Jul 24, 2020

THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many recovering COVID-19 patients in the United States will now be able to leave isolation without further testing to show they are virus-free, the U.S. Cen...

Jul 24, 2020

THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 continues to cause financial peril for U.S. hospitals, according to a report released by the American Hospital Association (AHA). Kaufman Hall c...

Jul 24, 2020

High up near the ceiling, in the dining room of his Seattle-area restaurant, Musa Firat recently installed a “killing zone” — a place where swaths of invisible electromagnetic energy penetrate t...

Jul 23, 2020

NIH is pulling out all stops with its RADx national testing program As director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, doesn’t have a white horse; however, he and his ...

Jul 23, 2020

While the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Hispanic Americans is no secret, federal officials have launched studies of the disparity that they hope will better prepare the country for ...

Jul 22, 2020

Phase II trials from AstraZeneca, CanSino, and Pfizer poised to move on to phase III As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, the race for a vaccine is heating up. On Monday, July 20, promising early res...

Jul 22, 2020

Pilot program helps internists avoid buying in bulk PHILADELPHIA — The American College of Physicians (ACP) is teaming up with Project N95 to supply frontline internal medicine specialists with p...

Jul 22, 2020

Case raises safety concerns about blood supply A case of detectable SARS-CoV-2 in a volunteer blood donor more than a month after resolution of Covid-19 symptoms raises new questions about the safe...

Jul 22, 2020

In advance of an upcoming road trip with her elderly parents, Wendy Epstein’s physician agreed it would be “prudent” for her and her kids to get tested for COVID-19. Seeing the tests as a “...

Jul 21, 2020

Just as the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 approaches new highs in some parts of the country, hospital data in Kansas and Missouri is suddenly incomplete or missing. The Missouri Hospit...

Jul 20, 2020

FRIDAY, July 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a quick policy reversal, the Trump administration on Thursday told the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to once again post data about COVID-...

Jul 20, 2020

Israel Shippy doesn’t remember much about having COVID-19 — or the unusual auto-immune disease it triggered — other than being groggy and uncomfortable for a bunch of days. He’s a 5-year-old, ...

Jul 18, 2020

FRIDAY, July 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly all symptomatic COVID-19 patients experience fever, cough, or shortness of breath, and a wide variety of other symptoms are reported, according to rese...

Jul 18, 2020

FRIDAY, July 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/RTV) treatment of COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk for bradycardia, according to a study published online July 9 in Circ...

Jul 18, 2020

FRIDAY, July 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. government should make immediate preparations for clinical trials in which volunteers are exposed to the new coronavirus to speed development of a va...

Jul 17, 2020

Closing public transport had no additional impact, study found, with other measures in place Closing schools and workplaces and restricting mass gathering significantly slowed the spread of Covid-1...

Jul 16, 2020

No trial-limiting safety concerns were reported The Covid-19 vaccine farthest along in clinical trials showed immune response against SARS-CoV-2 in all participants with no trial-limiting safety co...

Jul 16, 2020

James “Mike” Anderson was a hospital employee in suburban Philadelphia with a low-profile though critical job: changing air filters in COVID patients’ rooms. By late March, new COVID cases in...

Jul 15, 2020

Preliminary study finds countries with BCG vaccine programs have lower Covid-19 mortality Preliminary research examining country-specific trends suggests a link between vaccination against tubercul...

Jul 15, 2020

Physicians group urges use of ’scientific expertise’ With the White House continually distancing itself from scientific expertise on Covid-19 and aiming to discredit NIAID director Anthony Fauc...