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Whooping cough

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious disease that is one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths.

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New Method for Evaluating Vaccine Safety

Dec. 8, 2020 — A research group has led the development of a new method to evaluate vaccine safety. The new method may significantly reduce the use of animal testing in the vaccine ...

Coughing Mice and the Fight Against Pertussis

Mar. 31, 2022 — Researchers have generated a mouse model of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, sufficiently replicating the persistent cough symptom. By studying various bacteria mutants and observing the ...

History of Vaccines Offers Lessons on COVID-19 for Pregnant Women

Feb. 8, 2021 — Pregnant women, who are at increased risk of preterm birth or pregnancy loss if they develop a severe case of COVID-19, need the best possible guidance on whether they should receive a COVID-19 ...

Several Vaccines Associated With Reduced Risk of Alzheimer's Disease in Adults 65 and Older

Aug. 16, 2023 — Prior vaccination against tetanus and diphtheria, with or without pertussis (Tdap/Td); herpes zoster (HZ), better known as shingles; and pneumococcus are all associated with a reduced risk for ...

TB Study Reveals Potential Targets to Treat and Control Infection

Feb. 16, 2021 — Researchers may have found a new pathway to treat and control tuberculosis (TB), the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq), a next-generation ...

COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy Could Protect Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Infants

June 8, 2022 — New research offers evidence that getting a second or third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the final stages of pregnancy offers protection for infants against SARS-CoV-2 infection (the virus that ...

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery by Age May Mitigate Deaths and Severe Health Impacts

May 6, 2021 — Strategic vaccine delivery is critical to reducing COVID-19 transmission, mortality and long-term health impacts. A new study suggests that prioritizing vaccine delivery to older age groups and the ...

Oral Hookworm Vaccine Shows Promise in Trials in Mice

Oct. 26, 2021 — There's been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection -- a parasite which causes serious disease in tens of millions of people globally. Trials of ...

Macaque Trials Offer Hope in Pneumonia Vaccine Development

Nov. 28, 2023 — A research team has successfully developed a novel pneumococcal vaccine by combining the team's proprietary mucosal vaccine technology with pneumococcal surface proteins that can cover a wide ...

Macaque Trials Offer Hope in Pneumonia Vaccine Development

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'Woman the Hunter': Studies Aim to Correct History

Nov. 20, 2023 — New research combined both physiological and archaeological evidence to argue that not only did prehistoric women engage in the practice of hunting, but their female anatomy and biology would have made them intrinsically better suited for ...

US Men Die 6 Years Before Women, as Life Expectancy Gap Widens

Nov. 14, 2023 — We've known for more than a century that women outlive men. But new research shows that, at least in the United States, the gap has been widening for more than a ...

Any Activity Is Better for Your Heart Than Sitting -- Even Sleeping

Nov. 9, 2023 — Replacing sitting with as little as a few minutes of moderate exercise a day tangibly improves heart health, according to new ...

Brain Implant May Enable Communication from Thoughts Alone

Nov. 6, 2023 — A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons and engineers can translate a person's brain signals into what they're trying to say. The new technology might one day help people unable to talk due to ...

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Enhanced Treatment of Liver Carcinoma With a Drug-Eluting Hydrogel

Nov. 29, 2023 — Scientists have developed an injectable or catheter-administered hydrogel with enhanced capabilities for treating hepatocellular carcinoma, a deadly form of liver cancer. This drug-eluting hydrogel ...

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Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have been working to better understand what drives melanoma brain metastasis. They now report on the identification of a cell signaling ...

Mindfulness-Based Intervention Shows Promise for PTSD in Cardiac Arrest Survivors

Nov. 29, 2023 — A novel pilot study incorporating mindfulness into exposure therapy shows promise for reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress in cardiac arrest ...

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Eye-Safe Laser Technology to Diagnose Traumatic Brain Injury

Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have designed and developed a novel diagnostic device to detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) by shining a safe laser into the ...

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Nov. 29, 2023 — Scientists report a promising new approach to speed vaccine testing for ...

Newborn Babies at Risk from Bacteria Commonly Carried by Mothers

Nov. 29, 2023 — One in 200 newborns is admitted to a neonatal unit with sepsis caused by a bacteria commonly carried by their mothers -- much greater than the previous estimate, say researchers. The team has ...

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Nov. 14, 2023 — An international team of scientists has uncovered the vital role of microglia, the immune cells in the brain that acts as its dedicated defense team, in early human brain development. By ...

Study of Ancient British Oral Microbiomes Reveals Shift Following Black Death

Nov. 29, 2023 — The Second Plague Pandemic of the mid-14th century, also known as the Black Death, killed 30-60 percent of the European population and profoundly ...