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| So You Want to Volunteer in a Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Maybe you are an altruist looking for a way to help fight the coronavirus. Maybe you are hoping to be among the first to try an experimental vaccine. Or maybe you are just bored or could use a few hundred dollars. Whatever your reasons, scientists, ... | |
| Proportion of youth with COVID-19 triples in five months: WHO (Reuters) - Young people who are hitting nightclubs and beaches are leading a rise in fresh coronavirus cases across the world, with the proportion of those aged 15 to 24 who are infected rising three-fold in about five months, the World Health Organization ... | |
| When Green Means Stop: How Safety Messages Got So Muddled Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. When Marquita Burnett heard Philadelphia was moving to the "green" phase of reopening, she was confused. She was pretty sure the city had already ... | |
| Preserving Childhood Cancer Care Amid a Pandemic BEIRUT – The measures taken by governments and hospitals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in many cases led to delays or interruptions in treatment for children with cancer, a recently released study found. The survey conducted in April by the ... | |
| The Many Symptoms of Covid-19 For a Texas nurse, the first sign that something was wrong happened while brushing her teeth — she couldn't taste her toothpaste. For a Georgia attorney, it was hitting a wall of fatigue on a normally easy run. When a Wisconsin professor fell ill in June, ... | |
| 'Too many are selfish': US nears 5 million virus cases BOSTON — Big house parties and weddings, summer camps, concerts, crowded bars and restaurants, shopping trips without masks — Americans' resistance to curbs on everyday life is seen as a key reason the U.S. has racked up more confirmed ... | |
| Weed is not good for your heart, studies say (CNN) You may love smoking weed, but it does not love your heart, according to the American Heart Association's new scientific statement on marijuana. "The American Heart Association recommends that people not smoke or vape any substance, including ... | |
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| AHA News: 12-Year-Old Is on Pacemaker No. 3 TUESDAY, Aug. 4, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Jennifer and Patrick Tallquist were resting peacefully with their 1-day-old daughter, Abrielle, when a nurse entered their hospital room to give the newborn a test. The nurse hooked up 6-pound ... | |
| How to vacation safely this summer during the coronavirus Be safe while vacationing during the pandemic. Eric Mack/CNET. For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. The continuing surge of COVID-19 around the world has thrown a wet blanket on ... | |
| 'Too many are selfish': US nears 5 million virus cases Members of the Nevada National Guard install social distancing stickers while setting up a new temporary coronavirus testing site Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher). Fourth of July gatherings, graduation parties, no-mask weddings, ... | |
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| CDC expects 2020 outbreak of life-threatening AFM in children The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a call to action to warn of a potential outbreak between the end of this summer and winter of a rare, but potentially lethal disease that affects young children, where seeking medical attention right away ... | |
| Cases of polio-like illness may increase among children, CDC warns Cases of a polio-like condition in children, called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, may start to spike again starting this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday. But, because doctors believe AFM is caused by respiratory viruses, ... | |
| Recent Cancer Diagnoses Far Short of Expectation The number of new diagnoses for six types of cancer decreased by almost 50% in the U.S. during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a comparison with historical data showed. For the six cancers combined, the weekly diagnostic average declined by ... | |
| Study Casts Doubt on Value of Cholesterol Drugs By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Aug. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Hundreds of millions of people worldwide take cholesterol-lowering drugs, like statins, but now a new review suggests that many folks don't benefit from these ... | |
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| Brush With Common Cold Might Help Protect Against COVID-19 By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Aug. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Since the pandemic began, it's been known that the severity of coronavirus illness varies widely between people. Could the common cold be the reason why? | |
| Obesity Ups Odds for Severe COVID-19, But Age Matters By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Aug. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- If you're younger than 65 years old and obese, COVID-19 poses a special danger to you. A new study reports that the more obese you are, the more ... | |
| Brush With Common Cold Might Help Protect Against COVID-19 By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Aug. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Since the pandemic began, it's been known that the severity of coronavirus illness varies widely between people. Could the common cold be the reason why? It's still just a ... | |
| Scientists discover novel drug target for pancreatic cancer Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have uncovered a novel drug target, a protein called PPP1R1B, that stops the deadly spread of pancreatic cancer, called metastasis, when inhibited in mice. Published in Gastroenterology, the ... | |
| Survey: Home health workers stressed, overlooked amid COVID-19 A study of home healthcare workers (HCWs) in New York City published today in JAMA Internal Medicine found that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated challenges they already faced as a critical yet vulnerable and marginalized workforce at high risk ... | |
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| CDC: Don't Overlook Kids' AFM Symptoms in the Middle of COVID The every-other-year acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) outbreak in children looks to become even more complicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and early reporting and follow-up by healthcare providers is critical, the CDC said on Tuesday. "This could be ... | |
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| COVID-19 shows no let-up across Americas region In the latest global COVID-19 developments, illness levels increased in more countries that initially suppressed their outbreaks, and the Americas region is still in the tight grip of the virus, amid another warning that the pandemic is disrupting regular health ... | |
| Pandemic Expert: Schools Need Testing in Place to Safely Reopen August 4, 2020 -- As communities weigh the risk of sending kids back to in-person classrooms, one expert says schools need to think about building "layers of safety" and that one important layer is regular testing. "You want to be testing everybody twice a ... | |
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| Liverpool taxi drivers urged to get tested after Covid spike Taxi drivers in Liverpool are being urged to get tested for coronavirus as part of a bid to tackle a spike in infections in the city. Any hackney cab or private hire driver operating in the city can have the test whether or not they show symptoms. The move comes ... | |
| Study Casts Doubt on Value of Cholesterol Drugs By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Aug. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Hundreds of millions of people worldwide take cholesterol-lowering drugs, like statins, but now a new review suggests that many folks don't benefit from these medications. | |
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| Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die Even the word immunity creates confusion. When immunologists use it, they simply mean that the immune system has responded to a pathogen—for example, by producing antibodies or mustering defensive cells. When everyone else uses the term, they mean ( ... | |
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| Technical issue has California under-reporting virus cases A technical problem has caused a lag in California's tally of coronavirus test results, casting doubt on the accuracy of recent data showing improvements in the infection rate and hindering efforts to track the spread. By. AMY TAXIN. August 4, 2020, 4:14 PM. | |
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| Researchers develop new mouse model for SARS-CoV-2 Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have developed a new mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease and to accelerate testing of novel treatments and vaccines against the novel coronavirus. The study, published today in the ... | |
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| Can a Physically Taxing Job Be Bad for Our Brains? Regular exercise helps to bulk up our brains and improve thinking skills, numerous studies show. But physically demanding jobs, even if they are being carried out in an office, might have a different and opposite effect, according to a provocative new study of ... | |
| Minnesota's COVID-19 case growth now standing out The national COVID-19 map has turned upside-down in one way, with Minnesota and other Northern states reporting more growth in cases over the past two weeks than Southern and Western states hard-hit by the pandemic this summer. Minnesota's ... | |
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| Virus testing in the US is dropping, even as deaths mount U.S. testing for the coronavirus is dropping even as infections remain high and the death toll rises by more than 1,000 a day, a worrisome trend that officials attribute largely to Americans getting discouraged over having to wait hours to get a test and days or ... | |
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