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Released: 14-Oct-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Southern Ocean Medical Center to host Women's Night Out
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health Southern Ocean Medical Center will once again host its annual Women’s Health Night on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. The free event will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the first floor of the hospital in Manahawkin.

Released: 14-Oct-2019 11:00 AM EDT
Flu Season Returns: Protect Yourself Now
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Cases of the flu are already on the rise around the nation as flu season begins. Johns Hopkins Medicine experts say now is the time to fight against the flu as the number of people getting sick from the potentially life-threatening virus will increase in the coming months. Doctors recommend everyone 6 months and older get the flu vaccine each year to prevent the virus or reduce the seriousness if you do get sick.

Released: 10-Oct-2019 8:30 AM EDT
Teen Advocate Ethan Lindenberger Joins Unity™ Consortium to Appeal to Teens and Parents to Get Vaccinated
Unity Consortium

The Unity Consortium is thrilled to welcome newest member, Ethan Lindenberger, a 19-year old American activist known for his opposition to vaccine misinformation efforts.

   
Released: 8-Oct-2019 2:20 PM EDT
Online Patient Portal Usage Linked to Higher Rates of Flu Shots, Blood Pressure Checks
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Penn Medicine study shows patients who use online platforms connected to their health records are more likely to take preventative health measures.

Released: 7-Oct-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Managing your child's asthma in the fall: What parents should know
LifeBridge Health

Allergies and other environmental factors can make asthma harder to manage when the season changes to fall.

Released: 3-Oct-2019 10:10 AM EDT
Flu season is here. Epidemiologist can discuss symptoms, risk factors for transmission, reasons for getting a flu shot
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Amanda Simanek can also talk about new recommendations for children to receive two doses of this year’s vaccine.

Released: 2-Oct-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Flu Experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine

As the 2019–20 flu season gets underway, Johns Hopkins Medicine experts will be available throughout the season to talk with your newsroom about the epidemiology of this year’s virus, as well as provide important information about this year’s vaccine. Flu cases have already begun to appear in the U.S. Flu activity tends to increase in October and can run as late as May.

Released: 30-Sep-2019 5:05 PM EDT
How to Stay Healthy this Flu Season
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Infectious disease experts David Cennimo at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Tanaya Bhowmick at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School discuss this year’s flu season, the effectiveness of the vaccine and how you can protect yourself.

30-Sep-2019 8:55 AM EDT
NIH Awards Up to $130 Million for Flu Vaccine Development
University of Georgia

The University of Georgia has signed a contract with the National Institutes of Health for an initial award of $8 million to develop a new, more advanced influenza vaccine designed to protect against multiple strains of influenza virus in a single dose. The total funding could be up to $130 million over seven years if all contract options are exercised.

Released: 30-Sep-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Duke Vaccine Institute Plays Integral Role in National Effort to Improve Flu Shots
Duke Clinical Research Institute

As part of a massive national effort to improve and modernize flu shots, the Duke Human Vaccine Institute has received three research contracts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), with an initial award of approximately $29.6 million in first-year funding.

Released: 23-Sep-2019 3:05 AM EDT
Can Discrete Choice Experiment Technique Predict Real-World Healthcare Decisions?
ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR—the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of research demonstrating that discrete choice experiments are able to predict real-world healthcare choices.

Released: 20-Sep-2019 2:05 PM EDT
UM School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health Receives NIH Contract for Influenza Research
University of Maryland School of Medicine

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases research contract is one of the largest ever awarded to UMSOM and includes an initial award of approximately $2.5 million to conduct clinical testing of influenza vaccines. Total funding over seven years could be as much as $201 million if all options are exercised in the NIAID contract.

Released: 20-Sep-2019 11:00 AM EDT
UM School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health Receives NIH Contract for Influenza Research
University of Maryland School of Medicine

The UM School of Medicine's Contract awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases could fund up to $201 Million in influenza research over seven years.

Released: 19-Sep-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Foods to avoid when you have the flu
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Kasey Vavrek, a registered dietitian at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, explains the worst and best foods when you have the flu.

Released: 17-Sep-2019 11:05 AM EDT
UChicago-led effort receives Grand Challenges Grant for research developing universal influenza vaccine
University of Chicago Medical Center

Patrick Wilson, PhD, professor of medicine and rheumatology at the University of Chicago, and a group of researchers from three other institutions have received aGrand Challenge for Universal Influenza Vaccine Development grant – a $12 million initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Flu Lab.

