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Released: 14-Jun-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Selected as Regional Treatment Center for Ebola and Other Infectious Diseases
Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai will play a critical role in bolstering the nation’s front-line defense against Ebola and other highly infectious diseases under a federal grant meant to improve the response to emerging medical threats. The medical center and the California Department of Public Health will share a $3.25-million grant from the federal agency through fiscal year 2019 to strengthen the delivery of specialized emergency medical care.

Released: 13-Jun-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Predicting Disease Outbreaks Using Environmental Changes
University College London

A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases -- those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika -- based on changes in climate, population growth and land use has been developed by a UCL-led team of researchers.

Released: 13-Jun-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Predicting Disease Outbreaks Using Environmental Changes
University College London

A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases -- those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika -- based on changes in climate, population growth and land use has been developed by a UCL-led team of researchers.

7-Jun-2016 7:05 PM EDT
Sexual Transmission of Ebola Likely to Impact Course of Outbreaks
University of Georgia

Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

Released: 1-Jun-2016 12:05 PM EDT
UAB Developing Training Program on Ebola for First Responders in Deep South
University of Alabama at Birmingham

UAB has received a grant to develop and implement Ebola and infectious disease training to further protect health care and public safety workers.

Released: 31-May-2016 11:05 AM EDT
RNA Simulations Boost Understanding of Retroviral Diseases
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New molecular dynamics research into how RNA folds into hairpin-shaped structures called tetraloops could provide important insights into new treatments for retroviral diseases.

Released: 18-May-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Fighting Ebola with 21st Century Biotech
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)

Currently, production of vaccines and diagnostic systems for infectious diseases have failed to provide a systematic vision that merges state-of-the-art technologies with industry to provide an effective commercial solution. Infectious and rapidly transmitted diseases, such as Ebola and influenza, should be a focus of interest for these prospects.

28-Apr-2016 11:00 AM EDT
Ebola May Lead to Blindness in Survivors According to New Findings
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

A new study has shown that Ebola survivors may be at risk of severe vision loss or blindness weeks after being declared virus-free. The research is being presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) this week in Seattle, Wash.

Released: 29-Apr-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Ebola Virus Genome Provides Clues to Repeated Disease 'Flare-Ups' in Western Africa
US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

Ebola virus samples taken from patients in Liberia in June 2015 are strikingly similar in their genetic makeup to other Ebola virus sequences from Western Africa, according to research published online today in the journal Science Advances. The study sheds light on several aspects of the "flare-ups" that have occurred in Liberia since the country was initially declared free of Ebola virus disease.

28-Apr-2016 2:00 PM EDT
Researchers Discover Potential Treatment for Sepsis and Other Uncontrollable Responses to Infection
Mount Sinai Health System

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say that tiny doses of a cancer drug may stop the raging, uncontrollable immune response to infection that leads to sepsis and kills up to 500,000 people a year in the U.S.

Released: 28-Apr-2016 11:00 AM EDT
Zika, Ebola, West Nile Experts and Humanitarians to Speak at Free Events
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

The Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest gathering of eye and vision researchers in the world, with over 11,000 attendees from more than 75 countries. Two free events will feature speakers highlighting recent successes — and emerging threats — facing ophthalmic clinicians and researchers around the world.

Released: 26-Apr-2016 8:00 AM EDT
First Ever Vaccine for Deadly Parasitic Infection May Help Prevent Another Global Outbreak
Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science

As the threat of the Zika virus rips through the Americas and news headlines, another more deadly tropical disease is also on the move: Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection that currently endangers an estimated 350 million people around the world. By combining two decades of research, ancient tribal medicine and the latest in gene editing technology – a team of scientists is creating what could be the first ever live-attenuated vaccine to prevent Leishmaniasis both here and abroad.

19-Apr-2016 9:00 AM EDT
Scientists Propose Treatment for Severe Lung Diseases
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Researchers are developing a new drug to treat life-threatening lung damage and breathing problems in people with severe infections like pneumonia, those undergoing certain cancer treatments and premature infants with underdeveloped, injury prone lungs. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report April 19 in Science Signaling the compound is based on their finding that a transcription factor called FOXF1 activates several biological processes that promote recovery from acute lung injury.

