Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Life-saving light beam to detect malaria
A fast, needle-free malaria detection tool developed by a University of Queensland-led team could help save hundreds of thousands of lives annually.
Dec 9, 2022
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Medications
New single-dose treatment for sleeping sickness could help eliminate transmission of the disease by 2030
A new, single-dose, oral treatment for sleeping sickness is as effective as current treatments and could be a key factor in eliminating disease transmission by 2030, suggests a new study published in The Lancet Infectious ...
Nov 29, 2022
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Medications
Researchers discover existing drug can disrupt coronavirus replication
In early 2020, Eric Pringle and Brett Duguay found themselves spending much of their time in their microbiology lab on the seventh floor of Dal's Tupper Building. The virologists were busy testing potential antivirals for ...
Nov 23, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Study challenges WHO guidelines on pregnancy interval following miscarriage or abortion
Conception within three months of a miscarriage or an abortion is not associated with increased risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to new research publishing in PLOS Medicine. The study suggests that, contrary ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Medical research
Scientists produce 'DNA virus vaccine' to fight DNA viruses
Rutgers scientists have developed a new approach to stopping viral infections: a so-called live-attenuated, replication-defective DNA virus vaccine that uses a compound known as centanamycin to generate an altered virus for ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Pediatrics
Increasing children's immunity to deadly diseases through improved vaccine strategy
Offering a booster dose or changing the vaccination schedule available to infants in sub-Saharan Africa could greatly reduce the risk of them contracting potentially fatal diseases such as pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis, ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Health
Low levels of air pollution deadlier than previously thought
The World Health Organization's most recent estimates (2016) are that over 4.2 million people die prematurely each year due to long-term exposure to fine particulate outdoor air pollution (often referred to as PM2.5). A recent ...
Nov 8, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
A better understanding of how HIV-1 evades the immune system
The type of virus used as a model to study the efficacy of non-neutralizing antibodies against the virus responsible for AIDS has a crucial role to play, according to a new study led by Andrés Finzi, Université de Montréal ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Health
Polluting particles in the air are linked to cardiac arrests
Small particles in air pollution in Singapore might have caused sudden cardiac arrests in some people who were not in hospital but simply going about their normal lives, according to scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School ...
Nov 3, 2022
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Health
Transitioning to net-zero emissions could be the greatest health opportunity of this century
Climate change threatens to undermine the health of people around the world, with more intense and frequent extreme weather events, increased heatwave exposure, climate-related food insecurity, alteration in the spread of ...
Nov 2, 2022
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