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Study observes increase in Lyme disease-causing ticks across California’s woodlands and beaches

US-based researchers – at Colorado State University and the Northern Arizona University – have discovered that disease-causing ticks are finding their way onto beachfront properties, including infestations in woodlands and beaches around North California.

28 Apr 2021

Ohio’s Amish suffered a lot from Covid, but vaccines are still a hard sell

The Amish communities of northeastern Ohio engage in textbook communal living. Families eat, work and go to church together, and through the pandemic, mask-wearing and physical distancing have been spotty. That has meant that these communities bore a high rate of infection and death.

28 Apr 2021

You don’t have to suffer to benefit from Covid vaccination — but some prefer it

If you think vaccination is an ordeal now, consider the 18th-century version. After having pus from a smallpox boil scratched into your arm, you would be subject to three weeks of fever, sweats, chills, bleeding and purging with dangerous medicines, accompanied by hymns, prayers and hell-fire sermons by dour preachers.

28 Apr 2021

Municipalities with low socioeconomic status in Greater Santiago have higher COVID-19 mortality

People up to age 40 living in economically depressed municipalities in the Greater Santiago, Chile, metropolitan area were three times more likely to die as a result of the infection than their counterparts in wealthier areas, researchers report in the journal Science.

28 Apr 2021

ANTICOV clinical trial to test new treatment for people with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in Africa

The ANTICOV clinical trial, conducted in 13 African countries, has started the recruitment of participants to test a new drug combination, nitazoxanide + ciclesonide, to treat people with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 before their cases become severe.

27 Apr 2021

Breastfed children score higher on neurocognitive tests, study finds

New research finds that children who were breastfed scored higher on neurocognitive tests. Researchers in the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center analyzed thousands of cognitive tests taken by nine and ten-year-olds whose mothers reported they were breastfed, and compared those results to scores of children who were not.

27 Apr 2021

What is the role of nanotechnology in the current COVID-19 outbreak?

The nanotechnology-based medicine platforms against COVID-19 bears hope for relief from the pandemic to save lives and mitigate the infection as part of a broader global public health agenda.

27 Apr 2021

Global hemoglobin cut-off to define anemia overestimates disease burden in Indian children

Anemia rates among children and teenagers in India may be 20 per cent lower than currently reported as diagnosis is based on ethnically inappropriate blood count thresholds, a study argues.

27 Apr 2021

Pandemic imperiled non-English speakers more than others

In March 2020, just weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic, the incident command center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was scrambling to understand this deadly new disease. It appeared to be killing more Black and brown patients than whites. For Latinos, there was an additional warning sign: language.

27 Apr 2021

World Immunization Week: Vaccination in 2021

News-Medical talks to experts in different areas of the medical sector on why immunization week is so prevalent in 2021.

27 Apr 2021

Study in Ireland identifies underlying conditions associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes

A national study of 20,000 patients conducted by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has identified the underlying conditions that are associated with more severe outcomes from COVID-19 in an Irish setting.

27 Apr 2021

Shift workers more likely to test positive for Covid-19 in hospital

People who work shifts appear to be significantly more likely to end up in hospital with Covid-19 than people who have regular work patterns, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax.

27 Apr 2021

Secondhand smoke exposure linked to higher risk of oral cancer

People who are exposed to secondhand smoke could have a 51% higher risk of developing oral cancer, suggests a review of existing research published online in the journal Tobacco Control.

27 Apr 2021

First cases of B.1.1.7 variant with E484K mutation in Pennsylvania

The E484K mutation has also been found on the B.1.351 and P.1 variant, contributing to their status as variants of concern. In February 2021, Public Health England published a report of 11 B.1.1.7 genomes that also had the E484K spike mutation. Currently, there are 247 isolates of B.1.1.7 + E484K reported globally, and new research finds the first reports of it in southeastern Pennsylvania.

27 Apr 2021

Triple mutation in SARS-CoV-2 seen in second wave of COVID-19 in India

Researchers sequenced the viral genome from samples in the state of Maharashtra and found a unique combination of three mutations that suggest the SARS-CoV-2 virus is continually evolving to evade the human immune response.

27 Apr 2021

Most faculty members deal with student mental health issues, but only a few have received training

Nearly 80 percent of higher education faculty report dealing with student mental health issues--issues that more than 90 percent of faculty believe have worsened or significantly worsened during the pandemic, according to a new nationwide survey led by a Boston University mental health researcher.

27 Apr 2021

Study finds no evidence to support link between ABO blood group and COVID-19 risk

Researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health in the United States say there is no evidence to support a correlation between ABO blood group and the risk of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

26 Apr 2021

New cocaine and oxycodone biobanks provide investigatory therapeutic targets for addiction

A major hurdle to developing new and effective treatments for drug addiction is better understanding how exactly it manifests itself before, during and after chronic use.

26 Apr 2021

Stigma, discrimination impede engagement in HIV prevention and treatment

Stigma and discrimination, such as homophobia and racism, impede engagement in HIV prevention and use of biomedical tools for treatment in both HIV-negative and HIV-positive gay and bisexual men, according to a Rutgers study.

26 Apr 2021

Bariatric surgery reduces brain pressure in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Weight loss surgery is more effective than dieting to reduce brain pressure that can cause blindness in patients with a neurological condition, finds a study led by the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

26 Apr 2021

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Study observes increase in Lyme disease-causing ticks across California’s woodlands and beaches

Ohio’s Amish suffered a lot from Covid, but vaccines are still a hard sell

You don’t have to suffer to benefit from Covid vaccination — but some prefer it

Municipalities with low socioeconomic status in Greater Santiago have higher COVID-19 mortality

ANTICOV clinical trial to test new treatment for people with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in Africa

Breastfed children score higher on neurocognitive tests, study finds

What is the role of nanotechnology in the current COVID-19 outbreak?

Global hemoglobin cut-off to define anemia overestimates disease burden in Indian children

Pandemic imperiled non-English speakers more than others

World Immunization Week: Vaccination in 2021

Study in Ireland identifies underlying conditions associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes

Shift workers more likely to test positive for Covid-19 in hospital

Secondhand smoke exposure linked to higher risk of oral cancer

First cases of B.1.1.7 variant with E484K mutation in Pennsylvania

Triple mutation in SARS-CoV-2 seen in second wave of COVID-19 in India

Most faculty members deal with student mental health issues, but only a few have received training

Study finds no evidence to support link between ABO blood group and COVID-19 risk

New cocaine and oxycodone biobanks provide investigatory therapeutic targets for addiction

Stigma, discrimination impede engagement in HIV prevention and treatment

Bariatric surgery reduces brain pressure in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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