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WHO added LC16m8 mpox vaccine to Emergency Use Listing
On Nov. 19, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it had granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to Japan-based…
California Reported First Known U.S. Case of Emerging Mpox Strain
On Nov. 16, 2024, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced it had identified through laboratory testing…
CDC warned of new E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots
On Nov. 16, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and public health officials in…
Scientists recreated mouse from gene older than animal life
On Nov. 15, 2024, researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the the University of Hong Kong…
UC Davis study showed how salmonella tricks gut defenses to cause infection
On Nov. 15, 2024, a University of California Davis Health (UC Davis Health) research team announced they had…
Study found no birth defect risk from tetracycline use during first trimester of pregnancy
On Nov. 15, 2024, a team led by researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet reported study results that showed…
AARP and Leading Research Organizations Announced Risk Factors of Dementia Research Findings
On Nov. 15, 2024, the AARP, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative), and the Institute for…
Oregon confirmed first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza
On Nov. 15, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed a highly pathogenic avian…
Proteins that regulate animal stem cells are much older than animals themselves
On Nov. 15, 2024, an international research team including scientists from the Max Planck Institute reported that critical…
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Avian Influenza Confirmed In Backyard Flock of Birds
On Nov. 15, 2024, The Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) received confirmation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle Confirmed Fatal avian flu case
On Nov. 14, 2024, officials at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle announced that a red-breasted goose had…
U.S. Earned D+ Grade for Preterm Birth Rate in 2024 March of Dimes Report Card, Worst Grade in Report History
On Nov. 14, 2024, the March of Dimes released its 2024 Report Card, revealing the U.S. preterm birth…
Measles cases surged worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023
On Nov. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
FDA Approved First Gene Therapy for Treatment of Aromatic L-amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency
On Nov. 14, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved PTC Therapeutics’ Kebilidi (eladocagene exuparvovec-tneq), an adeno-associated…
nearly 260 million people in the U.S. predicted to have overweight or obesity by 2050
On Nov. 14, 2024, an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study Collaborator Network warned of an…
FDA Investigation of E. coli outbreak from McDonald’s Onions Completed
On Nov. 13, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
Urgent action needed as global diabetes cases increase four-fold over past decades
On Nov. 13, 2024, the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Before RSV vaccine, virus caused substantial illness in US adults
On Nov. 13, 2024, a study published in JAMA Network Open showed that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was…
new Glioblastoma treatment attacks brain tumors from multiple angles
On Nov. 12, 2024, researchers from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel announced they had developed…
single Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection
On Nov. 12, 2024, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reported that their genomic test…
Super microscope showed nanoscale biological process for the first time
On Nov. 12, 2024, researchers led by Nico Sommerdijk from Radboud university medical center in Nijmegen (Netherlands) announced…
Combination approach showed promise for treating rare, aggressive cancers
On Nov. 12, 2024, a research team led by UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators has shown that…
Paxlovid cuts COVID hospitalization, death risk and speeds symptom relief, studies find
On Nov. 11, 2024, findings from two studies have tied use of the antiviral drug nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) to…
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Researchers discovered unique genome folding in turtles
On Nov. 11, 2024, a team of researchers led by Iowa State University (ISU) have shown that as…
Vaccine doses allocated to African countries hardest hit by mpox surge
On Nov. 9, 2024, the World Health Organization announced that three additional countries had confirmed travel-related cases of…
First case of H5 avian influenza reported in B.C.
On Nov. 9, 2024, the BC Centre for Disease Control’s Public-Health Laboratory reported that an an individual in…
A melody of bases: How scaling allows us to set new bars
On Nov 8, 2024, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute celebrated a milestone of sequencing 50 Petabases of…
Anixa Biosciences and Cleveland Clinic Presented Updated Positive Data from Phase 1 Study of Breast Cancer Vaccine
On Nov. 8, 2024, Anixa Biosciences announced updated positive data from the Phase 1 clinical trial of its…
4-strain meningococcal vaccine tied to reduction in invasive meningitis cases, deaths
On Nov. 7, 2024, researchers reported that Implementation of routine immunization of U.S. adolescents with the quadrivalent (four-strain)…
DNA analysis unveils new information about Pompeii victims
On Nov. 7, 2024, a team of scientists announced that DNA analysis of Pompeii victims who perished during…