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Climate change has increased the risk of bat-borne pathogen spillover

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers retrospectively assessed the association between climate change and disease spillover risks triggered by bat distribution changes based on historical climate and vampire-bat occurrence data for the previous century (1900-2020).

11 Sep 2022

Federal meal programs supported youths’ access to food during COVID school closures

When schools closed during the first year of the pandemic, an immediate and potentially devastating problem surfaced: How would millions of children in struggling families get the school meals many of them depended on?

9 Sep 2022

Novel antifungal medications urgently needed to control COVID-19-associated fungal infections

Every day we inhale thousands of potentially pathogenic fungal spores, but our immune system simply eliminates them.

9 Sep 2022

Residential exposure to petroleum refining linked to stroke rates across the Southern United States

A new study has revealed that exposure to pollutants from petroleum refineries has a strong link to stroke rates across the Southern United States. The results were published today in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters.

9 Sep 2022

Phase 3 clinical trial commences to evaluate antiviral for monkeypox

A Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the antiviral tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, is now enrolling adults and children with monkeypox infection in the United States.

9 Sep 2022

Pakistan faces widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases amid unprecedented floods

Amid unprecedented floods which have affected 33 million people and damaged nearly 900 health facilities, Pakistan faces the risk of widespread outbreaks of diseases, including diarrhoea, dengue, malaria, polio and COVID-19.

9 Sep 2022

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $61.9 million NIH grant to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center

Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a $61.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center until 2027.

9 Sep 2022

Wayne State receives $11.3 million NIH award to tackle health problems caused by VOCs

Wayne State University has received a five-year, approximately $11.3 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to create a new Superfund Research Program, the "Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR)."

9 Sep 2022

Healthcare facilities actively partnering with AHHMS vendor achieve greater improvement in hand hygiene performance

A new study by researchers at GOJO Industries, recently published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), demonstrates healthcare facilities that actively partner with their automated hand hygiene monitoring system (AHHMS) vendor are able to achieve greater improvement in hand hygiene performance – a backbone of infection control programs.

9 Sep 2022

Individual COVID-19 infections include multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, research shows

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found wide genetic variation in SARS-CoV-2 viruses among 360 patients whose viral infections were genetically sequenced, showing that all individual infections include multiple variants of the virus.

9 Sep 2022

Higher cigarette smoking prevalence and lower cessation among rural Americans than urban residents

Cigarette smoking is more prevalent among Americans residing in rural areas and they also have a more difficult time quitting smoking than urban residents, according to a study involving Rutgers researchers.

9 Sep 2022

Children in Northern California learn to cope with wildfire trauma

Maia and Mia Bravo stepped outside their house on a bright summer day and sensed danger.

9 Sep 2022

Research on the antimicrobial effects of human milk oligosaccharides

In a recent review published in the journal Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, researchers discussed the latest advances in the antimicrobial properties of human milk.

9 Sep 2022

Booster vaccination maintains high efficacy against malaria in African children

Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have today reported new findings from their Phase 2b trial following the administration of a booster dose of the candidate malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M™ - which previously demonstrated high-level efficacy of 77% over the following 12 months in young west African children in 2021.

9 Sep 2022

Infections during pregnancy may not pose great risk to the baby's brain, study shows

Infections in pregnant women have been linked to an increased risk of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism, in the child later in life. But it does not seem to be the infections themselves that cause autism, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show in a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

8 Sep 2022

Comprehensive genetic architecture atlas compiled for mutant RAS genes in cancers

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, three other cancer centers and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compiled a comprehensive genetic architecture atlas for mutant RAS genes in human cancers.

8 Sep 2022

Wearing COVID face masks has no effect on everyday social exchanges

A new study just published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology debunks the idea that wearing a mask to slow the spread of disease damages most everyday social exchanges.

8 Sep 2022

Updating alcohol container warning labels could help consumers to make more informed decisions

You know drinking alcohol isn't the best thing for your health, but just how bad is it? After all, in the United States, two thirds of adults report some degree of alcohol use.

8 Sep 2022

Study establishes link between Piezo1 and intracellular cholesterol levels during neural development

A new University of California, Irvine-led study reveals how mechanical forces and tissue mechanics influence the morphology of the developing brain, and establishes a direct link in neural stem cells between Piezo1, a mechanically-activated ion channel, and intracellular cholesterol levels during neural development.

8 Sep 2022

Patient satisfaction surveys earn a zero on tracking whether hospitals deliver culturally competent care

Each day, thousands of patients get a call or letter after being discharged from U.S. hospitals. How did their stay go? How clean and quiet was the room? How often did nurses and doctors treat them with courtesy and respect? The questions focus on what might be termed the standard customer satisfaction aspects of a medical stay, as hospitals increasingly view patients as consumers who can take their business elsewhere.

8 Sep 2022

Public Health News and Research

Climate change has increased the risk of bat-borne pathogen spillover

Federal meal programs supported youths’ access to food during COVID school closures

Novel antifungal medications urgently needed to control COVID-19-associated fungal infections

Residential exposure to petroleum refining linked to stroke rates across the Southern United States

Phase 3 clinical trial commences to evaluate antiviral for monkeypox

Pakistan faces widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases amid unprecedented floods

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $61.9 million NIH grant to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center

Wayne State receives $11.3 million NIH award to tackle health problems caused by VOCs

Healthcare facilities actively partnering with AHHMS vendor achieve greater improvement in hand hygiene performance

Individual COVID-19 infections include multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, research shows

Higher cigarette smoking prevalence and lower cessation among rural Americans than urban residents

Children in Northern California learn to cope with wildfire trauma

Research on the antimicrobial effects of human milk oligosaccharides

Booster vaccination maintains high efficacy against malaria in African children

Infections during pregnancy may not pose great risk to the baby's brain, study shows

Comprehensive genetic architecture atlas compiled for mutant RAS genes in cancers

Wearing COVID face masks has no effect on everyday social exchanges

Updating alcohol container warning labels could help consumers to make more informed decisions

Study establishes link between Piezo1 and intracellular cholesterol levels during neural development

Patient satisfaction surveys earn a zero on tracking whether hospitals deliver culturally competent care

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