WKU Public Radio

Kentucky herpetologists scouring the state for signs of snake fungal disease

Researchers at the University of Kentucky are searching for signs of a fungal disease impacting the state's native snakes.
CIDRAP

C difficile deaths more common among Whites, people in large urban areas

The data also showed notable geographic differences in CDI deaths, with 83.8% occurring in and around large urban areas and ...
STAT

For most mild infections, long Covid symptoms clear after a year, large study finds

Since long Covid emerged, how best to define it, predict it, and treat it has been up for debate, but perhaps the most urgent question for patients and providers alike has been how long it lasts. A ...
News Medical

A large, observational, household-based, remote cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in households with children

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers designed a cohort-based surveillance study to identify risk factors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...
STAT

Large U.K. study links vaccination after Covid infection to lower odds of long Covid symptoms

Ever since Covid-19 vaccines became available, some people with long Covid have said vaccination eases the constellation of symptoms that persist weeks and months after their original infection clears ...