New flu vaccine approach targets multiple virus strains
Doctors recommend getting your flu shot annually, since the specific influenza strain it targets varies from year to year.…
Vaccine gaps fuel Bangladesh’s deadly measles crisis | Northwest & National News
Rocking her baby to soothe his searing pain and gasping breaths, 18-year-old Rubia Akhtar Brishti recounts how her…
Phage Chemical “Crosstalk” Can Backfire, Steering Responders Into Lysogeny
Credit: Marharyta Marko / iStock / Getty Images Plus Phages have been known to trade chemical messages to…
Getting serious about ending tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is endemic in Malaysia and has been a long-standing public health concern. Although the frequency has…
A New Challenge in Malaria Control
The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more…
Identification of transporter-dependent capsular loci associated with the invasive potential of Escherichia coli
Mba, I. E. et al. Vaccine development for bacterial pathogens: advances, challenges and prospects. Trop. Med. Int. Health…
AI-based chest X-ray prioritization in the lung cancer diagnostic pathway: the LungIMPACT randomized controlled trial
This large, multisite randomized study has shown that AI prioritization of CXRs did not improve the speed of…
Test Identifies Active, Infectious Tuberculosis
On World Tuberculosis Day, March 24, a test developed by UC Davis Health could soon speed up diagnosis…
Tuberculosis Survivors Face Elevated Mortality Risk for 14 Years
New research indicates that even after successful treatment completion, tuberculosis patients experience higher rates of death from respiratory…
AI-based triage and decision support in mammography and digital tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening: a paired, noninferiority trial
Ethics approval All patients provided written informed consent before enrollment. This prospective clinical trial was compliant with the…
Effects of daily multivitamin–multimineral and cocoa extract supplementation on epigenetic aging clocks in the COSMOS randomized clinical trial
Wu, Z., Zhang, W., Qu, J. & Liu, G. H. Emerging epigenetic insights into aging mechanisms and interventions.…
Study uncovers how tuberculosis bacteria fuel themselves during infection
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered how the bacteria that causes tuberculosis fuels itself during infection, providing new insights…