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Powerful injectable gel provides hope for preventing glioblastoma relapse

Like the hardiest weed, glioblastoma almost always springs back - usually within months after a patient's initial brain tumor is surgically removed.

8 Aug 2022

Inflation problem in the U.S. impacts Black families more than many other Americans

A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll shows that at a time when households across the U.S. widely report experiencing serious problems from inflation, Black Americans are substantially more likely than whites to report they are currently having serious financial problems in this period (55% to 38%).

8 Aug 2022

Research progress on the three-dimensional interaction between virus and host genome

A recent study reviewed the current progress on 3D interactions between host and viral genomes.

8 Aug 2022

Prolonged loneliness in older adults may be an important risk factor for accelerated memory aging

Prolonged loneliness in adults over 65 may be an important risk factor for accelerated memory aging, according to a new study led by University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers.

8 Aug 2022

What is the vaccine effectiveness of BNT162b2 against Omicron in five to 11-year-olds?

Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine against the new SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern, Omicron, in five to 11-year-old children of Ontario, Canada.

8 Aug 2022

Tribe embraces recreational marijuana sales on reservation where alcohol is banned

In a growing number of U.S. states, people can both drink alcohol and legally smoke recreational marijuana. In others, they can use alcohol but not pot. But on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the opposite is true: Marijuana is legal, but booze is banned.

8 Aug 2022

Varenicline and cytisine not more efficacious than nicotine to treat risky drinking and smoking, study says

A clinical trial to test whether three proven smoking cessation treatments could also reduce alcohol intake found no differences between the medications, but the rates of behavior change for alcohol consumption and smoking were high in all treatment groups. Results suggest these medications could play an important role to reduce alcohol use and smoking at the same time. Unexpectedly, nicotine replacement therapy performed as well as the prescription drugs varenicline and cytisine.

8 Aug 2022

Vitamin B12, folic acid supplements could potentially halt or reverse advanced form of fatty liver disease

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have uncovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease - and it turns out that vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements could reverse this process.

5 Aug 2022

Rural early-onset Alzheimer’s patients less likely to see specialists than city dwellers

Rural Americans suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's are less likely than city dwellers to be seen by specialists and receive tests that can benefit both them and their families, new research has found.

5 Aug 2022

Emerging new threat of the older G5 Japanese encephalitis virus

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an important viral encephalitis with epidemic status in Asia, which is caused by Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a member of the genus Flavivirus.

5 Aug 2022

Prevalence and characterization of the Arcobacter genus in different foodstuffs

The MikroIker team of the UPV/EHU's Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology has conducted a study into the prevalence and characterization of bacteria of the Arcobacter genus using a large number of samples of different foods (seafood, vegetables, meat products and fresh cheese), including some that have never been analyzed in our environment previously.

5 Aug 2022

What does the future look like for TB care?

In this interview, we speak to Charles Wells from Gates MRI about their current research into tuberculosis (TB) as well as the recent updated guidelines for TB care.

5 Aug 2022

Study identifies broad-spectrum antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Scientists have described the identification and therapeutic evaluation of an antibody that broadly neutralizes major variants of SARS-CoV-2, including the alpha, beta, delta, and omicron variants.

5 Aug 2022

New transparency policies that enable greater data sharing will advance global health

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) generated large amounts of data through their review of pandemic-related tests, medications, and vaccines.

4 Aug 2022

Twitter scraping tool reveals an “infodemic” of misinformation during the first year of COVID pandemic

More than 225,000 tweets with the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic led to an "infodemic" of misinformation and disinformation on Twitter during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study by UT Southwestern researchers published in PLOS ONE.

4 Aug 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Kansas makes a statement

Voters in Kansas told the rest of the country this week that they don't want their state to ban abortion. In a nearly 60%-40% split, voters turned back an effort by anti-abortion activists to amend the state constitution to remove its right to abortion, which would have allowed the legislature to ban the procedure.

4 Aug 2022

Study highlights the urgency of removing barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder

The opioid overdose and death epidemic continues to worsen across the United States, but medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone are proven to reduce opioid overdoses by more than 50 percent.

4 Aug 2022

Monoclonal antibody protects U.S. adults from malaria, Phase 1 clinical trial shows

One injection of a candidate monoclonal antibody (mAb) known as L9LS was found to be safe and highly protective in U.S. adults exposed to the malaria parasite, according to results from a National Institutes of Health Phase 1 clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

4 Aug 2022

Mice study reveals hepatic consequences of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemical mixtures

We are increasingly being exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that interfere with the normal functioning of our hormones. Bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates, which are widely used in consumer products including plastics, aluminum cans, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, are well-known EDCs.

4 Aug 2022

‘Children are not little adults’ and need special protection during heat waves

After more than a week of record-breaking temperatures across much of the country, public health experts are cautioning that children are more susceptible to heat illness than adults are — even more so when they're on the athletic field, living without air conditioning, or waiting in a parked car.

4 Aug 2022

Public Health News and Research

Powerful injectable gel provides hope for preventing glioblastoma relapse

Inflation problem in the U.S. impacts Black families more than many other Americans

Research progress on the three-dimensional interaction between virus and host genome

Prolonged loneliness in older adults may be an important risk factor for accelerated memory aging

What is the vaccine effectiveness of BNT162b2 against Omicron in five to 11-year-olds?

Tribe embraces recreational marijuana sales on reservation where alcohol is banned

Varenicline and cytisine not more efficacious than nicotine to treat risky drinking and smoking, study says

Vitamin B12, folic acid supplements could potentially halt or reverse advanced form of fatty liver disease

Rural early-onset Alzheimer’s patients less likely to see specialists than city dwellers

Emerging new threat of the older G5 Japanese encephalitis virus

Prevalence and characterization of the Arcobacter genus in different foodstuffs

What does the future look like for TB care?

Study identifies broad-spectrum antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

New transparency policies that enable greater data sharing will advance global health

Twitter scraping tool reveals an “infodemic” of misinformation during the first year of COVID pandemic

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Kansas makes a statement

Study highlights the urgency of removing barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder

Monoclonal antibody protects U.S. adults from malaria, Phase 1 clinical trial shows

Mice study reveals hepatic consequences of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemical mixtures

‘Children are not little adults’ and need special protection during heat waves

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