Nov 16, 2020

With only a handful of treatment options available for COVID-19, health systems are aligning towards older strategies, like convalescent plasma. The therapy includes using blood from people who have r...

Nov 16, 2020

The coronavirus disease continues to spread, with more than 44 million cases and 1 million deaths across the globe as of October 29, 2020. Healthcare workers have been at the forefront, trying to miti...

Nov 15, 2020

This story also ran on CNN. It can be republished for free. Nursing homes are still taking days to get back COVID-19 test results as many shun the Trump administration’s ce...

Nov 15, 2020

Drugmaker Pfizer is expected to seek federal permission to release its COVID-19 vaccine by the end of November, a move that holds promise for quelling the pandemic, but also sets up a tight time frame...

Nov 15, 2020

Michelina Moen lost her job and health insurance in April. Only weeks earlier she had begun to feel ill and not her usual energetic self — in what she describes as a textbook case of “really b...

Nov 13, 2020

Few serious cases among outbreaks More than three-quarters (77%) of the 1,271 crew members infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the outbreak on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt from late Mar...

Nov 13, 2020

Bidirectional relationship suggested in electronic health record data Covid-19 patients were at increased risk of psychiatric sequelae, and a psychiatric diagnosis appeared to be an independent risk ...

Nov 12, 2020

Pfizer’s announcement on Monday that its COVID-19 shot appears to keep nine in 10 people from getting the disease sent its stock price rocketing. Many news reports described the vaccine as if it...

Nov 12, 2020

8 Months In... *Your web browser does not support HTML5 video*   Download Audio Conversations: Covid-19 — 8 Months In… Candace Hoffmann: Our journal club podcasts a...

Nov 11, 2020

Dr. Matthew Lewin, founder of the Center for Exploration and Travel Health at the California Academy of Sciences, was researching snakebite treatments in rural locations in preparation for an expediti...

Nov 11, 2020

Decreased admissions, procedures; increased mortality Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) decreased by nearly one-fifth ...

Nov 11, 2020

But experts urge caution until data accrue and are peer-reviewed Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate was more than 90% effective in preventing infection among pati...

Nov 11, 2020

Bamlanivimab gets OK to treat mild-to-moderate disease WASHINGTON — The FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for bamlanivimab, an investigational monoclonal antibody, to treat patients...

Nov 11, 2020

Physicians and scientists, but many with Washington-insider profiles President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr., who made the Covid-19 pandemic the focus of his campaign along with a pledge to "listen to...

Nov 10, 2020

In Montana’s conservative Flathead County, prosecutors and local leaders were turning a blind eye to businesses that flouted state mask and social distancing mandates, even as the area’s C...

Nov 10, 2020

The Department of Veterans Affairs is recruiting 8,000 volunteers for the Phase 3 clinical trials of at least four COVID-19 vaccine candidates at 20 federal medical facilities across the U.S., accordi...

Nov 10, 2020

PETAL Network trial included nearly 500 hospitalized patients Yet another study — this one from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PETAL Clinical Trials Network — found no benefit f...

Nov 09, 2020

Patients and providers alike were caught by surprise with the sudden change required for social distancing with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Matthew Greenhawt, MD, MBA, MSc. “There was n...

Nov 06, 2020

This novel coronavirus outbreak has affected the lives of millions of people. This infection has not only made them vulnerable physically, but at the same time has broken their confidence mentally. Pe...

Nov 05, 2020

Over the past month, Dr. Richard Besdine and his wife have been discussing whether to see family and friends indoors this fall and winter. He thinks they should, so long as people have been taking str...