NEW DELHI — Seema Gandotra, sick with the coronavirus, gasped for breath in an ambulance for 10 hours, as it tried unsuccessfully at six hospitals in India’s sprawling capital to find an open bed. By the time she was admitted, it was too late, and the 51-year-old died hours later. Rajiv Tiwari, whose oxygen levels began falling after he tested […]
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Pilates can build a strong core to alleviate back pain. Try these three expert-approved moves to reap the benefits. Over 80% of people working from home are experiencing back, neck or shoulder pain, according to charity Versus Arthritis. If you and your household are some of those people, you won’t find that stat surprising. While you may have always worked at […]
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Policies designed to prevent the misuse of opioids may have the unintended side effect of limiting access to the pain-relieving drugs by terminally ill patients nearing the end of their life, new research led by the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy suggests. A study of more than 2,500 hospital patients discharged to hospice care over a nine-year period showed […]
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A new mathematical model for the interaction of bacteria in the gut could help design new probiotics and specially tailored diets to prevent diseases. The research, from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, was recently published in the journal PNAS. Intestinal bacteria have an important role to play in health and the development of diseases, and our new mathematical model […]
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At the end of 2020, experts led by allergists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) examined all information related to possible allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccinations. Now the team has published updated insights based on their experience overseeing more than 65,000 employees who have become fully vaccinated since that time. The group's latest findings are published in the Journal of Allergy […]
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A small study, previously posted to the medRiv preprint server in early March, was recently published in the journal Science Immunology. The now peer-reviewed research led by E. John Wherry of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine finds people previously exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) produced a more robust immune response after receiving the […]
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FDA orders US plant to STOP making J&J’s Covid vaccine as it investigates ingredient mix-up that ruined 15 MILLION doses of the shot The FDA asked Emergent BioSolutions manufacturing plant in Baltimore to halt production of J&J’s vaccine on April 16 It comes after the plant accidentally used an ingredient intended for the AstraZeneca vaccine – which it was also making […]
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Researchers in the U.K. are looking for volunteers who have already had COVID-19 for a “challenge study” that will deliberately reexpose them to the novel coronavirus. The goal of the study is to understand what immune response is needed to protect against reinfection with COVID-19, according to a statement from the University of Oxford, which has received approval to conduct […]
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In response to changes mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act to the legal definition of “device,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has amended some of its classification regulations to exclude certain software functions. “With this final rule, FDA is amending the ‘identification’ description of eight classification regulations so that the regulations no longer include software functions that […]
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