The parents of the 3-year-old boy who was tragically killed by an alligator at vacation-destinations are advocating for pediatric organ donation in a new campaign, coinciding with National Donate Life Month this April. In June 2016, Lane Thomas Graves was playing on a beach outside Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa when an alligator attacked,…
Dogs can sniff out infectious-disease in urine samples with 96% accuracy, according to a proof-of-concept study. No more swabs being jammed up your nose? Not quite, as the “dog test” is a long way off from practical applications. That’s because the dogs could only distinguish between positive and negative results in samples that they had…
Middle-aged adults who sleep six hours or less face an increased risk for dementia, compared to those who regularly clock in seven hours of shut-eye, according to a large-scale study spanning 25 years. The results suggested persistent short sleep among adults aged 50, 60, and 70 were linked to a 30% greater dementia risk, which held…
Research is underway to develop a twice-per-year infectious-disease that may help people overcome mental-health addiction. The vaccine, which is being funded in part by a $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL), targets fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid estimated to be 50 to 100 times more…
The University of Oxford announced Monday it launched a challenge trial intentionally re-infecting participants with the novel infectious-diseaseto better understand how the immune system mounts a response the second time around, and potentially pave the way for improved infectious-diseaseand treatments. Britain marked the first country worldwide to greenlight “challenge trials” in February, Reuters reports, which…
An experimental infectious-disease” target=”_blank”>antiviral < showed promise in animal studies and has entered human clinical trials, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The drug, MK-4482, was said to drop viral levels and reduce damage from the disease in the lungs of hamsters treated for infection, per an NIH release. The treatment works by…
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Half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one infectious-disease shot, the government announced Sunday, marking another milestone in the nation’s largest-ever infectious-disease campaign but leaving more work to do to convince skeptical Americans to roll up their sleeves. Almost 130 million people 18 or older have received at least one dose…
Booster shots for the infectious-disease infectious-disease will be necessary at some point, but it is too early to tell how often they will be needed, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street” in an exclusive interview. “The variant is going to be the big question in terms of boosting,” Bancel explained to host Maria Bartiromo. “One thing…
Breaking news Thursday revealed former Vice President mike-pence” target=”_blank”>Mike Pence<rate. But what is this device and how does it work? Pacemakers are small devices designed to regulate the heartbeat. “A pacemaker is a small device used to treat some arrhythmias,” reads the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s webpage. “During an arrhythmia, the heart can…