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Penn study reveals new therapeutic target for slowing the spread of flu virus

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Influenza A (flu A) hijacks host proteins for viral RNA splicing and blocking these interactions caused replication of the virus to slow, according to new research published in Nature Communications by...

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Malaria: Combining experimental vaccines could reduce cases by 91 percent

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Using two experimental anti-malarial vaccines, which work in different ways, can greatly reduce the number of malaria infections in animal studies. Experimental vaccines, which independently achieve 48%...

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Western Pennsylvania goes from a Lyme-naïve to Lyme endemic

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Lyme disease cases among children are on the rise in western Pennsylvania, according to researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The findings are published online today in Clinical...

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Google search for info on vaccines and autism: ‘A pollution of the health information available to the public with misinformation that can potentially impact on public health’

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Research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) has found that information available online can provide unreliable information based on old, ‘weak’ scientific studies. The study ‘Fake...

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Lyme research: East Carolina University researcher receives NIH grant to study Borrelia motility

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A East Carolina University (ECU) researcher received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study how the bacteria that causes Lyme disease moves. In order for the bacteria to survive in the...

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MRSA: New compound, F6, potent against antibiotic-resistant pathogens

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Purdue University researchers have identified a new compound that in preliminary testing has shown itself to be as effective as antibiotics approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat life-threatening...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) using indirect immunofluorescence technique/CDC

RSV vaccine Phase 1 study to begin

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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a clinical trial of an investigational vaccine designed to protect against respiratory...

immunizations

Tdap vaccine given during pregnancy reduces occurrence of infant pertussis: Study

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A study published today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows the effectiveness of the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) vaccine for infants whose mothers receive the vaccine...

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Infection prevention: Measles and mumps outbreaks demonstrate the importance of an integrated response

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The decline in vaccination rates across communities has led to the resurgence of diseases like measles and mumps, and recent outbreaks have demonstrated the importance of an integrated infection prevention...

Lyme

Canada: Study looks at clinical manifestations of Lyme disease in Ontario

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Researchers from the Enteric, Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases, Communicable Diseases, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in a study published in PLoS...