Skip to content

Disease Daily

An infectious disease blog

  • About
    • Terms of Use
  • Home

Category: Research & Policy

Intelligible summaries of current infectious disease research and health policies

  • Home
  • Research & Policy
Research & Policy

IDHA Launches New Respiratory Health Study on Google Health Studies App

March 8, 2021April 4, 2022 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

Read More
Research & Policy

FDA Requires a Class-Wide Label Changes of Fluoroquinolones

August 8, 2018March 23, 2022 Tianyuan Hu

  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

Read More
Research & Policy

Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate VLA15 Advances Through Phase 1 Trials

July 16, 2018March 23, 2022 Emily Wolfson

  Valneva, a French biotech company focused on developing vaccines, has announced it has obtained successful Phase 1 results for its Lyme disease vaccine candidate,

Read More
Research & Policy

The Future of Healthcare is Robots

June 26, 2018March 23, 2022 Natalia Ciesielska

  Imagine a future where advanced technology can improve healthcare and medicine by providing faster, easier and more accurate diagnoses [6]. The field of artificial

Read More
Research & Policy

FY2018: The Opposite of a Skinny Budget

April 11, 2018March 23, 2022 Kristy Leker

  To prevent a third government shutdown and end the debate over government spending that started in October, Congress recently passed a spending bill of

Read More
Research & Policy

Finally, A Vaccine Against Dengue?

January 5, 2016March 23, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

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

Read More
Research & Policy Uncategorized

Resistance Open: Battling the ‘Post-Antibiotic Era’

November 18, 2015March 23, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

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

Read More
Research & Policy Uncategorized

California’s New Vaccine Law

July 13, 2015March 23, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

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

Read More
Outbreak News Research & Policy Uncategorized

Guinea Pig in the Time of Chagas

June 28, 2015March 23, 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

Read More
Research & Policy Uncategorized

Hybrid ‘Super’ Mosquito Reported in Mali

February 22, 2015March 23, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

Two types of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Mali — Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii — have interbred to create a new hybrid “super” mosquito resistant to

Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 … 16 Next

Recent Posts

  • Sewage Systems in London Detect Vaccine Derived Poliovirus – Still No Confirmed Cases
  • IDHA Launches New Respiratory Health Study on Google Health Studies App
  • Rise in Acute Flaccid Myelitis Among Children in the US
  • Candida auris: A Fungal Superbug
  • EpiCore RFIs: Mysterious Illness Found to be Influenza in Nepal

Categories

  • Commentary
  • DD on Take Part
  • Featured Series
  • Outbreak News
  • Research & Policy
  • Uncategorized
All Rights Reserved 2022.
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Fairy by Candid Themes.