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	health Daily update ⋅ May 14, 2020
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	Washington Post Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus Washington Post Jose Pascual, a critical care doctor at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, recalled those first, mad days treating the sick when he had little to offer beyond hunches and Hail Marys. Each new day brought bizarre new complications of the coronavirus ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN International Nursing home workers warned government about safety violations before Covid-19 outbreaks and deaths CNN International (CNN) A flu shot will protect you from coronavirus, a worker reported being told by supervisors at a Rhode Island nursing home, where at least 60 residents were diagnosed with Covid-19 and at least one died. Keep working, an employee who was vomiting ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Doctors in Italy make a link between Covid-19 and rare 'Kawasaki-like' inflammatory disease in children CNN (CNN) Doctors in Italy have become the latest to raise the alarm over a worrying spike in children getting sick with a rare but serious inflammatory syndrome they say is tied to the coronavirus pandemic. A new study, published in the medical journal The Lancet ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times UK Rejects Calls to Publish Detailed Data of Care-Home Deaths From COVID-19 The New York Times LONDON — Campaigners for the welfare of elderly people and their relatives are calling on the UK government to be more transparent after authorities declined to disclose the number of COVID-19 deaths in individual care homes. Citing the need to protect ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Compression Stockings Might Be Unnecessary for VTE Prevention Medscape Graduated compression stockings might be unnecessary in most patients undergoing elective surgery if anti-coagulant drugs are used, finds a UK multi-centre randomised controlled trial comparing venous thromboembolism (VTE) outcomes in hospitalised ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: There's Bad News, Good News on Coronavirus' Spread in Cats HealthDay A new trial showed that cats can easily pass the virus to each other, but none of the kitties infected appeared to get sick. There's Bad News, Good News on Coronavirus' Spread in Cats. WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- With sporadic reports ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Children affected by rare inflammatory reaction BBC News Scores of UK and US children have been affected by a rare inflammatory disease linked to coronavirus. A number of children have also been diagnosed with the disease - which can cause symptoms similar to toxic shock syndrome - elsewhere in Europe. Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Comparing COVID-19, Flu Death Tolls 'Extremely Dangerous' Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The number of COVID-19 deaths cannot be directly compared to the number of seasonal influenza deaths because they are calculated differently, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNA EXCLUSIVE-Fearing shortages, EU may deploy emergency funds in COVID-19 vaccine race Reuters By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is weighing using a $2.6 billion emergency fund to boost pharmaceutical labs' capacity, fearing that even if a COVID-19 vaccine is developed the EU may not be able to produce ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Fauci Says US Death Toll Is Likely Higher. Other COVID-19 Stats Need Adjusting, Too NPR The U.S. has the most coronavirus deaths of any country in the world — on May 11, the death toll passed 80,000. And that's likely an undercount. "Almost certainly it's higher," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Tributes pour in for British rail worker who died after being spat at by man who said he had the coronavirus Washington Post LONDON — Belly Mujinga was working at London Victoria train station March 22 when a man approached her and a colleague and spat and coughed at them. He said he had the novel coronavirus. Days after the attack, both women became sick, according ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times New Inflammatory Condition in Children Probably Linked to Coronavirus, Study Finds The New York Times As concerns mount over children with a serious and potentially deadly inflammatory condition, a new study sheds light on the illness's distinctive characteristics and provides the strongest evidence yet that the syndrome is linked to the coronavirus. Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com From France to China, nations worry about low rates of coronavirus infection NBCNews.com In a worrying sign that coronavirus may not be done sweeping through nations that are beginning to emerge from lockdown, recent studies in Spain and France indicate that only a small fraction of these countries' populations had been infected with the virus. Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American From Hamsters to Baboons: The Animals Helping Scientists Understand the Coronavirus Scientific American Scientists are scrambling to learn how the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, causes disease, as well as racing to develop treatments and, critically, a vaccine. The work relies heavily on a rarely acknowledged player: research animals. One of the most unusual ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today ASCO Preview: Boosting Survival in Ovarian Cancer MedPage Today Women with relapsed, platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer associated with BRCA mutations lived more than a year longer if they received olaparib (Lynparza) following chemotherapy, data from a randomized trial showed. After follow-up for more than 5 years, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN An 8-year-old boy with coronavirus antibodies went into cardiac arrest. His brother's CPR saved his life CNN (CNN) An 8-year-old boy was rescued by his teen brother's quick thinking after going into cardiac arrest at home, his family says, following what doctors told them was a coronavirus-related condition. Jayden Hardowar in Queens, New