The New York Times reports that the famous medical researcher Johan Hultin has died. His discovery in the 1950s of a frozen victim of the 1918 flu pandemic, in Alaska, gave scientists the opportunity to map the virus’s genetic material.
In fully vaccinated adults, an additional booster dose of any authorized/approved vaccine was safe and prompted an immune response.
Women receiving one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a single menstrual cycle had an increase in cycle length of nearly one day, compared to unvaccinated women, an NIH-funded study reports.
The analysis—done at near-atomic resolution using cryo-electron microscopy—reveals how the heavily mutated Omicron variant attaches to and infects human cells.
Giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth.
There was no clinically significant bias based on ethnicity for black and white volunteer subjects monitored with Masimo SET pulse oximetry and RD SET sensors, the company reports.
A study in mice demonstrated that pre-natal exposure to nicotine and its by-products produces long-term effects on sleep and stress-response in some areas of the brain.
Noninvasive respiratory support has been a proven intervention for patients with acute respiratory failure. However, some patients are not successfully managed on noninvasive support modalities.
A single blood sample from a critically ill COVID-19 patient can be analyzed by a machine learning model which uses blood plasma proteins to predict survival, weeks before the outcome.