Author: Claudinne Miller
How 10,000 years of plagues left their mark on our DNA
Washington Post Agnolo di Tura was a sometime shoemaker and tax collector with a yen for keeping a journal. He was also his family’s sole survivor when the Black Death tore through Siena, Italy, in 1348. He buried his wife and five children with his own hands, he wrote in his journal. He was somehow […]
Aug 16, 2023
Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners
The audio sounds like it’s being played underwater. Still, it’s a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can’t speak. Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, recreate the song. The research, published on Tuesday, produced a recognizable, […]
Aug 15, 2023
Persistent Neurocognitive and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Post-COVID
Psychiatric Times Although COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory virus, it also affects other organs and systems in the body, including the nervous system.1 The mechanisms of injury to the brain and nervous system include chronic inflammation, changes in the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, hypoxia, and coagulopathies resulting in the formation of blood clots.2,3 Long COVID and […]
Aug 15, 2023
Florida: Additional local dengue transmission in Miami-Dade County, West Nile virus case in Escambia County
Outbreak News Today Florida health officials reported an additional locally transmitted dengue fever case in Miami-Dade County in the past week, bringing the total indigenous cases to 11 this year to date– Broward (2) and Miami-Dade (9) counties. Two hundred and four cases with onset in 2023 have been reported in individuals with travel history […]
Aug 15, 2023
New COVID ‘Eris’ variant: The symptoms, how dangerous it is and whether vaccines work
Yahoo News There’s a new COVID-19 variant dominating infections in the U.S. EG.5 — or “Eris,” as it’s been nicknamed — was identified in China in February and detected in the U.S. in April, and now accounts for more than 17% of COVID-19 cases nationwide, which is the most of any variant. Here’s what you need to know about […]
Aug 15, 2023
A new fruit fly toolkit to understand the impact of SARS-CoV-2 virus in human health
Baylor While the COVID-19 pandemic is under control now, the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to mutate and inflict unprecedented suffering on millions of people in the form of numerous little-understood, lingering symptoms that are collectively termed ‘long-COVID.’ Identifying the underlying causes and therapies for long-COVID symptoms and devising strategies to protect against known and emerging viruses […]
Aug 15, 2023
COVID hospitalizations accelerate for fourth straight week
CBS News New COVID-19 hospitalizations have accelerated for a fourth straight week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data now shows. A total of 10,320 patients in the U.S. were newly hospitalized with COVID-19 for the week ending August 5, according to the figures published Monday, an increase of 14.3% from the week before. Levels remain far below […]
Aug 15, 2023
Emerging Infectious Diseases Prompt a Layered Response
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that the list of emerging infectious diseases is hardly limited to outbreaks of previously unknown pathogens. It also includes known diseases that gain in numbers or geographic extent, or that persist and remain uncontrolled. The list includes chikungunya, HIV, and dengue […]
Aug 15, 2023
Can the world really stop wild polio by the end of 2023?
Nature Given global efforts to eradicate the poliovirus were recently described as unsuccessful, how are Afghanistan and Pakistan now on the verge of eliminating it? Afghanistan and Pakistan — the two countries in which polio is still endemic — are closer than they have ever been to eradicating wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) […]
Aug 15, 2023
YouTube announces new policies to target medical misinformation
The Hill YouTube on Tuesday announced it is creating a new framework to crack down on medical misinformation on the platform. “In the years since we began our efforts to make YouTube a destination for high-quality health content, we’ve learned critical lessons about developing Community Guidelines in line with local and global health authority guidance on topics […]
Aug 15, 2023