Reports show that the mortality rate among men with COVID-19 is higher than women. Marco Mantovani/Getty Images Email Twitter3 Facebook299 LinkedIn Print When it comes to surviving critical cases of COVID-19, it appears that men draw the short straw. Initial reports from China revealed the early evidence of increased male mortality associated with COVID. According...
Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, MACP, FRCP DISCLOSURES February 12, 2020 This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I’m Dr Sandra Fryhofer. Welcome to Medicine Matters. The topic? HPV vaccine for mid-life adults. Who needs it? Who doesn’t? A new study was published in JAMA Network. HPV, the human papilloma virus, causes cancer—as many as...
by University of Colorado at Boulder Giving beneficial bacteria to stressed mothers during the equivalent of the third trimester of pregnancy prevents an autism-like disorder in their offspring, according to a new animal study by University of Colorado Boulder researchers. The study, published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, marks the latest in a...
On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that more than two dozen antibody tests sold to Americans have not been proven to work A Mayo Clinic experiment found that half of the ninee antibody tests it analyzed were unreliable Antibody tests detect immune proteins developed in response to an infection and may provide...
by Hokkaido University Research into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus induces death is suggesting potential treatments for its most destructive complications. Leading immunologists in Japan are proposing a possible molecular mechanism that causes massive release of proinflammatory cytokines, or a cytokine storm, leading to the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in COVID-19 patients. Their suggestions, published...
The prevalence of asymptomatic cases—people infected with the virus who can spread it to others but don’t feel sick—is one of the most challenging aspects of the coronavirus pandemic, researchers say. In Iceland, where a broad testing effort resulted in 5% of the country’s population getting tested for COVID-19, a lab study suggested that as...
A group of scientists has called for urgent research into whether readily-available mouthwash could be effective in reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The group carried out a review of scientific research in this area, published in the journal Function, to assess whether mouthwash could have the potential to reduce transmission in the early stages of infection. The...
by Babraham Institute A study led by researchers at the Babraham Institute in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute has uncovered how variations in a non-protein coding ‘dark matter’ region of the genome could make patients susceptible to complex autoimmune and allergic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease. The study in mice and human cells...
by Iqbal Pittalwala, University of California – Riverside A study examining the effect of the immune receptor known as Toll-like Receptor 4, or TLR4, on how memory functions in both the normal and injured brain has found vastly different cellular pathways contribute to the receptor’s effects on excitability in the uninjured and injured brain. Further,...
by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A new technique could provide vital information about a community’s immunity to infectious diseases including malaria and COVID-19. The diagnostic test analyses a blood sample to reveal immune markers that indicate whether—and when—a person was exposed to an infection. It was developed to track malaria infections in communities, to...
