Credit: CC0 Public Domain Public health has had its day in court lately. And another day. And another day. Over the course of the pandemic, lawsuits came from every direction,…
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Consumer Health: What is glioblastoma?
Glioblastoma (histology slide). Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 More than 14,490 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2023, according to the National Brain Tumor Society, and 10,000…
Florida county reports its 7th case of locally contracted malaria
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A southwest Florida county has document a seventh case of malaria, state authorities said. The Florida Department of Health reported a new locally acquired case of…
Scent dogs can detect COVID-19 more rapidly and accurately than current tests, finds review study
(A) Illustration of the three cup sniffing experiment with the first author’s Great Pyrenees (photo credit: Todd Dickey). (B) One of the second author’s COVID-19 scent dogs sniffing a test…
Atypical infections in chronic sinusitis: Thinking outside the box
CT-scan in a sagittal section showing a mucosal swelling and obstruction of the maxillary sinus due to anaspergilloma (Contrast medium enhancement). Credit:Oncoscience (2023). DOI: 10.18632/oncoscience.576 A new research perspective was…
How infection rates changed on the day a lockdown or similar measure was introduced
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using an approach based on computer vision technology, researchers can work back from COVID-19 mortality data to see how infection rates changed on the day a…
Mortality rate from Candida infections remains high in Brazil, despite therapeutic advances
Candida albicans. Credit: Wikipedia. An article published in the Journal of Fungi analyzing bloodstream infection by fungi of the genus Candida, and comparing data for the periods 2010–11 and 2017–18…
Acute kidney injury not associated with worsening kidney function in persons with CKD: Study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study of hospitalized persons with chronic kidney disease (CKD) found that acute kidney injury (AKI) did not predict worsening of kidney function trajectory once difference…
Anti-inflammatory drugs did not speed COVID-19 recovery but prevented deaths, national study finds
Two anti-inflammatory drugs, abatacept and infliximab, reduced deaths among patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, according to a national study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. William…
Air monitor can detect COVID-19 virus variants in about 5 minutes
A team of researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine has developed a proof-of-concept air quality monitor that can detect live SARS-CoV-2 virus in indoor…
