Health workers inside a "CUBE" talk to an Ebola patient, while a nurse consults a chart outside. ALIMA Ebola Treatment Centre, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two drugs have been found to successfully treat the Ebola virus. Aid agencies have...
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Mounting evidence suggests mass shootings could spread like a virus, and the media is a vector. Changing how news outlets report on these tragedies could help.
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Scientists are working to develop a vaccine to help guard the world's pork supply as a deadly virus ravages Asia's pig herds.
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New research has pioneered an economic perspective on controlling livestock diseases. Focusing on Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), bovine TB (bTB) and bluetongue virus (BTV), the researchers draw striking conclusions about the role of movement bans in...
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I first came across substandard medicine in the early years of this century in southern Africa when HIV and malaria patients didn’t respond to their medicine. It was obvious from the beginning that problems of quality were greater with Chinese...
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(MedPage Today) -- Sapna Kudchadkar, MD, PhD, shared her struggle in a Twitter thread
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They, perhaps more than any other gathered group of industry professionals, know how to defend against viruses. Just, maybe, not this kind.
Hackers and cybersecurity researchers who attended this year's annual Black Hat information security...
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In this month's release, find new embargoed research about SNAP participation, HIV testing, transgender health and more.
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A measles-like virus that affects marine animals caused the death of at least 40 dolphins on Tuscan beaches in Italy this year.
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The first large-scale review into the health outcomes of people living with HIV has found that this group has an increased risk of contracting specific diseases and illnesses, some of which are more commonly associated with aging.
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The host range of the influenza A virus (IAV) is restricted by dysregulated expression of the M viral gene segment, according to a new study.
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The genome of the HIV-1 virus is protected by a conical-shaped protein shell called a capsid, which performs many functions crucial to viral infection — shielding the virus from the immune system, attaching to cell’s transport network, and...
Related topics: Medical Research, HIV, Genetics, Virology, Proteins
For Nelly Mugo, MD, seeing a woman in her care acquire HIV made her rethink how she and the whole system deliver healthcare. Medscape Medical News
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New research may help explain why Zika virus infection causes birth defects in some children but not others. The study suggests that the risk of developing an abnormally small head (microcephaly) depends on the types of antibody produced by pregnant...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people against buying or using “Miracle Mineral Solution” — a product being sold online as a remedy for cancer, autism, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and other conditions — calling it a “dangerous”...
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New research details how two highly lethal viruses have greater pathogenic potential when their proteins are combined.
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The Zacks Biomedical And Genetics industry includes biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that develop high-profile drugs. These biologically processed drugs, targeted toward virology, neuroscience, metabolism and rare diseases, are...
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Preliminary results show that two new Ebola drugs appear to be highly effective when it comes to treating people with the virus.
Scientists studied four experimental drugs, and found that a compound developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and another...
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Researchers found that mosquitoes that could transmit the virus were abundant in feedlots and at nearby sites in Northern Colorado.
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A recent study, published in Advanced Materials, shows that native viruses can be employed as a scaffold to immobilise photoactive molecules to potentially oxidise organic pollutants present in wastewater, under visible light irradiation
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