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With wildfire season in full swing, a COVID-19 outbreak at a traditional large fire camp is a potential disaster. A transient, high-density workforce of firefighters and volunteers responds to blazes while staying in close quarters with limited hygiene—conditions that could facilitate the spread of a contagious respiratory disease. To support fire agencies as they continue their mission-critical work, a team […]
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A recent report about the closure of an overnight summer camp following a large outbreak of COVID-19 raises questions about the extent to which children contribute to the spread of the new coronavirus. As summer break draws to a close for many individuals in the Northern hemisphere, the question that remains on people’s minds is: To what extent can children […]
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Emphysema is a progressive, debilitating lung disease in which the lung’s breathing sacs, or alveoli, enlarge, get thinner, and eventually are destroyed as the cells die off. It can be fatal, and there is currently no cure. New research at Boston Children’s Hospital, using lung cells and mouse models of emphysema, offers hope in the form of a small, engineered […]
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COVID -19 continues to baffle scientists and leading health experts. Research now indicates the virus could be spread through a person’s faeces. Researchers made this discovery after analysing an infected patient’s stools with shocking results. Scientists and researchers have found that, in addition to upper respiratory symptoms, a significant number of patients infected with COVID-19 also suffered from loss of […]
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The diverse situations experienced by health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic often present serious ethical challenges. From the allocation of resources and triage protocols to health-care worker and patient rights and the management of clinical trials, new ethical questions have come to the forefront of today’s global public health emergency. In an editorial in the journal AJOB Empirical Bioethics, three […]
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Antibody testing in Italy indicates that nearly 1.5 million people, or about 2.5% of the population, have had the coronavirus. But officials said Monday that huge geographic variations in the results confirmed a nationwide lockdown was “absolutely crucial” to preventing the country’s south from getting slammed as badly as its north. The Health Ministry and the national statistics agency based […]
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In mid-July, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources claimed that the Trump administration’s directive to hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when reporting patient data was made in collaboration with CDC leaders. This past Friday, however, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told members of Congress that the CDC “wasn’t directly involved in the final decision.” […]
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How much screen time is too much screen time is a question the Rivera family has grappled with as they raise their children. Leroy Rivera is a 34-year-old father living in The Bronx, New York, with his wife and two children, who are 13 and 2. They have both set screen time rules for their children because they recognize the […]
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Metastasis—the development of tumor growth at a secondary site—is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths. It occurs when the primary tumor site sheds cancerous cells which are then circulated through the body via blood vessels or lymph nodes. These become seeds for eventual tumor growth at a secondary location in the body. Detection of these very rare cells, known […]
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An occupational health expert is calling for a major review of workplace health and safety in Scotland following “failings” revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a new report, Professor Andrew Watterson, of the University of Stirling’s Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, says current policies on health and safety—the power for which lies with the UK Government—are not fit for […]
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