France’s new phone app for tracking coronavirus cases and alerting people at risk of contagion was downloaded some 600,000 times in less than 24 hours since its launch, the country’s digital affairs minister said Wednesday. “It’s a good start,” Cedric O told France 2 television, while app analytics firm AppAnnie said StopCovid was leading the list of French downloads for […]
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Clinical trials are under way around the world, including in Australia, testing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. These clinical trials largely fall into two groups. With observational studies, researchers follow a group of people to see what happens to them. With experimental studies, people are assigned to treatments, then followed. These study designs have come about from centuries of people trying […]
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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 – 182.313 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. Lifting of travel warning for the EU countries from 15. […]
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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 – 182.313 of them so far in Germany. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the number of so-called Corona grows rebels. So there is in North Rhine-Westphalia 29 sub-groups in the messenger service Telegram, a reply from the Federal Ministry of the […]
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Many parents keep wooden toys for the healthy Alternative to supposedly toxic plastic products. However, the Foundation were unveiled test: in many wood products, cancer of the plug-causing substances, and hazardous small parts. Many wooden toys mountains, according to a study by the Stiftung Warentest risks for children. The supposedly more natural Alternative to the controversial plastic variant is thought […]
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Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine identified a gene that causes an aggressive form of breast cancer to rapidly grow. More importantly, they have also discovered a way to “turn it off” and inhibit cancer from occurring. The animal study results have been so compelling that the team is now working on FDA approval to begin clinical trials and […]
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As efforts to find an effective vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 ramp up, an immunologist warns that fast-tracking of clinical trials could be catastrophic. Scientists around the globe are working to develop an effective vaccine for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Until such a time, the world is reliant on physical distancing measures and personal protective equipment (PPE). Some countries are using ‘track […]
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High blood pressure is one of a number of harmful mechanisms that could inflict irreversible damage to the heart. The condition happens when the force of blood pushing against the artery walls is consistently too high, which causes the blood vessels that transport blood to the heart to lose its stretchiness and begin to narrow. A restricted blood supply starves […]
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New moms and moms-to-be have an increased likelihood of maternal depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to preliminary research from one of two University of Alberta studies looking at the toll isolation measures are having on physical activity levels at the earliest stages of life. Margie Davenport, a pregnancy and exercise researcher, explained being physically active during pregnancy […]
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Scientists studying tiny exhaled particles that could transmit the coronavirus say a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decision to drop warnings against choral singing is dangerous, risking more “super-spreading events” such as a Washington state choir practice linked to two deaths. The researchers say that the coronavirus can spread in respiratory aerosols, which may linger in the air for […]
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