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Higher COVID-19 mortality among certain groups in Colombia linked to structural inequalities

Researchers at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection in Bogotá, Colombia, provided evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 deaths in terms of age, sex, ethnicity, type of health insurance regime, and socioeconomic status.

18 Dec 2020

Very few COVID-19-positive children require hospitalization, finds case study

A team of researchers at the Divisions of Infectious Diseases, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh, USA, sought to characterize the clinical presentation of children with COVID-19 in Western Pennsylvania.

18 Dec 2020

Could neurological complications be common even in mild COVID-19?

News-Medical talks to Dr. Pria Anand about her research into COVID-19 that suggests neurologic complications are common even in mild infections.

18 Dec 2020

AAHMS report spells out the necessary steps to maintain control over COVID-19 in 2021

High levels of testing, efficient vaccine distribution and addressing pandemic mental health impacts are critical if Australia is to maintain control over COVID-19 in 2021, the country’s learned body for health and medical sciences has concluded.

18 Dec 2020

UEA study offers recommendations to reduce Covid-19 transmission in universities

Universities should keep their windows fully open and students shouldn’t share personal items – according to new University of East Anglia research into reducing the spread of Covid-19.

18 Dec 2020

Researchers investigate microbiome-mediated therapies for aging and health span

Texas Biomedical Research Institute Associate Professor Corinna Ross, PhD, is a principal investigator on a $3.38 million National Institutes of Health multi-investigator grant to study "microbiome-mediated therapies for aging and healthspan" in marmosets, which are small monkeys native to South America and are becoming increasingly more important in aging and infectious disease research.

18 Dec 2020

Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine met primary endpoints in phase III study

Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine, developed jointly by the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and SK bioscience, has met the primary endpoints in a phase III study in Nepal.

17 Dec 2020

Specific genetic target could help explain the variation in COVID-19 effects

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has identified a specific genetic target that could help explain the tremendous variation in how sick those infected with COVID-19 become.

17 Dec 2020

Harvard Medical professor wins Berggruen Prize for transforming perception of infectious diseases

Paul Farmer, the Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, was selected as the winner of the 2020 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.

16 Dec 2020

New study to evaluate health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

An observational study has launched to evaluate the short- and long-term health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), and to characterize the immunologic pathways associated with different disease presentations and outcomes. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19.

16 Dec 2020

Potency of neutralizing antibodies predicts COVID-19 severity and survival

Understanding the body's immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is key to developing effective treatments and long-lasting vaccines.

16 Dec 2020

$3.7 million NIH grant supports development of biosensor technology for diagnosing viral diseases

For over ten years, Ali Yanik has been working to develop novel biosensor technology to provide rapid, low-cost testing for disease diagnostics and precision medicine.

16 Dec 2020

RedHill Biopharma announces promising preliminary results from opaganib study

TEL AVIV, Israel and RALEIGH, NC, December 15, 2020, RedHill Biopharma Ltd., a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced promising preliminary results from a preclinical study with opaganib.

15 Dec 2020

Accurate STI reporting impacted by clinical focus on COVID-19

With the health care community heavily focused on COVID-19 since the first quarter of 2020, there have been concerns that reporting of other diseases -- and the resulting data that enables them to be more effectively treated and controlled -- may have been impacted.

15 Dec 2020

Non-contact IR thermometers fail for COVID-19 temperature screening, say physicians

While a fever is one of the most common symptoms for people who get sick with COVID-19, taking one's temperature is a poor means of screening who is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease, and more importantly, who might be contagious.

15 Dec 2020

Trump’s wrong. 15% ‘herd immunity’ is not on par with strength of a vaccine

During a Dec. 8 press conference about Operation Warp Speed, President Donald Trump likened the spread of the coronavirus throughout the population — which experts agree bestows some immunity on the people who became ill — to having a COVID-19 vaccine.

15 Dec 2020

Drug may increase vaccine protection in older adults

A drug that boosts the removal of cellular debris in immune cells may increase the protective effects of vaccines in older adults, a study published today in eLife shows.

15 Dec 2020

Pediatricians want kids to be part of COVID vaccine trials

If clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines aren't expanded soon to include children, it's unlikely that even kids in their teens will be vaccinated in time for the next school year.

15 Dec 2020

Reliable Antibodies Testing for SARS-CoV-2

In this interview, Poncho Meisenheimer, VP of R&D at Promega, talks to News-Medical Life Sciences about the importance of having the reliability for SARS-Co-V-2 antibody tests.

From Promega Corporation 15 Dec 2020

Study provides valuable interaction about animal host and pathogen during pneumococcal infections

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published one of the most comprehensive analyses of how genes get expressed during infection (known as a transcriptome). The analyses include three different strains of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, meningitis, and middle-ear infections.

15 Dec 2020

Infectious Diseases News and Research

Higher COVID-19 mortality among certain groups in Colombia linked to structural inequalities

Very few COVID-19-positive children require hospitalization, finds case study

Could neurological complications be common even in mild COVID-19?

AAHMS report spells out the necessary steps to maintain control over COVID-19 in 2021

UEA study offers recommendations to reduce Covid-19 transmission in universities

Researchers investigate microbiome-mediated therapies for aging and health span

Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine met primary endpoints in phase III study

Specific genetic target could help explain the variation in COVID-19 effects

Harvard Medical professor wins Berggruen Prize for transforming perception of infectious diseases

New study to evaluate health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

Potency of neutralizing antibodies predicts COVID-19 severity and survival

$3.7 million NIH grant supports development of biosensor technology for diagnosing viral diseases

RedHill Biopharma announces promising preliminary results from opaganib study

Accurate STI reporting impacted by clinical focus on COVID-19

Non-contact IR thermometers fail for COVID-19 temperature screening, say physicians

Trump’s wrong. 15% ‘herd immunity’ is not on par with strength of a vaccine

Drug may increase vaccine protection in older adults

Pediatricians want kids to be part of COVID vaccine trials

Reliable Antibodies Testing for SARS-CoV-2

Study provides valuable interaction about animal host and pathogen during pneumococcal infections

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