by San Diego State University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Young children touch everything—carpets, tabletops, toys, clothes, etc.—and then touch their mouths and faces. This makes them especially vulnerable to thirdhand smoke, the chemical residue from tobacco smoke left behind in dust and on surfaces after someone smokes or vapes. Educating parents and other family members...
by American College of Physicians Gardasil vaccine and box. Image: Wikipedia In a new Annals ‘Beyond the Guideline’s feature, two experts debate the most appropriate test and interval for a young patient who has not yet undergone cervical cancer screening but has received HPV vaccination. All ‘Beyond the Guidelines’ features are based on the Department...
by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIH/NIAID Researchers have identified a powerful combination of antivirals to...
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient, emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Credit: NIAID-RML Chinese scientists say they have developed a new coronavirus test that is accurate as a PCR lab test but gives results within four...
by Michael Morrison, Massachusetts General Hospital Stratified analysis for mortality using determinants of severity for inflammation (NLR) and hypercoagulability (D-dimer). NLR, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. Credit: DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2021-328354 Among the many hard lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 infections, can affect every organ system in the body, including the brain....
by Johannes Angerer, Medical University of Vienna Figure 1. (A) Anti-S levels after the second and third vaccination dose in the Vienna cohort. (B) Anti-S levels after the first, second and third vaccination dose in the Meran cohort. Anti-S levels after the second dose were only determined if no seroconversion was seen after the first...
by Jonathan S. Comer, Anthony Steven Dick, The Conversation When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can have a powerful psychological impact on children—whether those children are physically in the line of danger or watching from thousands of miles away. Our latest research uses brain scans to show how simply watching...
by Nathan Bartlett, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt said last week he expects the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) to change the definition of “fully vaccinated” to three doses instead of two. It comes as evidence emerges suggesting the highly infectious omicron variant has the ability to escape the...
by Swedish Research Council Scatterplots of the left and right non-intracranial volume (ICV)-normalized volumes of amygdalae and hippocampi in 22 controls at inclusion and at follow-up. Segmentation was performed with the MAPER (multiatlas propagation with enhanced registration) automatic method. Differences were calculated as the inclusion value minus the value at follow-up. At the top the...
by University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For children with epilepsy, seizures and related health concerns can disrupt every part of childhood, including sleep. Now, a new study finds that not only are reported sleep concerns highly prevalent in children with epilepsy—for both those with and without nighttime seizures—but these issues persist and may potentially...
