Filtered By:
Infectious Disease: 1918 Spanish Flu
This page shows you your search results in order of date.
Order by Relevance | Date
Total 102 results found since Jan 2013.
TWiV 966: 1918 influenza with Jeffery Taubenberger
Vincent travels to the NIH campus to speak with Jeffery Taubenberger about his career, the 1918 influenza pandemic, deciphering the genome sequence of the virus from tissues of disease victims and using it to rescue infectious virus.
Source: virology blog - December 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology 1918 influenza pandemic Spanish flu vaccine viral virus viruses zoonosis Source Type: blogs
Truth and Trust in Science: Are They Negotiable?
BY MIKE MAGEE
“The key is trust. It is when people feel totally alienated and isolated that the society breaks down. Telling the truth is what held society together.”
Those words were voiced sixteen years ago in Washington, D.C. It was October 17, 2006. The HHS/CDC sponsored workshop that day was titled “Pandemic Influenza – Past, Present, Future: Communicating Today Based on the Lessons from the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic.”
The speaker responsible for the quote above was writer/historian and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health adviser, John M. Barry. His opening quote from George Bernard Shaw se...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Flu Epidemic HHS/CDC John Barry Source Type: blogs
Global Warming and Disease
BY MIKE MAGEE
A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.”
The search for origin in pandemics is not simply an esoteric academic exercise. It is practical, pragmatic, and hopefully preventive. The origin of our very own pandemic, now in its third year and claiming more than 1 million ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Uncategorized Bird Ecology Global Warming Source Type: blogs
More on why we Stay Alive
A couple of days ago I referred to the doubling of human life expectancy in 100 years, and the importance of pasteurization of milk in making that happen. Our next installment is about water. There ' s nothing more basic than good old H2O, but it used to kill city dwellers about as often as milk. People actually figured this out even before Pasteur and Koch came up with the germ theory of disease.Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholera, which is spread through contaminated water or food. The disease causes severe diarrhea that can last for several days. Depending on the strain of bact...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 21, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Looking back on 2 years of uncertainty, adversity and more than a few silver linings
Since the beginning of COVID-19, we have recognized the truth of philosopher George Santayana’s oft-quoted 1905 writing—“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”— and looked for lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu, the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. Much was different, yet so much the same. ThereRead more …Looking back on 2 years of uncertainty, adversity and more than a few silver linings originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/rosanne-iversen-josh-welch-julie-kinkler-hannah-meyer" rel="tag" > Rosanne Iversen, MD, Josh Welch, MD, Julie Kinkler, AGNP-C, and Hannah Meyer, FNP-BC < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)
By DAVID WARMFLASH, MD
This is part 2 of David Warmlash’s takedown of Robert W. Malone’s appearance (transcript) on the Rogan podcast. Part 1 is here
Menstruation and Fertility
Much more than the line about reproductive damage in the Wisconsin News clip that we used to open the story, Malone used the Rogan interview to dive more deeply into the topic, starting with:
…there’s a huge number of dysmenorrhea and menometrorrhagia…
By that, he meant excessive menstrual cramping and very heavy, often irregular, bleeding, which he followed up with:
…they DENY it…
Judging by other parts ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy antivaxxer COVID-19 vaccine David Warmflash Joe Rogan Robert Malone Source Type: blogs
Lessons of pandemic : Tackling Covid is much easier task, than the onslaught of Science !
This article by Dr. Anand Krishnan, Professor of community medicine, AIIMS New Delhi, has some enlightening content
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/whys-pandemic-policymaking-still-short-of-science/articleshow/88650912.cms
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - February 12, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
5 COVID-19 Discussions That Will Dominate 2022
Discussions That Will Dominate 2022 appeared first on The Medical Futurist.
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Science Fiction vaccination pandemic vaccine pfizer fatigue booster Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 3rd 2022
In this study, we showed that the iPaD (inducing Plagl2 and anti-Dyrk1a) lentivirus substantially rejuvenated the proliferative and neurogenic potential of NSCs in the aged brain. Clonal analysis by a sparse labeling approach as well as transcriptome analysis indicated that iPaD can rejuvenate aged NSCs (19-21 mo of age) to a level comparable with those at 1 or 2 months of age and successfully improved cognition of aged mice.
Once rejuvenated and activated by iPaD, aged dormant NSCs can generate, on average, 4.9 neurons but very few astrocytes in 3-week tracing. Furthermore, these activated NSCs were maintained for ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Towards More Broadly Effective Influenza Vaccines
Might it be possible to develop a vaccine that works on every strain of influenza, rather than going through a seasonal exercise of vaccination every year? Or at least many strains, rather than just a few? In today's research materials, scientists discuss a possible approach, identifying a novel part of the influenza virus to target, a part of the viral structure that may mutate less readily than the usual vaccine targets. Viruses mutate aggressively when they infect large population, a challenge to both vaccination and natural immunity. The immune system recognizes small parts of a virus, epitopes, and the epitopes most r...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 30, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 6th 2021
In this study, they found these drugs can kill senescent cells from cultures of human fat tissue. The tissue was donated by individuals with obesity who were known to have metabolic troubles. Without treatment, the human fat tissues induced metabolic problems in immune-deficient mice. After treatment with dasatinib and quercetin, the harmful effects of the fat tissue were almost eliminated.
Targeting p21Cip1 highly expressing cells in adipose tissue alleviates insulin resistance in obesity
Insulin resistance is a pathological state often associated with obesity, representing a major risk factor for type 2...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Scary Time for Teens? Compared to When?
David BoazIt ' s a scary time to be a teenager,blares the Washington Post. " 51 percent of teens said they felt this is a bad time to be growing up . . . and 62 percent of parents said the same. " Why?There are plenty of reasons both generations might feel this is a particularly difficult time to be a kid in high school: the prevalence of gun violence, the persistence of systemic racism, the specter of police brutality, the pressures of social media, the volatility of contemporary politics and, of course, the still enduring stress of thecoronavirus pandemic.Then there is the existential threat of climate change, which loom...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Physicians are human and grief is as much a part of the human experience as love
Since the first documented COVID death in the U.S. in February 2020, over 726,000 Americans have died. The number of deaths eclipses the death toll of any other American tragedy, whether war or the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, and health care providers have been involved with the care of many people who have died.Read more …Physicians are human and grief is as much a part of the human experience as love originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/vickie-mulkerin" rel="tag" > Vickie Mulkerin, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
COVID ’s lab leak theory obscures zoonosis and progression
Even as COVID-19 is found in apes, big cats, minks, domestic cats, other small mammals, and now in U.S. deer, some don ’t want to let go of the insultingly simplistic “lab leak” theory. Do they really think the 1918 influenza and AIDS pandemics (or Ebola, MERS, and SARS ) needed lab mendacity to exist? WeRead more …COVID’s lab leak theory obscures zoonosis and progression originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/martha-rosenberg" rel="tag" > Martha Rosenberg < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
