Pediatrics
New RSV vaccine may prevent illness in infants, seniors
An RSV vaccine developed by Pfizer provides safe and effective protection in both seniors and newborns, clinical trial results show.
Apr 6, 2023
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Medications
Antibiotics do not reduce risk of dying in adults hospitalised with common respiratory infections, suggests study
Most patients admitted to hospital with acute viral respiratory infections are given antibiotics. Now new research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in ...
Mar 25, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Unmasking the secret of broadly neutralizing COVID-19 therapeutic antibodies
The rapid evolution and emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, such as the omicron variant, renders it highly capable of evading the host immunity.
Mar 22, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists pinpoint protein that helps cancer-causing viruses evade immune response
The viruses Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) have been linked to several cancers. For the first time, UNC School of Medicine scientists have discovered that these viruses use a human ...
Feb 6, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
1 in 5 pregnant people found to lack measles immunity
Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that one in five newborn babies may not have measles antibodies passed down from their ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Experimental NIH Sudan virus vaccine protects macaques
A National Institutes of Health research group with extensive experience studying ebolavirus countermeasures has successfully developed a vaccine against Sudan virus (SUDV) based on the licensed Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine. ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researcher might have found key to understanding why COVID-19 kills more men than women
From the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, observers noted that men are more susceptible to severe infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with increased death rates.
Feb 2, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Discovery of a circovirus involved in human hepatitis
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital (AP-HP), Inserm in the Imagine Institute, Université Paris Cité and the Alfort National Veterinary School (EnvA) have identified a previously unknown ...
Feb 1, 2023
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Immunology
A flurry of RSV vaccine research may result in a protective immunization in the not-too-distant future
A new analysis of how the immune system responds to both older and newer investigational vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus—RSV—will help inform the ultimate translation of an immunization from the laboratory to ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Experimental vaccine for deadly Marburg virus guards against infection with just a single dose
An experimental vaccine for Marburg virus—a deadly cousin of the infectious agent that causes Ebola—can protect large animals from severe infections for up to a year with a single shot, scientists have found in a new ...
