Mosquito-borne viral infections once confined to tropical regions are spreading. Dengue virus infects up to 400 million people worldwide each year according to World Health Organization estimates, and no available treatments exist for this disease. Now, research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has uncovered surprising strategies for how...

Scientists uncover fundamental rules for how dengue virus infects its mosquito and human hosts

San Diego, CA

New research from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds a tiny freshwater parasite known to cause health problems in humans defends its colonies with a class of soldiers that cannot reproduce. The discovery, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and...

Human-infecting parasite produces sterile soldiers like ants and termites

Fairfax, VA

Researchers in George Mason University’s Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR) and Tulane National Primate Research Center conducted a breakthrough proof-of-concept study in Nature’s Gene Therapy that found an HIV-like virus particle that could cease the need for lifelong medications. Scientists have made great strides in the treatment of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) over the past few decades, yet those with the virus must still take antiretroviral therapy (ART) for life as the disease is difficult to eradicate.

George Mason University researchers lead breakthrough study to find functional cure for HIV

LiveScience

A new mouse study uncovered a previously unknown route between the brain and peripheral nerves that could explain the link between aura symptoms and migraine headaches.

'This is what drives the migraine headache': Scientists uncover 'missing link' in why some migraines happen

The Conversation UK

Throughout the pandemic, one of the key questions on everyone’s mind was why some people avoided getting COVID, while others caught the virus multiple times. Through a collaboration between University College London, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Imperial College London in the UK, we set out to answer this question using the world’s first controlled “challenge trial” for COVID – where volunteers were deliberately exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, so that it could be studied in great detail.

We finally know why some people got COVID while others didn’t

Everyday Health

A new study finds that pooping once or twice a day may be ideal for reducing the risk of chronic disease by promoting a healthy gut microbiome.

How Often Should You Poop? Science Has an Answer

The Independent

 A deadly superbug that causes about 300,000 deaths a year evolved from being a common environmental bacterium and spread rapidly in just over two centuries, according to a new study that could help improve our understanding of immunity against invading bacteria.Pseudomonas aeruginosa can cause multidrug-resistant infections, particularly in people with underlying conditions such as cystic fibrosis and lung damage from smoking. It wasn’t always a specialised human killer, however.Scientists at the University of Cambridge assessed nearly 10,000 DNA samples infected by the bacterium from around the world to construct a “family tree” of the bug and found that just...

Superbug that now kills 300,000 people a year evolved rapidly from common bacteria

SurvivorNet

Does herpes virus human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) cause glioblastoma (GBM)? This is the aggressive, incurable brain cancer that Senator John McCain died from in 2018 and Senator Ted Kennedy almost a decade earlier in 2009. There is reportedly a link, but not yet confirmed as an official cause, however a study out of France, published in March, has made a mark in further analyzing the potential cancer-causing virus.

Herpes Virus Can Cause The Brain Cancer That Took Senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain, New Findings From Respected Medical Researchers

Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) have found significant correlations between age, sex, and BMI, and the frequency of bowel movements. Everybody poops, but not every day. New research from the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) indicates that the frequency of bowel movements is connected to long-term health.

New Research Indicates That How Often You Poop Could Predict Your Health – Are You in the “Goldilocks Zone”?

An unusually large brain may be the first sign of autism — and visible as early as the first trimester, according to a recent study conducted by UCSD. Some children with profound autism face lifelong challenges with social, language, and cognitive skills, including the inability to speak. In contrast, others exhibit milder symptoms that may improve over time.

Scientists Have Uncovered Autism’s Earliest Biological Signs

Saint Louis, MO

CBS News

Ziyad Al-Aly is chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis.Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of employees and an overall drop in the work force. The intense scientific effort that long COVID sparked has resulted in more than 24,000 scientific publications, making it the most researched health condition in any four years of recorded human history.Long COVID...

Long COVID has affected millions. Here's what scientists now know.

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

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HARROWING footage shows a student acting “possessed” while ill in bed, after her holiday hangover turned out to be deadly dengue fever. Cara Pyper had been in Bali, Indonesia, for two weeks when all of a sudden she began to feel “deathly unwell” as if she had been “hit by a bus”. The 22-year-old developed […]

Harrowing footage shows student, 22, ‘possessed’ after her ‘holiday hangover’ turned out to be killer ‘breakbone fever’

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ScienceAlert


Long COVID is a brutal illness without a known mechanism or cure. Far from being psychosomatic in nature, a new study adds weight to the idea that this misunderstood disease is very much biological.
The lingering toll the SARS-CoV-2 virus exacts on the immune system is widespread and hiding in plain sight, argue researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, CellSight Technologies, and Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center.
When 24 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had their whole bodies scanned by a PET (positron emission tomography) imaging test, their insides lit up like Christmas trees.
A radioactive drug called...

COVID's Hidden Toll: Full-Body Scans Reveal Long-Term Immune Effects

Hard palate cancer is a rare oral cancer that forms on the roof of your mouth. While the exact cause may be unclear, some of the most common risk factors include tobacco and alcohol use. This form of cancer often appears as a bump or sore in your mouth that...

What to Know About Hard Palate Cancer

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Researchers say there are health benefits associated with one to two bowel movements a day, which they deem the "Goldilocks zone."

Does your poop tell a story of your health?

A new study led by UCLA finds that rates of subsequent myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) following an acute illness were roughly the same between people whose acute illness was due to COVID-19 and those who did not have COVID-19. Researchers of the large, multi-site study found a 3% to...

Research finds no difference in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome prevalence caused by COVID-19 and other acute illnesses

A study reveals a new mechanism where proteins released during migraine auras are transported to sensory nerves, triggering migraines, which could lead to innovative treatments. This discovery explains the one-sided nature of migraines and identifies potential new protein targets for therapies. A new study has uncovered a previously unidentified process...

Breakthrough Study Reveals Hidden Mechanism Behind Migraines

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A Worrisome Shortness of Breath

Scientists have created a drug, which increased lifespan of mice by 25 percent, raising expectations that it will have similar effect in humans. Scientists at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Science and Imperial College London conducted the study on mice, who were known as "supermodel grannies" in the lab because of their beautiful appearance.

Scientists Say Supermodel Granny Drug Might Slow Human Ageing

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How evolution tamed a deadly virus and why we should still worry

Over the last century, a once-deadly mosquito-borne virus has evolved so that it no longer sickens humans. New research shows that changes in the virus’s ability...

How evolution tamed a deadly virus and why we should still worry

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