Researchers from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) and the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), in collaboration with the IATA, have developed a biotechnological...
According to this week’s FluView report, seasonal influenza activity continues to increase slowly in the United States. The proportion of people seeing their healthcare provider for influenza-like-illness (ILI) has been at the national baseline...
Getting an annual flu shot can save heart failure patients' lives, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its proposal to create a separate regulatory category for antiseptic products used in food handler settings...
New research from scientists at Imperial College London unravels how so-called bacterial persister cells manipulate our immune cells, potentially opening new avenues to finding ways of clearing these bacterial cells from the body, and stopping...
The venom of insects such as wasps and bees is full of compounds that can kill bacteria. Unfortunately, many of these compounds are also toxic for humans, making it impossible to use them as antibiotic drugs...
Thanks to viral traces in the genomes of ancient people, researchers from South Ural State University were able to determine that man has been suffering from hepatitis B since at least the Bronze Age. The results of their archaeological digs were...
Tuberculosis meningitis causes life-threatening inflammation of the membranes in the brain and spinal cord. Treatment is difficult due to the inability of drugs to penetrate the blood brain barrier (BBB). Now researchers are using non-invasive PET...
More Americans have or intend to get a flu vaccine this fall, according to a new survey by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication Center for Health and Risk Communication. ...
The low unemployment rate in the U.S. -- which fell to a 49 year-low in September and October -- is good news to many people, but perhaps not to residents of nursing homes. A Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) study found that quality of...
