Analysis of data from 16 groups of COVID-19 patients suggest ‘silent’ carriers may exacerbate efforts to stop spread of the disease. An extraordinary percentage of…
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Tear gas being used against protestors in Hong Kong. In the past weeks, there have been reports of tear gas being used to control crowds…
Neurological symptoms may appear before fever or cough. A new review of neurological symptoms of COVID-19 patients in current scientific literature reveals the disease poses…
Digital testing method could yield new information on virus, course of disease. “It’s like having your brain tickled through your nose.” “Longest five seconds of…
Mathematical modeling shows that release from lockdown in two steps is optimal for society as a whole, while suddenly releasing everyone is a high-risk strategy.…
237+ Million Medication Errors Made Every Year in England – Costing Over £98 Million and 1700+ Lives
Avoidable consequences cost NHS upwards of £98 million and 1700+ lives every year. More than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England,…
Doing Good Does You Good Regular volunteer work provides demonstrable benefits for the health and well-being of older adults, according to a new study in…
New study underlines importance of adequate PPE and training for frontline health professionals to prevent COVID-19 infection. Despite being at high risk of exposure to…
According to a study, the number of undetected cases of infected persons differs significantly in different countries. The demographic scaling model developed by researchers at…
Lipitoids, which self-assemble with DNA and RNA, can serve as cellular delivery systems for antiviral therapies that could prevent COVID-19 and other coronavirus infections. Credit:…
The clinical presentation of Covid-19 varies from patient to patient and understanding individual genetic susceptibility to the disease is therefore vital to prognosis, prevention, and…
Acalabrutinib (trade name Calquence) is a medication used to treat a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma known as mantle cell lymphoma. The drug acalabrutinib, FDA-approved for…
Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are a major driver of total COVID-19 deaths. Reported today (June 5, 2020) in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,…
Pepcid AC package. Credit: McNeil Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. Clinical trial of those who don’t require hospital admission warranted. A widely available and inexpensive drug that…
An online first study published in Critical Care Medicine indicates the actual mortality rate of adults with critical illness from COVID-19 is less than what…
A new tool is helping scientists better understand COVID-19. Illustration by Marcin Minor. Credit: Marcin Minor Biomedical scientists working with COVID-19 have an important new…
Neutralization potency of BD-368-2 antibody against pseudovirus and authentic virus, IC50 reached 8pM and 100pM respectively. Credit: Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Biomedical Pioneering…
What Protects against COVID-19 Infection or Transmission? Credit: The Lancet First review of all available evidence including 172 observational studies looking at how physical distancing,…
Virtual conference presents progress and pitfalls in understanding the best way to lose excess weight. Many of us are eating differently during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Two University of Cincinnati students have developed an interactive dashboard that shows COVID-19 cases and deaths in Greater Cincinnati and other major U.S. cities. Known…