Health care workers and senior citizens were the first people vaccinated on Friday in Haiti as part of a test run after the country recently received 500,000 doses from the United Nations. The vaccinations were given to more than 30…
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What you say in the first minute after a vaccine can be key in reducing a childs distress
As we look forward to a fall with hopefully one of the most important vaccination uptakes of children in a generation, a new study provides insights to help parents with reducing post-vaccination distress in younger kids. The study, published in…
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1 in 20 college students has internet gaming disorder, study finds
(HealthDay)—Is it possible to become addicted to gaming on the internet? Yes, warns new research that discovered when young people get too hooked it may trigger sleep difficulties, depression, anxiety and, in some cases, even suicidal thoughts. Phone interviews conducted…
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Soft tissue regeneration in a cell-free scaffold microenvironment
In a new report now published on Scientific Reports, Irini Gerges and a team of scientists in Italy and the U.S. studied the importance of biomechanical and biochemical cues to create culture conditions suited for three-dimensional (3D) regenerative microenvironments and…
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Virus infections surging in Africas vulnerable rural areas
For Pelagia Bvukura, who lives in a rural part of north-central Zimbabwe, COVID-19 had always been a “city disease,” affecting those in the capital, Harare, or other, distant big towns. “There was no virus for us. We only used to…
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Over 10 million Australians in coronavirus lockdown
More than 10 million Australians have been ordered into lockdown as coronavirus cases spread across the country, and Brisbane on Tuesday became the fourth major city to issue stay-at-home orders. The three-day snap lockdown for Brisbane, starting on Tuesday evening,…
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Treating orphan diseases in children
Blau syndrome is an extremely rare autoimmune disease estimated to occur in fewer than one in a million people. Patients begin to show symptoms before the age of 4, and the symptoms will progress to cause serious complications such as…
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Can a drug in nit shampoo help treat COVID?
Can a drug in nit shampoo help treat Covid? That’s the controversial claim from some doctors and their patients, but what do the experts think? Reno Degisi felt so ill he thought he was dying. Last Christmas the 53-year-old building…
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Mutation in highly infectious Alpha variant may help coronavirus evade immune system
The B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant—also known as Alpha—may be more infectious because it contains mutations that make it better adapted to foil the innate immune system, at least for long enough to allow the virus to replicate and potentially find new…
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In poorest countries, surge combines with vaccine shortage
Hati Maronjei once swore he would never get a COVID-19 shot, after a pastor warned that vaccines aren’t safe. Now, four months after the first batch of vaccines arrived in Zimbabwe, the 44-year-old street hawker of electronic items is desperate…
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