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	health Daily update ⋅ June 5, 2020
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	CNN Nursing home resident: 'I feel as though I am in #DeathCamp2020' CNN (CNN) When news broke months ago about the country's first coronavirus outbreak at a nursing home, Linda Mayberry immediately recognized the home's corporate logo as it flashed across her television screen. It was the same one emblazoned throughout ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN NIH chief worried vaccine "skepticism" might cause some to skip coronavirus vaccine CNN (CNN) The director of the National Institutes of Health said Thursday he's concerned that vaccine "skepticism" could hinder the effort to immunize the country against Covid-19. "I'm a bit concerned to see there's a fair amount of skepticism in the American ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Over 1000 coronavirus deaths reported in the past 24 hours. Officials fear protests will drive up numbers CNN (CNN) In a little over a week, Americans have gone from taking their first hesitant steps outside again to marching in tightly-packed crowds in cities all over the country. Any uncertainty about venturing out during a coronavirus pandemic has been seemingly ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal Coronavirus Antibody Tests: Facts, Myths and Everything You Need To Know Wall Street Journal The clamor for antibody tests is mounting. The blood tests are designed to detect whether people have been previously infected with the coronavirus and have developed antibodies to it. People who were sick but never got a Covid-19 test want to see if they ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay COVID-Related Anxiety Has Lessened Since April HealthDay After a peak in early April, pandemic-related feelings of anxiety and depression among Americans lessened by late May, according to a national survey conducted by the University of Southern California (USC) Dornsife Center of Economic and Social ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Study on safety of malaria drugs for coronavirus retracted Washington Post Several authors of a large study that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs for coronavirus patients have retracted the report, saying independent reviewers were not able to verify information that's been widely questioned by other scientists. Thursday's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Researchers retract study that found big risks in using hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 Washington Post Three of the authors of a study that found the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was dangerous for hospitalized covid-19 patients retracted it Thursday, saying they could "no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources." The retraction notice ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Convalescent Plasma Safe, Promising in Small COVID-19 Study Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Convalescent plasma was found to be safe and effective in 14 of 25 (76%) severely ill COVID-19 patients in the first peer-reviewed study of the treatment ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Two Huge Covid-19 Studies Are Retracted After Scientists Sound Alarms The New York Times The studies, published in renowned scientific journals, produced astounding results and altered the course of research into the coronavirus pandemic. One undercut President Trump's claim that certain antimalarial drugs cure Covid-19, the illness caused by ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Malaria drug didn't help virus patients, big UK study finds Washington Post Leaders of a large study in the United Kingdom that is rigorously testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and other medicines for hospitalized COVID-19 patients say they will stop putting people on the drug because it's clear it isn't helping. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Authors Retract Lancet Article That Found Risks in Hydroxychloroquine Against COVID-19 The New York Times NEW YORK/LONDON — An influential medical journal article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients was retracted on Thursday, adding to controversy around a drug championed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Authors retract study that raised questions about drug used to treat COVID-19 USA TODAY Authors of a major study on the drug hydroxychloroquine have asked the scientific journal The Lancet to retract their study, saying they are no longer confident in its findings. The study, initially published on May 22, raised questions about treating severely ill ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Common Heartburn Drug for COVID-19 Symptoms? MedPage Today Self-administered high-dose oral famotidine (Pepcid AC) was well tolerated and associated with improved patient-reported outcomes in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a small case series found. At daily doses ranging from 60 to 240 mg, the histamine-2 ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Could Heartburn Med Pepcid Ease COVID-19 Symptoms? WebMD By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, June 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An over-the-counter heartburn remedy is showing some potential as a symptom reliever for COVID-19, a small study finds. Famotidine, sold under the brand name ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Common heartburn drug may have helped 10 patients at home with Covid-19 CNN (CNN) Ten people who were home sick with Covid-19 may have found relief with a common over-the-counter heartburn remedy, according to a study published Thursday. A coauthor of the study emphasized that it's a small group of patients. Even so, he said ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Worried about coronavirus while having sex? Wear a mask, says a new study CNN (CNN) Practice social distancing, wear a mask, wash your hands (for at least 20 seconds) -- the recommendations to prevent coronavirus are a familiar refrain to most Americans. There's little guidance, though, when it comes to sex in the age of Covid-19. