medicine – Sivu 2

2024-02-19 @ 17.36.52 ∈ In English

The global fight against polio — how far have we come?

A generation ago, polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year. Many countries have now eliminated polio, and our generation has the chance to eradicate it entirely.

2024-02-09 @ 17.24.23 ∈ In English

Getting vaccines in different arms improves effectiveness, study finds

Researchers have found that getting a vaccine booster shot in a different arm from the one you got the first in may improve the body’s immune response up to four-fold. While they exclusively studied responses to the COVID-19 vaccine, they suspect this effect may be seen with other multidose vaccines.

2024-01-26 @ 18.47.21 ∈ In English

Four cold-causing coronaviruses may provide clues to COVID’s future

Four largely ignored coronaviruses circulate in humans without causing great harm and may portend the future for SARS-CoV-2

2024-01-07 @ 17.10.56 ∈ In English

What were the death tolls from pandemics in history?

Pandemics have killed millions of people throughout history. How many deaths were caused by different pandemics, and how have researchers estimated their death tolls?

2023-11-16 @ 12.46.15 ∈ In English

Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower high cholesterol

In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment can reduce cholesterol, the fatty substance that clogs and hardens arteries over time.

2023-11-15 @ 19.18.05 ∈ In English

New drug given every few months reduces high blood pressure in trial

People with high blood pressure may soon be able to swap the daily pills for an injection every few months. A phase 2 clinical trial has shown that a drug called Zilebesiran can drastically reduce blood pressure for long periods of time with no side effects.

2023-11-06 @ 20.33.58 ∈ In English

Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes – DW – 10/31/2023

Mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria may be associated with a 97% drop in dengue infections in three cities in Colombia's Aburra Valley. Researchers for the non-profit World Mosquito Program released the results at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in late October.

2023-11-06 @ 20.20.54 ∈ In English

Invoking Betteridge’s law of headlines, I predict this will turn out to be correlation without causation.

Are these moths blinding children? Nepalese researchers seek answers

Researchers are carrying out environmental surveys and genomic sequencing to try to learn more about SHAPU, a severe eye condition that mainly affects children — but funding is still scarce.

2023-10-19 @ 12.23.37 ∈ In English

New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly

The antiviral drug ensitrelvir eases both smell and taste loss, and is one of the few COVID-19 drugs available to people not at high risk of grave illness.

2023-10-03 @ 18.33.30 ∈ In English

Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer

It is almost two years to the day since the first vaccine - called RTS,S and developed by GSK - was backed by the WHO. […] The WHO said the effectiveness of the two vaccines was "very similar" and there was no evidence one was better than the other. However, the key difference is the ability to manufacture the University of Oxford vaccine - called R21 - at scale.