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New sleeping sickness drug could be a key in eliminating disease transmission by 2030: Study

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A new, single-dose, oral treatment for sleeping sickness is as effective as current treatments and could be a key factor in eliminating disease transmission by 2030, suggests a new...

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Canada: Emerging tick-borne pathogens on the rise in the central part of the country

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Tick-borne pathogens, known for causing illnesses such as Lyme disease, are on the rise in Central Canada – presenting new risks in areas where they were never previously detected. The findings from...

Shingles associated with increased risk for stroke, heart attack: Study

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, demonstrated that shingles, also known as...

Florida scientists use novel method to vaccinate against nontyphoidal salmonella

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There is no FDA-approved human vaccine for nontyphoidal salmonella, which kills hundreds of thousands of people and sickens an estimated 93.8 million globally each year. Nontyphoidal salmonella is the...

Monkeypox Mutations Cause Virus to Spread Rapidly, Evade Drugs and Vaccines

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Monkeypox has infected more than 77,000 people in more than 100 countries worldwide, and — similar to COVID-19 — mutations have enabled the virus to grow stronger and smarter, evading antiviral drugs...

Dengue fever treatment: Favorable Phase 1 clinical data presented at ASTMH meeting

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today presented a poster highlighting favorable AT-752 Phase 1 clinical data for the treatment of dengue...

Blood thinners: Apixaban has the lowest risk of gastrointestinal bleeding compared to other direct oral anticoagulants

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A large-scale comparison of direct oral anticoagulants (blood thinners), commonly prescribed for irregular heartbeats, has identified the drug with the lowest risk of bleeding, in a new study led by UCL...

Malaria: Antibody drug 88% effective in preventing infection

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 One dose of an antibody drug safely protected healthy, non-pregnant adults from malaria infection during an intense six-month malaria season in Mali, Africa, a National Institutes...

Lassa fever: Three rare antibodies, combined in a ‘cocktail’, are effective in blocking infection

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A new study from scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) gives researchers a guide to neutralizing Lassa virus using a trio of rare antibodies isolated from survivors...

COVID-19 infection linked to heightened risk of poor cardiovascular health and death: UK study

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COVID-19 infection is linked to a subsequent heightened risk of poor cardiovascular health and death, particularly among those whose infection is severe requiring hospital admission, finds a large UK Biobank...