Researchers at Penn Medicine, in collaboration with a multi-center international team, have shown that a protease inhibitor, simeprevir, a once a day pill, along with interferon and ribavirin has proven as effective in treating ...
Dec 9, 2014
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University of Queensland research into the world's most deadly influenza pandemic in 1918 has shed light on a major medical mystery.
Nov 15, 2011
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An antibiotic gel based on azithromycin, an antibiotic with antibacterial properties, helps to prevent the onset of Lyme borreliosis following a tick bite. That is the finding of a multi-centre international study, in which ...
Dec 20, 2016
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A research team led by St. Michael's Hospital's Dr. Kamran Khan is teaming up with British authorities to anticipate and track the risk for an infectious disease outbreak at the London Olympics this summer.
Jan 17, 2012
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Researchers searching for signs of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in livestock animals have found antibodies specific to the new virus in dromedary camels. The research, published in The Lancet Infectious ...
Aug 8, 2013
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Insecticide-treated bednets, whose use is being widely promoted in Africa to combat malaria, may paradoxically be linked to local resurgence of the disease, according to concerns raised by a study on Thursday.
Aug 18, 2011
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Darwin, Australia: A team of malaria experts from a large international research collaboration has published results supporting the need for a radical cure strategy to tackle one of the most debilitating forms of malaria ...
Jul 25, 2018
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Two new studies, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet Public Health, found no evidence that people with the B.1.1.7. variant experience worse symptoms or a heightened risk of developing long COVID compared ...
Apr 13, 2021
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Researchers from the Institut Pasteur have shed light on the rise of ampicillin resistance in the 1960s. Through the genome sampling of historical Salmonella strains, they proved that antibiotic resistance can be traced back ...
Nov 30, 2017
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Around 138 million women are affected by a distressing but treatable fungal infection world-wide, according to a research review by University of Manchester scientists.
Aug 3, 2018
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