We're now pretty used to swabbing our nose to test for COVID when we have a scratchy throat or new cough. But should we also be using our rapid antigen test (RAT) to swab our throat, as some social media sources suggest?
Jun 24, 2022
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The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can infect various body tissues. While the detection of the virus in the nasopharynx is established as a diagnostic method, the amount of virus found there does not allow a prognosis of the course ...
Jun 23, 2022
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A National Institutes of Health-funded study has found that people with food allergies are less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, than people without them. In addition, while previous ...
Jun 1, 2022
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New research from the University of Illinois suggests high levels of dietary cholesterol make mice sicker when they are infected with influenza. The study is the first to link cholesterol in the diet with exacerbation of ...
May 19, 2022
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Patients with multidrug-resistant HIV-1 infection receiving the capsid inhibitor lenacapavir have a greater reduction in viral load than those receiving placebo, according to a study published in the May 12 issue of the New ...
May 12, 2022
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Patients hospitalized with the omicron or delta variants of COVID-19 required similar levels of respiratory support and intensive care, according to a new Johns Hopkins study, indicating that omicron infections should not ...
Apr 25, 2022
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The latest research from Murdoch University and the Perron Institute is paving the way for the development of a new technological screening platform that will rapidly and accurately detect COVID-19, without compromising quality.
Apr 14, 2022
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Loss of smell and taste—a hallmark symptom of COVID-19—was not on the minds of a group of Yale School of Medicine researchers when they embarked on a study in the spring of 2020.
Apr 8, 2022
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A new combination of antiviral drugs did not improve clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with severe influenza, according results from a recent clinical trial published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Feb 21, 2022
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Last spring, a small, self-contained and airtight modular building was set up in the parking lot outside Barnhart Hall.
Feb 16, 2022
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