THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The conversation under a Creative Commons License. It was once thought that a little alcohol was good for your health. However, as scientific research progresses, …
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After 25 years As a pediatric infectious disease specialist, Asunción Mejías is all too familiar with the deadly unpredictability of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a hospital-causing infection up to 80,000 …
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This year in In the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of them were infected after coming into contact with poultry and …
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Locus’ therapy is actually a cocktail of six phages. The company used artificial intelligence to predict a combination that would be effective against E. coliThree of the phages are “lytic,” …
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As mpox continues Even as the virus spreads in Central Africa, a promising antiviral drug to treat the infection has failed to improve patients’ symptoms in a trial in the …
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In May 2023, the World Health Organization issued a statement declaring the end of monkeypox (MPOX) as a public health emergency. Just over a year later, the agency was forced …
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THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared in WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. Pancreatic cancer turns off one of our most important genes for growing and spreading, new research A …
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Since I was First identified in 1983, HIV has infected more than 85 million people and caused about 40 million deaths worldwide. While medications known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, …
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Drinking raw milk at any time is flirting with dangerous germs. But amid an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in American dairy cows, the risks have risen sharply. Health …
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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, almost all of us have at least trace amounts of methylmercury (the form of mercury we tend to encounter most often) in our …