Reviewed A vaccine designed to protect against three different deadly coronaviruses shows success in mouse studies, demonstrating the viability of a pan-coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. Publishing in the journal Cell Reports, the single nanoparticle vaccine included components of a previous vaccine that was shown to protect mice and primates against multiple variants of […]

Advisors to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to approve new draft guidelines for hospital infection control this week, the first update since 2007. But health care workers worry whether the guidelines, which suggest that surgical masks are as good as N-95 masks at preventing the spread of respiratory infections during routine care, are protecting a […]

It’s a miracle that people aren’t constantly getting into car accidents. Whizzing by at 65 miles per hour in a car, the brain rapidly decodes millions of photons worth of information from the eyes, and then must use that information to instantly figure out where it is and where it needs to go. Is that a pedestrian approaching the sidewalk […]

Bed bugs expert reveals how to spot signs of infestation Bed bugs “often live on furniture or bedding”, the NHS warns, and if your home has an infestation, they can be very difficult to get rid of. And as the UK is at risk of a bed bug invasion, many of us are looking for ways to protect ourselves from […]

To accurately perceive the direction of moving objects, rats may exploit a small but very useful cluster of visual neurons, which seem to work in the same way as the “pattern cells” found in the cerebral cortex of primates. Thanks to these neurons, rats may rely on a rather advanced motion processing system, based on extraction of high-level visual information […]

These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case—antibiotics have been available for less than a century. Before that, patients would die of relatively trivial infections that became more serious. Some serious infections, such as those involving the heart valves, were inevitably fatal. […]

TOPLINE: The prevalence of clinically meaningful levels of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) is significantly lower among Black patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), compared with people of other races and ethnicities. METHODOLOGY: The researchers reviewed data from seven longitudinal SLE cohorts including more than 2500 individuals to examine the overall prevalence of aPLs as well as their presence by race. Clinically […]

CDC explains how tuberculosis can be transmitted In the Victorian era, TB killed around one in seven people in England, and while great progress has been made to curb the disease, it’s still here. The latest data from the Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show that there have been a total of 1,175 cases of TB across the country in the […]

TOPLINE: For trauma patients with exsanguinating torso hemorrhage, resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) did not reduce mortality, and may have increased 90-day mortality, when added to standard hemorrhagic management in a randomized controlled trial. METHODOLOGY: REBOA is a novel technique whereby a percutaneously inserted balloon is inflated in the aorta. The UK-REBOA trial is the first randomized […]

Reviewed Current osteoarthritis treatment manages symptoms rather than addressing the underlying disease, but a new University of Adelaide study has shown the condition may be treatable and reversible. Osteoarthritis is the degeneration of cartilage and other tissues in joints and is the most common form of arthritis in Australia, with one in five people over the age of 45 having […]