Carissa Wong
Health Reporter at New Scientist
Health reporter @newscientist. She/Her 🏳️🌈 email: carissa.wong#newscientist.com
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18 hours ago |
newscientist.com | Carissa Wong
A norovirus vaccine pill that cuts the risk of infection could be available in a few years, after it showed promise in a trial where people were intentionally exposed to the virus. The highly contagious virus infects the stomach and intestines, causing vomiting and diarrhoea that typically resolve within a few days. “Billions are lost from the economy globally every year because of the lost days of work and hospitalisation,” says Sarah Caddy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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1 day ago |
newscientist.com | Carissa Wong
Parents could one day track how much breast milk their baby is drinking, thanks to a device that sends alerts to their smartphones in real time. “A common anxiety around breastfeeding is the uncertainty surrounding the amounts of breast milk that babies get,” says Daniel Robinson at Northwestern University in Illinois. “It increases stress for the breastfeeding mothers, parents and even the clinicians.” Undernourished infants may grow less quickly and, in extreme cases, can become dehydrated.
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2 weeks ago |
newscientist.nl | Carissa Wong
Een apparaat stelt mensen in staat om een nieuwe, blauwgroene tint te zien. De kleur is volgens hen de meest intense kleur die ze ooit hebben waargenomen. Vijf mensen hebben een intense blauwgroene kleur gezien, die niet eerder door de mens is waargenomen. Dat kon dankzij een apparaat waarmee mensen met kleurenblindheid op een dag misschien weer normaal kunnen zien. We nemen kleur waar via het netvlies achterin het oog dat drie soorten licht-detecterende kegeltjes bevat, genaamd S, M en L.
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3 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Carissa Wong
Adults with peanut allergy reduced their risk of reactions by eating a little peanut protein every day as part of a trial. This approach is already approved in the US for children with the condition. Peanut allergy occurs when the immune system mistakenly identifies proteins in the legume as a threat. It responds by producing more IgE antibodies, which are a vital part of the immune response, but go into overdrive with allergic reactions.
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3 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Carissa Wong
An antibiotic that is commonly used to treat pneumonia rid mice of Lyme disease at a dose 100 times lower than the standard antibiotic therapy. This smaller dose, combined with the drug’s targeted action against the infection, meant the animals’ gut microbiomes were largely unaffected. Lyme disease is caused by bacteria in the genus Borrelia that mainly spread among birds and small rodents, but people can get infected via the bites of ticks that have fed on the blood of such animals.
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