Health
Should you go sick to a party? How to navigate travel, family gatherings during tripledemic
It seems like whenever there's a party, someone goes home sick.
Dec 22, 2022
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News tagged with viruses
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Half of US adults say they had COVID-19, but only a fraction were officially diagnosed, new research shows
Half of U.S. adults report being sickened with COVID-19 at some point during the pandemic, with only a fraction saying they received an official medical diagnosis of the respiratory infection, according to a new survey by ...
Dec 12, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
Pitt study points to new opportunities for HIV treatment
Sometimes in science, answers come serendipitously, where researchers aren't expecting to find them. That's what happened to Cristian Apetrei, Ivona Pandrea and their colleagues during a recent study on human immunodeficiency ...
Jul 29, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Specific immune response to Epstein-Barr virus discovered
Medical science has not yet been able to explain why the Epstein-Barr virus triggers infectious mononucleosis (IM) in some people with initial infections and not in others. But now, a research team led by Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl, ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nasal vaccine to prevent COVID-19 passes first tests
Coronaviruses spread primarily through the air. When infected people speak, cough, sneeze or laugh, they expel droplets of saliva containing the virus. Other people then breathe in these airborne pathogens and become infected ...
Apr 3, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19: The persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs and the role of innate immunity
One to two weeks after contracting COVID, the SARS-CoV-2 virus generally becomes undetectable in the upper respiratory tract. But does that mean that it is no longer present in the body? To find out, a team from the Institut ...
Dec 8, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Shingles associated with increased risk for stroke, heart attack
A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, demonstrated that shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is associated with an almost 30% higher ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New tests of a recently approved RSV vaccine show potent antibody response to current and past variants
New tests of a recently approved vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus—RSV—show the shot remains effective against a range of variants producing potent antibody responses against current and past strains, and may even ...
Genetics
Researchers find COVID-19 causes mitochondrial dysfunction in heart and other organs
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, researchers have been trying to determine why this virus creates such negative long-term effects compared with most coronaviruses.
Aug 9, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Brazilian single-dose dengue vaccine could help turn tide in the fight against fever
Dengue, caused by the virus transmitted by the bite of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito and, to a lesser extent, the Aedes albopictus mosquito, is an acute illness characterized mainly by high fever, body aches, and redness ...
Mar 16, 2024
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