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Newswise: Hunting an Underground Epidemic
Released: 1-Apr-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Hunting an Underground Epidemic
University of Utah Health

Valley fever is a fungal respiratory infection that’s stealthily spreading through the soil and dust throughout the American West. An interdisciplinary research team is trying to map where the disease-causing fungus can survive and where it’ll spread as the climate changes.

   
Released: 1-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Georgia Tech Researchers Develop More Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccine
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new vaccine that offers broad protection against not only SARS-CoV-2 variants, but also other bat sarbecoviruses.

Newswise: Cancer therapies show promise in combating tuberculosis
Released: 25-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Cancer therapies show promise in combating tuberculosis
University of Notre Dame

A study from the University of Notre Dame, Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health has identified a combination of medications that may improve blood flow within granulomas, benefiting drug delivery.

Newswise: Breakthrough antibiotic shows promise against obstinate mycobacterial infections
Released: 25-Mar-2024 3:05 AM EDT
Breakthrough antibiotic shows promise against obstinate mycobacterial infections
National University of Singapore (NUS)

A team of scientists led by Prof Guillermo Bazan from NUS Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM) has developed a novel antibiotic named COE-PNH2 that is capable of combating hard-to-treat mycobacterial lung infections.

   
Newswise: New vaccine against a highly fatal tropical disease – and potential bioterror weapon – demonstrates efficacy in animal studies
Released: 21-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
New vaccine against a highly fatal tropical disease – and potential bioterror weapon – demonstrates efficacy in animal studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A vaccine against the bacterium that causes melioidosis was highly protective against the disease, which is endemic in many tropical areas, causing approximately 165,000 cases with 89,000 fatalities around the world each year. It is so dangerous that it is categorized as a Tier 1 Select Agent of bioterrorism.

Released: 21-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Michigan is seeing a rise in measles: MSU experts can comment on related health issues
Michigan State University

Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an advisory to inform clinicians and public health officials of an increase in global and U.S. measles cases.

Released: 20-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Experts warn climate change will fuel spread of infectious diseases
UC Davis Health

Infectious diseases specialists call the medical field to be ready to deal with the impact of climate change on spreading diseases, such as malaria, Valley fever, E-coli and Lyme disease.

Released: 19-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Targeting multiple COVID variants through the twist in the spike protein
University of Michigan

Teardrop-shaped particles designed to inactivate multiple strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could one day complement existing treatments for COVID-19, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan and Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Don’t Delay Vaccines—They Are Safe, Effective and Save Lives
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Vaccine misinformation has gone mainstream—a post-pandemic reality that is putting more children at risk of exposure to potentially serious vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.

Newswise: Mutations do not predict the severity of current variants of SARS-CoV-2
Released: 15-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Mutations do not predict the severity of current variants of SARS-CoV-2
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

New research from UNC Charlotte’s Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks has found that the two most prevalent strains of the virus that cause COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 variants BA.2.86 and JN.1, are not significantly better than their predecessor Omicron at evading immune responses and causing infections despite having a high number of mutations compared to previous variants.

Newswise: UCLA Health Taps Dr. Priscilla Hsue as Chief of the Cardiology Division
Released: 14-Mar-2024 2:30 PM EDT
UCLA Health Taps Dr. Priscilla Hsue as Chief of the Cardiology Division
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

The UCLA Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Priscilla Hsue, MD will be joining us as the chief of the Division of Cardiology at UCLA, effective July 1, 2024.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 1:15 PM EDT
New Tuberculosis Test Could Improve TB Care Globally by Increasing Access to Testing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))

A new tuberculosis (TB) test disclosed in the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine’s (formerly AACC’s) Clinical Chemistry journal would allow testing for TB treatment monitoring to occur outside of a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Measles 2024: What You Need to Know
RUSH

Measles cases are being reported in different parts of the United States. David Nguyen, MD, a RUSH infectious disease physician who treats adults and children, answers the most common questions about the measles virus.

Newswise: Mount Sinai Establishes Department of Public Health
12-Mar-2024 9:30 AM EDT
Mount Sinai Establishes Department of Public Health
Mount Sinai Health System

Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, appointed inaugural Dean for Public Health and Chair of the new Department of Public Health to spearhead a state-of-the-art curriculum in public health research, education, and practice that will systematically integrate with medicine, population health, global health, neurosciences, environmental medicine, data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) disciplines.



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