Medical research
First-in-human vaccine trial for deadly Nipah virus launched
The University of Oxford has launched a new clinical trial to test a vaccine to protect people against deadly Nipah virus.
Jan 11, 2024
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Infectious Diseases
Immunology
Nasal spray with antibodies could prevent COVID-19
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that nasal drops with IgA antibodies can protect mice from SARS-CoV-2 infection. The results imply a new way to protect individuals at high risk from different variants of the ...
Jan 10, 2024
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Medications
Treating tuberculosis when antibiotics no longer work
Researchers have identified new antibiotic molecules that target Mycobacterium tuberculosis and make it less pathogenic for humans. In addition, some of the discovered substances may allow for a renewed treatment of tuberculosis ...
Jan 4, 2024
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Overweight & Obesity
How a diet designed by Australia's national science agency measures up after ten years
Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, is celebrating a decade of reducing the population's waistline through its scientifically backed program, the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet online.
Jan 3, 2024
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Immunology
Injected Xolair therapy could prevent food allergies in kids
A new treatment appears to reduce food allergies in children and teens, according to interim clinical trial results.
Dec 21, 2023
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Medications
Biomedical STI prevention evidence may be inadequate for cisgender women
Pivotal studies of some biomedical HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention interventions have excluded cisgender women or demonstrated low efficacy among them, limiting their prevention options relative to ...
Dec 21, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Stressed snails and slugs may spread rat lungworm through slime
Can humans become infected with the rat lungworm parasite from snail slime, if an infected snail or slug leaves slime on a lettuce leaf? That is the question University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers set out to answer ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers locate two compounds in blood that could identify patients at risk of severe dengue
Scientists and clinicians at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) have identified two compounds—sST2 and suPAR—in the blood of dengue patients ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Medical research
Scientists discover new method Ebola virus uses to infect cells
Understanding how viruses travel once inside the human body is critical to develop effective drugs and therapies that can stop viruses in their tracks. Scientists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) recently ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Addressing racial disparities key to eliminating TB, researchers say
Progress toward the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States has been stalled by significant racial and ethnic disparities often masked by state- and national-level data, say University of Michigan researchers.
Dec 14, 2023
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