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National clinical trial to test potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2

UC San Diego Health and the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, part of UC San Diego School of Medicine, will be sites for an accelerated national clinical trial to assess the efficacy and immunogenicity of a vaccine intended to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

25 Jul 2020

Researchers confirm the presence of Heartland virus in Lone Star ticks in Illinois

Researchers have confirmed that Heartland virus, an emerging pathogen with potentially dire consequences for those infected, is present in Lone Star ticks in two Illinois counties hundreds of miles apart.

24 Jul 2020

Concussions can lead to cognitive, behavioral, and emotional consequences in children

Concussions can have a compounding effect on children, leading to long-term cognitive, behavioral, and emotional health consequences, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, who published their findings in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

22 Jul 2020

Positive emotion skills intervention to reduce burnout in nurses

Making a concerted effort to increase positive emotion shows promise as a way to improve wellness and address burnout in nurses, according to an article in AACN Advanced Critical Care.

21 Jul 2020

A comprehensive review of COVID-19's effect on organ systems outside the lungs

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease was characterized by many as a flu-like respiratory infection mainly affecting the lungs.

20 Jul 2020

China's Ad5 vectored COVID-19 vaccine safe and induces immune response

A phase 2 trial of an Ad5 vectored COVID-19 vaccine candidate, conducted in China, has found that the vaccine is safe and induces an immune response, according to new research published in The Lancet.

20 Jul 2020

Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 safe and induces immune response

Promising early stage results from a phase 1/2 clinical trial of the UK's vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) are published today in The Lancet.

20 Jul 2020

As coronavirus patients skew younger, tracing task seems all but impossible

Younger people are less likely to be hospitalized or die of COVID-19 than their elders, but they circulate more freely while carrying the disease, and their cases are harder to trace. Together, these facts terrify California hospital officials.

20 Jul 2020

Common blood test could advance life-saving treatment for heart failure

Biomedical experts believe that half of heart failure patients likely have low levels of the thyroid hormone T3 in their cardiac tissue.

16 Jul 2020

Moderna vaccine induces robust immune response against SARS-CoV-2

The race to develop an effective vaccine against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is on, and one of the potential candidates shows promise in inducing an immune response.

15 Jul 2020

Global negative sentiments surrounding COVID-19 shift from fear to anger, study finds

The fear that people developed at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak has given way to anger over the course of the pandemic, a study of global sentiments led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found.

15 Jul 2020

Experimental vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

An investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was generally well tolerated and prompted neutralizing antibody activity in healthy adults, according to interim results published online today in The New England Journal of Medicine.

15 Jul 2020

South Carolina reports first cases of coronavirus-related pediatric inflammatory syndrome

Coronavirus-related pediatric inflammatory syndrome, also known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, is a rare inflammatory condition that affects children and adolescents and is tied to exposure to the novel coronavirus.

13 Jul 2020

First extensive review of COVID-19's effects on all affected organs outside the lungs

After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease.

12 Jul 2020

As winter comes other viruses will compete with SARS-CoV-2 for susceptible hosts

A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in July 2020 traces how COVID-19 became the predominant cause of respiratory infection in the period from early January until the present.

10 Jul 2020

Could Trump’s push to undo the ACA cause problems for COVID survivors? Biden thinks so.

The same day the Trump administration reaffirmed its support of a lawsuit that would invalidate all of the Affordable Care Act, Joe Biden sharply warned that the suit endangers millions of Americans.

9 Jul 2020

Groundbreaking study identifies unique lung cells that may drive pulmonary fibrosis

A groundbreaking study published today and led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute, an affiliate of City of Hope, identifies unique lung cells that may drive Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a deadly lung disease that affects hundreds of thousands of Americans, and for which there is no cure.

9 Jul 2020

Fatigue News and Research

National clinical trial to test potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2

Researchers confirm the presence of Heartland virus in Lone Star ticks in Illinois

Concussions can lead to cognitive, behavioral, and emotional consequences in children

Positive emotion skills intervention to reduce burnout in nurses

A comprehensive review of COVID-19's effect on organ systems outside the lungs

China's Ad5 vectored COVID-19 vaccine safe and induces immune response

Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 safe and induces immune response

As coronavirus patients skew younger, tracing task seems all but impossible

Common blood test could advance life-saving treatment for heart failure

Moderna vaccine induces robust immune response against SARS-CoV-2

Global negative sentiments surrounding COVID-19 shift from fear to anger, study finds

Experimental vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

South Carolina reports first cases of coronavirus-related pediatric inflammatory syndrome

First extensive review of COVID-19's effects on all affected organs outside the lungs

As winter comes other viruses will compete with SARS-CoV-2 for susceptible hosts

Could Trump’s push to undo the ACA cause problems for COVID survivors? Biden thinks so.

Groundbreaking study identifies unique lung cells that may drive pulmonary fibrosis

As COVID testing soars, wait times for results jump to a week — or more

People with arthritis report worsening symptoms during Covid-19 lockdown

New studies examine outcomes of kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19

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