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Army Marshals Resources To Aid In Race For Coronavirus Vaccine Agi Hajduczki, a research scientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Infectious Diseases, opens a large freezer and takes out boxes of DNA. She is part of a team making a COVID-19 vaccine. Hajduczki places a small, clear plastic tray under a piece of white ...
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How Flu Shots Can Help in the Fight Against Covid-19 While we anxiously await the development and approval of a safe and effective vaccine against Covid-19, there's another health-sparing and lifesaving vaccine already available to nearly everyone over the age of 6 months. Yes, that's the flu vaccine, offered ...
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Pandemic vs. pandemic: COVID-19 hampers fight against HIV As COVID-19 swept through the South, Mel Prince watched with alarm as some of the HIV positive patients she helps in the rural Black Belt stopped showing up for lab tests and doctor's visits. Some fell back into drug and alcohol abuse. Others feared the ...
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Vaccine Makers Keep Safety Details Quiet, Alarming Scientists Vaccine Makers Keep Safety Details Quiet, Alarming Scientists. Researchers say drug companies need to be more open about how vaccine trials are run to reassure Americans who are skittish about getting a coronavirus vaccine.
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AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine Trial Restarts MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (Healthday News) -- Oxford University has announced that final-stage testing of a coronavirus vaccine it is developing with drug maker AstraZeneca will restart following a pause last week after a serious side effect showed up in a ...
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Singapore distributes Covid contact-tracing tokens The Singapore government has started distributing Bluetooth contact-tracing tokens to its five million residents. The tokens, which can be worn on a lanyard or carried, are a hardware version of its existing contact-tracing app which was rolled out in March.
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Pandemic preparedness panel slams collective failure to heed warnings LONDON (Reuters) - A collective failure by political leaders to heed warnings and prepare for an infectious disease pandemic has transformed "a world at risk" to a "world in disorder", according to a report on international epidemic preparedness.
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Fewer Kids May Be Carrying Coronavirus Without Symptoms Than Believed: Study By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Are infected-but-healthy children major "silent spreaders" of the new coronavirus? New research out of northern Italy, once a COVID-19 hotspot, suggests they might not be.
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ASU President Alleges Some Bars Violating COVID-19 Protocols PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona State University President Michael Crow alleges several restaurant-bars near the school's Tempe campus have violated the safety protocols businesses must abide by to operate amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arizona ...
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Cassava Sciences Announces Positive Results In Phase 2 Trial Of New Alzheimer's Drug Losing a loved one to Alzheimer's disease is a scary and painful process, one that many Americans know all too well. Yet despite the fact that more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, relatively little is known on how to treat and ...
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Why a vaccine can provide better immunity than an actual infection Two recent studies have confirmed that people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be reinfected with the virus. Interestingly, the two people had different outcomes. The person in Hong Kong showed no symptoms on ...
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Poll Finds Pandemic Surge in Loneliness Among Older Adults By Serena McNiff, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The constraints of the coronavirus pandemic have many more older adults feeling lonely this summer than in years past. According to a new poll, many older ...
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UK tests if COVID-19 vaccines might work better inhaled LONDON — British scientists are beginning a small study comparing how two experimental coronavirus vaccines might work when they are inhaled by people instead of being injected. In a statement on Monday, researchers at Imperial College London and ...
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HPV Vaccination Rises Among US Kids, But Many Still Unprotected By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- More U.S. kids are getting a recommended vaccine that protects against several cancers -- but there is still much room for improvement, a new study finds.
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Six in hospital with suspected Legionnaire's disease in West Bromwich Six people are receiving hospital treatment for suspected Legionnaire's disease, Public Health England said. Eight cases were reported in West Bromwich last week and a single case reported in July has been linked to the "outbreak". Three cases have been ...
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Five reasons to get the flu shot—especially this year This fall, COVID-19 and the flu will circulate in the United States at the same time, and what will happen then is a bit of a wild card. Wearing masks, washing hands, and keeping six feet away from other people to avoid COVID-19 are measures you can take ...
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Pregnant women with COVID-19 at higher risk for severe illness, health experts say Pregnant women infected with the novel coronavirus stand a higher risk of becoming severely ill, according to health care professionals who have been monitoring COVID-19's adverse impacts on expectant mothers and their infants. Thousands of pregnant ...
