Flu
Jan 24, 2022
Previous studies have established that patients aged 65 and older with COPD are at elevated risk for influenza-associated complications, such as hospitalization, ICU admissions, and death. Guidelines ...
Mar 18, 2021
To explore pharmacists' views and experiences of pharmacist-administered vaccinations, motivators and barriers to pharmacists administering vaccinations and their preferences for expansions to such se...
Mar 18, 2021
Virus-like particles (VLPs) play a prominent role in vaccination as safe and highly versatile alternatives to attenuated or inactivated viruses or subunit vaccines. We present here two innovations, VL...
Mar 11, 2021
We calculated the Poisson-regression-adjusted relative risk (RR) of new influenza infection by vaccination, prior infection, and vaccination after prior infection in a large Japanese birth cohort, usi...
Dec 31, 2020
The study aimed at identifying the commonly used non-prescribed antibiotics (NPAs) and the main health conditions leading to the practices of self-medication with antibiotics (SMAs) in Maputo city, Mo...
Apr 28, 2020
Influenza viruses are persistently threatening public health, causing annual epidemics and sporadic pandemics due to rapid viral evolution. Vaccines are used to prevent influenza infections but the co...
Apr 28, 2020
The novel coronavirus, since its first outbreak in December, has, up till now, affected approximately 114,542 people across 115 countries. Many international agencies are devoting efforts to enhance t...
Apr 28, 2020
Early detection surveillance is used for various purposes, including the early detection of non-communicable diseases (e.g., cancer screening), of unusual increases of disease frequency (e.g., influen...
Apr 28, 2020
SARS-CoV-2, the agent of COVID-19, is similar to two other coronaviruses, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, in causing life-threatening maternal respiratory infections and systemic complications. Because of glob...
Apr 24, 2020
On February 22, 2017, Hospital X-Kampala and US CDC-Kenya reported to the Uganda Ministry of Health a respiratory illness in a 46-year-old expatriate of Company A. The patient, Mr. A, was evacuated fr...
Apr 24, 2020
Osteoporosis presents a major threat to the health of women older than 65 years. Bisphosphonates (BPs) are now the principal class of medications for osteoporosis.To evaluate the efficacy and safety o...
Apr 24, 2020
This study sought to more fully elucidate the age-related trends in influenza mortality with a secondary goal of uncovering implications for treatment and prevention.In this retrospective cohort analy...
Apr 24, 2020
Findings during the 2009 pandemic suggest severe maternal infection with pandemic influenza had adverse perinatal health consequences. Limited data exist evaluating the perinatal health effects of sev...
Apr 24, 2020
Influenza vaccines administered intramuscularly exhibit poor mucosal immune responses in the respiratory tract which is the prime site of the infection. Intranasal vaccination is a potential route for...
Apr 12, 2020
The higher death rate caused by COVID-19 in older people, especially those with comorbidities, is a challenge for biomedical aging research. Here we explore the idea that an exacerbated inflammatory r...
Apr 12, 2020
Through test negative designs for visiting a doctor because of influenza-like illness, many studies have found decreasing efficacy of repeated vaccination. Furthermore, waning effectiveness during int...
Apr 12, 2020
To investigate the interference factors that lead to false-positive novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) IgM detected using gold immunochromatography assay (GICA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELI...
Apr 12, 2020
On 07/02/2020, French Health authorities were informed of a confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in an Englishman infected in Singapore who had recently stayed in a chalet in the French Alps. We c...
Apr 08, 2020
It's jarring every time. The sudden crash in patients with COVID-19 All over the world, seemingly mild cases of COVID-19 rapidly morph into severe cases that involve the lower lungs. This may b...
Apr 07, 2020
Scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Thorax Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital, whose collaboration is taking place under the ...