The current COVID-19 outbreak was first reported on 31 December 2019. On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic. Today, under the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), 140 medical, scientific and engineering academies from around the world call on the scientific and policymaking communities to come together to help control the spread of infection. IAP’s aim is to […]
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A choir in Washington state has been hit hard by the novel coronavirus, after deciding to follow through with a scheduled rehearsal earlier this month. Although the virus had already started to spread in Seattle, Skagit Valley Chorale conductor Adam Burdick sent an email message to all 121 members of the choir on March 6, informing them that their upcoming […]
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Coronavirus may still be contagious for up to EIGHT DAYS after symptoms disappear, study of 16 Chinese patients finds Researchers studied 16 patients with mild cases of coronavirus who were treated at PLA General Hospital in Beijing from January 28 to February 9 Half of patients were carriers of the virus even after their symptoms disappeared Some were able to […]
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Invasive procedures such as bypass surgery and stenting—commonly used to treat blocked arteries—are no better at reducing the risk for heart attack and death in patients with stable ischemic heart disease than medication and lifestyle changes alone. However, such procedures offer better symptom relief and quality of life for some patients with chest pain, according to two new, milestone studies. […]
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An experimental drug recently concluded a successful third-phase clinical trial and could potentially offer a new treatment for about 300,000 Canadians who have worsening chronic heart failure. The VICTORIA (Vericiguat Global Study In Subjects With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction) clinical trial examined the effects of a drug called vericiguat on patients at a high risk of death or […]
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Public health measures aimed at minimizing the risk of transmitting COVID-19 are necessary but they come with a price, according to University of Alberta mental health experts. “Our first priority has to be safety, but at the same time, we keep asking, “What happens to someone in isolation?’” said psychiatry professor Adam Abba-Aji. He explained it is inevitable that anxiety […]
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People need simple choices, not suggestions, in the Covid-19 crisis—so they do things that are good for them and for the community by default, according to Dr. Kate Orkin, senior research fellow in behavioral economics with Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. Dr. Orkin points out that, in Choice Architecture, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein highlight that people have limited attention […]
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The results of VOYAGER PAD found that people with peripheral artery disease (PAD) who took the blood thinner rivaroxaban with aspirin after undergoing lower extremity revascularization—a procedure to treat blocked arteries in the leg—had a significant reduction in the risk of major adverse limb and cardiovascular events when compared with those receiving aspirin alone. Data also showed that patients taking […]
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With the beginning of spring is also the risk of ticks is increasing bites in humans and animals. Dogs and cats, in the meadows or in the forest roam, are now particularly at risk. The University of Veterinary medicine Vienna provides tips on how pet owners their four-legged friends can protect. Ticks are already at outside temperatures of 5 to […]
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The event last week (March 26) attracted over 50 participants across the spectrum of public and private sector organisations from local authorities, universities and NHS trusts to clinical commissioning groups and charities like the British Red Cross. THE LARGER TREND The participants expressed a collective appetite for transparent localised data so that health, government and community services could get a more […]
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