by American Chemical Society Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 have proven safe and effective in clinical trials, as well as in the millions of people who have been vaccinated so far. But how prior SARS-CoV-2 infection affects vaccine response, and how long that response lasts, are still uncertain. Now, a new study in ACS Nano...
by Niigata University Rates of CAD and CVD. Credit: Niigata University An estimated 1.13 billion people worldwide have hypertension or high blood pressure, and two-thirds of these individuals are living in low- and middle-income countries. Blood pressure is the force manifested by circulating blood against the walls of the body’s arteries, the major blood vessels...
by World Organization The number of subjects reporting each of 13 clinical manifestations of long COVID. Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation resulting from the inflammatory response to coronavirus infection may be the cause of previously unexplained long COVID symptoms—such as fatigue, brain...
New study challenges long-standing assumptions about disease severity in infants. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, remains a significant cause of death in infants and young children around the world and, despite global vaccination programs, many countries are experiencing a resurgence of this highly contagious disease. Baby holding a hand. Free image via Pixabay A new study...
A study, led by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) and The University of Manchester (UoM), and funded by the National Institute for Healthcare Research (NIHR), has found that a mental health treatment called Metacognitive Therapy significantly improves symptoms of anxiety and depression for heart disease patients. These findings, published in the American...
by Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research The gut lining has a brushlike appearance characterized by microscopic pits called crypts and tiny protrusions called villi. Villi contain enterocytes, a type of cell whose main function is to absorb nutrients from food. Credit: BallenaBlanca/Wikimedia Commons, published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA...
by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today June 21, 2021 Levothyroxine was overprescribed for patients with subclinical hypothyroidism during the past decade, a new study found. Of patients in an insurance database with available data on thyrotropin and FT4 or T4 levels available from 2008 to 2018, the majority who were newly prescribed levothyroxine had...
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD Jun 21 2021 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been both prolonged and deadly, disrupting ordinary life and business activity to an extent unprecedented over the last hundred years. The agent responsible for this, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has shown itself largely unaffected by a...
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG IMAGE: (a) Exploration of Ag+-binding proteins in the soluble fraction of S. aureus with LC-GE-ICP-MS. (b) The overall structure of Ag-bound 6PGDH. (c) Silver coordination sites in 6PGDH and silver clusters composed of four adjacent Ag ions. (d) Diagram showing that Ag+ kills S. aureus by targeting multiple essential pathways. (e)...
CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL In rare cases, adults who have recovered from COVID-19 may develop the multisystem inflammatory syndrome, and clinicians should consider this possibility in adults with specific symptoms, as physicians describe in a case published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). A 60-year-old man, who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 four weeks before,...