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Two coronavirus studies retracted after questions emerge about data CNN (CNN) Two influential medical journals retracted separate coronavirus studies Thursday over concerns about the data used in both studies -- data that came from the same international registry. The authors of the studies, one published in The Lancet and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters 'Truly sorry': Scientists pull panned Lancet study of Trump-touted drug Reuters NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - An influential study that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients has been withdrawn a week after it led to major trials being halted, adding to confusion about a malaria drug championed by ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD COVID-19: Loss of Smell, Taste Might Be Long-Term WebMD THURSDAY, June 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's become clear that many people with the infection lose their sense of smell and taste. And doctors are concerned that some will never get back to normal. Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine Serology assays to manage COVID-19 Science Magazine In late 2019, China reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases of unknown etiology in Wuhan. The causative agent was identified as a new betacoronavirus, called severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes coronavirus ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News 'Tens of thousands' of heart procedures delayed by pandemic BBC News The postponement of tens of thousands of hospital procedures is putting the lives of people with long-term heart conditions at risk, according to the British Heart Foundation. The coronavirus pandemic has created a backlog which would only get larger as ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape UK Scientists Test Ibuprofen as COVID-19 Treatment Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Researchers in London have started a clinical trial to test whether ibuprofen helps hospitalized coronavirus patients, according to the BBC. The trial will ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today RAAS Inhibitors in COVID-19: A Signal of Benefit? MedPage Today Hypertension and the discontinuation of blood pressure-lowering medications were associated with increased mortality in COVID-19, according to data from Wuhan, China. People with high blood pressure (BP) were more likely to die during COVID-19 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Daily Beast Protest Hot Spots Prep for New COVID Outbreaks Daily Beast The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last week has sparked civil unrest in every corner of the nation, including in at least 16 states that are still reporting increased daily case counts of the deadly novel coronavirus. As public health experts ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Wristband 'Zapper' Might Help Calm Tourette Syndrome HealthDay By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, June 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A wristband that zaps a key nerve may help quell the uncontrollable tics of Tourette syndrome, according to British researchers. "We think we've come up with a safe ... Flag as irrelevant
	Times of India Women hit as Congo faces triple threat of coronavirus, Ebola and measles Reuters JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the world races to stem the coronavirus, Democratic Republic of Congo is racing to also stop the spread of measles and a new outbreak of Ebola, leaving women delaying reproductive health ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Patients with high blood pressure have twice the risk of dying from coronavirus, study finds CNN (CNN) Coronavirus patients with high blood pressure have twice the risk of dying from the infection, an international study has found. High blood pressure has been known to worsen the risk of serious symptoms, but the study, published Thursday in the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Telehealth in the era of COVID-19: Concerns for patients with cancer, heart disease Healio Many physicians are now at the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those who do not have direct COVID-19 roles, including those in cardio-oncology, are trying to maintain normalcy in medicine as much as possible amid the chaos. We continue educating ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME COVID-19 Is a Symptom of a Bigger Problem: Our Planet's Ailing Health TIME The COVID-19 outbreak is a global tragedy. Hundreds of thousands have died, healthcare systems are buckling, and the future is uncertain for millions of people whose livelihoods are collapsing. It is absolutely right that the focus today is on saving lives here ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN International Health Highlights: June 5, 2020 HealthDay Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: NIH Head Fears Some Will Bypass a COVID-19 Vaccine. Dr. Francis Collins, who heads the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is worried that ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape How Many People Avoided Emergency Departments Early in the Pandemic? Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. During a 4-week period early in the COVID-19 pandemic, visits to U.S. emergency departments were down by 42%, compared with the corresponding ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times How the coronavirus will change your next dentist appointment Los Angeles Times Surgical masks are replaced with N-95 respirators, the dental drill is silent, and waiting-room magazines are gone. Your next trip to the dentist may be much different from what you're used to. Four decades after the AIDS epidemic changed dentistry, requiring ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress The original SARS virus disappeared – here's why coronavirus won't do the same Medical Xpress British cancer doctor Prof Karol Sikora recently claimed that the current COVID-19 pandemic would "burn itself out". His thinking is that if there are more infections than we realise, and that those milder, unrecorded infections result in robust immunity, then this ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress