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The tornadoes that swept across the Southeast this spring were a warning to communities nationwide: Disasters can happen at any time, and the coronavirus pandemic is making them more difficult to manage and potentially more dangerous. The next six months could be especially challenging. Forecasts show widespread flooding is likely again this spring from the northern Plains through the Gulf […] A few weeks ago, my 97-year-old granddad tested positive for coronavirus. After spending a few days in Barnet hospital, being treated by the incredible NHS team, he beat the virus and walked out with his stick in hand and a smile on his face. But ask him about it now – two weeks on – and he won’t remember a […] Blood pressure medication according to the study, no risk factor for severe COVID-19-gradients Many patients are confused by current speculation: blood pressure-lowering drug might be more vulnerable for Coronavirus infections, or lead to more severe COVID-19-disease. A new study now comes to soothing results: According to the researchers, blood pressure medication progressions of ends is not a risk factor for […] Cancer patients with no health insurance or those enrolled in Medicaid, the federal low-income health insurance program, see smaller survival benefits from experimental therapies in clinical trials, according to study results published today in JAMA Network Open. The SWOG Cancer Research Network study is the first to examine whether treatment effects from randomized cancer clinical trials with positive findings apply […] Can dogs SMELL coronavirus? Scientists are launching pilot program to see if a ‘canine surveillance’ unit can screen people at airports and hospitals A pilot study is looking at whether eight Labrador Retrievers may accurately be able to sniff out coronavirus The dogs will be exposed to COVID-19 positive saliva and urine samples and then try to discriminate between positive and negative […] A recently completed study indicates that smoking by pregnant mothers caused roughly a 1.5-fold asthma risk in their offspring at the ages between 31 and 46. Exposure to cigarette smoke is known to increase the risk of asthma in childhood, but research findings on its later effects are scarce. A study published in the European Respiratory Journal investigated 5,200 individuals […] “When will this end?” is the question that Michael Z. Levy, Ph.D., is most often asked these days. Levy, an associate professor of Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, is an expert in disease ecology—meaning he studies the ways in which pathogens spread through space and time. He and other researchers around the world have been gathering as much […] Last fall, I quit a media job in New York. I’d been at it for years and was deeply burned out. So when I was offered a position that would allow me to travel, I gave notice—then proceeded to have sporadic panic attacks for two weeks. Did I ruin my career? I worried. Panic is familiar to me. I see […] In order to protect the population from infection with the novel Coronavirus, and to get a deeper insight in the course of the epidemic, health Minister Jens Spahn brought a new draft of the law on the way. The aim is to find Infected faster in the future, and provide testing. Topics Of Special Coronavirus More recent contributions to SARS-CoV-2, […] Children have largely been spared the worst of COVID-19, but there may be a rare complication—an inflammatory syndrome that one doctor described as causing patients to feel like “every blood vessel in the body is on fire.” Britain’s National Health Service first sounded the alarm over the weekend, warning about a small rise in children infected with the coronavirus that […]
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