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	health Daily update ⋅ February 13, 2020
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	The New York Times Coronavirus Cases Seemed to Be Leveling Off. Not Anymore. The New York Times The news seemed to be positive: The number of new coronavirus cases reported in China over the past week suggested that the outbreak might be slowing — that containment efforts were working. But on Thursday, officials added more than 14,840 new ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times How Many Coronavirus Cases in China? Officials Tweak the Answer The New York Times HONG KONG — The news was abrupt and, to some, surprising: Overnight, Heilongjiang, a Chinese province near Russia, had cut its count of confirmed coronavirus cases by more than a dozen. The revision stemmed from what appeared to be a bureaucratic ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Most coronavirus cases are mild, complicating the response Washington Post The coronavirus has killed more than 1,100 people, brought a huge swath of central China to a standstill and rattled millions around the globe with hints of a pandemic seen in Hollywood fantasies. But the virus's destructive potential has overshadowed one ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Chinese public dial in for support as coronavirus takes mental toll Reuters SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Hundreds of 24-hour mental health support telephone hotlines have sprung up in China in recent weeks as millions of people fret about catching the coronavirus - and try to avoid infection by staying at home. A hotline operator ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Timetable For A Vaccine Against The New Coronavirus? Maybe This Fall NPR Right now scientists are trying to accomplish something that was inconceivable a decade ago: create a vaccine against a previously unknown virus rapidly enough to help end an outbreak of that virus. In this case, they're trying to stop the spread of the new ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Sharp increase in deaths and cases in Hubei BBC News Some 242 deaths from the new coronavirus were recorded in the Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday - the deadliest day of the outbreak. There was also a huge increase in the number of cases, with 14,840 people diagnosed with the virus. Hubei has ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Experts fear China reluctant to accept WHO ground mission Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists, diplomats and experts said on Thursday, noting four days after a World Health Organization (WHO) advance team arrived in Beijing no ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Community spread of new coronavirus in US 'likely': CDC ABC News Top health officials prepped Americans for the prospect of novel coronavirus spreading in communities in the United States during a Wednesday news conference. "At some point, we we are likely to see community spread in the U.S.," said Dr. Nancy ... Flag as irrelevant
	Injected Heroin Use Still Near All-Time Highs in US, May Explain Hepatitis-C Rise The New York Times (Reuters Health) - Heroin use by injection has leveled off in recent years but had been rising steadily for more than a decade, a study finds. Rates of heroin use, injection and addiction all rose steadily between 2008 and 2016, then apparently plateaued or fell ... Flag as irrelevant
	Xinhua Experts Fear China Reluctant to Accept WHO Ground Mission The New York Times GENEVA — China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists, diplomats and experts said on Thursday, noting four days after a World Health Organization (WHO) advance team arrived in Beijing no details have ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Will someone develop a vaccine? BBC News While the world worries about the spread of the deadly coronavirus, now known as Covid-19, one would expect the major pharmaceutical firms to make millions, even billions, by rushing to develop a vaccine. But in reality, this is not the case. While the global ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coronavirus Test Kits Sent to States Are Flawed, CDC Says The New York Times Some of the coronavirus testing kits sent to state laboratories around the country have flaws and do not work properly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. The kits were meant to enable states to conduct their own testing and ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Coronavirus boom a concern, but death rate far below SARs – so far USA TODAY Coronavirus cases boomed this week as China altered its method for counting, but thus far the death rate from the disease remains far below the SARS epidemic that rattled the global health system almost two decades ago. The death toll from the new ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fortune 'Contagion' writer, scientific adviser reflect on film's newfound relevance amid coronavirus crisis Fortune Nothing spreads like fear. Nine years after the release of Contagion, a Steven Soderbergh-directed epidemiology thriller bearing that tagline, an outbreak of novel coronavirus in China's Wuhan province—declared a global health emergency by the World ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Arizona Scientists Work On Coronavirus Vaccine Amid CDC Warning Patch.com As Arizona State University and other researchers work on a vaccine, the CDC warns coronavirus is likely to "take a foothold in the U.S.". By Beth Dalbey, Patch Staff. Feb 12, 2020 2:40 pm MT | Updated Feb 12, 2020 3:13 pm MT ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay In Small Study, No Sign That Coronavirus Can Be Passed to Baby During Pregnancy HealthDay WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There's some good news about the new coronavirus: Preliminary research suggests that the virus cannot be transmitted from an infected pregnant woman to the fetus. The researchers stressed that the study ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Glitch delays COVID-19 tests for states as first evacuees cleared CIDRAP The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said the rollout of COVID-19 diagnostic test kits to states is going slower than expected because of a problem with one of the reagents, and that 195 people from the first group of Wuhan ... Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com 'There is hope': Family's youngest son has same eye cancer as 2 older brothers Today.com In January, Angie and Aaron Rush took their son, Carter, for an eye exam and heard a diagnosis they'd hoped they'd never encounter again — retinoblastoma. The 6-month-old had the same eye cancer that both his brothers had as infants. It was an ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Times US Health Officials Await Invite to Assist With Coronavirus in China The New York Times (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday it had not yet been invited to send experts to China to assist with the investigation of the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people. The United ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American Epidemiologist Veteran of SARS and MERS Shares Coronavirus Insights after China Trip Scientific American While most people were doing what they could to avoid the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, W. Ian Lipkin quietly flew to China to get closer. W. Ian Lipkin. Credit: Columbia University. Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fortune In business vs. coronavirus, coronavirus is winning Fortune A lot has changed in the weeks since doctors in Wuhan, China, noticed a cluster of cases involving a mysterious pneumonia-like illness. That illness—a virus thought to have spread from bats to another species before jumping to humans at one of Wuhan's ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Ninth case found in UK BBC News A woman who flew into London from China a few days ago is being treated for coronavirus, bringing the total number of UK cases to nine. Chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the woman was transferred to a specialist NHS centre at Guy's and St Thomas' in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Tech Times Smartphone Apps: An Unlikely Hero for Diabetes Tech Times It's no secret that people with diabetes have struggled with the slow advancement in diabetes management technology. In a decade where our reliance on advanced technology increases, you'd think that maintaining a lifelong disease such as diabetes would ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times What 'dry fasting' is and why you shouldn't do it Los Angeles Times A new fad diet making the rounds on wellness influencer Instagram won't actually help you lose weight. And it could cause dehydration, urinary tract infections, kidney stones, organ failure — even death. It's called "dry fasting." It goes beyond what most of us ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Antibody Found That May Help Autoimmune Disorders WebMD By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who have pinpointed an antibody linked to life-threatening autoimmune disorders in children say their discovery could lead to faster diagnosis and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters US health officials await invite to assist with coronavirus in China Reuters (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday it had not yet been invited to send experts to China to assist with the investigation of the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people. FILE PHOTO: ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Drug Duo Speeds Regeneration of Key Cells Lost in Diabetes HealthDay By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A novel combination of two drugs appeared to spur faster regeneration of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, a preliminary study in mice and human tissue ... Flag as irrelevant
	Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News New Drug Combo May Lead to Novel and Effective Diabetes Therapy Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai along with collaborators from other institutions say they have discovered a novel combination of two classes of drugs that, together, cause the highest rate of proliferation ever observed in adult human ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Amid coronavirus, this MIT study will make you always wash your hands at the airport CNBC Researchers from MIT say that washing your hands at the airport could help curb a pandemic by up to 69% — and that includes flu-like illnesses such as coronavirus. Coronavirus, which was renamed COVID-19 on Tuesday, is believed to be spread through ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Weather Channel Coronavirus Death Toll Rises Above 1350; Infections on Quarantined Cruise Ship Surge to 174 The Weather Channel A passenger wearing a full-body protective suit catches the eyes of others as they walk out from the Beijing railway station on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong). At a Glance. More than 1,350 have been killed by the novel coronavirus. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Growing Up in US 'Stroke Belt' Bad for the Brain Later in Life HealthDay By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Americans who grew up in the swath of the South known as the Stroke Belt are more likely to develop thinking declines later in life, even if they moved away as adults ... Flag as irrelevant
	Daily Beast Coronavirus Keeps Spreading With New Cases in California and Texas Daily Beast A 15th case of the new, deadly coronavirus was confirmed in Texas among evacuees who fled the Chinese epicenter of the outbreak and have been living under quarantine, federal officials announced Thursday. Just hours earlier, the Centers for Disease ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today LGBTQ People Face Higher Skin Cancer Burden MedPage Today Self-reported lifetime prevalence of skin cancer was higher among gay and bisexual men, as well as among gender nonconforming people, researchers reported. Gay and bisexual men had a 26% (adjusted odds ratio 1.26, 95% CI 1.05-1.51) and 48% (aOR ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline How the US Is Preparing for a Major Coronavirus Outbreak Healthline The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and has created a global preparedness and response planTrusted Source . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News We're worse with food waste than we think BBC News Common estimates for global food waste are too low, according to Dutch researchers, who suggest every person in the world is wasting about 500 calories of food a day. Without waste, we could feed five people instead of four, they said. The study found food ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Some coronavirus testing kits are defective, CDC says Fox News Some of the coronavirus testing kits shipped to states from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an effort to speed diagnoses are defective, a top official with the federal agency said on Wednesday. The CDC sent the kits to state ... Flag as irrelevant