York, came down with a ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD COVID-19 Can Infect and Harm Digestive Organs WebMD THURSDAY, May 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The new coronavirus isn't just attacking the lungs: New research shows it's causing harm to the gastrointestinal tract, especially in more advanced cases of COVID-19. A variety of imaging scans performed on ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Covid-19 infects intestines, kidneys and other organs, studies find CNN (CNN) The new coronavirus can infect organs throughout the body, including lungs, throat, heart, liver, brain, kidneys and the intestines, researchers reported Wednesday. Two separate reports suggest the virus goes far beyond the lungs and can attack ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY 'Almost all the kids are treatable': What parents should know about new COVID-related inflammatory disease USA TODAY Parents already overwhelmed by the challenges of raising kids amid a global pandemic now have something else to worry about: a mysterious inflammatory disease most evident in New York – the nation's coronavirus epicenter – but also popping up ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Cats with no symptoms spread virus to other cats in lab test Washington Post Cats can spread the new coronavirus to other cats without any of them ever having symptoms, a lab experiment suggests. Scientists who led the work, reported on Wednesday, say it shows the need for more research into whether the virus can spread from ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Twin Antibodies May Help Fight Coronavirus; Children With Cancer Should Not Delay Treatment The New York Times (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Twin antibodies may be better than one. Scientists have found twin ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Italian Doctors Detail Cases of Inflammatory Condition in Kids With COVID-19 U.S. News & World Report By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As New York City officials grapple with the sudden appearance of a rare inflammatory condition in children exposed to COVID-19, a new Italian report ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times See the new coronavirus as you've never seen it before Los Angeles Times The Death Star. The Flowered Planet. The Devil's Gobstopper. The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 is, to borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Scientists have mapped its contours and measured its ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com Virologist hospitalized with coronavirus believes he got it through his eyes NBCNews.com Virologist Dr. Joseph Fair, an NBC News contributor who has been hospitalized with coronavirus despite being in good health and taking precautions against getting sick, said Thursday that he believes he contracted the virus through his eyes on a crowded ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD 1 in 4 YouTube Videos Mislead Viewers About COVID WebMD WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- More than one-quarter of popular English-language COVID-19 information videos posted to YouTube are misleading, researchers warn. There are posts, for example, falsely claiming that drug companies ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Coronavirus Antibody Test Impresses Scientists Medscape Health officials in England have approved an antibody test to help determine if a person has been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and whether they have developed antibodies against the virus. It was previously said that tests put through their paces were ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: Could Survivors' Blood Help Patients Battling COVID-19? Trials May Tell HealthDay Image: Domenico Piccininni donating blood. Two researchers are looking at if blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients could help prevent new infections or help ease the symptoms in those who are already infected. Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters How sewer science could ease testing pressure and track COVID-19 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - The science of sewage surveillance could be deployed in countries across the world to help monitor the spread of national epidemics of COVID-19 while reducing the need for mass testing, scientists say. A scientist works in the lab at the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters UK rejects calls to publish detailed data of care-home deaths from COVID-19 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Campaigners for the welfare of elderly people and their relatives are calling on the UK government to be more transparent after authorities declined to disclose the number of COVID-19 deaths in individual care homes. Britain's Prime ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Twin antibodies may help fight coronavirus; children with cancer should not delay treatment Reuters (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Cats With No Symptoms Spread Virus to Other Cats in Lab Test U.S. News & World Report By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer. Cats can spread the new coronavirus to other cats without any of them ever having symptoms, a lab experiment suggests. Scientists who led the work, reported on Wednesday, say it shows the need for ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Up to 100 children affected by rare inflammatory reaction BBC News Up to 100 children in the UK have been affected by a rare inflammatory disease linked to coronavirus, medics say. Some needed intensive care while others recovered quickly - but cases are extremely rare. In April, NHS doctors were told to look out for a rare ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN International Black light experiment shows how quickly a virus like Covid-19 can spread at a restaurant CNN International (CNN) A viral video from Japan aims to show how easily germs and viruses can spread in restaurants when just one person is infected. The experiment simulates the atmosphere at a buffet restaurant or on a cruise ship. It was conducted by the public ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Could