WHO sees COVID posing similar threat to flu this year
The COVID-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Mar 17, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Mar 17, 2023
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Avian influenza—or bird flu, as it's commonly known—continues to run through bird populations, killing millions of animals worldwide. Now, a particularly infectious and lethal strain of the virus called H5N1 appears to ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said Tuesday.
Feb 7, 2023
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Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, which now accounts for a quarter of US Covid-19 cases, could become the dominant strain in Europe within a few months, the EU's disease agency said Friday.
Jan 13, 2023
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections remain a major global health problem—according to the World Health Organization there are around 300 million HBV carriers worldwide. Current treatments rarely succeed in curing the infection.
Jan 10, 2023
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Newly published research from the University of Cincinnati finds that people with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) have more inflammation and could be at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease.
Jan 6, 2023
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A team of researchers at INESC TEC and the University of Munich, including Carnegie Mellon Portugal (CMU Portugal) Ph.D. student Tamás Karácsony, tested an innovative solution to classify seizures, the main symptom of epilepsy, ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Over 90% of the world population has the virus that causes chickenpox lying dormant in their nervous system. Most people contract the varicella zoster virus, or VZV, when they get chickenpox as children. For around a third ...
Dec 21, 2022
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While the World Health Organization hopes COVID-19 will soon no longer be considered a public health emergency, it has warned the virus itself is here to stay.
Dec 16, 2022
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Youth who underwent metabolic and bariatric surgery as teenagers are at heightened risk for alcohol use, according to the first study to document long-term alcohol use and associated issues in this population. Researchers ...
Dec 15, 2022
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