Killer coronavirus may live on doorknobs, bus handrails and protective gear for up to NINE DAYS – four times longer than flu, study finds Virus can survive on inanimate objects and infect anyone who touches them Lurk for between two hours and nine days on paper, metal, wood and rubber But if temperatures are just right – 4C – they […]
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Western societies currently face the challenge of maintaining the high standard of health care (both affordable and available), with a growing shortage of care professionals. A well-designed hospital environment can positively contribute to the performance of care professionals. Healthy and engaged nurses are key in maintaining good health care. Mariëlle Aarts found that optimizing the lighting is a simple, non-invasive […]
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Researchers at Kanazawa University report in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology a promising novel approach for a combined treatment of the most common type of lung cancer and associated secondary cancers in the central nervous system. The approach lies in combining two cancer drugs, with one compensating for a resistance side effect of the other. In 20 to 40% of […]
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A Thai taxi driver has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, health officials said Friday, in the kingdom’s first case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly sickness which has sparked a global health alert. The finding makes Thailand only the sixth country alongside China, Germany, Japan, France and the US with confirmed domestic infections. It also comes as the Chinese death […]
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(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing living kidney transplants, persistent mixed chimerism can be achieved to allow complete or partial withdrawal of immunosuppressive drugs, according to a study published in the Jan. 29 issue of Science Translational Medicine. Stephan Busque, M.D., from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues infused allograft recipients with donor T cells and hematopoietic progenitors after […]
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A new study estimates that improving the rates of handwashing by travelers passing through just 10 of the world’s leading airports could significantly reduce the spread of many infectious diseases. And the greater the improvement in people’s handwashing habits at airports, the more dramatic the effect on slowing the disease, the researchers found. The findings, which deal with infectious diseases […]
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Mary Berry’s keen sense for all things culinary was evident early on in her career when, at the age of 31, she became food editor of Housewife magazine. At that time, Mary was only getting started on a career that would go on to see her publish more than 75 cookery books and host several successful television shows, including the […]
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(HealthDay)—A deadly virus that’s surging through a foreign country makes its way into the United States, carried into this country by an unwitting traveler. In response, Americans panic, convinced the pathogen will soon sweep through the nation—even though only a handful of people in the United States have fallen ill. That may sound like the current state of affairs with […]
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The opioid crisis and deaths related to e-cigarette use among teenagers have dominated news headlines recently. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 34 people had died as a result of vaping and, in 2017, opioid addiction was responsible for more than 47,000 deaths in the U.S. Opioid addiction has been declared a public health emergency. Yet […]
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THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2020 — Young black Americans face higher rates of stroke than others as a result of high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, new research suggests. But the same study finds they typically underestimate their stroke risk. “If people think they’re not at risk of a stroke, they are less likely to change their behavior to reduce the […]
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