Credit: CC0 Public Domain Three years ago, Andrea Vanek was studying to be an arts and crafts teacher when spells of dizziness and heart palpitations suddenly started to make it…
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Will we have a COVID wave, spike or blip this Christmas? It depends where you live
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As the holiday season approaches, COVID cases are rising again in Australia, particularly in Victoria and Tasmania. This is now the fourth year running with a…
Experts warn of bird flu’s pandemic threat
Over 300 million poultry birds have been killed or culled since October 2021 due to bird flu. Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed…
Base editing, a new form of gene therapy, leaves patient feeling ‘more than fine’
Credit: National Institutes of Health Though he doesn’t remember it, Branden Baptiste had his first sickle cell crisis at age 2. Through elementary school, he was in and out of…
USDA orders testing of milk supply for presence of bird flu virus
Faced with rising cases of bird flu virus being detected in raw milk in California, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday announced it would mandate testing for the…
US life expectancy gains expected to stall by 2050 as health progress fails to keep pace with other countries
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. is failing to keep pace with dozens of countries around the world due to the steady decline of the nation’s health progress, according to…
Evaluating long-term survival and cardiac efficacy of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Fibrotic remodeling in skeletal muscle and heart of DMDMDX rats and impact of delandistrogene moxeparvovec treatment. A recent study published in the journal Human Gene Therapy evaluated the long-term survival…
California teacher dies after she was bitten by a bat inside a classroom
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A central California teacher died last month after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom that presumably had rabies, officials and the woman’s friend…
US lawmakers back COVID Chinese lab leak theory after two-year probe
Credit: CC0 Public Domain US lawmakers concluded a two-year investigation Monday into the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 1.1 million Americans—backing the theory that the virus likely leaked from a Chinese…
Mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise—here’s how collecting mozzies in your backyard can help science
by Cameron Webb, Craig Williams, Katherine Baldock, Larissa Braz Sousa and Stephen Robert Fricker, The Conversation With hundreds of different types of mosquito in Australia, knowing what’s biting helps determine…
