Infectious Diseases News
May 21, 2024
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May 21, 2024 — Currently available flu medications only target the virus after it has already established an infection, but what if a drug could prevent infection in the first place? Now, scientists have designed drug-like molecules to do just that, by thwarting ...
May 20, 2024 — Two newly discovered mechanisms in bacteria have been identified that can contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance. Changing the number of copies of resistance genes in bacteria increases antibiotic resistance, and can do so very ...
May 17, 2024 — A study has found that repeat vaccination with updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccine promotes the development of antibodies that neutralize a wide range of variants of the virus that causes ...
May 17, 2024 — An HIV vaccine candidate triggered low levels of an elusive type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group of people enrolled in a 2019 clinical ...
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May 14, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the virus that causes COVID-19 can breach the protective blood-retinal-barrier with potential long-term consequences in ...
May 15, 2024 — Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle for the first time in the United States in March, with nine states reporting ...
May 15, 2024 — At present, there is no specific active substance against hepatitis E. As the disease kills 70,000 people every year, researchers are actively searching for one. A team may have found what they're ...
May 13, 2024 — Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust ...
May 6, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that has been shown in mice to provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks -- including ...
May 9, 2024 — A team has developed a vaccine approach that works like a GPS, guiding the immune system through the specific steps to make broadly neutralizing ...
May 2, 2024 — Researchers have found that a brain disorder associated with flu (influenza-associated encephalopathy, or IAE) can be caused by the influenza virus entering the brain from the blood via endothelial ...
May 1, 2024 — An experimental influenza vaccine carrying more than 80,000 variations of hemagglutinin antigens caused the immune system of mice and ferrets to respond more strongly to less variable portions of the ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a model of Kaposi sarcoma that could expedite the development of new drugs to treat the disease, which is the most common cancer in people living with ...
May 2, 2024 — Researchers are on a mission to kill drug-resistant bacteria, and a new study has identified a therapy that can penetrate the slime that such infections use to protect themselves from ...
Earlier Headlines
May 7, 2024 — For people with HIV, the risk of anal cancer varies according to their geographic ...
May 1, 2024 — A study has identified a therapy that can penetrate the slime that such infections use to protect themselves from antibiotics. Scientists showed that an antimicrobial peptide from cows has potential ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — The first study of the use of microarray patches to vaccinate children has shown that the method is safe and induces strong immune responses. The phase 1/2 randomized trial compared results from the ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — The antibiotic vancomycin, recommended as first-line treatment for infection caused by the deadly superbug C. difficile (C. diff), may not be living up to its promise, according to new ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Cleveland Clinic researchers developed an artficial intelligence (AI) model that can determine the best combination and timeline to use when prescribing drugs to treat a bacterial infection, based ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A groundbreaking study combined novel experimental data within an innovative modeling framework to examine how temperature might affect transmission risk of malaria in different environments in ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have created a new vaccine candidate to treat staph and MRSA ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A new study suggests using the anti-COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid three to five days after symptoms emerge in patients and expanding global access to the drug may help reduce the severity and ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Dengue infections in pregnant women may have a negative impact on the first years of children's lives, new research has ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new technology called tARC-seq that revealed a genetic mechanism affecting SARS-CoV-2 divergence and enabled the team to calculate SARS-CoV-2's mutation rate. Using ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — America is going the wrong way when it comes to prescribing antibiotics, with 1 in 4 prescriptions going to patients who have conditions that the drugs won t touch, a new study ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — The annual influenza vaccine has become less effective on average over time. One reason may be reduced vaccine efficacy in people with obesity than those with a healthier body mass index (BMI), while ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Scientists have identified promising real-world links between common HIV drugs and a reduced incidence of Alzheimer's ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Important differences in how the nasal cells of young and elderly people respond to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, could explain why children typically experience milder COVID-19 symptoms, a new study ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Use of antibiotics provided no measurable impact on the severity or duration of coughs even if a bacterial infection was present, finds a large, prospective study of people who sought treatment in ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — Findings show a newly created drug can prevent runaway inflammation while still allowing the immune system to handle the virus, even when given late into ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — Scientists have identified sugar abnormalities in the blood that may promote biological aging and inflammation in people living with ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — A previously overlooked type of immune cell allows SARS-CoV-2 to proliferate, scientists have found. The discovery has important implications for preventing severe ...
