Sep 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There was widespread reporting of avoidance of medical care due to COVID-19-related concerns in June 2020, according to research published in the Sept. 11 ...

Sep 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- During the height of the pandemic, the incidence of nosocomial COVID-19 was rare, according to a study published online Sept. 9 in JAMA Network Open. Ch...

Sep 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Young adults hospitalized with COVID-19 have substantial rates of adverse outcomes, according to a research letter published online Sept. 9 in JAMA Interna...

Sep 10, 2020

In acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), two phenotypes based on the severity of systemic inflammation have been established. But the presence of these phenotypes with COVID-19 is not certain. T...

Sep 10, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Among children with COVID-19 or seasonal influenza, there are no differences in hospitalization rates, intensive care unit (ICU) admission rates, or mechan...

Sep 10, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The median time from COVID-19 symptom onset to viral clearance is 36 days, according to a study published online Sept. 2 in BMJ Open. Pamela Mancuso, fr...

Sep 10, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A new portable COVID-19 test that can provide results within 15 minutes and process up to 30 samples an hour could be available by the end of the year, acc...

Sep 10, 2020

Thoracic malignancies or thoracic cancers include lung cancers, thymic malignancies, lung carcinoid tumors, and tracheal tumors. Patients with thoracic malignancies are thought to be at a high risk of...

Sep 10, 2020

UK participant said to have developed acute transverse myelitis ©Wirestock — stock.adobe.com AstraZeneca is halting its Covid-19 vaccine trial due to a suspected adverse reaction in a partic...

Sep 10, 2020

[protected-iframe id="c921efbd8d4d0ae6b089e4c1e95d8de8" /] Hopefully, summer won’t end the way it began. Memorial Day celebrations helped set off a wave of coronavirus infections across much of...

Sep 09, 2020

Has politics spoiled the hope for a Covid-19 vaccine? One possible adverse effect of infection with SARS-CoV-2 is what appears to be the worrisome convergence of medicine with politics — while ma...

Sep 09, 2020

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been associated with several cardiovascular complications, like occlusive cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have suggested that these cardiovascular ou...

Sep 09, 2020

In Los Angeles County, California’s main COVID-19 hot spot since early in the pandemic, key indicators of the disease have taken an encouraging turn recently. New cases, hospitalizations, deaths ...

Sep 08, 2020

“Blessings for all you do.” “You Rock!” They arose from the grass on the median strip and stood there, beautifully askew in summer’s early morning mist; dozens of them. Created by loca...

Sep 08, 2020

Burden falls harder on people already at increased risk The Covid-19 pandemic is tied to a high burden of depression symptoms in the U.S., which is falling disproportionately on people already at inc...

Sep 08, 2020

[UPDATE: This story was revised at 5:55 p.m. ET on Sept. 2, 2020, to reflect news about states needing to prepare for a Nov. 1 vaccine rollout.] Public health departments, which have struggled for ...

Sep 08, 2020

Dozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID patients to treat the disease in f...

Sep 07, 2020

Babies born to infected women at increased risk for preterm birth Pregnant women treated in hospitals for Covid-19 appear to have a higher risk for being admitted to intensive care units than women o...

Sep 04, 2020

A COVID-19 vaccine could be available earlier than expected if ongoing clinical trials produce overwhelmingly positive results, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, ...

Sep 03, 2020

Icelandic study finds immune response 4 months post diagnosis Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 appear to be stable for 4 months after diagnosis, a cohort study from Iceland suggested. This finding holds...