27-Aug-2019 11:55 PM EDT
Probiotic Use Can Lead to Major Economic and Health Savings Related to Flu-like Illnesses
UC Davis Health (Defunct)

General probiotic use in the U.S. could save the health care payer and the economy around $1.4 billion in medical bills and lost productivity due to acute respiratory tract infections (RTIs), a new study found. The researchers developed an economic model to estimate the cost savings by simulating a population representative of the national demographics. The savings included the cost of averted antibiotic prescriptions, RTI episodes and sick days causing productivity loss.

Released: 19-Aug-2019 11:00 AM EDT
Study: Increase in Employment Shows Strong Correlation to Spread of Influenza
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Higher employment rates cause an increase in flu incidence, according to a new study.

   
9-Aug-2019 3:50 PM EDT
Ohio State’s Efforts to Develop New Flu Vaccines Starts at County Fairs
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

For researchers with The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, the work to identify new flu strains and increase the effectiveness of the flu vaccine begins in an unlikely place – pig barns at state and county fairs nationwide.

Released: 1-Aug-2019 4:05 PM EDT
New Tool Uses Swine Respiratory Cells to Study Influenza Viruses
South Dakota State University

Scientists can use cell cultures from the tissues of swine nasal passages, tracheas and lungs to study influenza viruses that infect swine and humans. The outcomes are closer to what's happening inside the animal.

   
9-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Flu Fact Sheet for Parents Increases Vaccination Rate in Children
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Parents given a handout with flu facts at their pediatrician’s office were significantly more likely to get their kids vaccinated before the end of flu season, Columbia pediatricians have found.

10-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Deadly tick-borne virus cured with experimental flu drug, in mice
Washington University in St. Louis

An investigational flu drug cures mice infected with the rare but deadly Bourbon virus, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings potentially could lead to a treatment.

30-May-2019 9:50 AM EDT
Stalk antibodies provide flu protection in humans
University of Michigan

A universal flu vaccine that could prevent a potential influenza pandemic has been a holy grail for epidemiologists around the world ever since the first flu vaccines were developed in 1938.

Released: 23-May-2019 1:05 PM EDT
National Geographic's THE HOT ZONE shows biosecurity's importance
Kansas State University

Ron Trewyn, Kansas State University NBAF liaison, writes to encourage people to watch THE HOT ZONE, a National Geographic limited series inspired by two Kansas State University veterinarians and leaders and their work during the 1989 Ebola-related outbreak in Virginia.

Released: 23-May-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Kansas State University zoonotic disease research fights viruses in the hot zone
Kansas State University

Kansas State University researchers are helping battle most of the nation's top-priority zoonotic diseases.

20-May-2019 4:05 AM EDT
New Single Vaccination Approach to Killer Diseases
University of Adelaide

Scientists from the University of Adelaide’s Research Centre for Infectious Diseases have developed a single vaccination approach to simultaneously combat influenza and pneumococcal infections, the world’s most deadly respiratory diseases.

Released: 13-May-2019 10:40 AM EDT
Catch a Virus by Its Tail
Harvard Medical School

Research uncovers key mechanism that allows some of the deadliest human RNA viruses to orchestrate the precise copying of the individual pieces of their viral genome and replicate. Research reveals that the tail end of a virus’s RNA plays a key role in ensuring each segment of the viral genome is copied in the correct amount. Experiments show the viral replication machinery latches onto the 5' end of the virus’s RNA strand, a move that activates the enzyme to start copying at the opposite end of a specific segment. The findings identify new targets to inhibit viral replication and may inform the development of a novel class of antiviral drugs.

Released: 2-May-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Major Grant Fuels Hunt for Universal Flu Vaccine
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Funds from the National Institutes of Health will accelerate the chase for one of medicine’s most elusive goals: a universal influenza vaccine.

25-Apr-2019 2:05 PM EDT
H3N2 viruses mutate during vaccine production but new tech could fix it
University of Wisconsin–Madison

A new technology developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka may make H3N2 vaccine development a bit easier. In Nature Microbiology today [April 29, 2019], Kawaoka and his team describe a new cell line that enables better growth of H3N2 for vaccine use. The virus is also far less likely to mutate during production using this cell line, improving the chances of a match between vaccine and circulating influenza viruses.

Released: 24-Apr-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Eating elderberries can help minimise influenza symptoms
University of Sydney

Folk medicines and herbal products have been used for millennia to combat a whole range of ailments, at times to the chagrin of modern scientists who have struggled to explain their medicinal benefits.

1-Apr-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Common Food Additive May Weaken Defenses Against Influenza
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

Research conducted in mice suggests the food additive tert-butylhydroquinone (tBHQ)—found in many common products from frozen meat to crackers and fried foods—suppresses the immune response the body mounts when fighting the flu.

