Telling patients with coughs to stay away from the NHS during the Covid pandemic put lung cancer care back up to 25 YEARS, experts tell MPs Message: ‘stay at home if you had a cough’ led to early lung cancer being missed Experts said pandemic was equivalent to losing 25 years of spotting lung cancer MPs heard about ‘concerning’ variance in […]
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Testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains a critical tool in controlling the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) have the potential to increase testing, particularly those that can be used at the point of care, with limited laboratory facilities. Study: Use cases for COVID-19 screening and surveillance with rapid antigen-detecting tests: a […]
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The temperature is dropping rapidly, there are pumpkins everywhere, and even Rachel Ray has announced that Dutch oven soup season is here. It’s the time of year for roasting, braising, simmering, baking, and stewing, and that means that, yes, you need a Dutch oven. After all, what other cooking vessel can do all of the above and look so good […]
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DAKAR (Reuters) – West and Central Africa could see a rise in HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths in a few years due to disruptions in health services because of the coronavirus pandemic, the executive director of the U.N. AIDS agency said.FILE PHOTO: A health worker walks past oxygen cylinders outside the infectious diseases department of the Fann University Hospital in […]
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Researchers have demonstrated the anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) activity of a mucoadhesive polymer that may be used as a nasal spray to prevent the SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission. Study: SARS-CoV-2 inhibition using a mucoadhesive, amphiphilic chitosan that may serve as an anti-viral nasal spray. Image Credit: Juan Gaertner/ Shutterstock In their recent study published in Scientific Reports*, the […]
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Australian researchers are developing a new gene therapy which they hope will ‘switch on sight’ by regenerating light-sensing photoreceptor cells in the retina at the back of the eye. Billy Morton, the face of this year’s Hope in Sight Giving Day, was first diagnosed with the rare genetic disease choroideremia in his early teens and has experienced a progressive loss […]
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A clinical update from the American Gastroenterological Association focuses on bleeding and thrombosis-related questions in patients with cirrhosis. It provides guidance on test strategies for bleeding risk, preprocedure management of bleeding risk, venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis, screening for portal vein thrombosis (PVT), and anticoagulation therapies. It is aimed at primary care providers, gastroenterologists, and hepatologists, among other health care providers. […]
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Study finds blocking or hiding facial movement can affect sharing of emotions and social interaction Hiding the bottom half of the face with a mask could have a detrimental effect on our ability to socially interact and share other people’s emotions, new research suggests. A study, which was led by Cardiff University and involved researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, found […]
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Malaria, a pathogen transmitted into blood by mosquitoes in tropical climates, is typically thought of as a blood and liver infection. However, in a newly published study, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have detected antibodies primarily made in response to infections in the mucous membranes—in such areas as the lungs, intestines, or vagina—in study participants […]
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To date, there have been relatively few cases of neonates with COVID-19, and there is limited knowledge of neonatal severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. However, recent studies have suggested an increased risk of severe COVID-19 in infants compared to older children, which is based on data that shows an increased rate of hospitalization among infants. Study: Illness […]
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