Released: 11-Apr-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Mapping City Hotspots for Zika Mosquito, ‘Never Will Bite’ Soap Among Winning Ideas at Johns Hopkins Hackathon
 Johns Hopkins University

Mapping a city to detect Zika mosquito hotspots. Fashion accessories infused with a long-acting mosquito repellant. A special soap that keeps mosquitos away. Those are among the winning ideas from a Johns Hopkins University hackathon that drew participants from Baltimore to Brazil looking for ways to help prevent the spread of the Zika virus.

Released: 22-Mar-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Identifying Threats Before They Spread
RUSH

If an infectious disease outbreak or an attack using an agent such as anthrax were to occur in Chicago, it most likely first will be noticed in emergency rooms throughout the city. Swift identification of the cause of an incoming patients’ illness could be crucial to public health and safety personnel being able to intervene in time to save lives.

Released: 21-Mar-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Lighting Up Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes
Sandia National Laboratories

Robert Meagher, a chemical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has developed a simple technique for simultaneously detecting RNA from West Nile and chikungunya virus in samples from mosquitoes. He is now working to add the ability to screen for Zika virus.

15-Mar-2016 5:05 PM EDT
West Africa, Ebola and the Threat of Zika
Georgetown University Medical Center

Rapid testing for the Zika virus is a critical need in the recent Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, says a Georgetown University professor, because of the recent Zika outbreak on nearby Cape Verde and the similarity in symptoms between Zika and early Ebola.

Released: 14-Mar-2016 1:00 PM EDT
X-Ray Studies at SLAC and Berkeley Lab Aid Search for Ebola Cure
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In experiments carried out partly at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists have determined in atomic detail how a potential drug molecule fits into and blocks a channel in cell membranes that Ebola and related “filoviruses” need to infect victims’ cells.

Released: 3-Mar-2016 2:05 PM EST
Lessons From a Pandemic
Harvard Medical School

When a diamond miner named Sahr arrived at the Ebola treatment unit in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in December 2014, he saw red fences surrounding the area where people with suspected and confirmed cases of the disease were to be treated and he panicked. The colorful barricades reminded him of the horror he experienced in 1996 as a child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war, when rebel fighters attached red cloths to their guns during live battles.

22-Feb-2016 8:05 AM EST
Most Ebola Survivors Examined in Study Experienced Brain Symptoms Six Months After Infection
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

Most of the 82 Ebola survivors in a new study from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak had brain symptoms more than six months after the initial infection. The preliminary results will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 68th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, April 15 to 21, 2016. The study is part of the larger Prevail III study, which follows patients with prior Ebola virus disease and their close contacts who serve as study controls.

Released: 19-Feb-2016 11:05 AM EST
Researchers Discover New Ebola-Fighting Antibodies in Blood of Outbreak Survivor
Scripps Research Institute

A research team that included scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has identified a new group of powerful antibodies to fight Ebola virus. The antibodies could guide the development of a vaccine or therapeutic against Ebola.

1-Feb-2016 10:00 AM EST
Real Time Outbreak Surveillance Using Genomics Now Possible in Resource-Limited Conditions
University of Birmingham

New research published in Nature has shown how genome sequencing can be rapidly established to monitor outbreaks.

   
Released: 21-Jan-2016 4:05 PM EST
Antibodies May Provide ‘Silver Bullet’ for Ebola Viruses
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB) reported today in the journal Cell that they have isolated human monoclonal antibodies from Ebola survivors which can neutralize multiple species of the virus.

   
Released: 14-Jan-2016 2:05 PM EST
Study of Altruism During the Ebola Outbreak Suggests Good Intentions Are in the Details
University at Buffalo

A study of risk communication as it relates to altruistic behavior has found that portraying an event as a distant risk, despite highlighting its importance and potential progression, fails to prompt altruistic behavior intention.

7-Jan-2016 10:05 AM EST
Experimental Immunotherapy Zaps Two Most Lethal Ebola Virus Strains
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) have engineered the first antibodies that can potently neutralize the two deadliest strains of the virus that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The findings, made in mice, are a significant step toward immunotherapies that are effective against all strains of Ebola virus that cause human disease. The study was published online today in Scientific Reports.