COVID-19 be linked to a rare childhood inflammatory illness? Livescience.com An intense inflammatory illness has struck children around the globe, and physicians suspect it may somehow be linked to COVID-19. Several anecdotal reports have noted that some children with this strange inflammatory syndrome show similar symptoms to ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Parkinson's Patient Improving After First-Ever Stem Cell Therapy HealthDay By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a first, scientists have treated a Parkinson's disease patient with his own skin cells -- repurposing them to become key brain cells that the disease kills off. Two years ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Fruits, Tea May Help Fend Off Alzheimer's Disease WebMD WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- If you're worried about developing Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests that eating more fruits or drinking more tea or red wine might help protect your brain. People who had the lowest amounts of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Coronavirus puts vet's respiratory issues caused by burn pits to the test Fox News Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. For veteran Megan Kingston, the coronavirus presented extra danger due to her exposure to the smoke that emanated day and night from the burn pits near her ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Cats Can Transmit the Coronavirus to Each Other, but They Probably Won't Get Sick From It The New York Times Cats can infect each other with the novel coronavirus, but they may not have any symptoms, researchers reported on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. The report follows earlier laboratory research and cases of domestic cats, as well as ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus may never go away, World Health Organization warns BBC News The coronavirus "may never go away", the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, WHO emergencies director Dr Mike Ryan warned against trying to predict when the virus would disappear. He added that even if ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY 'He knew ... he could help': Ohio nurse on ventilator after treating COVID-19 patients in DC USA TODAY An Ohio man who came to the Washington, D.C., area to work as a nurse treating COVID-19 patients has been on a ventilator for almost a week after falling ill from the new coronavirus himself, his fiancée says. Michael Rhodes left Columbus in April to help ... Flag as irrelevant
	WBUR Fauci Says US Death Toll Is Likely Higher. Other COVID-19 Stats Need Adjusting, Too WBUR The U.S. has the most coronavirus deaths of any country in the world — on May 11, the death toll passed 80,000. And that's likely an undercount. Get up to speed on the coronavirus outbreak and other news Boston is talking about. Add our daily newsletter to ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Can Fruits, Tea Help Fend Off Alzheimer's Disease? U.S. News & World Report By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- If you're worried about developing Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests that eating more fruits or drinking more tea or red wine might help protect ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN International Coronavirus may 'never go away,' says WHO official CNN International (CNN) The coronavirus spreading across the globe might never be eliminated, a leading World Health Organization official has said. At a Wednesday briefing, Mike Ryan of the WHO said: "I don&. At a Wednesday briefing, Mike Ryan of the WHO said: "I ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay AHA News: Is Your Child's Blood Pressure Something to Worry About? HealthDay WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- The term "high blood pressure" rarely conjures images of young, playful children. But the condition doesn't just affect adults. In children, it can be caused by obesity, kidney disease, heart ... Flag as irrelevant
	Miami Herald Contact tracing calls can help stop coronavirus spread. Here's the problem Miami Herald This article has Unlimited Access. For more coverage, sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter. To support our commitment to public service journalism: Subscribe Now. Contract tracing is considered a critical part of stopping a possible second wave of ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Low-Tech Way to Help Some Covid Patients: Flip Them Over The New York Times Hospitals across the country are filled with a curious sight these days: patients lying on their bellies. Patients almost always lie on their backs, a position that helps nurses tend to them and allows them to look around if they're awake. But for many patients, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	EurekAlert (press release) Missing component of innate immune signaling identified EurekAlert (press release) How cells recognize pathogens and alert the immune system swiftly is a fundamental process of high importance for the survival of any species, including humans. A key role is ascribed to so-called adapters, that equal little molecular platforms inside cells ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Experiment shows human speech generates droplets that linger in the air for more than 8 minutes Washington Post Ordinary speech can emit small respiratory droplets that linger in the air for at least eight minutes and potentially much longer, according to a study published Wednesday that could help explain why infections of the coronavirus so often cluster in nursing ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Modeling shows path to suicide prevention in COVID-19 recovery Medical Xpress New modeling released today by the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre combines productivity and suicide data, demonstrating the benefits of acting urgently and effectively to flatten the mental health "curve." Ahead of the National Cabinet meeting ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters 'This virus may never go away,' WHO says Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a "massive effort" to ... Flag as irrelevant

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