Foreign aid cuts to tuberculosis services could cost families $80 billion worldwide
More than a year after the second Trump administration began dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the global health...
Foreign aid cuts to tuberculosis services could cost families $80 billion worldwide
More than a year after the second Trump administration began dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the global health...
Daily blood tests helped curb E. coli complications in Calgary’s 2023 outbreak
Research conducted by University of Calgary scientists informed patient care when hundreds of children became sick from exposure to a severe strain of...
Dengue vaccine remains 80.5% effective against severe cases after five years
In a phase 3 clinical trial, the tetravalent dengue vaccine, developed by the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, was 80.5% effective against...
Safer blood clot treatment: Apixaban beats rivaroxaban in head-to-head comparison
The first clinical trial to compare two commonly used drugs head-to-head for venous thrombosis treatment has found a clear winner: while both drugs...
Researchers show retinal images can accurately differentiate ALS and Alzheimer’s
A retinal image could help doctors quickly distinguish between similar neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS and Alzheimer's disease, and with...
Experimental chemo drug triggers ‘viral mimicry’ signals that rally immune attack
In recent years, scientists have discovered that some chemotherapy drugs not only kill cancer cells directly, but at least in some patients,...
Marburg virus invades human cells far more efficiently than Ebola, study reveals
In a new study published in Nature, University of Minnesota researchers have found that the Marburg virus, one of the world's deadliest pathogens with...
Severe COVID-19 and flu can facilitate lung cancer months or years later
Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease's development, but vaccination heads off those...
Is vaping more harmful than smoking cigarettes? More people incorrectly think so
A growing number of U.S. adults consider electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) more harmful than conventional cigarettes. The findings, by researchers...
