To keep in-person learning and protect students in schools, pediatricians and public health officials must advocate for evidence-based mitigation strategies that can reduce COVID-19 transmission — especially the Delta variant, which overwhelmed…
Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and a long list of maladies that have plagued humanity since time immemorial. Is there anything to celebrate about them?…
In patients with COVID-19, a high body mass index (BMI) is associated with an increased risk of death and prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stay, according to a new study published this…
New research suggests that dengue—a viral infection spread by mosquitos—could be suppressed in Singapore in a highly cost-effective manner through the release of mosquitos infected with the bacterium Wolbachia. Stacy Soh of…
In areas where COVID-19 vaccines are limited, vaccinating essential workers before older adults can reduce infections and deaths, according to a modeling study published in the new open-access journal PLOS Global Public…
The health outreach workers who drove past Lama Mballow’s village with a megaphone handed out T-shirts emblazoned with the words: “I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE!” By then, the women in Sare Gibel…
Scientists have long known that HIV integrates a DNA copy of its genetic information into host cell genes that have the potential to cause cancer. When animals are infected with other retroviruses,…
At the beginning of neurodegenerative disease, the immune cells of the brain – the “microglia” – take up glucose, a sugar molecule, to a much greater extent than hitherto assumed. Studies by…
A substantial number of English communities experienced a decline in life expectancy from 2010-2019, Imperial College London researchers have found. In the five years before the pandemic (2014-2019) life expectancy went down…
Becoming a parent later in life could have beneficial effects for your offspring – in roundworms at least – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study…