Sep 02, 2020

The following was originally posted at becomebraveenough.com.   The media right now is reporting the division of "sides" people are taking when it comes to the pandemic. Political agenda...

Sep 01, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence portrayed his boss, President Donald Trump, as a leader who has reached out across the aisle to help during the coronavirus pandemic. “President Trump marshaled the ful...

Aug 31, 2020

Cluster of high BP, diabetes and obesity linked to 4-fold greater mortality risk from Covid-19 Metabolic syndrome proved to be a much stronger risk factor for death from Covid-19 than obesity, hypert...

Aug 31, 2020

Saliva tests can be done by patients without the need for health care interaction and PPE Saliva testing for SARS-CoV-2 appears to be a viable alternative to nasopharyngeal swab testing, according to...

Aug 31, 2020

Leslie Cutitta said yes, twice, when clinicians from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston called asking whether she wanted them to take — and then continue — extreme measures to keep her husba...

Aug 28, 2020

Madera calls for cooperation in instilling vaccine confidence CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) insisted that the FDA maintain complete transparency and keep physicians informed of...

Aug 28, 2020

Despite the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits, frontline healthcare workers in COVID-19 facilities are highly exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 infection. The objective of this study is to inves...

Aug 28, 2020

With COVID-19 inflicting substantial damage to the humankind, the WHO has encouraged countries to conduct the disease testing in large numbers. However, countries have adopted different approaches and...

Aug 28, 2020

Arthritis patients taking steroids did have higher risk for hospitalization, but not those on anti-cytokine biologics Patients with lupus taking immunosuppressive therapies had no greater risk of hos...

Aug 28, 2020

AMA calls change a ’recipe for community spread’ The CDC has changed its Covid-19 testing guidelines per recommendations from the White House Coronavirus Task Force. The guidelines now indicate...

Aug 27, 2020

FDA commissioner raises ire of scientific community in numbers mix up FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, MD, had to walk back his claims of 35% efficacy for Covid-19 convalescent plasma after the scienti...

Aug 27, 2020

Cheryl and Corrina Thinn were almost joined at the hip. The sisters, both members of the Navajo Nation, shared an office at Arizona’s Tuba City Regional Health Care. Cheryl conducted reviews to make...

Aug 27, 2020

More than 1,000 front-line health care workers reportedly have died of COVID-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, an ongoing investigation by The Guardian and KHN to track and memorialize every U.S...

Aug 27, 2020

In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repe...

Aug 26, 2020

Meanwhile, the U.S. is mulling an EUA for AstraZeneca’s vaccine After the FDA’s issuance of an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the use of Covid-19 convalescent plasma (CCP), the Infectiou...

Aug 26, 2020

Report questions viability of herd immunity theory, long-lasting vaccines Researchers in Hong Kong described what appears to be the first case of confirmed re-infection from Covid-19 in a case study ...

Aug 26, 2020

The Trump administration’s latest effort to use COVID-19 rapid tests — touted by one senior official as a “turning point” in arresting the coronavirus’s spread within nursing...

Aug 26, 2020

[khn_slabs slabs="1161100" view="inline" /] [partner-box]On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was among the first in a weeklong parade of speakers to...

Aug 26, 2020

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen tubes in her nose. Wils...

Aug 26, 2020

If all goes according to plan, Penn State University students who opt for an on-campus experience this fall will start in-person classes on Aug. 24 under the banner of a “Mask Up or Pack Up” campa...