The Coronavirus pandemic, the world will continue to be in respiratory: Significantly more than two million people worldwide are already infected with the Virus 147.496 of them in Germany. All the News about the Coronavirus-crisis you will find in the Ticker from FOCUS Online. Saxony-Anhalt, on Wednesday, took to 100,000 protective masks from China in reception. They were determined during […]
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(HealthDay)—While children seem to have been largely spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, a new study suggests it’s possible that up to 50,000 U.S. children might end up hospitalized with COVID-19 by the end of 2020. And, if around 25% of the U.S. population has been infected with COVID-19 by the end of this year, it’s likely that […]
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A retired doctor says a mobile phone app he created a few years ago can help patients avoid going to doctor’s offices so they don’t catch—or spread—the new coronavirus. Dr. Hillel Kashtan, who retired as an anesthesiologist at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, Va., nine years ago, created the application—MDHealthtrak—in 2017 to track all manner of illnesses. In […]
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have together with researchers in China developed a new diagnostic test for COVID-19. The test can be performed without advanced laboratory equipment and deliver the result in about half an hour, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Chemistry. The researchers are now working on verifying the test results on confirmed COVID-19 […]
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A team of Chinese scientists has recently developed two novel compounds that inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) and one of them is a good drug candidate for further clinical studies. The research, published online in Science on April 22, was conducted by Prof. Liu Hong and Prof. Xu Yechun from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) of the […]
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Signals from the brain’s fear center make it more difficult for anxious and stressed children to regulate their emotions, a first-of-its-kind brain scanning study from Stanford shows. In chronically stressed or anxious children, the brain’s fear center sends signals to the decision-making part of the brain that make it harder to regulate negative emotions, according to new research from the […]
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Wanting to buy vitamins and actually buying them are two different things entirely. Because while the former requires a simple decision to supplement your diet with a few extra nutrients, the latter asks you to navigate shelves upon shelves of vitamins and supplements. Questions about cost, quality and efficiency swarm as you attempt to figure out which nutrients you need […]
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More than 1% of Canadians have been dependent on cannabis at some point in their lives. Despite the fact that marijuana use is expected to grow with the recent legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada, little research has focused on factors associated with recovery from addiction. New research published online this month in the journal Advances in Preventive Medicine found […]
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The 7.3 million people in the UK aged between 60 and 69 are at increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19. Although the government’s age threshold for isolation is 70 years and over, data from countries such as China and Italy show that people aged 60-69 years are also at high risk of complications and death from COVID-19. […]
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A UC Davis Health study found more evidence for the efficacy of telehealth-delivered behavioral intervention in treating language problems in youth with fragile X syndrome (FXS). The authors, however, could not establish efficacy for the drug lovastatin as a treatment for learning or behavior problems in individuals with FXS. Fragile X syndrome is a single-gene disorder affecting approximately one in […]
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