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North Korea becomes the TWENTY-NINTH country to record a case of the killer coronavirus as suspected patient is struck down in Denmark The woman returned from China to Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea She was detected during tests on travellers from foreign countries North Korea borders with China, where 99 per cent of the 31,500 infected are A […] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have announced two new cases of novel coronavirus in the United States, bringing the total to five across four states. Recently, reports of a coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province have flooded the world’s news. The 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) causes respiratory illness of varying severity. Initially, […] Water for food cultivation, hygiene, and of course, consumption, is essential to health and well-being, and many of the public health advances of the past 150 years can be tied directly to advances in the provision of abundant, clean and healthy water. Similarly, abundant, healthy data is essential to the digital health advances we all so confidently expect. At the […] Vitamin D is obtained from sun exposure, food and supplements. It promotes calcium absorption in the gut and maintains adequate amounts of calcium and phosphate needed for bone growth and bone remodelling. Vitamin D has other roles in the body including cell growth, immune function and reduction of inflammation. When a person lacks in the vitamin, a dangerous condition can […] The death toll from China’s coronavirus epidemic climbed past 1,100 on Wednesday but the number of new cases fell for a second straight day, raising hope the outbreak could peak later this month. As Beijing scrambles to contain the outbreak, the number of people infected on a cruise ship off Japan’s coast rose to 174—the biggest cluster outside the Chinese […] (HealthDay)—Initial regimens recommended for most people with HIV (PWH) are priced above $36,000 per year, with antiretroviral therapy (ART) cost increases exceeding the inflation rate, according to a research letter published online Feb. 3 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Nicole C. McCann, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues characterized costs of recommended initial ART regimens in the United States […] A study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center furthered understanding about mitochondria, the cell components known as the “powerhouse of the cell.” Knowing more about the genome is crucial given that mitochondria play important roles in tumorigenesis. Findings were published in the Feb. 5 online issue of Nature Genetics and resulted through collaboration with the International […] TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 2020 — Getting your surly teens off the couch might trigger a long-term turnaround in their moods, new research suggests. “Our findings show that young people who are inactive for large proportions of the day throughout adolescence face a greater risk of depression by age 18,” said study author Aaron Kandola, a psychiatry Ph.D. student at University […] A new large-scale study carried out in Japan concludes that fermented soy products, as opposed to those with unfermented soy, might reduce mortality risk. However, the study is observational, and there are limitations. Soy products have been popular in Asia since ancient times and, over recent decades, they have become increasingly popular in Western regions. With growing interest in nutritional […] The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the new coronavirus outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, officials announced today (Jan. 30). The news comes as the case count and death toll from the virus have soared in recent days. As of Thursday (Jan. 30), there were 7,736 cases and 170 deaths in China, as well as […]
North Korea becomes the TWENTY-NINTH country to record coronavirus
CDC: New cases of novel coronavirus reported in US
Healthy data is essential to advances in digital health
Vitamin D deficiency symptoms: Lacking in the sunshine vitamin could cause this condition
China virus death toll tops 1,100 as new cases fall
Costs of ART regimens increasing, outpacing inflation
Study provides new understanding of mitochondria genome, potential for new avenues of treatment for cancers
Got ‘Couch Potato’ Teens? It’s Not Helping Their Mental Health
Fermented soy products may reduce mortality risk
Coronavirus outbreak is ‘public health emergency of international concern,’ WHO declares