Released: 3-Apr-2019 10:00 AM EDT
Southern Research taps April Brys to lead Drug Development division
Southern Research

Southern Research announced today that April M. Brys, Ph.D., an experienced life sciences executive with a strong track record in research and leadership roles, has been named vice president of the non-profit organization’s Drug Development division.

Released: 14-Mar-2019 8:30 AM EDT
When is Best Time to Get Flu Shot? Pitt Analysis Compares Scenarios
Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh

When flu season peaks after mid-winter, tens of thousands of influenza cases and hundreds of deaths can likely be avoided if older adults wait until October to get their flu immunization, a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine analysis reveals.

Released: 8-Mar-2019 10:05 AM EST
Improving researchers' abilities to forecast epidemics
Hokkaido University

An annual influenza season forecasting challenge issued by the US Centers for Disease Control provides unique insight into epidemic forecasting, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Released: 28-Feb-2019 3:05 PM EST
BIDMC’s Research & Health News Digest – February 2019 Edition
Beth Israel Lahey Health

A monthly roundup of research briefs showcasing recent scientific advances led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center faculty.

Released: 27-Feb-2019 3:05 PM EST
Everything You Need to Know About the Flu
Beth Israel Lahey Health

Sharon Wright, MD, MPH, BIDMC’s Director of Infection Control/Hospital Epidemiology, shares everything you need to know about the flu – from how to prepare before you get sick and when to call a doctor.

Released: 6-Feb-2019 12:05 PM EST
Otherwise healthy and think you have the flu? Avoid the emergency room
University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Centers for Disease Control reports that influenza activity in Alabama is now widespread and likely to increase. Alabama’s Department of Public Health also reports that almost every Alabama county is experiencing significant flu activity. As Alabama and the rest of the country enter the height of flu season, University of Alabama at Birmingham medical caregivers want to remind the public that, if you are normally a healthy person who is experiencing flu-like symptoms — high fever, muscle or body aches throughout the body, exhaustion, and loss of appetite — do not go to the emergency department.

20-Jan-2019 9:05 AM EST
Seasonal Influenza Plays a Role in the Deaths of Many Kidney Failure Patients
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

• Influenza-like illness was linked with seasonal variation in the death rates of US patients with kidney failure.

22-Jan-2019 2:05 PM EST
Anti-flu antibodies can inhibit two different viral proteins, NIH study reveals
The Rockefeller University Press

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered that antibodies that may form the basis of a universal flu vaccine inhibit a second viral protein in addition to the one that they bind. The study, to be published January 25 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, reveals that antibodies that recognize the viral surface protein hemagglutinin can also inhibit the viral neuraminidase, and that this enhances antibody neutralization of the virus and the activation of innate immune cells with anti-viral activity.

Released: 10-Jan-2019 1:00 PM EST
What You Need to Know to Stay Healthy This Flu Season
University of Michigan

Arnold Monto, professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has been studying the spread of the flu virus and the effectiveness of vaccines and antiviral medications for more than five decades.

Released: 9-Jan-2019 3:45 PM EST
Respiratory Microbiome May Influence Your Susceptibility to Flu
PLOS

Microbiome community linked to lower influenza susceptibility

Released: 9-Jan-2019 12:40 PM EST
Newborns Face Risks When Born to Women with the Flu
Wiley

Pregnant women with influenza are more likely to experience complications, but how this affects infants is unclear. A newBirth Defects Researchstudy uncovers the potential risks to infants.

Released: 8-Jan-2019 5:05 PM EST
Who knew this about flu? Five hidden benefits of getting your flu shot
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Getting the flu vaccine is not only your best shot at beating the virus – it could help in other ways you may never have realized.

Released: 8-Jan-2019 7:05 AM EST
Flu is on the Rise: Rutgers Medical Expert Explains How to Protect Yourself
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A Rutgers infectious disease expert explains this year’s outbreak and how you can protect yourself

Released: 7-Jan-2019 9:05 AM EST
Flu Vaccine Supply Gaps Can Intensify Flu Seasons, Make Pandemics Deadlier
Georgia Institute of Technology

Gaps in the logic of how we restock flu vaccines may be costing hundreds of lives, or more. A new model to tweak the gaps could save hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people and millions to multiple millions in medical costs.

Released: 3-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
Sandia Microneedles Technique May Mean Quicker Diagnoses of Major Illnesses
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When people are in the early stages of an undiagnosed disease, immediate tests that lead to treatment are the best first steps. But a blood draw — usually performed by a medical professional armed with an uncomfortably large needle — might not be quickest, least painful or most effective method, according to new research.



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