Home » Health News » Page 1200
Since day one of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has not had enough tests. Faced with this shortage, medical professionals used what tests they had on people with the worst symptoms or whose occupations put them at high risk for infection. People who were less sick or asymptomatic did not get tested. Because of this, many infected people in the […]
» Read more
How dangerous COVID-19 for the brain? The Coronavirus can be triggered as late extreme damage to the brain and Central nervous system effects, even in mild cases of the disease. Here, further research is urgently needed to understand the long-term consequences of COVID-19 better. In the case of a current investigation with the participation of the University College London, it […]
» Read more
On 13 July 2020, Sudan’s transitional government made a major announcement about female circumcision. Not only will the government ban the practice, but it will mandate prison terms for those who perform it. Hailed by the international community as a major step forward and a victory for women’s and girls’ rights, this move appears to be a ‘no brainer’ in […]
» Read more
Scientists have genetically modified a “mild virus” which generates antibodies in humans just like the novel coronavirus, but without causing severe disease, an advance which they say will enable more labs across the world to safely test drugs and vaccine candidates against COVID-19. The researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis in the US engineered the […]
» Read more
The Corona-pandemic keeps the world in suspense: More than 14 million people have been infected with the Coronavirus, 202.442 of them in Germany. The United States reported almost daily new record numbers. Israel reports record number of new infections with the Coronavirus The number of daily new infections with the Coronavirus in Israel is as high as never before since […]
» Read more
The Corona-pandemic keeps the world in suspense: More than 14 million people have been infected with the novel Coronavirus, 202.442 of them in Germany. The United States reported almost daily new record numbers. US President, Donald Trump has warned of a further escalation of the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States. "It will likely be unfortunately worse before it wird" […]
» Read more
CHICAGO—Sweating in the heat of a late afternoon sun, Brandi biked up to a mobile drug treatment van in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood and asked for an assortment of needles. “Do you need Narcan?” Nikki Carter, an outreach worker, asked while leaning out the van’s window. “I have some, but you can always give me more,” replied Brandi, a drug […]
» Read more
Fighting cancer often means employing a suite of techniques to target the tumor and prevent it from growing and spreading to other parts of the body. It’s no small feat—the American Cancer Society predicts roughly 1.8 million new cases of cancer in the country in 2020, underscoring the need to identify additional ways to outsmart the runaway cells. Researchers at […]
» Read more
Early-stage clinical trials show that three COVID-19 vaccines are generally safe and induce an immune response in healthy people. The results of two of these studies were published online yesterday in The Lancet. One is a phase 1 and 2 trial by researchers at Oxford University with support from AstraZeneca. The other is a phase 2 trial by Chinese researchers […]
» Read more
To study the potentially lethal coronavirus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists have turned a relatively harmless virus into a coronavirus “surrogate” that is much safer to work with. The research was described this month in Cell Host & Microbe. “Research on the ‘real’ coronavirus is limited by the fact that it must be done using protective biosafety level 3, […]
» Read more