Most people experience anxiety at times. It’s a normal emotion that can help us detect danger. But there’s a fine line between our evolutionary instincts and a debilitating condition. For example, imagine you’re in a jungle and hear a rustle in the bushes behind you. All of a sudden, you’re super alert and adrenalin’s pumping through your body because it […]
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From the plagues of medieval Europe to the influenza pandemic of 1918, the specter of the next public health disaster has gripped the minds of scientists, captivated the imaginations of writers and vexed conspiracy theorists. Now, a new coronavirus is engulfing the world, and the long-foretold once-in-a-century pandemic has become a reality. New insights are accumulating rapidly, but many things […]
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A six-week-old baby died of COVID-19 and global agencies warned of food shortages as coronavirus infections around the world neared one million Wednesday. Governments expanded lockdowns to affect about half of the planet, with funeral parties banned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, New York locking up its famed street basketball courts and hard-hit Italy extending its economically crippling lockdown […]
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Brain cancer in infants is biologically distinct from other childhood brain tumours and could be successfully treated with targeted drugs, a new study has shown. An aggressive type of brain tumour, called high-grade glioma, is almost always fatal in older children—with only 20 per cent surviving for more than five years. Babies and very young children, diagnosed when they are […]
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The concern began after a study in The Lancet stated that ibuprofen boosts the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which may facilitate and worsen COVID-19. The World Health Organization warned most patients to stick with acetaminophen. Now they say they do not advise against using ibuprofen. Most cardiologists advise patients to stay on their medications. Could people on certain medications […]
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The World Health Organization said Wednesday it was deeply concerned about the near-exponential escalation of the new coronavirus pandemic, with the number of deaths doubling in a week. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged citizens around the globe to stand together to fight COVID-19, as he braced for the millionth confirmed case. “As we enter the fourth month since the […]
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Italy on Wednesday extended its economically-crippling lockdown until April 13 to help stem coronavirus infections that have claimed 13,115 lives. “If we start loosening our measures now, all our efforts will have been in vain,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told the nation in a national televised address. The extension had been expected. Italy’s health minister said on Monday that businesses […]
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Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., on Monday joined the fast-growing list of jurisdictions mandating their residents to remain at home as much as possible to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Despite its large population of seniors, who are most susceptible to the harshest effects of COVID-19, Florida continues to resist calls to follow suit on a statewide basis, although […]
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(HealthDay)—About one-third of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have ocular abnormalities, according to a brief report published online March 31 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Ping Wu, M.D., from the Yichang Central People’s Hospital in China, and colleagues examined ocular manifestations and viral prevalence in the conjunctiva in a case series of 38 patients with clinically confirmed COVID-19 treated from Feb. […]
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The torrent of Italian death data reveals that the region around Milan with a population of 10 million reported almost as many coronavirus fatalities in March as it would normally have done from all other causes. The Mediterranean country of 60 million people is living through its worst disaster since World War II. It registered 12,399 COVID-19 related deaths last […]
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