Hospital privacy curtains may harbor dangerous germs
Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, […]
» Read moreResearchers are calling on an end to discriminatory health and illicit drugs policies, based on overwhelming evidence that new hepatitis […] Scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have identified new means of fighting drug-tolerant bacteria, […] A single dose of a new influenza drug can significantly shorten the duration of the illness in teens and adults, […] Increased antimicrobial resistance in bacteria has caused a global crisis in human health care. Strains of pathogenic bacteria resistant to […] A new study reveals a previously unknown mechanism that governs whether viruses that infect bacteria will quickly kill their hosts […] There is an urgent need to develop a vaccine to prevent gonorrhea infection due to rapidly increasing incidence and growing […] Research published today by a team of Army scientists sheds light on the mechanism of sexual transmission of filoviruses, including […] Neisseria gonorrhoea continues to show high levels of resistance to azithromycin across the European Union and European Economic Area, according […] For the first time in decades, researchers have identified a new ‘micro-organ’ within the immune system — and they say […]
Overwhelming evidence shows hepatitis C treatment effective for people who inject drugs
New means to fight ‘un-killable’ bacteria in healthcare settings: Canadian scientists identify new cellular target to weaken P. aeruginosa — a severe threat to patients with cystic fibrosis
Single-dose drug can shorten flu symptoms by about a day, studies suggest: No significant side effects noted in pair of clinical trials in U.S., Japan
Low antibiotic concentration is enough to increase antimicrobial resistance
Mechanical properties of viral DNA determine the course of infection
Mouse models may not accurately mimic severity of gonorrhea infection
Mechanism of Marburg virus sexual transmission identified in nonhuman primates
Drug-resistance of gonorrhea in the EU: Persistent but stable
Newly identified structure in lymph nodes was ‘hiding in plain sight’: The new micro-organ is the place where the immune system ‘remembers’ diseases it has been vaccinated against
