Researchers Find Early Spread of COVID-19 Was Far Greater Than Reported
Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning of…
Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning of…
Chicago Booth’s Ayelet Fishbach offers advice for dealing with loneliness and COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped social life in the United States, forcing many…
University of Chicago researchers launch projects exploring health disparities, machine learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has mobilized the world’s scientific community like no other recent crisis,…
As scientists around the world rush to learn more about COVID-19, several labs at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering are taking…
Sweden’s policy of allowing the controlled spread of COVID-19 viral infection among the population has so far failed to deliver the country’s previously stated goal…
Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day. In mid-March, in response…
An immunomodulatory drug called fingolimod, which is approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, blocks human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and transmission in human immune…
There was a higher incidence and severity of physical intimate partner violence (IPV) among patients seen at a large, academic medical center in the U.S….
Vaccine shows promise in mouse studies and is currently being evaluated in Phase 3 clinical testing. The investigational vaccine known as mRNA-1273 protected mice from…
A compound given as a dietary supplement to overweight but otherwise healthy people in a clinical trial caused many of the patients to slim down,…
NIH-funded clinical trial provides independent evidence that multifocal contact lenses reduce worsening myopia. Children wearing multifocal contact lenses had slower progression of their myopia, according…
To date, Congress has authorized roughly $3 trillion in COVID-19 relief assistance — the largest relief package in history. With more COVID relief money on…
Vaccine prevents pneumonia, elicits high levels of protective antibodies in mice. An experimental vaccine is effective at preventing pneumonia in mice infected with the COVID-19…
Two Phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials testing whether experimental monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) can prevent infection by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are now enrolling healthy adults…
Published in JAMA Internal Medicine, research conducted at an EPA facility on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus shows that expired and sterilized used N95 masks are…
Some people get really sick from COVID-19, and others don’t. Nobody knows why. Now, a study by investigators at the Stanford University of Medicine and…
BCG vaccine is safe and does not lead to an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms. More studies need to confirm whether this generic vaccine could…
New research into malaria suggests targeting enzymes from the human host, rather than from the pathogen itself, could offer effective treatment for a range of…