Russian nuclear sub city closes access over virus

A Russian Arctic shipyard city known for nuclear submarine production, Severodvinsk, will be sealed off on Friday to contain a coronavirus outbreak there as the country’s confirmed cases neared 450,000. The governor of the Arkhangelsk region where Severodvinsk is located has signed a decree shutting access to the city of more than 180,000 people from midnight Friday, with no fixed […]

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How to live longer: The optimal amount of sleep you need to reduce risk of early death

It is well understood that eating a healthy, balanced diet and exercising regularly reduces your risk of death from all causes. The evidence is incontrovertible on those fronts, but the relationship sleep has to your overall health is more ambiguous. According to the NHS, regular poor sleep puts you at risk of serious medical conditions, including obesity, heart disease and […]

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Prominent study showing harm from hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients is retracted

A study that suggested antimalarial drugs such as hydroxychloroquine were dangerous for those with COVID-19 has been retracted. The study was withdrawn over concerns about the study’s data, which was provided by an obscure U.S. analytics company called Surgisphere. In the study, which was originally published May 22 in the journal The Lancet, researchers reported that hydroxychloroquine and the related […]

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Wambach receives award from American Thoracic Society

Jennifer A. Wambach, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Robert B. Mellins, MD, Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Thoracic Society Pediatric Assembly. The award honors Wambach’s research that focuses on rare genetic lung diseases in infants and children. Her research is […]

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After coronavirus, another hidden respiratory disease lurks in the buildings we left behind

Global outbreaks of coronavirus have forced the closing of schools, gyms, offices and other buildings at a scale never seen before. Now, as countries start reopening after lockdown, those previously abandoned buildings could have become a breeding ground for another infection—Legionnaires’ disease. Legionnaires’ disease is caused by inhaling water droplets that contain the Legionella pneumophilia bacteria. It’s quite rare, but […]

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In modeling COVID-19 locally, informatics experts focus on community reopening

In a few short months, an interdisciplinary team of University at Buffalo researchers has reoriented its focus from academic pursuits in order to model the local transmission of COVID-19 cases. Now, with the first wave of cases subsiding, they are turning their attention to modeling the effects of reopening the local economy. Their early experience with the models has continued […]

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