Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams is feeling better and no longer coughing “all day and all night,” the singer revealed Monday. In an update on Paramore’s Discord server, Williams said her health has thankfully improved. “I can hardly believe I don’t cough all day and night anymore. My stomach is still f—– from 10 kinds of […]
ANU By Phil Mercer BBC News, Sydney In a world first, scientists say that an 8cm worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. The “string-like structure” was pulled from the England-born patient’s damaged frontal lobe tissue during surgery in Canberra last year. The red parasite could have been there for […]
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv preprint* server, an international team of researchers evaluated metabolic responses to acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and identified biomarkers for acute viral infections. Study: SARS-CoV-2 Infection Biomarkers Reveal an Extended RSAD2 Dependant Metabolic Pathway. Image Credit: NIAID *Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not […]
Jan Ostermann, associate professor of health services policy and management, is leading a new project to increase vaccination uptake among children in rural and underserved areas. Collaborating with Lavanya Vasudevan (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University), Nathan Thielman (Duke University), and Ester Ngadaya (National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania), Ostermann will use a $3 […]
The worm, usually found in carpet pythons, was discovered after the 64-year-old complained of symptoms including forgetfulness. A live parasitic worm has been found inside the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman, marking the first case of the infection in humans. The discovery was made by doctors and researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) […]
A recent Frontiers in Medicine study assesses the effectiveness of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to identify differences between infected and non-infected wounds. Study: Is my wound infected? A study on the use of hyperspectral imaging to assess wound infection. Image Credit: myboys.me / Shutterstock.com Background The three main components of wound healing are precursor cells that can multiply and […]
Researchers have discovered the world’s first case of a new human parasitic infection, pulling a live roundworm picked up from a carpet python from the brain of an Australian woman. They say the case highlights the risks posed by zoonotic diseases caused by pathogens that jump from animals to humans. The researchers from the Australian […]
For a 64-year-old woman from New South Wales, what started as abdominal pain and diarrhoea, fever and night sweats, turned into a world-first, 16-month medical ordeal. Key points: Surgeons removed an 8-centimetre, living roundworm from the patient’s brain followed an abnormal MRI The parasite is found in carpet pythons and has never been known to infect a […]
Covid-19 was never just another cold. We knew it was going to stick around and keep changing to try to get the upper hand on our immune systems. But we’ve changed, too. Our B cells and T cells, keepers of our immune memories, aren’t as blind to this virus as they were when we first […]
Q: Is it true the COVID-19 vaccine can possibly prevent new variants of the virus from emerging? A: COVID-19 vaccines play a crucial role in preventing the emergence of new variants of the virus by reducing the spread of the virus and limiting opportunities for it to mutate. Here’s how COVID-19 vaccines contribute to preventing […]