13-Jan-2016 12:00 PM EST
Plague-Riddled Prairie Dogs a Model for Infectious Disease Spread
Colorado State University

Sporadic outbreaks of plague among black-tailed prairie dogs are an ideal model for the study of infectious zoonotic disease, say Colorado State University biologists.

Released: 11-Jan-2016 2:00 PM EST
Quick Screening Method Identifies Promising Anti-Ebola Drugs
University Health Network (UHN)

A quick screening method has been used for the first time in a standard open laboratory to identify and test promising anti-Ebola drugs. This approach increases the possibility of finding new therapies faster.

7-Jan-2016 2:30 PM EST
Ebola Medical Team Develops Guidelines for Treating Infected Children
Washington University in St. Louis

When the Ebola virus outbreak erupted in West Africa in 2014, children infected with the virus — particularly those under age 5 — faced a high risk of death. Researchers involved in their treatment have since developed a set of guidelines aimed at improving how they’re treated. They suggest an aggressive approach that includes giving children fluids intravenously; treating other possible infections; feeding them highly fortified food; and increasing the amount of bedside care they receive.

Released: 5-Jan-2016 10:00 AM EST
Study Shows High Frequency of Spontaneous Mutation in Ebola Virus
Texas Biomedical Research Institute

In a Journal of Virology paper, Texas Biomed Scientist Dr. Anthony Griffiths, explains how he and his team found that Ebola virus has the potential to evolve rapidly but the genetic changes result in viruses that are weakened or not viable, which could be exploited as a therapeutic.

Released: 23-Dec-2015 9:05 AM EST
Study Reveals Arms Race Between Ebola Virus and Bats, Waged for Millions of Years
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Ebola virus and bats have been waging a molecular battle for survival that may have started at least 25 million years ago, according to a study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) that published online today in the journal eLife. The findings shed light on the biological factors that determine which bat species may harbor the virus between outbreaks in humans and how bats may transmit the virus to people.

Released: 21-Dec-2015 9:00 AM EST
Love in the Time of Ebola: Study Reveals Factors Bolstering Altruism in Face of Risk
Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)

Study explores why some people react altruistically to news about an Ebola outbreak while others do not.

   
Released: 25-Nov-2015 9:45 AM EST
As 2nd Anniversary Nears of Ebola Breakout in West Africa, Nurse Provides Firsthand Account of Combating Ebola
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

International nurse volunteers responding to the Ebola outbreak in West African encountered death on nearly every shift and worked under conditions that challenged their ingenuity in providing even basic care. That is according to one nurse's account in American Journal of Nursing, published by Wolters Kluwer, which provides a rare glimpse of the realities clinicians and patients with Ebola faced inside one Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU).

Released: 26-Oct-2015 5:05 PM EDT
A Notable Honor for Ebola Response Team as It Planned and Prepared for the Ebola Virus
MedStar Washington Hospital Center

MedStar Washington Hospital Center’s Ebola Response Team has been honored with the 2015 Patient Safety Award from the District of Columbia Hospital Association (DCHA). The award recognizes the team’s outstanding efforts in its Ebola-related plans and training to care for potential or confirmed patients with the Ebola virus.

Released: 20-Oct-2015 1:05 PM EDT
TIME Magazine’s Ebola Doctor in First US Appearance: What’s Needed for Next Epidemic
Case Western Reserve University

Ebola doctor and a TIME Magazine Person of the Year Jerry Brown, MD, will make a first public appearance in the United States. He will be part of an Ebola summit gathering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland.

Released: 16-Oct-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Ebola Can Linger in Semen of Survivors for 9 Months After the Onset of Symptoms
Newswise Trends

The WHO report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, provides the first results of a long-term study on male Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone.

Released: 30-Sep-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins and DuPont Join Forces to Produce an Improved Ebola Protection Suit
 Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University and DuPont have signed license and collaboration agreements allowing DuPont to commercialize a garment with innovative features from Johns Hopkins to help protect people on the front lines of the Ebola crisis and future deadly infectious disease outbreaks.

25-Sep-2015 7:05 PM EDT
Portable, Rapid DNA Test Can Detect Ebola and other Pathogens
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

UCSF-led scientists completed a proof-of-principle study on a real-time blood test based on DNA sequencing that can be used to rapidly diagnose Ebola and other acute infections.

