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Two mRNA vaccines are effective even without post-shot symptoms or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection

Vaccination with the two messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, yields a robust antibody response, even if a person did not develop significant symptoms following vaccination or did not have a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.

26 Aug 2021

Hyfe’s smartphone cough-tracking app used in a groundbreaking epidemiological research

Hyfe, a cough monitoring smartphone app and digital diagnostics tool developed by an international team of scientists and public health professionals, recently announced that their technology is now being incorporated into groundbreaking research in Spain in partnership with the University of Navarra, and involving over 800 participants.

26 Aug 2021

BioPlx sets out to control and combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Antimicrobial Resistance is "one of the greatest threats to society, human and animal health, and economic prosperity." Those are the unequivocal words regarding the gravity of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria from the National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education.

26 Aug 2021

Genetic background linked to elevated risk of omega-3 deficiency in Hispanic Americans

Hispanic people with a high percentage of American Indigenous ancestry are at increased risk of a nutritional deficiency that could affect their heart health and contribute to harmful inflammation, new research suggests.

26 Aug 2021

Study examines impact of COVID pandemic on birth outcomes in Wales

Researchers in the UK have looked at the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic on the population birth outcomes in 2020, detailing the experiences of the expectant mothers from immunization rates for babies to self-reported levels of stress and anxiety in the mothers, compared to pre-COVID years.

25 Aug 2021

AHA special issue focuses on health disparities among racial, ethnic communities

Poverty and Black race were associated with higher rates of lower leg amputation among people with peripheral artery disease who live in metropolitan areas, according to new research published today in a special issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association.

25 Aug 2021

Prevalence of suicidal thinking did not increase among veterans during the pandemic

Many public health experts feared the COVID-19 pandemic would cause an increase in suicidal behavior among U.S. military veterans, a group that already has high rates of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder and which experienced a 30% surge in suicides between 2010 and 2018.

25 Aug 2021

Wake Forest and AFAR receive up to $5 million NIA renewal award to continue management of RCCN

Wake Forest School of Medicine and the American Federation for Aging Research have received a renewal award for up to $5 million over five years from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, to continue their management of the Research Centers Collaborative Network.

25 Aug 2021

COVID-19 hospitalizations 29 times more likely in unvaccinated individuals, CDC study suggests

Getting inoculated against SARS-CoV-2 protects against getting severe COVID-19 or being hospitalized. In a new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), scientists noted that unvaccinated individuals are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than those who were vaccinated.

25 Aug 2021

Higher SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant transmission among K-12 schoolchildren can be reduced by interventions, says study

A new study reports the results of a model framed to explore the transmission of the delta variant among schoolchildren and the most effective intervention methods to minimize such spread.

25 Aug 2021

New study aims to solve cervical cancer disparities among Somali women

A new study led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Washington School of Public Health looks to solve cervical cancer disparities among Somali women.

25 Aug 2021

Number of adults with hypertension has doubled in the last thirty years

The number of adults aged 30–79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends in hypertension prevalence, detection, treatment and control, led by Imperial College London and WHO, and published today in The Lancet.

25 Aug 2021

Can the spread of COVID-19 infection be mitigated through a strict vaccination strategy within 100 days?

A new study evaluates the new COVID-19 policy implemented in NSW.

25 Aug 2021

Hot spots where covid vaccination lags push experimental antibody treatment

For months, Joelle Ruppert was among the millions of Americans who are covid vaccine holdouts. Her reluctance, she said, was not so much that she opposed the new vaccines but that she never felt "compelled" by the evidence supporting their experimental use.

25 Aug 2021

From Uber vouchers to patient advocates: What it takes to increase ER addiction treatment

For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern Tennessee community. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she treated people with mental illness but felt she needed to do more to address addiction.

25 Aug 2021

Researchers explore how to optimally control diseases in prison population using rapid tests

The use of rapid tests to screen for diseases in prisons could enable the diagnosis of asymptomatic individuals and reduce the spread of infection. Victor Riquelme, Pedro Gajardo, and Diego Vicencio (all from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile) recently explored how to optimally control a communicable disease inside a prison population using inexpensive, low-complexity rapid tests that personnel can administer with only basic training.

25 Aug 2021

Researchers identify numerous genetic regions that may affect individuals' food intake

A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University School of Public Health, and other institutions have identified more than two dozen genetic regions that may affect individuals' food intake.

25 Aug 2021

Study focuses on understanding how muscle fatigue and changes in gait affect older adults

Older adults on a walk or hike, or just going about their daily routines, seem to experience greater fatigue than their younger counterparts. Such fatigue may ultimately affect their ability to participate in activities that are meaningful to them and help keep them healthy.

25 Aug 2021

Study reveals stable usage of drugs by adolescents in the first six months of the pandemic

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in earnest in the United States in early 2020, affected different demographic groups in different ways.

25 Aug 2021

New $14.5 million NIH grant to support research on HIV treatment and care in Central Africa

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy have been awarded a five-year, $14.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue leading and expand their research on HIV treatment and care in five Central African nations.

24 Aug 2021

Public Health News and Research

Two mRNA vaccines are effective even without post-shot symptoms or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection

Hyfe’s smartphone cough-tracking app used in a groundbreaking epidemiological research

BioPlx sets out to control and combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Genetic background linked to elevated risk of omega-3 deficiency in Hispanic Americans

Study examines impact of COVID pandemic on birth outcomes in Wales

AHA special issue focuses on health disparities among racial, ethnic communities

Prevalence of suicidal thinking did not increase among veterans during the pandemic

Wake Forest and AFAR receive up to $5 million NIA renewal award to continue management of RCCN

COVID-19 hospitalizations 29 times more likely in unvaccinated individuals, CDC study suggests

Higher SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant transmission among K-12 schoolchildren can be reduced by interventions, says study

New study aims to solve cervical cancer disparities among Somali women

Number of adults with hypertension has doubled in the last thirty years

Can the spread of COVID-19 infection be mitigated through a strict vaccination strategy within 100 days?

Hot spots where covid vaccination lags push experimental antibody treatment

From Uber vouchers to patient advocates: What it takes to increase ER addiction treatment

Researchers explore how to optimally control diseases in prison population using rapid tests

Researchers identify numerous genetic regions that may affect individuals' food intake

Study focuses on understanding how muscle fatigue and changes in gait affect older adults

Study reveals stable usage of drugs by adolescents in the first six months of the pandemic

New $14.5 million NIH grant to support research on HIV treatment and care in Central Africa

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