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Study shows how EU safety legislation has affected UK vapers

Vapers have been largely reassured by recent EU safety regulations, but some have been pushed to the black market for stronger hits - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

18 Jun 2020

Interventional treatment for brain AVMs could be more dangerous than the disease itself

For people with a brain arteriovenous malformation, a congenital vascular system defect, fate has a name: stroke.

17 Jun 2020

Globally, 350 million could be at risk of severe COVID-19 and hospitalization

Now, a new study shows that one in five individuals is at risk of getting a severe case of COVID-19 due to the presence of underlying disease. The study appeared in the latest issue of The Lancet Global Health this week.

17 Jun 2020

New data visualization dashboard provides COVID-19 demographic information

As news reports underline the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, a new data visualization dashboard developed by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health scientists may be the first to compile state-level COVID-19 demographic information for age, race/ethnicity, and sex.

17 Jun 2020

Vast swathes of the world's population exposed to increasing air pollution, research shows

Half of the world's population is exposed to increasing air pollution, new research has shown.

17 Jun 2020

Can a toilet flush spread coronavirus?

A new study by Chinese researchers at Yangzhou University shows how fluid dynamics can predict if flushing a toilet with the lid open could lead to the transmission of a virus. The study titled, “Can a toilet promote virus transmission? From a fluid dynamics perspective,” was published in the latest issue of the journal, The Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA).

17 Jun 2020

NAU research centers receive grants from Flinn Foundation to support COVID-19 response

Scientists at two Northern Arizona University research centers--the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute and the Center for Health Equity Research--recently received grants totaling $175,000 from the Flinn Foundation in support of projects directed at responding to the COVID-19 threat.

17 Jun 2020

Research finds higher exposure to harmful pollutants during rush hour trips

Studies have shown associations between exposure to traffic-related air pollution and adverse health outcomes, including preterm birth and low birthweight. However, few studies have estimated real-world exposures during personal vehicle trips for women commuters.

17 Jun 2020

Living environment correlated with reaching centenarian status

When it comes to living to the ripe old age of 100, good genes help but don't tell the full story. Where you live has a significant impact on the likelihood that you will reach centenarian age, suggests a new study conducted by scientists at Washington State University's Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

17 Jun 2020

Trump’s take on COVID testing misses public health realities

President Donald Trump sought to downplay the numbers associated with COVID-19 in the United States — which have passed 2 million confirmed cases and are nearing 120,000 lives lost — by arguing that the soaring national count was simply the result of superior testing.

17 Jun 2020

California taps libraries and tax offices to recruit 20,000 new disease detectives

After more than two months at home, librarian Lisa Fagundes misses managing her sci-fi book collection so much, she feels she’s in withdrawal, longing to see new books, touch them, smell them. “It’s like a disease,” she said, laughing.

17 Jun 2020

Pandemic upends the lives of people with disabilities — and of their caregivers

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stacy Ellingen, 34, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, lost two of the three caregivers she depends on to dress, shower, eat and use the bathroom. The caregivers — both University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students — returned to their parents’ homes when the university canceled in-person classes.

17 Jun 2020

Mapping RNA sequences of therapeutic value in the SARS-CoV-2 genome

Now, in new research published on the preprint server bioRxiv European scientists have performed RNA structure probing to obtain a single-base resolution secondary structure map of the full SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus genome.

17 Jun 2020

Norway pulls coronavirus contact tracing App due to privacy concerns

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many countries have launched contact tracing apps to help contain the spread of the virus. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread across most of the world, now infecting more than 8.17 million people; hence, extensive contact tracing is a vital tool to prevent its vast spread.

17 Jun 2020

Beijing lockdown due to new SARS-CoV-2 cluster, New Zealand records first case in weeks

China had started to return to normalcy after successfully "flattening the curve," with the government slowly easing restrictions and opening up the economy. However, Beijing has reported new clusters of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, prompting the implementation of lockdown measures.

17 Jun 2020

Study: One in five adults experienced a decrease in their sexual behavior early in the pandemic

One in five adults in the United States report they have experienced change - mostly a decrease - in their sexual behavior during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.

16 Jun 2020

A new, daily home-monitoring program for patients presumed COVID-19 positive

How do you monitor patients who have COVID-19 symptoms but are not ill enough to come to the emergency department? And how do you help those patients feel cared about and less frightened while convalescing at home?

16 Jun 2020

Researchers develop a simple tool for making mouse models of COVID-19

Until there are effective treatments or vaccines, the COVID-19 pandemic will remain a significant threat to public health and economies around the world. A major hurdle to developing and testing new anti-viral therapies and vaccines for COVID-19 is the lack of good, widely available animal models of the disease.

16 Jun 2020

Key factors to "flattening the curve": Western Washington state's COVID-19 experience

Despite having the first confirmed case of coronavirus and the first major COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, the state of Washington implemented a response plan that kept its death rate the lowest among all states that have had major outbreaks.

16 Jun 2020

Study highlights vulnerability of people in refugee camps to COVID-19

A COVID-19 outbreak in a refugee settlement will likely overwhelm the available healthcare capacity and infrastructure and spread through nearly the entire settlement population if left unchecked, according to a new study published June 16 in PLOS Medicine by Paul Spiegel of Johns Hopkins University, United States, and colleagues.

16 Jun 2020

Public Health News and Research

Study shows how EU safety legislation has affected UK vapers

Interventional treatment for brain AVMs could be more dangerous than the disease itself

Globally, 350 million could be at risk of severe COVID-19 and hospitalization

New data visualization dashboard provides COVID-19 demographic information

Vast swathes of the world's population exposed to increasing air pollution, research shows

Can a toilet flush spread coronavirus?

NAU research centers receive grants from Flinn Foundation to support COVID-19 response

Research finds higher exposure to harmful pollutants during rush hour trips

Living environment correlated with reaching centenarian status

Trump’s take on COVID testing misses public health realities

California taps libraries and tax offices to recruit 20,000 new disease detectives

Pandemic upends the lives of people with disabilities — and of their caregivers

Mapping RNA sequences of therapeutic value in the SARS-CoV-2 genome

Norway pulls coronavirus contact tracing App due to privacy concerns

Beijing lockdown due to new SARS-CoV-2 cluster, New Zealand records first case in weeks

Study: One in five adults experienced a decrease in their sexual behavior early in the pandemic

A new, daily home-monitoring program for patients presumed COVID-19 positive

Researchers develop a simple tool for making mouse models of COVID-19

Key factors to "flattening the curve": Western Washington state's COVID-19 experience

Study highlights vulnerability of people in refugee camps to COVID-19

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