Zika and glaucoma linked for first time in new study
A team of researchers in Brazil and at the Yale School of Public Health has published the first...
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Infectious Disease
Bridging the Doctor Patient Divide
Patients are becoming increasingly disgruntled in our current healthcare system. Doctors and other...
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‘Shock and Kill’ Strategy for Curing HIV May Endanger Patients’ Brains
Combination drug treatments have become successful at long-term control of HIV infection, but the...
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New Mechanism to Control Human Viral Infections Discovered
Researchers discover long sought after mechanism in human cells that could help treat diseases...
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Should patients bail out when their doctor is burned out?
Google “physician burnout epidemic,” and you will find quite a few articles and blog...
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IDSA Statement: House Passes 21st Century Cures Act
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which will address...
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Groundbreaking study discovers 1,445 viruses, including several new families
A pioneering study of invertebrates reveals people have only scratched the surface of the world of...
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Administering epurposed drug to treat TB given via lungs vs orally
Tuberculosis (TB) is responsible for more than 1.8 million deaths each year, according to the...
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Zika Infection May Affect Adult Brain Cells, Suggesting Risk May Not Be Limited to Pregnant Women
Concerns over the Zika virus have focused on pregnant women due to mounting evidence that it...
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Stop Playing Seek-and-Hide With Latent HIV
A group of researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Pompeu Fabra University...
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After decades of research, science is no better able to predict suicidal behaviors
Experts’ ability to predict if someone will attempt to take his or her own life is no better...
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New method for predicting congenital cytomegalovirus infection during the prenatal period
Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection can cause serious complications such as hearing...
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Update: Trends in infectious disease mortality in US
Trends in infectious disease mortality in the United States from 1980 through 2014 have been...
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Among antidementia drugs, memantine is associated with the highest risk of pneumonia
Among users of antidementia drugs, persons using memantine have the highest risk of pneumonia, new...
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Significant progress toward vaccine to protect against HIV infection
Frontline attack against HIV infection is closer to reality. Researchers have made significant...
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Why wounds heal more slowly with age
Older bodies need longer to mend. This reality of aging has been documented since World War I,...
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Serious, highly drug-resistant infections increasing among US children
Highly drug-resistant infections are on the rise among U.S. children, reports a new study...
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Conference Highlights: ACAAI 2016
New research was presented at ACAAI 2016, the annual scientific meeting of the American College of...
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New Research – Flu Vaccine Keeps Dialysis Patients Out of Hospital
Hemodialysis patients who skipped the influenza vaccine were significantly more likely to be...
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Wrong Body Cremated: ID’ing Patients By More Than a Name
The wrong body was cremated by the county coroner’s office in Los Angeles. Jorge Hernandez...
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