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Credit: CC0 Public Domain At least 11 people have died from COVID-19 in New Orleans nursing homes in the past week, just after the deaths at a Seattle nursing home weeks ago showed the extreme danger of the virus in nursing home settings. Nursing homes provide care for 1.3 million …

3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19–in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with spike proteins (red) …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Columbia Mailman School of Public Health’s Dr. John W. Rowe, Professor of Health Policy and Aging, is a member of a WHO Expert Panel on Care of the Elderly which just released the attached guidance for prevention and management of COVID-19 among elderly in long term …

(HealthDay)—Amongpatients with multidrug-resistant HIV-1 infection who have limited therapy options, reductions in HIV-1 RNA level were significantly greater in those who received fostemsavir compared with placebo during the first eight days, according to a study published in the March 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Michael Kozal, …

(HealthDay)—The prevalence of any past or present hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was 4.3 percent among U.S. adults during 2015 to 2018, according to a March data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Deanna Kruszon-Moran, from the National Center for …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain There are several common-sense things you can do to protect yourself, and help prevent or minimize the spread of COVID-19 to your family. Consider these 10 steps from Mayo Clinic’s Infection Prevention and Control team: Pause for a moment and collect your thoughts. Pandemics can be …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain China reported just one new domestic case of the coronavirus on Wednesday but a dozen more imported infections. For the second consecutive day there was only one more fresh infection in Wuhan, the central city where the virus first emerged late last year, the National Health …

The inner walls of the airways work like a conveyor-belt. They expose tiny cilia which are covered by a layer of mucus. Cilia movement carries mucus and entrapped viruses up the throat. Credit: Blausen / Wikipedia / CC BY 3.0 “Biology shows us that there are additional ways to reduce …

Mitochondrial network (green fluorescence) in a blood vessel endothelial cell Credit: Jalees Rehman In a new peer-reviewed publication, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers describe how the body’s response to inflammation, which helps to fight many kinds of infections, also can counterproductively suppress much-needed cell repair and regeneration in blood …

Human hepatoma cells harboring modified hepatitis B virus cccDNA are labeled by green fluorescent proteins. Blue oval shapes are cell nuclei labeled by fluorescent Hoechst dye, which stains DNA. Nuclei without green fluorescent protein are cells that do not contain hepatitis B virus cccDNA. Credit: Lei Wei and Alexander Ploss, …