Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Risk of monkeypox transmission low in health care settings

The risk of transmission of monkeypox is low in health care settings, according to research published in the Sept. 16 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Expert explains ageism's toll in the age of COVID

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is one of the nation's leading voices on the negative impacts and violence of ageism. Gullette, 81 and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center of Brandeis University, is the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How electrospun fabrics can be used to control the spread of COVID-19

A team of researchers from the George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science has spent the past two years developing electrospun nanofiber fabrics for masks and air filters designed to sift out and ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Monkeypox virus on surfaces: No proof that contact can cause infection

During the currently evolving outbreak of monkeypox cases outside of known endemic areas, transmission is mainly driven by close physical contact with symptomatic people. While virus transmission between humans has been described ...

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