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Factors influencing Australian mothers to vaccinate kids against COVID-19, get tested, and self-isolate

A new study investigates whether family demographic factors were associated with mothers’ willingness to vaccinate their four-year-old children.

21 Mar 2022

Using CRISPR/Cas to develop biosafety materials

Researchers discuss the use of the highly efficient CRISPR/Cas technologies to identify viral genome sequences for biosafety purposes.

21 Mar 2022

Most individuals treated in emergency departments for opioid use disorder do not sustain treatment

Most people who fill prescriptions from emergency physicians to treat their opioid use disorder do not continue to receive the medication, suggesting new approaches are needed to help people continue drug treatment begun on an emergency basis, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

21 Mar 2022

Intranasal delivery of pro-resolving lipid mediators arrests memory loss in experimental Alzheimer’s model

A research collaboration between scientists at LSU Health New Orleans and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has found that applying specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators intranasally arrested memory loss and brain degeneration in an experimental model of Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

21 Mar 2022

Saliva tests detect SARS-CoV-2 virus more quickly than nasal swabs

Genetic testing of saliva samples identifies the SARS-CoV-2 virus more quickly than testing of nasal swabs. The research is published March 21 in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

21 Mar 2022

Study provides a comprehensive picture of abortion provider workforce in the U.S.

Efforts to determine the actual size and makeup of the abortion provider workforce in the U.S. often rely on surveys that are limited in scope or else focus solely on abortion facilities.

21 Mar 2022

Study explores decline in tuberculosis cases during COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Researchers analyzed a pharmacy dataset to evaluate the 20% decrease in tuberculosis cases reported in 2020 by the US National Tuberculosis Surveillance System.

21 Mar 2022

Pfizer CEO pushes yearly shots for covid. Not so fast, experts say.

When Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said March 13 that all Americans would need a second booster shot, it struck many covid experts as a self-serving remark without scientific merit. It also set off spasms of doubt over the country's objectives in its fight against the coronavirus.

21 Mar 2022

Vitamin C deficiency associated with cognitive impairment among older hospitalized patients

Cognitive impairment among older hospitalized Australians could be the result of low vitamin C levels, a Flinders University-led study has found, paving the way for a potential treatment.

21 Mar 2022

Cov2clusters: Novel method for producing stable genomic clusters of SARS-CoV-2 cases

Researchers present a novel method for producing stable genomic clustering of SARS-CoV-2 cases, Cov2clusters.

20 Mar 2022

Natural circulating antibodies last for at least seven months in children infected with COVID-19

Children previously infected with COVID-19 develop natural circulating antibodies that last for at least seven months, according to a new study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston.

18 Mar 2022

New PCR test uses molecular beacons to identify the specific variant causing COVID-19 infection

After the start of the SARS-C0V-2 pandemic, investigators from ResearchPath LLC and their collaborators at Rutgers University quickly dedicated resources to develop accurate and reliable COVID-19 testing.

17 Mar 2022

Study finds high rates of cancer among men living with HIV

Researchers with Case Western Reserve University have found that there are nearly twice as many men with cancer among men living with HIV (MLWH) compared to men who do not have the human immunodeficiency virus.

17 Mar 2022

Study finds extensive harassment of public health officials during first 11 months of the pandemic

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health identified 1,499 unique reports of harassment across local health departments in the U.S. during the first 11 months of the pandemic, from March 2020 to January 2021.

17 Mar 2022

Hispanic/Latino youth with food insecurity have worse cardiometabolic profiles, study shows

Hispanic/Latino youths with limited access to nutritionally adequate food – and especially those whose parents were foreign-born -- had worse cardiometabolic profiles than their "food secure" counterparts, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

17 Mar 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: We may be done with covid, but covid’s not done with us

Logistics expert Jeff Zients, who has headed the White House covid-19 response team since the start of the Biden administration, is stepping down and will be replaced by popular public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha, who will take a leave from his post as dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.

17 Mar 2022

It was already hard to find Evusheld, a covid prevention therapy. Now it’s even harder.

As immunocompromised people across the country work to get Evusheld, a potentially lifesaving covid therapy, several hundred providers of the injections were removed from a federal dataset on Wednesday night, making the therapy even harder to locate.

17 Mar 2022

Researchers evaluate predictors for mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Researchers identified independent factors associated with early and late deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

17 Mar 2022

Relationship between people’s subjective beliefs about risks and their private protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers evaluated the relationship between risk perception and personal protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

17 Mar 2022

Wastewater monitoring reveals emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in Alberta

Researchers utilize variant-specific RT-qPCR assays to monitor wastewater to monitor the prevalence of the Omicron and Delta variants.

16 Mar 2022

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Factors influencing Australian mothers to vaccinate kids against COVID-19, get tested, and self-isolate

Using CRISPR/Cas to develop biosafety materials

Most individuals treated in emergency departments for opioid use disorder do not sustain treatment

Intranasal delivery of pro-resolving lipid mediators arrests memory loss in experimental Alzheimer’s model

Saliva tests detect SARS-CoV-2 virus more quickly than nasal swabs

Study provides a comprehensive picture of abortion provider workforce in the U.S.

Study explores decline in tuberculosis cases during COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Pfizer CEO pushes yearly shots for covid. Not so fast, experts say.

Vitamin C deficiency associated with cognitive impairment among older hospitalized patients

Cov2clusters: Novel method for producing stable genomic clusters of SARS-CoV-2 cases

Natural circulating antibodies last for at least seven months in children infected with COVID-19

New PCR test uses molecular beacons to identify the specific variant causing COVID-19 infection

Study finds high rates of cancer among men living with HIV

Study finds extensive harassment of public health officials during first 11 months of the pandemic

Hispanic/Latino youth with food insecurity have worse cardiometabolic profiles, study shows

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: We may be done with covid, but covid’s not done with us

It was already hard to find Evusheld, a covid prevention therapy. Now it’s even harder.

Researchers evaluate predictors for mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Relationship between people’s subjective beliefs about risks and their private protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wastewater monitoring reveals emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in Alberta

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