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If you’ve got hep C, spitting can be a felony

Last week, an Ohio man who has the hepatitis C virus was sentenced to 18 months in prison for spitting at Cleveland police and medics.

19 Jun 2018

WVU researcher aims to produce updated whooping cough vaccine

Before the whooping-cough vaccine came into widespread use in the 1940s, about 9,000 American children died from the infection each year. Today, thanks to the vaccine's efficacy, reported cases of whooping cough have dramatically declined and fatalities have dropped to up to 20 children each year.

18 Jun 2018

Innovative concept for implementing WHO resolution to safeguard quality of cancer treatment

Cancer is a burden to those affected by it and a growing challenge to the political sector. In 2017, WHO therefore issued an international resolution to safeguard the quality of cancer treatment, and access to it, in every country in the world.

14 Jun 2018

New study shows how vitamin A effectively supports lung immunity against TB

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin and St James's Hospital, Dublin, have discovered how vitamin A drives the lung immune system to deal with tuberculosis

14 Jun 2018

Researchers develop spider silk microcapsules that can deliver vaccine directly to immune cells

To fight cancer, researchers increasingly use vaccines that stimulate the immune system to identify and destroy tumor cells.

12 Jun 2018

WHO: Paraguay achieves malaria-free status

The World Health Organization today certified Paraguay as having eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to be granted this status since Cuba in 1973.

12 Jun 2018

Paraguay declared free of malaria by WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified that Paraguay has eliminated malaria, being the first country in the Americas to have done so since Cuba was given this status in 1973.

12 Jun 2018

Antimicrobial peptides are promising alternative for combatting antimicrobial resistance

Overuse of antibiotics has led to the spread of multi-resistant bacteria that do not respond to conventional treatments.

29 May 2018

Scientists develop new method to speed up genome evolution of baker's yeast

Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast people use for bread and beer production, to develop a synthetic yeast strain that can be transformed on demand for use in various industrial applications.

26 May 2018

Study reveals striking disparities in health care access and quality across most nations

While health care access and quality have improved generally over the past several years, advancements in many countries have been slow or nonexistent as compared to the previous decade, according to a new scientific study.

25 May 2018

Advanced genetics study of TB bacteria uncovers virulent 'Beijing lineage' strain among young adults

LSTM's Dr Maxine Caws is co-lead investigator on an advanced genetics study published in Nature Genetics(link is external), which has shown that a virulent strain of tuberculosis (TB) has adapted to transmit among young adults in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

23 May 2018

Researchers discover link between tuberculosis and Parkinson's disease

The mechanism our immune cells use to clear bacterial infections like tuberculosis (TB) might also be implicated in Parkinson's disease, according to a new collaborative study led by the Francis Crick Institute, Newcastle University and GSK.

22 May 2018

Scientists decipher workings of little-understood bacterial riboswitch

In a discovery that points to potential new antibiotic medicines, scientists from Rice University and the University of Michigan have deciphered the workings of a common but little-understood bacterial switch that cuts off protein production before it begins.

22 May 2018

MIT researchers develop new versatile plug-and-play diagnostic devices

Researchers at MIT's Little Devices Lab have developed a set of modular blocks that can be put together in different ways to produce diagnostic devices.

17 May 2018

Disease tolerance is the key to treating TB, say experts

A new study from McGill University suggests it is the body’s ability to “tolerate” rather than “resist” TB infection that stops symptoms of the disease developing.

14 May 2018

Discovery could be used as starting point for development of new antibiotics

According to the WHO, around 700,000 people die every year as a result of antibiotic resistance. In Germany, around 6,000 people die every year because treatment with antibiotics is not effective.

7 May 2018

UTHealth experts reveal how everyone can make a difference in infection control

When it comes to the examination room at your health care clinic, you might think that avoiding catching the flu or other more deadly viruses is out of your hands, so to speak.

4 May 2018

Smart phone video app appears to be as effective as in-person visits for monitoring TB treatment

Johns Hopkins researchers report success with a smart phone video-based app that substitutes for a daily in-person visit by a health care worker required for tuberculosis treatment known as directly observed therapy, or DOT.

26 Apr 2018

GNA Biosolutions and project partners launch new research project to develop TB diagnostic platform for POC applications

Molecular technology company GNA Biosolutions GmbH and its project partners announced the launch of PITBUL, a European Commission funded international research project aimed at developing a tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic platform to be utilized at the Point of Care.

From HP Health Solutions Germany GmbH 20 Apr 2018

Researchers use smartphone to diagnose people infected with Loa loa worm

The Berkeley researchers figured out that they could quickly determine who has the Loa loa worm using a smartphone, customized to work like a microscope. They could then skip the medication for those people and give it to everyone else. Kamgno, who received the latest version of the phones in 2016, dubbed the mobile microscopes "revolutionary."

19 Apr 2018