Nov 20, 2020

THURSDAY, Nov. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The United States crossed a grim threshold on Wednesday: More than 250,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19. With coronavirus cases on the rise in a...

Nov 20, 2020

THURSDAY, Nov. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Job insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with self-reported anxiety and depression among U.S. young adults, according to a study pu...

Nov 20, 2020

Patients can test themselves and get results in 30 minutes or less WASHINGTON —The FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Lucira Covid-19 All-In-One Test Kit, the first Covid-19 ...

Nov 20, 2020

Don’t cancel gatherings, but take precautions, AHA, AMA, and ANA ask The American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Nurses Association (ANA) issue...

Nov 20, 2020

Neutralizing antibodies were lower than seen in recovered Covid patients Early data on the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine CoronaVac, which is being developed by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, show the vacc...

Nov 19, 2020

Nurse Leslie McKamey has gotten used to the 16-hour shifts, to skipping lunch, to the nightly ritual of throwing all her clothes in the laundry and showering as soon as she walks through the door to a...

Nov 19, 2020

TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for hospital mortality is higher for critically ill patients with COVID-19 infection compared with influenza, according to a study published online ...

Nov 19, 2020

TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For individuals who have recovered from the acute phase of COVID-19, postviral fatigue is prevalent and is not associated with COVID-19 severity, according t...

Nov 19, 2020

TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who receive inhaled nebulized interferon beta-1a (SNG001) have greater odds of improvement than those receiving placebo, ...

Nov 19, 2020

TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. President Donald Trump needs to work with President-Elect Joe Biden to fight the COVID-19 pandemic as the country grapples with record-breaking numbers ...

Nov 19, 2020

TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 30 percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 died during hospitalization or within 60 days after discharge, according to a research letter publis...

Nov 18, 2020

In the middle of the night, Stefania Silvestri lies in bed remembering her elderly patients’ cries. “Help me.” “Please don’t leave me.” “I need my family.R...

Nov 18, 2020

CHICAGO — Ben Barnes has slept in abandoned buildings, hallways and alleys. For the past year or so, he’s been staying at the city’s largest homeless shelter, Pacific Garden Mission, in ...

Nov 18, 2020

Failure to cooperate could cost lives, AHA, AMA, and ANA warn The American Hospital Association (AHA), American Medical Association (AMA), and American Nurses Association sent a letter to the Trump...

Nov 17, 2020

Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about COVID-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency department in February. But there’s one question she still can’t answe...

Nov 17, 2020

A tidal wave of grief and loss has rolled through long-term care facilities as the coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 91,000 residents and staffers — nearly 40% of recorded COVID-19 deaths in...

Nov 17, 2020

News comes on heels of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine announcement And now it’s a horse race — Exactly one week after Pfizer and BioNTech announced >90% efficacy for their m-RNA Covid-19 vaccine...

Nov 16, 2020

At the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Northern California, the stories got weird almost immediately upon students’ return for the fall semester. Some said they were being followed aroun...

Nov 16, 2020

Whether it’s strange rashes on the toes or blood clots in the brain, the widespread ravages of COVID-19 have increasingly led researchers to focus on how the novel coronavirus sabotages blood ve...

Nov 16, 2020

Fully remote study showed lower clinical deterioration over 15 days Treatment with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) fluvoxamine was associated with a lower likelihood of clinical d...