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Fashion brand Armani said on Thursday it would start making single use medical overalls for hospital workers at all its Italian factories. The group – whose brands include Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani – said they would be used for “the individual protection of healthcare workers engaged in the fight against the Coronavirus disease.” Founder Giorgio Armani has donated 2 […]
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Movement: is Allowed to train with a respiratory disease? Actually, it always is, that you should move a sufficient amount of, also to strengthen the immune system. However, during the cold Season, many people suffer from respiratory diseases such as a cold. It is then recommended to? Exercise is important for a healthy body and mind, but if it is […]
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New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that the populous US state’s coronavirus death tally has jumped to 385, with 100 fatalities in the past day. New York is at the epicenter of America’s coronavirus battle and the state has now counted 37,258 positive cases, as it scrambles to prepare hospitals and create overflow capacity for an influx of new […]
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A molecule involved in the brain’s mechanism for resolving inflammation might stave off memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease, a study in mice suggests. Inflammation is a normal part of the immune system’s response to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens and toxins. Once the body has neutralized the threat, it deploys specialized molecules that resolve the inflammation. However, this inflammation-resolving mechanism […]
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In these unprecedented times of the global spread of COVID-19, or coronavirus, our daily lives are impacted by considerable changes in how we work and socialize. Due to social distancing measures, for those of us lucky enough to work in offices, much of our work is now being engaged in remotely, using the capabilities of modern technology. At the same […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought medical supply chains into the spotlight. There has been a national shortage of testing kits, and at least one drug is already unavailable because of the outbreak, though it hasn’t been publicly named. As operations engineers who focus on how these supply chains work, we know that even in the best of times, the U.S. […]
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Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious disease researchers are preparing to roll-out a multi-center randomised controlled clinical trial of the BCG vaccine against COVID-19. The trial has been endorsed by the Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom, who has called for global support and assistance in the fight […]
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Much remains unknown about how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spreads through the environment. A major reason for this is that the behaviors and traits of viruses are highly variable—some spread more easily through water, others through air; some are wrapped in layers of fatty molecules that help them avoid their host’s immune system, while others are “naked.” This […]
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On March 24, a headline in the Financial Times proclaimed that “Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population,” suggesting that many people in the region may have already recovered from and developed some immunity to COVID-19. But is that actually true? The news article focused on a new study from the University of Oxford, which has not been peer […]
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Russia will halt all international flights from midnight on Friday under a government decree listing new measures against the coronavirus outbreak. The decree published on Thursday orders aviation authorities to halt all regular and charter flights, with the exception of special flights evacuating Russian citizens from abroad. Russia’s civil aviation agency Rosaviatsiya will halt “regular and charter air travel from […]
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