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Your Vision Matters: How to Protect Your Eyesight

Dr. Neil Ebenezer from the charity Fight for Sight discusses the steps you can take to protect your eyesight into old age, and why research into ophthalmic diseases is desperately needed.

24 Sep 2018

Study sheds light on how brain protein may be involved neurodevelopmental disorders

A study by researchers at Rockefeller University has shown that defects in a brain protein may underlie a number of neurodevelopmental disorders.

24 Sep 2018

Gilead Sciences plans to launch authorized generic versions of Epclusa and Harvoni in the US

Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced today plans to launch authorized generic versions of Epclusa and Harvoni, Gilead's leading treatments for chronic hepatitis C virus, in the United States, through a newly created subsidiary, Asegua Therapeutics LLC.

24 Sep 2018

October 1918 marks the centenary of Spanish Flu that claimed more lives than World War I

JUST as the cataclysmic conflict of the Great War was in its death throes, a new killer emerged that would, on a global scale, be even more lethal - the Spanish Flu pandemic, which was at its most virulent in October and November 1918.

24 Sep 2018

New spinout company to tackle drug-resistant infections with novel antibiotics

Drug-resistant infections are set to kill more people than cancer by 2050. Now a new University of Plymouth spinout company has been established to help tackle the problem - by developing new antibiotics and bringing them to market.

24 Sep 2018

Australia's HIV diagnoses hit seven year low

According to latest numbers from the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the rates of HIV are on the rise among heterosexuals in Australia.

23 Sep 2018

Old letters provide insight into Spanish flu pandemic horror

An archive of letters written by those who survived the Spanish flu pandemic at the start of the last century shows what it was actually like to live during that time. The Spanish flu pandemic killed over 250,000 people in Britain alone and worldwide it wiped out a population of over 100 million.

23 Sep 2018

Innovation Fund Denmark supports research project that aims to fight Clostridium difficile diarrhea

One man's trash is another man's treasure, as the saying goes. If things go to plan, feces from registered and thoroughly tested healthy donors will in a few years be the standard treatment for the bacterium Clostridium difficile at Danish hospitals.

21 Sep 2018

Scientists use mice to study transmission of Lyme disease bacteria by infected ticks

Lyme borreliosis is a disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by a bite from a tick of the genus Ixodes.

21 Sep 2018

Researchers demonstrate pre-clinical success for universal flu vaccine in new paper

Researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology have demonstrated pre-clinical success for a universal flu vaccine in a new paper published in Nature Communications.

21 Sep 2018

New outbreak of rare eye disease identified in contact lens wearers

A new outbreak of a rare but preventable eye infection that can cause blindness, has been identified in contact lens wearers in a new study led by UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital researchers.

21 Sep 2018

Research finds drop in number of measles cases in the EU/EEA since March 2018

During the month of July, a total of 758 cases of measles were reported across seventeen countries in the EU/EEA, which is a decrease from the 1054 cases reported during the month of June.

21 Sep 2018

Study reveals surprising gaps in some HIV medical providers' knowledge of ACA

A new study has revealed surprising gaps in some HIV medical providers' knowledge of the Affordable Care Act, with more than a quarter of providers surveyed unable to say whether their state had expanded Medicaid.

21 Sep 2018

Study highlights need to remain vigilant in maintaining key infection control processes

Healthcare-associated infections can be reduced by up to 55 percent by systematically implementing evidence-based infection prevention and control strategies, according to a review of 144 studies published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

21 Sep 2018

New naturally occurring antibiotic found effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A naturally occurring antibiotic called kanglemycin A is effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, even in drug-resistant strains, according to an international team of researchers who used chemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, and X-ray crystallography to show how the compound maintains its activity.

21 Sep 2018

Scientists find wild African monkeys infected with bacterium that causes syphilis, yaws in humans

An international research team, led by scientists from the German Primate Center, the Robert Koch Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, McGill University, Masaryk University, the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, has successfully recovered genomes of the bacterium Treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis and yaws in humans, from wild nonhuman primate populations across sub-Saharan Africa.

20 Sep 2018

Disease/Infection News

Your Vision Matters: How to Protect Your Eyesight

Study sheds light on how brain protein may be involved neurodevelopmental disorders

Gilead Sciences plans to launch authorized generic versions of Epclusa and Harvoni in the US

October 1918 marks the centenary of Spanish Flu that claimed more lives than World War I

New spinout company to tackle drug-resistant infections with novel antibiotics

Australia's HIV diagnoses hit seven year low

Old letters provide insight into Spanish flu pandemic horror

Innovation Fund Denmark supports research project that aims to fight Clostridium difficile diarrhea

Scientists use mice to study transmission of Lyme disease bacteria by infected ticks

Researchers demonstrate pre-clinical success for universal flu vaccine in new paper

New outbreak of rare eye disease identified in contact lens wearers

Research finds drop in number of measles cases in the EU/EEA since March 2018

Study reveals surprising gaps in some HIV medical providers' knowledge of ACA

Study highlights need to remain vigilant in maintaining key infection control processes

New naturally occurring antibiotic found effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Scientists find wild African monkeys infected with bacterium that causes syphilis, yaws in humans

NIH launches clinical trial to test infusions of combination antibodies in people with HIV

Scientists achieve breakthrough in accelerated diagnosis of multi-resistant hospital pathogens

Scientists find way to boost efficacy of powerful antimalarial drug with anti-cancer medicines

Innovative approach for developing vaccine against most prevalent human malaria parasite

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

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