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Coronavirus cases are growing in 11 US states as Fauci warns of 'disturbing' data Covid-19 cases were growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average to smooth out daily reporting, in 11 states as of Sunday, according to a CNBC analysis of data collected by Johns Hopkins University, an increase from eight states on Friday. The states ...
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Scientists outraged by White House appointees' meddling with coronavirus information: 'Outright egregious' Scientists and physicians reacted with words such as "aghast," "despicable" and "outrageous" over the weekend as news spread that White House appointees interfered with a basic national public health report when it conflicted with President Donald ...
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COVID-19 patients with sleep apnea could be at additional risk People who have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea could be at increased risk of adverse outcomes from COVID-19 according to a new study from the University of Warwick. The conclusion is drawn from a systematic review of studies that reported ...
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World's first major study into MS and pregnancy reveals it delays onset of MS symptoms by more than 3 years A comprehensive international study, led by Monash University researchers, has definitively found that pregnancy can delay the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS) by more than 3 years. MS is four times more prevalent in women and the finding—which used a ...
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COVID-19 Takes Heavy Toll on Kidneys By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Sept. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 can damage the kidneys and increase patients' risk of needing kidney dialysis, researchers report. The study authors also warned that doctors should ...
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Arizona, Known as a Covid-19 Hot Spot, Starts to Subdue Its Outbreak Health experts attribute the gains in part to a decision to let municipalities enforce their own restrictions. A Tucson, Ariz., coronvirus testing site in mid-July, when the state often recorded 3,000 new cases a day. Cheney Orr/Bloomberg News. By. Allison Prang.
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Chief scientist 'told off' for lockdown plea The government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said he was rebuked for arguing strongly in favour of imposing Covid lockdown restrictions earlier this year, it has emerged. In an email uncovered by a BBC Freedom of Information request, ...
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High-risk patients for colorectal cancer lack knowledge about colonoscopy Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States and advanced colorectal polyps are a major risk factor. These high-risk patients have a three-fold higher risk of developing colorectal cancer and therefor a three-year ...
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Redefining COVID-19: Months after infection, patients report breathing difficulty, excessive fatigue It's been five months since Lucy Gahan contracted COVID-19, and her life still hasn't returned to normal. Gahan, a clinical psychologist in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, hasn't been able to return to work. Advertisement. The disease causes what she calls ...
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Day Passes With No Coronavirus Deaths Reported In Orange County ORANGE, CA — As Orange County slowly reopens businesses and readies to reopen schools, signs continue to show the coronavirus is slowing its march across the county. On Sunday, the County reported no new COVID-19 and just 170 new cases.
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Singapore Grapples With Coronavirus in Migrant Workers' Dormitories SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is battling new clusters of coronavirus infections in migrant dormitories that had won the all-clear from authorities, highlighting the difficulty of stamping out the disease, even in a closely monitored population. As the wealthy ...
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Approval of a coronavirus vaccine would be just the beginning – huge production challenges could cause long delays Courtesy of Bruce Y. Lee, City University of New York. The race for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is well underway. It's tempting to assume that once the first vaccine is approved for human use, all the problems of this pandemic will be immediately solved.
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Screen time advice: When to schedule it and how much to allow Welcome to this installment of our limited run Small Humans advice column! Senior Features Writer Rebecca Ruiz and Director of Special Projects Alex Hazlett will be answering questions about screen time and digital family life during the pandemic. You can ...
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MicroRNA molecules potentially capable of repressing the replication of human coronaviruses HSE University researchers have found microRNA molecules that are potentially capable of repressing the replication of human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2. It turns out that the virus uses miRNA hsa-miR-21-3p to inhibit growth in the first stages of ...
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CDC Study: Adults With COVID-19 About 'Twice As Likely' To Say They Have Dined At A Restaurant (CNN) – Adults who tested positive for COVID-19 were approximately twice as likely to have reported dining at a restaurant in the 14 days before becoming ill than those who tested negative, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control ...
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Gen Xers Could Be Perpetually Susceptible to H3N2 Flu Strain It could be challenging to get anyone to think about another infectious disease besides COVID-19 these days, but flu season is almost upon us, and it could dramatically make the current global pandemic even worse. Now, to add an even greater level of ...
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Coronavirus: California continues to beat back outbreak after deadliest day in the Bay Area Health officials across the Bay Area reported ten new COVID-19 deaths as well as 707 positive cases at the end of Saturday, as the state continues to beat back the coronavirus, just after the region's deadliest day thus far. According to data compiled by this ...
