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Covid-19: New York City Faulted for Delay in Social Distance Order

Oct 28, 2020

Model highlights problems implementing uniform mitigation strategy Even a one-week delay in the implementation of social distancing measures would have had a major effect on the total number of Cov...

CHEST: COPD, Cancer Patients Have Higher Covid-19 Death Risk

Oct 28, 2020

Prevalence of COPD lower than expected in one study The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was lower than expected in a pooled analysis involving more than 11,000 patients h...

Covid-19: NIAID Halts Trial of Eli Lilly Antibody Cocktail After It Fails to Reduce Severe Disease

Oct 28, 2020

Meanwhile, two conflicting studies leave question of antibody response post-Covid infection up in the air As Covid-19 cases continue to skyrocket across the U.S., a trial of Eli Lilly’s antibody ...

COVID Spikes Exacerbate Health Worker Shortages in Rocky Mountains, Great Plains

Oct 28, 2020

COVID-19 cases are surging in rural places across the Mountain States and Midwest, and when it hits health care workers, ready reinforcements aren’t easy to find. In Montana, pandemic-induced sta...

Tocilizumab in patients with severe COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study

Oct 27, 2020

There has been almost a year since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and hence, till now there has not been any therapy or treatment to cure pneumonia which might follow after the person has been ...

COVID-19-associated hyper inflammation

Oct 27, 2020

There have been various studies that have been conducted so far in order to measure the subset of the patients who have been down with severe COVID-19 and are equally prone to the development of infla...

Factors ID'd for Strong Antibody Response in COVID-19

Oct 27, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Sex, age, and severity of disease can predict increased antibody response in COVID-19 survivors, according to a study published recently in the Journal of Cli...

COVID-19-Related Death Up for Adults With Down Syndrome

Oct 27, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with Down syndrome have an increased risk for COVID-19-related death, according to a research letter published online Oct. 21 in the Annals of Internal...

COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges Osteoporosis Management

Oct 27, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic may have negatively impacted osteoporosis management, according to a study published online Oct. 14 in Osteoporosis International. Eu...

Hospitals Straining Under Weight of Surging COVID-19 Case Counts

Oct 27, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As the United States witnessed record-breaking daily COVID-19 case counts over the weekend, public health experts warned that hospitals may soon reach a break...

AstraZeneca, J&J Resume U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

Oct 27, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Drugmakers AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are ready to resume paused COVID-19 vaccine trials after health scares, CNN reported. The AstraZeneca tria...

Covid-19: Race Drives Increased Hospitalization Risk

Oct 27, 2020

Racial disparities persist after controlling for age, sex, socioeconomic status, or comorbidities Black patients were more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than white patients, even when they ...

ACP: Trump Claim that Docs are Inflating Covid-19 Death Count ’Reprehensible’

Oct 27, 2020

Physician organizations push back following president’s statements at Wisconsin rally The American College of Physicians (ACP) fired back at President Donald Trump after he claimed that doctors hav...

Travel on Thanksgiving? Pass the COVID

Oct 27, 2020

Molly Wiese was truly stumped. Her parents and siblings live in Southern California, and Wiese, a 35-year-old lawyer, has returned home every Christmas since she moved to Minnesota in 2007. Because...

Convalescent Plasma Has Limited Benefit for Moderate COVID-19

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with moderate COVID-19, convalescent plasma does not reduce progression to severe COVID-19 or mortality, according to a study published online Oc...

Survival From COVID-19 High in Patients With Psoriasis

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with psoriasis, survival from COVID-19 is high, with increased hospitalization risk in association with nonbiologic systemic therapy versus biolo...

Findings Conflicted for Benefit of Tocilizumab in COVID-19

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Tocilizumab may be beneficial for adults with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), although other findings are conflicting, according to three ...

FDA Needs More Safety Data on COVID-19 Vaccines, Experts Say

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- At a meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory board, some experts warned that the guidelines requiring two months of safety data afte...

CDC Plans Cellphone COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking System

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will monitor those taking the vaccine for any health problems v...

COVID-19 policies in the UK and consequences for mental health

Oct 26, 2020

There has been a very dramatic effect of the novel coronavirus upon the mindsets of the people in the United Kingdom. This factor could be further proved by fact that the famous psychiatrists of that ...

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