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Contagion Live
As the push to boost flu vaccination rates rolls on, public health officials will put a particular emphasis on vulnerable groups such as the elderly and young children. Now, new research is shedding new empirical light on which vaccines might work best for the elderly.
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The New York Times
The U.S. may be headed into a bad flu season, according to figures recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of the last week of December, “widespread” flu activity was reported by health departments in 46 states. More ominously, a second measure — the percentage of patients with flu symptoms visiting medical clinics — shot up almost to the peak reached at the height of the 2017-18 flu season, which was the most severe in a decade.
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More than 20 years ago, the lab of developmental biologist Olivier Pourquié discovered a sort of cellular clock in chicken embryos where each “tick” stimulates the formation of a structure called a somite that ultimately becomes a vertebra. In the ensuing years, Pourquié and others further illuminated the mechanics of this so-called segmentation clock across many organisms, including creation of the first models of the clock in a lab dish using mouse cells.
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The miniiSED™ is the newest addition to the iSED™ family of ESR analyzers from ALCOR Scientific. The miniiSED™ is a single position, fully automated ESR analyzer that works directly from the primary EDTA tube and produces an ESR result in just 15 seconds. The miniiSED™ is the ideal ESR analyzer for small laboratories, POL’s and emergency clinics.
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Infectious Disease Advisor
A new vaccine for the avian influenza A was shown to be safe and immunogenic, establishing it as a needed addition to the global pool of prepandemic vaccines, according to a study published in Vaccine. This Phase 2/3, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled study (Clinical Trial identifier NCT02612909) conducted by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi, Vietnam, tested the safety and immunogenicity of a recently developed IVACFLU-A/H5N1 vaccine.
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HealthDay News
Treatment with half the typical amount of chemotherapy can still prevent the return of one type of testicular cancer, a new study suggests.
Giving patients with the "nonseminoma" form of testicular tumor just one cycle of chemotherapy was just as effective at preventing the cancer from coming back as the standard two cycles, the study found.
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Infection Control Today
It’s not a cure for C-diff, but it’s certainly a huge step toward finding one for the deadly infection that claims 15,000 lives a year in the United States alone, according to investigators who say they have identified the toxin that the most virulent strains of C-diff releases.
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Medical News Today
Although the role of "good" viruses in human health is still relatively mysterious, we are slowly unraveling the importance of our viral visitors. In this special feature, we introduce a neglected section of the microbiome — the virome.
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CIDRAP
New data collected by the Pew Research Center show that 88% of Americans believe the health benefits of measles, mumps and rubella vaccination outweigh the risks, but there were significant differences among race, age and education level — and a separate study highlights the impact of misinformation surrounding the human papillomavirus vaccine.
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University of California, Davis via Lab Manager
Online services that allow users to upload their genetic information, research genealogy and find lost relatives may be vulnerable to a sort of genetic hacking, according to two geneticists at the University of California, Davis. A paper describing the work is published Jan. 7 in the journal eLife.
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SeraSub® is a synthetic serum for use as a component in preparing standards and controls for in-vitro diagnostic tests.
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University of Bath via Phys.org
Biological Engineers at the University of Bath have developed a test that could help medics quickly diagnose urinary tract infections, using a normal smartphone camera. Similar in principle to a pregnancy test, the process can identify the presence of harmful E. coli bacteria in a urine sample in just 25 minutes. As well as being far faster than existing testing, it could make accurate UTI testing more widely available in developing nations and remote regions thanks to its potential to be made portable, and far more cheaply than existing lab-based tests.
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Organisms like Staph aureus might be common, but they can be uncommonly devastating to those infected. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2017 in the United States alone, 119,000 suffered from bloodstream infections, of whom 20,000 died.
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