This is what our diaries might look like at the moment: one or two (three?) work-related video conferencing calls, followed by an online learning session for the offspring (if you have one, that is). And whose idea was it again to have a Zoom happy hour/Facebook watch/Netflix party? In the age of social distancing, this was meant to be the […]
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(HealthDay)—Changes to health care have been reported among patients with rheumatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online April 20 in ACR: Open Rheumatology. Kaleb Michaud, Ph.D., from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and colleagues examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with rheumatic diseases. Participants were surveyed on March 25, […]
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To achieve your goals you need passion, grit and a positive mindset—or expressed another way, the belief that you’ll succeed if you just keep at it. But what’s the connection between these factors, and what’s the most important one? That, it turns out, depends on who you are. A recent study has investigated the links between this particular combination of […]
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With millions of people missing paychecks, braving danger for essential work and getting really tired of being cooped up, we’re all wondering the same thing: When can we go back? The simple answer is: As soon as it’s safe. The more complicated question is, how we will get back to work and school? To safely restart the economy and get […]
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COVID-19 has infected millions and killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, but a new predictor model devised at QUT offers glimmers of hope, suggesting the worst has passed and indicating well under 1000 deaths for Australia. The team at QUT, led by physician, mathematician and Future Fellow Dan Nicolau, has developed what they believe to be a more accurate […]
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The Coronavirus pandemic, the world will continue to be in respiratory: Significantly more than two million people worldwide are already infected with the Virus 150.012 of them in Germany. All the News about the Coronavirus-crisis you will find in the Ticker from FOCUS Online. Early trial data for the treatment of lung disease Covid-19 with the drug Remdesivir have caused […]
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A simple ‘do it yourself’ breathing circuit, using accessories that are readily available in intensive care, can be used to ventilate two critically ill patients at once, should clinicians be faced with equipment shortages, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax. But although technically feasible, it isn’t clear if the pros of split ventilation outweigh the cons, and the […]
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Coffee influences the taste perception For many people, the coffee in the Morning, fixed in the daily schedule. The influence may be your sense of taste, the least in the sense. A research team at the Danish Aarhus University could now demonstrate, however, that both the perception of sweet foods, as well as of bitter food is changed by the […]
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Nearly 1 in 7 people in New York who were randomly tested for coronavirus antibodies turned out to have them, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today (April 23). In New York City, the number is even higher: About 1 in 5 people tested positive for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. If those early results translate to the rest of the New York population, […]
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Historically, pediatric cancer patients have been much more likely than adult cancer patients to enroll in clinical trials as part of their treatment. Now a study by University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers working at Children’s Hospital Colorado shows pediatric oncology clinical trial enrollment may be down, from 40-70 percent seen in studies completed in the 1990s, to 20-25 percent […]
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