Medscape Medical News > Conference News > AIDS 2024 Richard Mark Kirkner July 25, 2024 Twice-yearly injections are 100% effective in preventing new infections, according to the final results from the PURPOSE 1 trial of lenacapavir. For weeks, the HIV community has been talking about this highly anticipated clinical trial and whether the strong —...
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COVID-19 Can Cause New Health Problems Three Years After Infection
Patients hospitalized within 30 days after infection face 29% higher death risk in 3rd year.News Published: May 31, 2024 | Original story from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Credit: Olga Kononenko / Unsplash. New findings on long COVID — long-term effects on health experienced by many who have had COVID-19 — present...
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Health Debunked: Green Mucus Means You Have an Infection
Written by Cheyenne Buckingham, BS | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPH Published on January 9, 2023 Key takeaways: Green mucus has long been said to be a sign of an infection, but that’s not actually true in some cases.Mucus plays an important role in the body. It works with your immune system to protect...
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COVID-19 virus can stay in the body more than a year after infection, research finds
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended, according to new research from UC San Francisco that offers potential clues to why some people develop long COVID. The scientists...
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Low iron levels resulting from infection could be key trigger of long COVID
Peer-Reviewed PublicationUNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body’s ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered. The discovery not only points to possible ways to prevent or treat the condition, but could help...
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Percentage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections up since September 2023, research shows
by Elana Gotkine The percentage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections decreased during the pandemic, but has increased since September 2023, according to research published in the Feb. 22 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Chris Edens, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues used data from...
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Severe lung damage caused when flu is followed by infection with measles-like virus, study finds
by LaTina Emerson, Georgia State University Therapeutic treatment of lethal CDV infection in ferrets. Ferrets were infected with a lethal challenge of CDV and treated with GHP-88309, ERDRP-0519, or therapeutic vaccination. a Schematic of the study design. Ferrets were infected with wild-type recCDV-5804p and monitored for 6 weeks. Symbols in the different boxes show clinical presentation...
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RSV found to infect nerve cells & may cause inflammatory nerve damage
By Paul McClure Researchers have found that RSV, very common in children, can also infect and damage nerve tissue Depositphotos Thought only to infect the respiratory tract, new research has proved for the first time that the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), very common in young children, can also penetrate nerve cells directly, triggering excessive inflammation and...
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We Know a Healthy Gut Fights Infection. New Study Reveals How
Gut bacteria are stronger together when it comes to preventing infectious diseases. When a large, diverse community of gut bacteria compete with pathogens for nutrients, the pathogens may not have enough fuel to colonize and invade the body, according to a new study in Science. The more microbes there are, the more different nutrients they’re...
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B cell-deficient patients gain protective T cell immunity following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infection, study finds
by Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard 3D rendering of a B cell. Credit: Blausen.com staff (2014). “Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014”. WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436. CC BY-SA 4.0 B cell deficiency is a common condition that can result either from immunosuppressant drugs used to treat autoimmune disease or...