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Child deaths from surgical conditions found to be too high in Sub-Saharan Africa

Child deaths from surgical conditions such as birth defects are too high in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with high-income countries because of a lack of focus on surgical diseases in children in the region, a study finds.

28 Sep 2021

Salt substitutes are effective in reducing stroke, major cardiovascular events

A salt substitute that includes less sodium reduced rates of stroke and heart attack in rural China, according to a trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

28 Sep 2021

Confinement drastically reduced the transmission of COVID-19 variants in Spain during first wave

The most complete studies on the variants of the coronavirus that dominated the first waves in Spain have just been published in Nature Genetics. The study was carried out by the SeqCOVID consortium, which includes more than 50 Spanish institutions led by the University of Valencia, the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (IBV, CSIC), and the Fisabio Foundation.

28 Sep 2021

New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines recommend new air quality levels to protect human health

New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) provide clear evidence of the damage air pollution inflicts on human health, at even lower concentrations than previously understood.

27 Sep 2021

Global leaders underline their commitment to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

Global leaders attending the Global COVID-19 Summit hosted by the United States have again underlined their commitment to ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries through COVAX – noting that equitable access is essential to end the acute stage of the pandemic.

27 Sep 2021

Presumed immunity in US remains below the threshold sufficient to disrupt SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Researchers have investigated publicly available data published to investigate the proportion of the US population that has become immune to SARS-CoV-2.

24 Sep 2021

Potential covalent SARS-CoV-2 spike protein inhibitors

There remains a significant need for new and effective drugs that can be used to treat COVID-19.

23 Sep 2021

Design of mRNA vaccines to combat COVID-19

A recent review study discusses fundamental concepts in the successful delivery of nucleic acids in therapeutics.

23 Sep 2021

Study reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious than SARS-CoV-1

Researchers from China and Canada recently combined structural data obtained from cryo-EM and structure prediction and constructed bottom-up Martini coarse-grained models of intact envelopes of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.

22 Sep 2021

Higher intake of dairy fat associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease

New research amongst the world's biggest consumers of dairy foods has shown that those with higher intakes of dairy fat - measured by levels of fatty acids in the blood - had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those with low intakes.

22 Sep 2021

Ryans make $25 million gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health

Northwestern University Trustees and alumni Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley W. Ryan have made a $25 million gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

22 Sep 2021

Experts call for accountability to ensure implementation of UN Food Systems Summit pledges

Namukolo Covic, senior research coordinator at the International Food Policy Research Institute and one of the authors of the article, said such a mechanism was important for holding not just governments, but commercial enterprises to account.

22 Sep 2021

Study outlines a baseline bundle of care interventions for critically ill patients

Critical illness results in millions of deaths globally every year, many of which could be avoided with basic, life-saving care. Now, a new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden outlines a baseline bundle of care interventions that global experts agree should be available for all critically ill patients. The study, published in the journal BMJ Global Health, provides a blueprint for hospitals on how to reduce preventable deaths, including from COVID-19.

21 Sep 2021

Decline in SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and unique cytokine profile in severe COVID-19 patients

A new study has focused on antibody levels and cytokine profiles of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms, pneumonia, and severe pneumonia.

21 Sep 2021

COVID-19 vaccine-related allergies are rare, typically mild and treatable, finds study

Allergic reactions to the new mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are rare, typically mild and treatable, and they should not deter people from becoming vaccinated, according to research from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

20 Sep 2021

Adenovirus-based nanoparticle vaccine elicits potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody response

In a study available on the preprint server medRxiv*, researchers have created a vaccine designed to overcome issues associated with attenuated-virus vaccines.

17 Sep 2021

Childhood maltreatment causes neurobiological alterations in early stages of life

A paper published in the journal Psychological Medicine confirms the existence of neurobiological alterations in early stages of life in minors exposed to maltreatment.

16 Sep 2021

How effective is the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine?

A new study demonstrates the real-world efficacy of this vaccine, its stability over time, as well as its efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant.

16 Sep 2021

Single dose of typhoid conjugate vaccine found to be safe and effective in Malawian kids

A new study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds a single dose of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) – the only typhoid vaccine licensed for children as young as 6 months – is safe and 84 percent effective in protecting against typhoid in Blantyre, Malawi.

16 Sep 2021

Multiple factors influence the extent to which African countries are affected by Covid-19, study shows

Countries in Africa assessed as being least vulnerable to an epidemic were the worst affected by Covid-19, new research suggests.

16 Sep 2021

Global Health News and Research

Child deaths from surgical conditions found to be too high in Sub-Saharan Africa

Salt substitutes are effective in reducing stroke, major cardiovascular events

Confinement drastically reduced the transmission of COVID-19 variants in Spain during first wave

New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines recommend new air quality levels to protect human health

Global leaders underline their commitment to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

Presumed immunity in US remains below the threshold sufficient to disrupt SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Potential covalent SARS-CoV-2 spike protein inhibitors

Design of mRNA vaccines to combat COVID-19

Study reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious than SARS-CoV-1

Higher intake of dairy fat associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease

Ryans make $25 million gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health

Experts call for accountability to ensure implementation of UN Food Systems Summit pledges

Study outlines a baseline bundle of care interventions for critically ill patients

Decline in SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and unique cytokine profile in severe COVID-19 patients

COVID-19 vaccine-related allergies are rare, typically mild and treatable, finds study

Adenovirus-based nanoparticle vaccine elicits potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody response

Childhood maltreatment causes neurobiological alterations in early stages of life

How effective is the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine?

Single dose of typhoid conjugate vaccine found to be safe and effective in Malawian kids

Multiple factors influence the extent to which African countries are affected by Covid-19, study shows

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Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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