High blood pressure linked to increased risk of dying from COVID-19 Medical Xpress Patients with raised blood pressure have a two-fold increased risk of dying from the coronavirus COVID-19 compared to patients without high blood pressure, according to new research published in the European Heart Journal today. In addition, the study ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Calls to Suicide Helpline Show Thais' Stress in Downturn The New York Times BANGKOK — In the weeks before she took her own life, Thai waitress Nitiwadee Sae-Tia felt growing financial pressure after she lost her job, a member of the family said. She was one of millions of Thais who lost their jobs after lockdown restrictions to combat ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Hope dims for hydroxychloroquine even as medical study detailing the drug's failure is retracted MarketWatch The drug has faced steady scientific and political scrutiny over whether it can in fact help treat or prevent infections with the coronavirus. Getty Images. Email icon; Facebook icon; Twitter icon; Linkedin icon; Flipboard icon. Print icon; Resize icon ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Weston hospital staff 'unknowingly spread virus' BBC News A coronavirus outbreak at Weston General Hospital was caused by staff who did not know they had the virus, according to the town's MP. Conservative MP John Penrose said health chiefs told him it "did not come from anywhere else". He said: "Some staff ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Virus app 'ready by end of June' and call to extend face-covering use BBC News Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST. 1. NHS virus tracing app 'in place by end of month'. It wasn't ready to accompany last week's launch of the NHS test ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Undiagnosed COVID-19 could mean English toll is higher than thought: ONS Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - An increase in the number of deaths in England and Wales in recent months that have not been linked to COVID-19 could indicate that undiagnosed cases are killing more people than previously thought, data from the Office for National ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Experts: Floyd's Health Issues Don't Affect Homicide Ruling U.S. News & World Report By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer. George Floyd had drugs in his system and severe heart disease when a Minneapolis police officer put a knee to his neck, but independent experts said the medical problems revealed in the full autopsy ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Doctors Heavily Overprescribed Antibiotics Early in the Pandemic The New York Times The desperately ill patients who deluged the emergency room at Detroit Medical Center in March and April exhibited the telltale symptoms of the coronavirus: high fevers and infection-riddled lungs that left them gasping for air. With few treatment options, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Coronavirus vaccine developers expect 'two-dose regime,' report says Fox News The coronavirus vaccine may not grant full immunity after just one dose, according to a new report. When a vaccine proves effective, there's a good chance it will entail a two-dose series, USA Today reported. Shots may need to be administered one month ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Global vaccines programme gets $8.8bn shot in the arm Medical Xpress Governments around the world on Thursday pledged $8.8 billion for global vaccines alliance Gavi to help immunisation programmes disrupted by coronavirus, prompting calls for global cooperation to ensure a potential COVID-19 vaccine is available to all. Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Coronavirus: Health care worker surprises daughters after 9 weeks apart amid pandemic Fox News There's nobody like Mom – and two young sisters in the U.K. adore theirs as their hero. Suzanne Vaughan recently reunited with her daughters after spending nine weeks apart while working extensive hours in a hospital ICU fighting the coronavirus pandemic ... Flag as irrelevant
	STLtoday.com UK vaccine summit calls for freely available virus vaccine STLtoday.com LONDON (AP) — A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay High Blood Pressure Might Raise COVID-19 Death Risk HealthDay FRIDAY, June 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Among patients in China with COVID-19, researchers found that those with high blood pressure had twice the risk of death from the coronavirus compared with patients who didn't have high blood pressure. Flag as irrelevant
	Mirage News Stimulating research gives new treatment hope for Tourette Syndrome EurekAlert (press release) Scientists from the University of Nottingham's School of Psychology and School of Medicine used repetitive trains of stimulation to the median nerve (MNS) at the wrist to entrain rhythmic electrical brain activity - known as brain-oscillations - that are associated ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Menopause Comes Early With High PFAS Exposure MedPage Today Environmental exposure to certain synthetic chemicals was associated with early menopause, according to a new study. In an analysis of over 1,100 premenopausal women, those who fell into the highest tertile for exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Conversation US A few superspreaders transmit the majority of coronavirus cases The Conversation US The coronavirus has traveled the globe, infecting one person at a time. Some sick people might not spread the virus much further, but some people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 are what epidemiologists call "superspreaders." Elizabeth McGraw, the director ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Universal preoperative COVID-19 screening improves pediatric patient safety Medical Xpress Universally screening pediatric patients for COVID-19 before they undergo surgical procedures has allowed hospitals to improve safety by identifying all patients who test positive for the virus, half of whom have no symptoms, according to new research led by ... Flag as irrelevant

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