by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from the CMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis and the ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, both in India, has found evidence suggesting that an old vaccine used to reduce the threat of tuberculosis may give older people some protection against COVID-19. In their paper published in...
by University of Queensland Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain University of Queensland researchers are refuting claims that COVID-19 can enter a person’s DNA. The researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute say the claims have led to “scaremongering” and people should not hesitate to be vaccinated. Professor Geoff Faulkner said his team’s research published in Cell Reports showed...
by Ranjith Ramasamy, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Contrary to myths circulating on social media, COVID-19 vaccines do not cause erectile dysfunction and male infertility. What is true: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, poses a risk for both disorders. Until now, little research has been done on how the virus or vaccines affect the male...
by Alice McCarthy, Children’s Hospital Boston Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers are observing a new long-term health concern in patients hospitalized with COVID-19—an increase in new-onset hyperglycemia lasting months after infection. An Italian study found that about half of the patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 during the start of the pandemic had new cases...
Rebecca Pifer, Reporter Dive Brief: Americans’ medical debt may have reached $140 billion last year, significantly higher than past estimates and outweighing all other types of personal debt in the U.S., according to a new study published in JAMA. Researchers analyzed a tenth of all credit reports from rating agency TransUnion to find nearly one in five Americans...
Scientists at Rice University are part of an effort to develop an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine. The project, led by scientists at Rutgers University and Rice and Northeastern University, has produced two vaccine strategies. Both are scalable and adaptable and can be transported and stored at room temperature. One strategy employs modified bacteriophage particles, also known as phage particles...
Although the risk of a child being admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 is small, a new UK study has found that around 1 in 20 children hospitalized with COVID-19 develops brain or nerve complications linked to the viral infection. The research, published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health and led by the University of Liverpool,...
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES The flu vaccine may provide vital protection against COVID-19, new research being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, concludes. An analysis of patient data from around the world strongly suggests that the annual flu shot reduces the risk of stroke, sepsis,...
by American College of Physicians Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A survey of patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 found that lingering symptoms seven months after infection was common among otherwise healthy young persons in the outpatient setting. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers from the Geneva University Hospitals surveyed 629 persons who were a...
by The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Overview of the SARS-CoV-2-specific immune response kinetics. Memory T cells are maintained after recovery from COVID-19 with the generation of stem cell-like memory T cells. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) A KAIST immunology research team found that most convalescent patients of COVID-19 develop...
