While COVID-19 has infected millions of people worldwide and killed hundreds of thousands, there is currently no vaccine. In response, researchers have been evaluating the effectiveness of various antiviral drugs as possible COVID-19 treatments. Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has found that four antiviral drugs, including remdesivir, a drug originally developed to treat Ebola, are effective in […]
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The effects of the coronavirus pandemic will be “imprinted on the personality o … for a very long time,” predicted Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. No doubt in the future people will mourn those who’ve died and remember the challenges of this period. But how would COVID-19 shape people’s personalities—and into what? I […]
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It’s no secret that America has an ever-worsening drug addiction problem, but how much does a person’s birth year come into play? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health show that the generation a person was born into—Silent Generation, Baby Boomer, Generation X or Millennial—strongly predicts how likely they are to die from a drug overdose, […]
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Should I keep my child’s vaccine appointments? While it’s dominating the news coverage, COVID-19 isn’t the only healthcare concern people have. Dr. Elizabeth McGraw explains why keeping your children’s vaccinations on schedule and up to date is important, and how medical practitioners are taking steps to keep people as safe as possible. https://youtube.com/watch?v=mGAUiW6NTB4%3Fcolor%3Dwhite Source: Read Full Article
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In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at mysterious arachnids with more legs and eyes than you can count on one hand: spiders. How long have spiders been around? How many different spider species are there, and which species are the most dangerous to humans? Listen to Life’s Little Mysteries 25: Mysterious Spiders, to find […]
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Hundreds of people are rolling up their sleeves in countries across the world to be injected with experimental vaccines that might stop COVID-19, spurring hope—maybe unrealistic—that an end to the pandemic may arrive sooner than anticipated. About 100 research groups are pursuing vaccines with nearly a dozen in early stages of human trials or poised to start. It’s a crowded […]
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Heart attacks are serious medical emergencies that require immediate attention from a doctor. You could be at risk of a deadly heart attack – or myocardial infarction – if your fingernails start to curve downwards, over the top of your fingers, it’s been claimed. Heart attacks are caused by a lack of blood reaching the heart. Without enough blood, the […]
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Coronavirus is an infectious disease that has been confirmed in almost three and a half million people across the world. There are four signs of COVID-19 that signal something serious, including difficulty breathing. The UK has officially passed the peak of the coronavirus infection. But the government has urged the public to stay at home, to avoid becoming infected or […]
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In Italy, isolation of, after two months, the first long-awaited easing in the Corona-crisis. But the new freedom for Jogging uses the people with economically little. Especially in the South, the worst is still to come. The Mafia sees their Chance. Tourists love the walk in the maze of the streets of Naples, or the Chaos of Palermo’s street markets. […]
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Doctors plea to give high-risk ethnic minority health workers PPE at all times amid alarming Covid-19 death rates among black and Asian NHS staff BIDA says staff must be protected, even when treating non-coronavirus patients Britons of black African heritage are three-and-a-half times more likely to die NHS England chief has since written to all trusts urging them to assess the […]
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