A Russian Arctic shipyard city known for nuclear submarine production, Severodvinsk, will be sealed off on Friday to contain a coronavirus outbreak there as the country’s confirmed cases neared 450,000. The governor of the Arkhangelsk region where Severodvinsk is located has signed a decree shutting access to the city of more than 180,000 people from midnight Friday, with no fixed […]
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It is well understood that eating a healthy, balanced diet and exercising regularly reduces your risk of death from all causes. The evidence is incontrovertible on those fronts, but the relationship sleep has to your overall health is more ambiguous. According to the NHS, regular poor sleep puts you at risk of serious medical conditions, including obesity, heart disease and […]
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The Coronavirus pandemic, keeps the world in breath: more than five million people are already infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2 – 183.089 of them so far in Germany. All messages to the Corona-crisis in Germany, Europe and the world, you will find in the News Ticker of FOCUS Online. Covid-19-News from Germany and around the world – the top […]
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A study that suggested antimalarial drugs such as hydroxychloroquine were dangerous for those with COVID-19 has been retracted. The study was withdrawn over concerns about the study’s data, which was provided by an obscure U.S. analytics company called Surgisphere. In the study, which was originally published May 22 in the journal The Lancet, researchers reported that hydroxychloroquine and the related […]
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Three of the four authors behind a large-scale study in The Lancet that raised safety fears over the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 retracted their paper on Thursday. The dataset used in the study, a retrospective analysis of patient records, had come under serious scrutiny in recent weeks, with dozens of scientists expressing concerns over its […]
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Jennifer A. Wambach, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Robert B. Mellins, MD, Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Thoracic Society Pediatric Assembly. The award honors Wambach’s research that focuses on rare genetic lung diseases in infants and children. Her research is […]
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Following the killing of George Floyd last week, people all over the world have come together to demand justice for Floyd and other Black Americans who have died at the hands of police brutality. As protests continue in major cities across the U.S., healthcare workers—who have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic for months—are showing their support for […]
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Global outbreaks of coronavirus have forced the closing of schools, gyms, offices and other buildings at a scale never seen before. Now, as countries start reopening after lockdown, those previously abandoned buildings could have become a breeding ground for another infection—Legionnaires’ disease. Legionnaires’ disease is caused by inhaling water droplets that contain the Legionella pneumophilia bacteria. It’s quite rare, but […]
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In a few short months, an interdisciplinary team of University at Buffalo researchers has reoriented its focus from academic pursuits in order to model the local transmission of COVID-19 cases. Now, with the first wave of cases subsiding, they are turning their attention to modeling the effects of reopening the local economy. Their early experience with the models has continued […]
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Coronavirus treatments have so far proven inconclusive, with several options pursued and limited success. Vaccines rank amongst the most potentially effective solutions, but experts believe it will be some time before one is fully developed. Doctors have pinned some of their hopes on a potential treatment in convalescent plasma. Plasma is a yellowish liquid component of blood which provides roughly […]
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