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The big question: How worried should we still be about COVID-19?

This month we ask: “How worried should we still be about COVID-19?”

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Tech news: March 2023

This month's top tech news stories

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“Cardiovascular deaths increased with COVID-19”

More people in the US died from cardiovascular-related causes in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, than in any year since 2003, according to the American Heart Association’s 2023 update.

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Rapid, sensitive point-of-care-testing

Functionalised nanoparticles could soon revolutionise point-of-care diagnostics, it is claimed.

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Autoimmune diseases revisited pt.1

Following articles on Addison’s, Crohn’s and Graves, this review describes some significant historical developments in our understanding of autoimmunity.

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Role of glucose in a deadly kidney disease

A research team has developed a new approach to better understand the biology of polycystic kidney disease (PKD).

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Recent advances and updates in biomedical science

Deputy Editor Guy Orchard summarises a review paper and looks at planned special issues of the British Journal of Biomedical Science.

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Replacing injections with pills?

A new paper explores a better way of delivering medications that does not require injections but could be as easy as swallowing a pill.

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Trial to rapidly find flu treatments

A national trial has launched that aims to use pandemic lessons to help quickly find effective treatments for people hospitalised with severe flu.

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Universal flu vaccine? Twenty strains, one jab

Scientists in Pennsylvania have developed an mRNA vaccine for flu that could serve as a “general preventative measure against future flu pandemics”.

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Gut microbes disturbed by COVID-19 infection

In an intensive look at the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on patients’ microbiomes, scientists found that acute infection disrupts a healthy balance between good and bad microbes in the gut, especially with antibiotic treatment.

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