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Best of Last Year: The top Medical Xpress articles of 2020

It was a good year for medical research of all kinds, as a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego found a connection between gut bacteria and vitamin D levels. They discovered that gut microbiome diversity ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Adults with obesity more likely to develop H1N1 influenza

Adults with obesity are more susceptible to influenza A/H1N1pdm—the swine flu virus, according to a new study that did not, however, find a similar association with the seasonal flu.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Hepatitis C now leading infectious disease killer in U.S.

(HealthDay)—The number of hepatitis C-linked deaths in the United States reached a record high in 2014, and the virus now kills more Americans than any other infectious disease, health officials report.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Fauci: US weighs 3-foot distancing rule, a major change

The United States' top pandemic advisor said Sunday that authorities were considering cutting social distancing rules to three feet (one meter), a move that would change a key tenet of the global fight against COVID-19.

Medical research

Long COVID data tracks fatigue, symptoms by variant

The latest published study from INSPIRE provides important new insight into how lingering symptoms differ by virus variant and more specific data about persistent fatigue—the symptom most associated with what has become ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Second instance of canine coronavirus found in a person

A University of Florida research team is helping to build the case that coronaviruses move between animals and people at a more frequent rate than previously understood.

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