Medical row in France over unauthorised COVID trial

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain French medical bodies on Sunday called on authorities to punish researcher Didier Raoult for “the largest ‘unauthorized’ clinical trial ever seen” into the use of hydroxychloroquine…

US study finds 1 in 10 get long COVID after omicron, starts identifying key symptoms

This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface…

Sudden infant death syndrome may have biologic cause

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a case where the death of an apparently healthy infant before their first birthday remains unexplained even after thorough investigation.…

Research favors testing and voluntary isolation over closures in disease outbreaks

Net benefits (as a fraction of GDP, y-axis) of the random testing with self-isolation policy for τ = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 over the range of Tτ from…

WHO chief hopes for ‘historic’ pandemic accord

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new pandemic accord under negotiation must be a “historic agreement” marking a dramatic shift in the approach to global health security after the COVID crisis,…

Cholera outbreak kills 10 in S.Africa

Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae. Credit: Wikipedia An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 10 people near South Africa’s capital of Pretoria, health authorities said Sunday, urging…

Research in mice offers clues for vaccinating against deadly bacteria

Characterization of K. pneumoniae O1-EPA and K2-EPA bioconjugates. A) Diagram of genes encoding EPA and PglS (colored arrows) on the pEXT20-derived expression plasmid. EPA was engineered to contain two internal…

Scientists better understand how people with Cantu syndrome develop lymphedema

Graphical abstract. Credit: Function (2023). DOI: 10.1093/function/zqad017 Ion channels in people with Cantu syndrome produce varying degrees of contractile dysfunction (when muscles and tendons function ineffectively) in the lymphatic system,…

13 dead from Congo haemorrhagic fever in Iraq this year

At least 13 people have died in Iraq since the start of the year from a viral tick-borne disease transmitted to humans from livestock, the health ministry said on Saturday.…

Is that the right call?

Credit: CC0/Unsplash The COVID-19 emergency is over. After three years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the virus “no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.”…