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IDHA Launches New Respiratory Health Study on Google Health Studies App

March 8, 2021 Marinanicole Schultheiss

In December 2020, the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator department at Boston Children’s Hospital launched a new health study in collaboration with Google. The Respiratory

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Guinea Pig in the Time of Chagas

June 28, 2015July 21, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

Although endemic in parts of Latin America, studies show that it is hard to transmit Chagas disease. Research studies have estimated that for one infected

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New Antibiotics – Near or Far?

January 21, 2015January 25, 2023 Emily Cohn

In the grand scheme of things, antibiotics are fairly new additions to our medical repertoire. Germ theory achieved general scientific acceptance around the 1860s [1].

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Digital Disease Detection: One Researcher’s Take on Twitter, Research and Privacy

June 9, 2014January 25, 2023 Lakshmi Yajurvedi

If you are one of the 255 million active monthly users of the social networking site Twitter, you may be surprised to learn that you

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Can Probiotics Defeat Intestinal Worms?

November 19, 2013January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

Last Friday a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego presented exciting research on a potential new treatment against intestinal helminths, or

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Coronavirus Steals Media Spotlight with Promising New Research

April 10, 2013January 25, 2023 David Scales

Amidst all the articles on H7N9 in China, the novel coronavirus (nCoV) is making headlines again. While the number of cases continues to trickle upward,

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Microorganisms in Microgravity: Spaceflight Experiments Reveal New Properties of Pathogens

February 28, 2013January 25, 2023 Steven Purcell

The International Space Station (ISS), orbiting some 220 miles above earth at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour, is a modern marvel and the

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UNAIDS and Algeria to Build Region’s First HIV/AIDS Research Center

May 21, 2012January 25, 2023 David Scales

Earlier this month the UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Algerian Ministry of Health announced their cooperation in building a dedicated HIV/AIDS research center

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The Bird Flu that Man Built: Controversial H5N1 Research to be Published in Part

April 18, 2012January 25, 2023 Jason Hayes

  One of the many articles about Dr. Ron Fouchier’s mutated strain of H5N1 is titled “The Deadliest Virus” and printed with a menacing illustration

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Bird Flu Controversy: Research vs. Biosecurity

December 6, 2011January 25, 2023 Jane Huston

Recent research around avian influenza H5N1, commonly known as “bird flu,” has stirred up a great deal of controversy. Debate has centered on the publication

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