Malaria in the U.S. and what we need to know

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory following the recent cases of malaria in Florida and Texas. So how worried should…

CDC data amplifies calls for funding hepatitis plan

Electron micrographs of hepatitis C virus purified from cell culture. Scale bar is 50 nanometers. Credit: Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University. Only one-third of individuals…

Rapid weight loss may improve advanced fatty liver disease, says new research

Participants followed the “soups and shakes” diet to help them lose weight. Credit: New Africa/ Shutterstock About 2% of adults worldwide suffer from a condition called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (Nash), an…

Xeroderma pigmentosum study tests artificial antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic

Locations of the ERCC4/XPF intron variants identified in the Japanese XP-F cases. (A) Estimated structures of pre-mRNA products resulting from the ERCC4/XPF intron variants. Cryptic intron fragments identified in the…

Gonorrhea shot gets FDA fast track as resistant cases multiply

Credit: CDC GSK Plc’s experimental gonorrhea vaccine got fast-track designation from U.S. regulators, putting the shot in position to become the first preventive for a common, often-undetected infection that’s gaining…

No evidence COVID created in Chinese lab: US intelligence

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The head of US intelligence said Friday that there was no evidence that the COVID-19 virus was created in the Chinese government’s Wuhan research lab. In…

Study reports drug that significantly reduces bacteria’s ability to develop antibiotic resistance

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine is gaining ground in their search for solutions to the global problem of bacterial antibiotic resistance, which…

Antidepressants prescription associated with a lower risk of testing positive for COVID-19

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has found that community mental health patients who were prescribed…

Small sensor ‘smells’ incipient seizures

A Sandia National Laboratories researcher works on a miniaturized sensor system able to detect specific gases warning of an impending seizure. Credit: Craig Fritz In people with epilepsy, seizure-alert dogs…

Cheap diabetes drug reduces risk of long COVID: study

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for COVID-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long COVID, a US-based study said…