Apr. 9, 2024 — One of the remaining mysteries of the human immune system is why a certain cell, called a B cell, which retains a memory for past infections -- ensuring we fight off diseases we have experienced ...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Monday, April 29, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence Can Develop Treatments to Prevent 'superbugs'
- Can Climate Change Accelerate Transmission of Malaria? Pioneering Research Sheds Light on Impacts of Temperature
- A Vaccine to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Optimal Timing Maximizes Paxlovid Benefits for Treating COVID-19
- Dengue Fever Infections Have Negative Impacts on Infant Health for Three Years
Monday, April 22, 2024
- New Technology Uncovers Mechanism Affecting Generation of New COVID Variants
- Rise Seen in Use of Antibiotics for Conditions They Can't Treat -- Including COVID-19
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Vaccine Breakthrough Means No More Chasing Strains
- Specific Nasal Cells Protect Against COVID-19 in Children
- Antibiotics Aren't Effective for Most Lower Tract Respiratory Infections
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- New Drug Prevents Flu-Related Inflammation and Lung Damage
- Scientists Identify Pro-Aging 'sugar Signature' In the Blood of People Living With HIV
- Study Flags Unexpected Cells in Lung as Suspected Source of Severe COVID
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Researchers Develop More Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccine
- New Antibiotic Class Effective Against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- How the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Enters Our Cells
- New Method Developed to Isolate HIV Particles
- COVID-19 Antibody Discovery Could Explain Long COVID
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- New Testing Approach Improves Detection of Rare but Emerging Powassan Virus Spread by Deer Ticks
- Just Ask: Patients in the ER Are Willing to Get a Flu Shot
- Researchers a Step Closer to a Cure for HIV
- Silicon Spikes Take out 96% of Virus Particles
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Cancer Therapies Show Promise in Combating Tuberculosis
- Humans Pass More Viruses to Other Animals Than We Catch from Them
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Research Finds a Direct Communication Path Between the Lungs and the Brain
- Research Offers Hope for Preventing Post-COVID 'brain Fog' By Targeting Brain's Blood Vessels
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Severe Lung Infection During COVID-19 Can Cause Damage to the Heart
- Experts Warn Climate Change Will Fuel Spread of Infectious Diseases
Monday, March 18, 2024
- Addressing Both Flu and COVID-19 Through a Single, Multitasking Injection
- Newborn Piglets Serve as a Model for Studying Influenza
Friday, March 15, 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
- Infections from These Bacteria Are on the Rise: New Blood Test Cuts Diagnosis Time from Months to Hours
- Age and Sex Associated With Patient's Likelihood of Antimicrobial Resistance
- New Bioengineered Protein Design Shows Promise in Fighting COVID-19
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
- Scientists Find Weak Points on Epstein-Barr Virus
- Vaccine Monitoring Crucial as SARS-CoV-2 Variants Continue to Evolve
Friday, March 8, 2024
- Zika Virus Vaccine Emerges as an Unlikely Hero in Battling Brain Cancer
- Researchers Open New Leads in Anti-HIV Drug Development, Using a Compound Found in Nature
- COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body More Than a Year After Infection
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- What Makes a Pathogen Antibiotic-Resistant?
- Children Surpass a Year of HIV Remission After Treatment Pause
Monday, March 4, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
- New Antibodies Target 'dark Side' Of Influenza Virus Protein
- How Virus Causes Cancer: Potential Treatment
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Long-Term Data Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccine-Induced Antibody Responses Are Long-Lasting
- 'Hexaplex' Vaccine Aims to Boost Flu Protection
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- Scientists Discover Link Between Leaky Gut and Accelerated Biological Aging
- Study of Usefulness of Lockdowns During Epidemics Identifies Alternate Solution
- Study Finds High Number of Persistent COVID-19 Infections in the General Population
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Researchers Are Using RNA in a New Approach to Fight HIV
- Breakthrough in Developing the PD-1-Enhanced DNA Vaccine for Over 6-Year cART-Free AIDS Prevention and Virologic Control
Monday, February 19, 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- Double Risk of Dementia After Mouth Ulcer Virus
- Climate Change Drove the Emergence of West Nile Virus in Europe
- Scientists Discover Hidden Army of Lung Flu Fighters
- Case Study: Drug-Resistant Bacteria Responds to Phage-Antibiotic Combo Therapy
- COVID-19 Vaccination and Boosting During Pregnancy Protects Infants for Six Months, Study Finds
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
- New Trial Highlights Incremental Progress Towards a Cure for HIV-1
- Interactions Between Flu Subtypes Predict Epidemic Severity More Than Virus Evolution
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
- Switching Arms Improves Effectiveness of Two-Dose Vaccinations, Study Suggests
- New Cell Therapy Shows Promise With ARDS Patients
- Flu Virus Variants Resistant to New Antiviral Drug Candidate Lose Pathogenicity
- How T Cells Combat Tuberculosis
Monday, February 5, 2024
- Immune Response, Not Acute Viral Infections, Responsible for Neurological Damage, Study Finds
- Virus Ancestry Could Aid Bid to Predict Next Pandemic, Study Finds
Friday, February 2, 2024
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- New and Highly Infectious E. Coli Strain Resistant to Powerful Antibiotics
- Engineering Viruses to Kill Deadly Pathogens
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
- DNA Particles That Mimic Viruses Hold Promise as Vaccines
- Resin Destroys Coronavirus from Plastic Surfaces
- Gut Microbiota Influence Severity of Respiratory Viral Infection
Friday, January 26, 2024
- Common Cold or COVID-19? Some T Cells Are Ready to Combat Both
- West Nile Virus Emergence and Spread in Europe Found to Be Positively Associated With Agricultural Activities
Thursday, January 25, 2024
- How HIV Smuggles Its Genetic Material Into the Cell Nucleus
- Simulations Show How HIV Sneaks Into the Nucleus of the Cell
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
- Researchers Pinpoint Most Likely Source of HIV Rebound Infection
- How Does HIV Get Into the Cell's Cenetr to Kickstart Infection?
- Infants Born to COVID-Infected Mothers Have Triple the Risk of Developing Respiratory Distress
- How the Coronavirus Defends Itself Against Our Immune System