Gastro outbreak: How does it spread, and how can we stop it? A gastroenterologist explains
On Monday, Victorian health authorities released figures showing they’d received 389 reports of “gastro” outbreaks so far in 2021.
Category: Health
Exercise boosts immunity and makes vaccines more effective, new study shows
The availability of vaccines has brought hope for the end of the pandemic. Yet COVID deaths and cases are still surging around the world. As we...
Racial inequalities and COVID-19: Addressing the long-term impacts
It didn’t take long for the world to feel the pandemic’s impact on existing inequalities. A year after the arrival of COVID-19, however, and many of...
Designing new ways to detect viral threats earlier to prevent another pandemic
To Linfa Wang, Ph.D., some of the most important unanswered questions about the COVID-19 pandemic lie within slick layers of guano, deep in a hole in...
Strict border control remains crucial for Australia’s travel bubble
With the opening of a quarantine-free travel corridor between New Zealand and Australia this week, it’s easy to forget COVID-19 is still spreading globally, faster than...
Esophageal cancer: Discovery of the mechanisms involved
Metaplasia is defined as the replacement of a fully differentiated cell type by another. There are several classical examples of metaplasia, one of the most frequent...
COVID-19 vaccines explained
Since it began on 30 December 2020, Singapore’s vaccination program has continued to make good progress. More than a million doses of vaccine have been administered,...
Uncovering the function of prostate cancer protein
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a mechanism that makes a prostate cancer-causing protein called FOXA1 more resilient, according to a study published in Science Advances.
How does the COVID-19 vaccine help us reach herd immunity?
On Monday, all adults over the age of 16 became eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. But just last week, the CDC and FDA announced a pause...
Two studies find little evidence of adverse mental health with early recruitment to the UK Armed Forces
Two studies led by researchers from the University of Glasgow and King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King’s College London have found there is...
