Over a career in infectious diseases that has spanned nearly four decades, Dilip Nathwani, OBE, has long been acutely aware of the pivotal role that education plays in addressing the rising threat of antimicrobial resistance…
[caption id="attachment_984" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Cat[/caption] A team led by University of Illinois researchers has developed a test they say can detect SARS-CoV-2 in any species of wild or domesticated animal. Their research, published today in mSphere, details…
San Francisco : Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads, has reached over 95 million posts and more than 50 million accounts. Users have already posted more than 95 million threads and dropped about 190 million likes, according…
Tyson Foods will drop the "No Antibiotics Ever" label from some of its chicken products by the end of the year, according to media reports. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said Tyson will…
A post-infection inflammatory response has been a popular hypothesis used to explain long COVID, a condition defined as significant lingering COVID-19 symptoms present weeks and months following the initial infection. A new UK study, however,…
JAMA Health Forum has posted a new research letter showing how the seasonal pattern of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, with interseasonal spikes occurring as soon as the summer of 2021. The research looked…
New studies on SARS-CoV-2's neurologic effects describe how even mild infections can lead to neuropsychiatric conditions by altering brain structure and function and review possible mechanisms for viral passage through the blood-brain barrier. More anxiety,…
More kids were diagnosed as having type 1 diabetes after the COVID-19 pandemic began, and researchers have yet to determine the mechanism behind this increased incidence rate, the authors of a new meta-analysis said in JAMA…
As the world population has grown older, Alzheimer’s disease has become increasingly common. Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent form of dementia. Dementia is a term used to describe a range of symptoms linked…
If you look up at the sky on a clear day, you might notice little cobweb-like structures drifting across your field of vision. They are known as floaters or, more formally, muscae volitantes – Latin…
