Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday blocked a new Arizona State University policy that would have required unvaccinated students to submit to twice-weekly COVID-19 testing and wear a mask, calling the decision “bad policy.” The Republican governor issued an executive order saying students at the state’s public […]
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In the scientific journal Pharmaceutics, researchers from the ESI International Chair of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) and ESI Group have just published a new computational topology strategy to identify existing medicines that could be applied to treat COVID-19 without waiting for the research and clinical trial phases required to develop a new medicine. This mathematical model applies […]
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PARIS – Alibaba’s business-to-consumer platform Tmall keeps broadening its scope as a beauty product developer in China. On Thursday, Beiersdorf AG revealed that its NX Nivea accelerator is expanding into the country through a partnership with Tmall to co-incubate Chinese beauty startups. The news came two weeks after information was released that Tmall and Swiss fragrance and flavors supplier Givaudan […]
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Community pharmacies represent credible and trustworthy services across the UK, which could be key to COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, especially when addressing vaccine hesitancy. Pharmacy. Image Credit: Aleksandar Malivuk/Shutterstock.com One of the four pillars of the UK primary care system New research led by Aston University in Birmingham, UK, in collaboration with UK and international researchers, shows how community pharmacies play […]
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A Victorian Resolve poll for The Age gave Labor 37% of the primary vote (42.9% at the 2018 election), the Coalition 36% (35.2%), the Greens 9% (10.7%) and independents 12% (6.1%). This poll was presumably conducted at the same time as Resolve’s federal May and June polls, from a sample of 1,103. As usual with Resolve polls, no two party […]
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Patients who expect their pain to worsen after surgery may be at higher risk of lingering postsurgical pain, according to a study published in Anesthesiology. Factors associated with lingering postsurgical pain remain poorly understood. Researchers retrospectively analyzed a single-center cohort of 3628 postsurgical patients who underwent operations between February 2015 and October 2016 at a US tertiary-care hospital. These patients […]
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Kyndra Nevin recalls with dread having to ask a Montana judge to sign an order documenting that she’d had gender-confirmation surgery so she could change the gender on her birth certificate to female. Nevin, a Bozeman resident and now 55, said the process she went through about a decade ago was humiliating and she continually worried the judge would deny […]
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Genetic mutations indicative of DNA damage were associated with high red meat consumption and increased cancer-related mortality in patients with colorectal cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Discovery. “We have known for some time that consumption of processed meat and red meat is a risk factor for colorectal cancer,” said Marios Giannakis, MD, Ph.D., an assistant professor of […]
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The price tag for giving birth in America may bring some families sticker shock—even for those with private insurance. And when delivering moms require caesarians or their newborns need neonatal care, some families may spend as much as $10,000 out-of-pocket, according to a new Michigan Medicine-led study. “Childbirth is the most common reason for hospitalization in the U.S.,” said lead […]
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Of all the proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the pathogen that causes COVID-19), the spike protein is the one that gets the most attention. This attention is well-deserved – the spike protein is essential for latching on to cells and infecting a host, and the three FDA-authorized vaccines against COVID-19 focus on the spike protein. While the initial invasion of […]
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