A one-month-old baby at an mpox isolation unit in South Kivu province, DRC. Credit: UNICEF The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that children, pregnant women and people with weak…
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Analysis shows how unproven therapeutics were portrayed in the media during the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine is shedding light on how scientific evidence and the uncertainty surrounding three unproven therapeutics…
Misconceptions about dyslexia among professionals risk children being misdiagnosed
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Misconceptions about dyslexia are held by professionals who assess children for the learning difficulty, according to a new study which calls for evidence-based standardized assessment procedures.…
How stigma affects Asian Americans living with hepatitis B
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Asian Americans comprise just 6% of the U.S. population, but they represent over 60% of Americans with hepatitis B. Hepatitis B (HBV) is a virus that…
The next pandemic? How a familiar virus exploits new hosts
Influenza A boasts a wide range of natural hosts, with different strains established in different species. This wide network gives it an extra evolutionary advantage, turning it into a perennial…
This year’s new COVID shot has been approved by FDA
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain This year’s newly formulated COVID vaccines are expected to start shipping in the next few days after the FDA on August 22 officially approved and authorized…
Men infected with high-risk types of HPV could struggle with fertility
Electron micrograph of a negatively stained human papilloma virus (HPV) which occurs in human warts. Credit: public domain Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer type in women, causes approximately…
Mpox disease presents hard-to-weigh risks
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As fears mount globally about mpox, apparently simple questions such as the danger it poses and differences between variants do not have clear and simple answers.…
Low cortisol and hair-trigger stress response in the brain may underlie long COVID, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Proteins left behind by COVID-19 long after initial infection can cause cortisol levels in the brain to plummet, inflame the nervous system and prime its immune…
Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected—it could now turn into the next global pandemic
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The mpox outbreak in Africa is yet another example of how infectious diseases perceived to be “someone else’s problem,” and affecting mainly poor, developing countries, may…