	ScienceBlog.com Using Any HPV Vaccination May Reduce Burden of Disease Cancer Network In a database study published in Cancer, the receipt of 1, 2, or 3 doses of an HPV vaccine by females aged 15-19 years was associated with a lower incidence of preinvasive cervical disease in comparison with unvaccinated females.1. These data support the ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Hunt for contacts of latest UK case BBC News Officials are attempting to trace the contacts of the latest person to be diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK. The woman, being treated at Guy's and St Thomas' in London, flew into Heathrow from China a few days ago. England's chief medical officer has said ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine 'A bit chaotic.' Christening of new coronavirus and its disease name create confusion Science Magazine "COVID-19. I'll spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine. COVID-19." That's how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), introduced the agency's official name for the new disease that's paralyzing China and threatening the ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Shoot Up Sharply, While 14th Case Reported in US HealthDay THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- After charting a slight decline in growth earlier this week, new coronavirus cases in China jumped by almost 15,000 in a single day, while the death count spiked to 1,367, Chinese health officials reported ... Flag as irrelevant
	Vox "This is not the bat's fault": A disease expert explains where the coronavirus likely comes from Vox The novel coronavirus outbreak presents an immense challenge for global health. But it's also part of a larger pattern: Viruses that circulate in animals keep jumping over to infect humans. The story of the novel coronavirus is the story of HIV, of SARS, of Ebola, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times A coronavirus ward? How US hospitals are preparing for this new threat Los Angeles Times U.S. hospitals are stocking up on gowns and goggles and holding refresher courses in infection control amid a growing outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus that has already killed more than 1,360 people in China. Since it began spreading last year, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News 2 Russians escape coronavirus quarantine; 1 jumped out window Fox News Two women being quarantined in Russian hospitals amid the coronavirus outbreak escaped after complaining of dire conditions upon their return from China, where the virus originated and has killed more than 1,100 people and sickened more than 45,000 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science News Bats' immune defenses may be why their viruses can be so deadly to people Science News When it comes to viruses, ones from bats are weirdly deadly — at least to humans. The mammals can carry many viruses with the potential to cause serious diseases in people, including rabies, Ebola, Nipah, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Midwest Communication Results From Chinese Drug Trials for Coronavirus Due in Weeks: Expert The New York Times GENEVA — Chinese scientists are testing two antiviral drugs against the new coronavirus and preliminary clinical trial results are weeks away, the co-chair of a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting said on Wednesday. Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, a former ... Flag as irrelevant
	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pitt to acquire sampes of coronavirus for development of treatments, including vaccine Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research is in the process of obtaining samples of the novel coronavirus from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in hopes of developing interventions including a vaccine, officials said ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Televangelist Sells $125 'Silver Solution' as Cure for Coronavirus Newsweek A guest on televangelist Jim Bakker's show suggested on Wednesday that a product sold on Bakker's website might be effective at protecting against and killing the novel coronavirus. The guest, naturopathic Dr. Sherrill Sellman, said that Silver Solution—a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Mashable This emoji could mean your suicide risk is high, according to AI Mashable Since its founding in 2013, the free mental health support service Crisis Text Line has focused on using data and technology to better aid those who reach out for help. Unlike helplines that offer assistance based on the order in which users dialed, texted, ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Wearable to spot Alzheimer's being developed BBC News An ambitious project to develop a wearable device to detect early signs of Alzheimer's disease has been launched. The Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (Edon) is being spearheaded by charity Alzheimer's Research UK. It will initially analyse ... Flag as irrelevant
	TechCrunch ePharmacy Ro launches doc-approved WebMD rival Health Guide TechCrunch "Whatever your symptom, WebMD says you have cancer." It's a long-running joke that underscores the distrust of perhaps the top source of medical advice, stemming from a confusing site clogged with ads that's been criticized for questionable information and ... Flag as irrelevant

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