Prior to COVID-19, flu shots were most often administered in October to ensure the vaccination would last throughout flu season. In the midst of a global pandemic, this recommendation has changed, and public health experts now suggest…

The global pandemic has resulted in a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky’s College of Dentistry finding creative ways to continue an outreach and care program focused on raising public awareness of the symptoms of oral…

After an intense review of initial COVID-19 case reports from Wuhan, China, a group of scientists, who used the renewal theory in probability to address recall bias, suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 incubation period is more like 7.76 days, not…

The outbreak of COVID-19 in two Colorado Springs dental offices in late July 2020 shows not only how easily the virus passes from person to person but also demonstrates how dental offices can survive an outbreak by maintaining effective…

New polling data from the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute (ADA HPI) demonstrate that dentistry’s recovery following the shutdown of practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic is continuing at a steady clip. Results of an…

AeroShield is dentistry’s new standard for personal protection from bio-aerosols.

Jennifer FIsh, PhD, assistant professor of biological sciences in the University of Massachusetts Lowell, has received two grants from the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research totaling more than $600,000 to conduct…

Citing the absence of strong data showing effectiveness, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to wait on issuing an emergency authorization for a blood plasma treatment for COVID-19. The treatment involves…

Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that causes acute cognitive deficits and abnormal emotional conditions manifested in thought, speech, and behavioral complications.

The state of Virginia recently released COVIDWISE, a contact-tracing app designed to alert Virginia residents when they have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 in order to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The app relies on…