Released: 8-Sep-2015 2:15 PM EDT
NEI Team in Liberia Investigates Ocular Effects Among Ebola Survivors
NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI)

Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that took the lives of more than 11,200 people in the region, the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has deployed a team of clinicians and technical experts to Monrovia, Liberia to investigate the long-term effects of Ebola on the eye.

Released: 24-Aug-2015 8:30 AM EDT
Ebola Virus Disease—Anesthesiologists Need to 'Better Prepare and Educate' Themselves
International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)

As the Ebola virus disease pandemic unfolded in 2014, it may have seemed like a sudden and unprecedented event. But the disease has a long history, the epidemic is ongoing, and new outbreaks are certain to occur in the future, reports the September issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

11-Aug-2015 3:05 PM EDT
International Team Discovers the Ancient Origins of Deadly Lassa Virus
Scripps Research Institute

Working as part of an international team in the United States and West Africa, a researcher at The Scripps Research Institute has published new findings showing the ancient roots of the deadly Lassa virus, a relative of Ebola virus, and how Lassa virus has changed over time.

13-Aug-2015 8:00 AM EDT
Paper-Based Test Can Quickly Diagnose Ebola in Remote Areas (Video)
American Chemical Society (ACS)

When a fever strikes in a developing area, the immediate concern may be: Is it the common flu or something much worse? To facilitate diagnosis in remote, low-resource settings, researchers have developed a paper-based device that changes color, depending on whether the patient has Ebola, yellow fever or dengue. It takes minutes and does not need electricity. The team will describe their approach at the 250th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society.

22-Jul-2015 10:00 AM EDT
Rapid Ebola Test Could Play Key Role in Efforts to End Lingering Outbreak
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))

Research presented at the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo will expand on the studies that led to a fingerprick Ebola test becoming the first and only rapid diagnostic for this disease to receive approval from the World Health Organization (WHO). This test could prove vital to breaking Ebola’s grip on West Africa by identifying suspected Ebola cases within minutes, and enabling healthcare workers to isolate and treat these patients much faster than is currently possible.

Released: 22-Jul-2015 9:05 AM EDT
BBI Group Develops Rapid Test to Aid Identification and Potentially Help Minimise Spread of Ebola Virus
2015 AACC Annual Meeting Press Program

The BBI Group (BBI) today announced it has developed in collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and licensed, through technology transfer company Ploughshare Innovations, a rapid test for Ebola. The assay, which is in the process of being verified to allow EUA submission, will be used to test patients suspected of Ebola infection to screen and potentially help with how they are subsequently managed. The test, utilising lateral flow technology, can provide a result in approximately 20 minutes.

Released: 16-Jul-2015 12:05 PM EDT
How Can You Plan for Events That Are Unlikely, Hard to Predict and Highly Disruptive Should They Occur?
RUSH

The Ebola epidemic and resulting international public health emergency is referred to as a “Black Swan” event in medical circles because of its unpredictable and impactful nature. However, a paper in the June 30 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, a leading journal in the field of infectious diseases, suggests that the response of the Chicago Ebola Response Network (CERN) in 2014-2015 has laid a foundation and a roadmap for how a regional public health network can anticipate, manage and prevent the next Black Swan public health event.

Released: 30-Jun-2015 8:05 AM EDT
Athlete Safety, Smart Concrete, and the Dangers of Sugary Drinks; Top Stories for 30 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Other topics include; grape seed oil to reduce obesity, gender differences in chronic pain, workplace wellness, healthcare in rural Africa after Ebola, cancer treatment, and finding a cure for MERS.

       
Released: 29-Jun-2015 4:05 PM EDT
After Ebola, Understanding Health Care Needs Among Rural Liberians
Georgetown University Medical Center

As Liberia rebuilds a health care system decimated by the 2014 Ebola outbreak, understanding precisely how far citizens live from health facilities and its impact on seeking care can help shape new strategies to improve health care delivery and reduce geographic disparities.

Released: 9-Jun-2015 10:55 AM EDT
Nurses Implement Resources, Recommendations From AACN Webinars, Putting New Findings Into Bedside Practice
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

Ongoing webinars from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses have quickly proven to be an effective tool for moving new findings and evidence-based recommendations into nursing practice at the bedside.


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