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What were the health effects of long COVID during the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave?

A new study examined the health influences of long coronavirus disease during the 2021 to 2022 SARS-CoV-2 Omicron surge in Australia.

8 Aug 2022

Study finds COVID associated with abnormal placental pathologies in nearly 50% of cohort

Researchers describe the impact of placental morphological changes in COVID-19 on pregnancy outcomes.

7 Aug 2022

Skin cancer is a risk no matter the skin tone. But it may be overlooked in people with dark skin.

Brykyta Shelton found herself standing in a checkout line of a big-box retailer, uncomfortably aware as a woman ahead of her stared at her sandaled feet.

5 Aug 2022

Gut microbiota-derived metabolites offer protection against SARS-CoV-2

A new study investigated how the gut microbiome confers immunity to mammalian hosts against SARS-CoV-2 intranasal infection by generating short-chain fatty acids.

5 Aug 2022

Extracellular vesicle-based surface protein assay likely to lead to a better way to detect early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma

Primary liver cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, takes more than 30,000 lives in the United States each year. The high mortality rates can be attributed in part to the fact that a significant portion of the patients are detected at a late stage, when potentially curative treatments are no longer an option. Unfortunately, today's screening methods are not able to routinely provide accurate, early detection.

5 Aug 2022

How does the flu vaccine affect the risk of contracting COVID-19?

A new study describes the association between the risk of contracting COVID-19 and the seasonal flu vaccine.

4 Aug 2022

Early-life acquisition of antibiotic resistance in neonates from developing countries

Every year, almost 7 million potentially serious bacterial infections are estimated to occur in newborns, resulting in more than 550,000 annual neonatal deaths.

4 Aug 2022

Johns Hopkins Medicine-led consortium awarded up to $200 million to address the global burden of tuberculosis

To address the global burden of tuberculosis (TB), one of humankind's oldest scourges, an international collaboration led by Johns Hopkins Medicine has today been awarded up to $200 million in research funding over five years by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Supporting, Mobilizing and Accelerating Research for Tuberculosis Elimination (SMART4TB) project.

4 Aug 2022

Study highlights the urgency of removing barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder

The opioid overdose and death epidemic continues to worsen across the United States, but medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone are proven to reduce opioid overdoses by more than 50 percent.

4 Aug 2022

Monoclonal antibody protects U.S. adults from malaria, Phase 1 clinical trial shows

One injection of a candidate monoclonal antibody (mAb) known as L9LS was found to be safe and highly protective in U.S. adults exposed to the malaria parasite, according to results from a National Institutes of Health Phase 1 clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

4 Aug 2022

Clinical and demographic inequalities in COVID-19-associated mortality

Researchers quantified the relative and absolute changes in COVID-19-related mortality based on clinical and demographical profiles of 18 million adult patients throughout the pandemic in England.

4 Aug 2022

Hybrid immunity retained six months after SARS-CoV-2 exposure

Scientists hypothesize that lower death rates in COVID-19 patients may be due to hybrid immunity, as well as the reduced severity of Omicron infections.

3 Aug 2022

Inexpensive, self-driven microfluidic chip rapidly detects Hepatitis C virus in about 45 minutes

Hepatitis C affects more than 354 million people worldwide. About 75 to 85 percent of people who have it get a long-term infection referred to as chronic Hepatitis C. Left untreated, it could lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer or liver failure.

3 Aug 2022

Women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy more likely to develop dementia

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) — conditions of high blood pressure including chronic/gestational hypertension and preeclampsia — have been strongly linked to heart disease in later life, but, before today, little research has connected these disorders with cognition.

3 Aug 2022

Mortality News and Research

What were the health effects of long COVID during the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave?

Study finds COVID associated with abnormal placental pathologies in nearly 50% of cohort

Skin cancer is a risk no matter the skin tone. But it may be overlooked in people with dark skin.

Gut microbiota-derived metabolites offer protection against SARS-CoV-2

Extracellular vesicle-based surface protein assay likely to lead to a better way to detect early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma

How does the flu vaccine affect the risk of contracting COVID-19?

Early-life acquisition of antibiotic resistance in neonates from developing countries

Johns Hopkins Medicine-led consortium awarded up to $200 million to address the global burden of tuberculosis

Study highlights the urgency of removing barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder

Monoclonal antibody protects U.S. adults from malaria, Phase 1 clinical trial shows

Clinical and demographic inequalities in COVID-19-associated mortality

Hybrid immunity retained six months after SARS-CoV-2 exposure

Inexpensive, self-driven microfluidic chip rapidly detects Hepatitis C virus in about 45 minutes

Women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy more likely to develop dementia

Lower efficacy of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in patients with frailty

What is the association between vision impairment and cognitive outcome?

Drugs with antiviral activity against monkeypox virus

New and efficient method Monkeypox virus sequencing

High prevalence of fungal secondary infections among COVID-19 patients

Researchers aim to evaluate outcomes of visceral artery pseudoaneurysm in necrotizing pancreatitis

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