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
Category: Research & Policy
Intelligible summaries of current infectious disease research and health policies
On July 10th, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reinforced the warning of drug safety information by making changes to the safety
Valneva, a French biotech company focused on developing vaccines, has announced it has obtained successful Phase 1 results for its Lyme disease vaccine candidate,
Imagine a future where advanced technology can improve healthcare and medicine by providing faster, easier and more accurate diagnoses [6]. The field of artificial
To prevent a third government shutdown and end the debate over government spending that started in October, Congress recently passed a spending bill of
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the “fastest spreading vector disease” in the world (1). Approximately half of the worldwide population is
Doctor, Meet Resistance The origins of Resistance Open finds its roots in clinical care. As a physician practicing within the realm of infectious disease and
On Tuesday, June 30th, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law SB 277. The new law requires children attending daycare programs and public or
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
Two types of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Mali — Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii — have interbred to create a new hybrid “super” mosquito resistant to