UK and Portuguese study strongly suggests ‘superbugs’ are being passed from pets to owners

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Pet dogs and cats play an important role in the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, says new research presented at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in…

Electronic health record-based algorithm does not cut hospitalization in kidney dysfunction triad, trial shows

For patients with the triad of chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension, the use of an electronic health record-based algorithm and intervention does not result in reduced hospitalization…

Oral vaccine for UTI is potential alternative to antibiotics, finds 9-year study

Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) can be prevented for up to nine years in more than half of people given an oral spray-based vaccine and…

Platform tracks SARS-CoV-2 mutational impact on disease severity, identifies effective therapeutic inhibitors

A droplet microfluidics-based system for high-throughput screening of syncytium formation. a, Co-culture of spike-expressing sender cells (mCherry+) and ACE2-expressing receiver cells (BFP+) resulted in syncytium formation (GFP+) due to cell–cell…

Life expectancy increased as world addressed major killers, though poor pandemic management slowed progress

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years since 1990 according to a new study published in The Lancet. Over the past three decades, reductions in death…

Study finds association between TB infection and increased risk of various cancers

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A population-wide observational study to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) shows…

Swedish study indicates decline of neutralizing antibodies to mpox virus during the first month after vaccination

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024) in Barcelona, Spain (27–30 April) shows that even…

Optimizing chronic kidney disease management through a learning health system approach

Health data scientists at PKUHSC initiated the CKD LHS study with physicians and epidemiologists in Yinzhou. Credit: Guilan Kong et al. A recent publication in Health Data Science offers an…

Thailand sounds alarm after anthrax outbreak in Laos

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Thailand ordered a close watch on livestock on Thursday after an outbreak of anthrax in neighboring Laos, where more than 50 suspected human cases have been…

A primer on recent measles outbreaks, transmission, symptoms and complications, including ‘immune amnesia’

Microscopic view of a measles virus particle (red). Credit: CDC and NIAID, CC BY Canada is seeing a resurgence of measles, with cases in the first quarter of 2024 already…