Victoria Smith had lost three patients to Covid-19, while another patient had lost her husband and brother to the virus. So when the New Orleans-area family physician learned in July that her health system would participate in a vaccine trial, she was in the lab to get her first dose […]
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It makes sense as an investor to follow trends (to an extent!). Telehealth is definitely a concept that has grown in popularity because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the trend will likely continue to expand after coronavirus fears are gone. Telehealth makes sense from a lot of angles, even in […]
It’s too early to say which company — or companies — will win the coronavirus vaccine race. But we do have tools to identify the most promising players. It’s important to look at timelines, clinical trial data, and a company’s ability to fund and manufacture billions of doses of a […]
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California agencies reported 4,159 new cases and 80 new deaths of the coronavirus as of Saturday, according to unofficial totals from public health websites. The cumulative number of coronavirus cases is 805,133 and 15,556 deaths. The seven-day average of 3,336 new cases from the coronavirus represents a 66% decline since […]
Mexico City – Mexico’s top coronavirus official said Sunday that definitive data on the country’s death toll from COVID-19 won’t be available for “a couple of years.” The statement by Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell is likely to revive debate about Mexico’s death toll, currently at 76,430, the fourth-highest in […]
A new study has found a significant rise in people searching Google for anxiety symptoms during the pandemic. New research found that in the United States, Google searches for ‘worry,’ ‘anxiety,’ and therapeutic techniques to manage worry and anxiety have increased during the pandemic. The research, featuring as a commentary […]
If you operate in radiology or at a different health care area, you probably hear a good deal of”shop talk” or medical lingo which could look to be a foreign language to individuals away from the health care community. Two medical jargon recognizable to the majority of radiologists and […]
When Toni Reid, Amazon. com Inc.’s vice president of Alexa experience and Echo devices, sent hundreds of staffers home in early March to work remotely, she had her husband buy a standing desk for their house the next day. “I knew we were in this for the long run,” she […]
Long Island’s predominantly minority communities have driven down COVID-19 infection rates that were the Island’s highest at the peak of the pandemic in a public health success described by experts as one of the most successful turnarounds in the United States. Since the end of August, the coronavirus has appeared […]
But those states are not seeing what Wisconsin is now. Cases are popping up in too many places, and among too many different age groups, to be blamed on college kids. In fact, every age group except 18-to-24-year-olds has seen cases rise this week, according to official data. “There’s a […]
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Britain’s testing system for COVID-19 was creaking on Tuesday as a bottleneck prevented people including medics from getting a test in a potential threat to key health services, health sector organisations said. In an attempt to slow one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in […]
There is a joke in New Mexico that the rest of the country does not know the state is part of the U.S. This summer, as cases of COVID-19 surged in many parts of the nation, New Mexico really did seem to stand apart. While Arizona and Texas, its neighbors […]
Shares of Opko Health (OPK) – Get Report jumped on Tuesday after the drugmaker said it would start a Phase 2 clinical trial of rayaldee, a potential treatment for mild-to-moderate coronavirus. The trial will be a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study that is expected to enroll about 160 subjects. Many of the […]
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in southern Germany have recorded three more COVID-19 infections in people who frequented bars visited by a 26-year-old American woman suspected of flouting quarantine rules in the Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The latest cases take the total number of recent infections in the town to 59, […]
We include products we think are useful for our readers. If you buy through links on this page, we may earn a small commission. Here’s our process. Testosterone is the primary sex hormone in males, but it also has important functions in the female body. If a person has a […]
Westbrook HS switches to distance learning through Wednesday after coronavirus case WESTBROOK — Westbrook High School will be closed through Wednesday after a member of the school community tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a letter from the district. In the letter, Zachary Faiella, director of health in Westbrook, […]
On the list of proposed topics: “Have you had a hard time with friends in the pandemic?”, “Are you planning to go back to school in the fall?” and “How have you been coping on a day-to-day basis?” But Lynch quickly realized that the group of immunocompromised college students didn’t […]
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay) TUESDAY, Sept. 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Punctured lungs occur in as many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a new study finds. Before the pandemic, this problem was typically seen in very tall young men or older patients with severe lung disease. […]
Philanthropist says political pressure cost agency credibility Erik Schatzker, Bloomberg Published 7:23 am CDT, Tuesday, September 15, 2020 In this Feb. 1, 2018 photo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, with his wife Melinda, poses for a photo before an interview with The Associated Press in Kirkland, Wash. In this Feb. 1, 2018 […]