Health Literacy

How viruses use ‘fake’ proteins to hide in our cells

Some viruses can hide in our bodies for decades. They make ‘fake’ human proteins that trick our immune cells into thinking ‘everything is awesome’, there’s nothing to see here. Now researchers at the Imaging Centre of Excellence at Monash and...

Using ChatGPT to address vaccine hesitancy: a promising tool for guiding users to scientific information?

In a recent study published in Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, a group of researchers assessed Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)’s ability to address the 50 most common misconceptions about vaccine safety and evaluate its...

Vaccine confidence falls as belief in health misinformation grows

Americans have less confidence in vaccines to address a variety of illnesses than they did just a year or two ago, and more people accept misinformation about vaccines and Covid-19, according to the latest health survey from the Annenberg Public...

Category - Covid Myths