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Can spirituality lead to better health?

Can spirituality lead to better health outcomes? In this interview, we speak to Dr. Tracy Balboni from Harvard Medical School to find out more!

29 Jul 2022

New breakthrough shows antimicrobial resistance is more evolved than previously recognized

Researchers have discovered a significant and previously unknown mechanism that many bacteria use to resist antibiotics.

29 Jul 2022

Novel algorithm identifies adverse drug events across the seven pediatric development stages

Side effects from pediatric drug treatment are responsible for nearly 10 percent of childhood hospitalizations, with nearly half of those being life-threatening. Despite the need to know more about these drugs and the adverse events they can have on children, little evidence is currently available.

28 Jul 2022

Study offers a method to calculate chances of catching Covid-19 on a plane flight

What are the chances you will contract Covid-19 on a plane flight? A study led by MIT scholars offers a calculation of that for the period from June 2020 through February 2021.

28 Jul 2022

Predicting viral antibody escape using pre-pandemic data

A new study reports early prediction of SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion using EVEscape.

28 Jul 2022

Less than half of Genevans have antibodies neutralizing Omicron sub-variants, study shows

A study by the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva and the EPFL shows that almost all Genevans (93.8%) have antibodies against SARS-CoV 2, almost three quarters of whom acquired them through an infection.

28 Jul 2022

Study provides a better understanding of accessibility to U.S. drugstores

Almost 90% of the U.S. population lives within 5 miles of a community pharmacy, but more than half of Americans have to commute for more than 1 mile to reach a pharmacist.

28 Jul 2022

Study emphasizes the importance of vaccines, booster shots in controlling COVID-19 infections

A new study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health emphasizes the continuing importance of vaccines and booster shots at the individual and population level in controlling infections from highly contagious new variants of COVID-19.

28 Jul 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Manchin makes a deal

The Democrats' on-again, off-again budget bill is apparently on again, and it's bigger than expected. In a surprise move, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced an agreement with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to expand the scope of the limited health bill that was headed to the Senate floor to also include climate change and some tax increases for corporations and certain wealthy Americans.

28 Jul 2022

Winners of NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge for Maternal Health announced

The National Institutes of Health today announced the winners of its NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC) for Maternal Health, a prize competition for developers of diagnostic technologies to help improve maternal health around the world.

28 Jul 2022

Oncology trial data not available for independent scrutiny, study finds

Despite a commitment from the pharmaceutical industry in 2014 to improve data transparency, more than half of the clinical trials that led to the United States Food and Drug Administration approving anticancer medicines over the past 10 years are not available for independent scrutiny, a multi-national study led by Flinders University has found.

28 Jul 2022

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 and BA.5 vaccine breakthrough infections

In a new study, investigators explored the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 and BA.5 vaccine breakthrough infection likelihood.

28 Jul 2022

Researchers find adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with hepatitis of unknown etiology

Researchers investigated the cases of severe hepatitis of unknown etiology in young children who presented to the hospital between 14 March and 4 April 2022 in Scotland.

28 Jul 2022

Everything you need to know about Paxlovid — especially, should you take it?

When President Joe Biden tested positive for covid-19 on July 21, his physician recommended he take the antiviral drug Paxlovid.

28 Jul 2022

Lactating mice expose their feeding pups to triclosan resulting in early signs of liver damage

In mouse studies, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that lactating mothers expose their feeding pups to triclosan, an antimicrobial commonly used in consumer products, resulting in early signs of liver damage that can eventually lead to more serious impairment and illness, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

28 Jul 2022

Genetic information from bats may help prevent and manage future pandemics, suggests study

Why are bats often linked to incubating coronaviruses such as those behind COVID-19, SARS and other highly contagious respiratory diseases?

28 Jul 2022

Fewer than half of autistic children receive intervention services before 36 months of age

Despite a federal mandate requiring access to early intervention programs (EIP) for children with disabilities, fewer than half of autistic children in four New Jersey counties received services before 36 months of age, according to a Rutgers study.

27 Jul 2022

Pandemic policy to shield homeless people lowers the use of acute medical care

In the first year of the pandemic, San Francisco and other communities in California offered private hotel rooms, three meals a day and on-site medical services to homeless people who were at risk of getting severe COVID-19.

27 Jul 2022

Epigenetic age acceleration could be used as a biomarker to estimate functional and cognitive aging

A first-of-its-kind study of 1,813 older women suggests that the accelerated biological aging of the body - epigenetic age acceleration specifically - is associated with lower odds of living to be 90 years old and also being physically mobile and having intact mental function.

27 Jul 2022

Scientists receive $3.9 million NIH grant to eradicate HIV from the brain

Finding a cure for HIV has been extremely difficult, in part because the virus hides from antiretroviral treatments in one of the hardest places to reach: the brain.

27 Jul 2022

Public Health News and Research

Can spirituality lead to better health?

New breakthrough shows antimicrobial resistance is more evolved than previously recognized

Novel algorithm identifies adverse drug events across the seven pediatric development stages

Study offers a method to calculate chances of catching Covid-19 on a plane flight

Predicting viral antibody escape using pre-pandemic data

Less than half of Genevans have antibodies neutralizing Omicron sub-variants, study shows

Study provides a better understanding of accessibility to U.S. drugstores

Study emphasizes the importance of vaccines, booster shots in controlling COVID-19 infections

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Manchin makes a deal

Winners of NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge for Maternal Health announced

Oncology trial data not available for independent scrutiny, study finds

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 and BA.5 vaccine breakthrough infections

Researchers find adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with hepatitis of unknown etiology

Everything you need to know about Paxlovid — especially, should you take it?

Lactating mice expose their feeding pups to triclosan resulting in early signs of liver damage

Genetic information from bats may help prevent and manage future pandemics, suggests study

Fewer than half of autistic children receive intervention services before 36 months of age

Pandemic policy to shield homeless people lowers the use of acute medical care

Epigenetic age acceleration could be used as a biomarker to estimate functional and cognitive aging

Scientists receive $3.9 million NIH grant to eradicate HIV from the brain

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