Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UK study that will infect volunteers with COVID approved

A study which will expose volunteers to the coronavirus is to begin in Britain within a month after it gained approval from the country's clinical ethics body, the government said on Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

US superbug infections rising, but deaths are falling

Drug-resistant "superbug" infections have been called a developing nightmare that could set medicine back a century, making conquered germs once again untreatable.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Dementia deaths in Scotland rise nearly 6% year on year

Alzheimer's Research UK, the UK's leading dementia research charity, is calling for a government commitment to fund more dementia research than ever before following new figures from National Records of Scotland released ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Griffith University tackles deadly Hendra virus

Australian medical researchers are on the brink of an effective human treatment for the deadly Hendra virus, and potentially the closely related Nipah virus, which has killed more than two hundred people in South East Asia.

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