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COVID hospitalizations continue to drop in Orange County; no new deaths reported ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNS) -- Orange County officials on Sunday reported 170 new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths, bringing the county's totals to 50,930 cases with 1,093 fatalities. Hospitalizations in the county continued to drop, falling from 215 ...
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HPV vaccination rises among US kids, but many still unprotected More U.S. kids are getting a recommended vaccine that protects against several cancers -- but there is still much room for improvement, a new study finds. At issue is the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV). Certain strains of HPV are sexually ...
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Rare bacterial infections reported in Long Island Sound in 'unusually high numbers,' health officials warn Connecticut health officials have issued a warning regarding exposure to the Long Island Sound after an unusually high number of rare illnesses from bacterial infections were reported. Five cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections have been reported to the ...
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Pandemic Preparedness Panel Slams Collective Failure to Head Warnings LONDON (Reuters) - A collective failure by political leaders to heed warnings and prepare for an infectious disease pandemic has transformed "a world at risk" to a "world in disorder", according to a report on international epidemic preparedness. "Financial ...
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You can train your brain to reduce motion sickness Visuospatial training exercises can train the brain to reduce motion sickness, providing a potential remedy for future passengers riding in autonomous vehicles. Researchers at WMG, University of Warwick reduced motion sickness by over 50% using the ...
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Coronavirus updates Monday: Adults with COVID-19 are more likely to have dined out: CDC study Eating at restaurants is a high-risk activity, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study found adults with COVID-19 were about twice as likely as other study participants to say they had dined out at a restaurant in the 14 ...
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Coronavirus: Restrictions reintroduced in Belfast and Ballymena Restrictions on visiting other households have been reintroduced in parts of Northern Ireland after a rise in cases of coronavirus. More detail is expected this week on the localised Covid-19 restrictions, which cover Belfast, Ballymena and parts of Glenavy, ...
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Arizona reports 384 new coronavirus cases, 61 new cases in Tucson area, Sept. 13 Arizona has recorded more than 208,500 coronavirus cases, the Arizona Department of Health Services said on Sunday. With 384 new cases, the statewide total is 208,512, the department posted Sunday in its daily tally. The total number includes people ...
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OSDH: 695 new COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma, 6 additional deaths There are 695 new cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma and 6 additional deaths, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. There have now been 69,354 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 905 deaths from the virus since the pandemic began in ...
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Virus basics: Is a face shield as safe as a mask? 11 of your COVID-19 questions answered Each week the Associated Press fact-check team answers reader questions about the coronavirus and how it's changing our lives. Here are 11 questions on our minds lately. Got a question? Submit to: FactCheck@AP.org.
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Fifth COVID-19 Fatality Linked to Maine Wedding As Pastor Gets Death Threats More than 160 coronavirus cases, including five deaths, have been linked to a wedding and reception in the Millinocket area of Maine, according to the state's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Four of the five COVID-19 deaths were reported ...
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Coronavirus: Milton Keynes Stantonbury school closes due to virus A school has been closed and a whole year group asked to self-isolate due to a confirmed case of coronavirus. In a letter to parents, Stantonbury International School in Milton Keynes said all of Year Eight had been "in close contact" with the person.
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When Will There Be a COVID-19 Vaccine and Should You Trust That It's Safe? Scientists are under pressure to deliver a vaccine soon. When can we expect it and will it be safe? Emilija Manevska/Getty. The unprecedented swiftness with which medical science is developing a vaccine for COVID-19 is one of the most inspiring stories in ...
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Coronavirus Can Attack Brain Cells, Use It To Reproduce, New Study Reveals A new medical study from the Yale School of Medicine asserts SARS-CoV-2 can infect the brain's neurons; It is the first study affirming this link although more research is needed to determine the long-term effects; "If the brain does become infected, it could ...
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Coronavirus in Massachusetts: 9001 deaths, 122904 COVID-19 cases total BOSTON (WWLP) – State public health officials reported 267 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts, bringing the total number of confirmed cases statewide to 122,904. There are 14 new deaths reported for a total of 9,001 confirmed death cases.
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Improved early psychosis detection system may halve risk in young people Doctors have developed a new data mining method to detect many young people with emerging psychosis. The new methods, based on advanced data mining to pick up early risk sign from schools, hospitals, and general doctors, will be presented at the ...
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