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Understanding parents’ care expectations for a child with gastroenteritis could prevent after-hours care requests

Written by | 29 Sep 2023

Researchers from the Netherlands conducted a qualitative study to explore parental motivations, expectations, and experiences of off-hours primary care contacts for children with acute gastroenteritis. They conducted 14… read more.

British sex lives revealed in new study

Written by | 15 Sep 2023

A new study published today shows the number of sexual partners we have changes as we age – and there are some surprising results. Researchers from the University… read more.

Metformin lowers risk of long COVID

Written by | 10 Jun 2023

Treatment with the diabetes drug metformin immediately after testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus lowers the risk of developing long COVID by 41%. Researchers reported this finding on… read more.

New diagnostic test is 1,000 times more sensitive than conventional tests

Written by | 15 Feb 2023

When Srikanth Singamaneni and Guy Genin, both professors of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, established a new collaboration with… read more.

Discovering new treatments for tuberculosis

Written by | 27 Jul 2022

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, remains the leading cause of infectious disease worldwide, affecting approximately a quarter of the globe’s population. Treatment of infections is problematic… read more.

How to rejuvenate the immune system of elderly people and reduce their risk of infectious disease

Written by | 18 Apr 2022

A new study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, identifies a reason for why older adults are significantly more susceptible to infectious diseases than younger… read more.

Memory T cells from previous common cold infections protect against infection with SARS-CoV-2

Written by | 11 Jan 2022

A new study, published in Nature Communications confirms what many people have suspected for a long time – namely that previous human coronavirus infection e.g. with the common cold, could… read more.

5,000-year-old man had the earliest known strain of plague

Written by | 7 Jul 2021

The oldest strain of Yersinia pestis–the bacteria behind the plague that caused the Black Death, which may have killed as much as half of Europe’s population in the 1300s–has… read more.

Investigational malaria vaccine gives strong, lasting protection

Written by | 6 Jul 2021

Two U.S. Phase 1 clinical trials of a novel candidate malaria vaccine have found that the regimen conferred unprecedentedly high levels of durable protection when volunteers were later… read more.

Employed individuals more likely to contract the flu, study shows

Written by | 5 Jul 2021

A University of Arkansas researcher and international colleagues found that employed individuals, on average, are 35.3% more likely to be infected with the flu virus. The findings confirm… read more.

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