife Research team has good news for patients with copper-deficiency disorders, especially young children diagnosed with Menkes disease.
May 8, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Omicron infection is a poor booster of COVID-19 immunity
People infected with the omicron variant show poor immune boosting against future SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Jun 14, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Phase 3 trial reports one dose of Ad5-nCoV COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, including against severe disease
One dose of Ad5-nCoV (Convidecia), a COVID-19 vaccine developed in China, is 57.5% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 and 91.7% effective against severe COVID-19 disease beginning 28 days postvaccination, according to ...
Dec 24, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What heart and stroke patients need to know about COVID-19 in 2022
Two years into the pandemic, researchers have learned a lot about how COVID-19 affects people with heart disease and stroke survivors. But like the coronavirus itself, what everyone needs to know keeps evolving.
Jan 18, 2022
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Medications
World-first trial to test benefit of intravenous zinc in COVID-19 fight
A world-first trial will see researchers from Austin Health and the University of Melbourne use intravenous zinc to fight the symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Apr 9, 2020
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Medications
COVID antiviral drug molnupiravir eliminates actively infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus by day 3 of therapy
New data to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, 23-26 April) shows that participants taking the new anti-COVID drug molnupiravir eliminate actively ...
Apr 1, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Vaccines have up to 90% efficacy against severe COVID-19 for up to six months
Protection against symptomatic COVID-19 begins to decrease after one month from initial vaccination, while immunity against severe COVID-19 remains high for about six months, according to a recent study in BMC Infectious ...
Jun 3, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Does decades-old smallpox vaccination protect against monkeypox?
Health officials are scrambling to stretch scarce doses of vaccine to slow the mounting monkeypox outbreak, but do older people already vaccinated as kids for the related but deadlier smallpox virus already have protection?
Aug 17, 2022
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Vaccination
Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines offer high protection against severe COVID-19, 6 months after second doses
Protection against severe COVID-19 by two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines remained high up to six months after second doses, finds new research which analysed NHS health record data on over seven ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Rethink what you thought you knew about COVID-19 reinfection
Forget what you thought you knew about catching COVID-19 more than once. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps evolving—and so has information about your risk of being reinfected.
Jul 20, 2022
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