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	health Daily update ⋅ October 21, 2020
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	NPR Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates NPR Two new peer-reviewed studies are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drop is seen in all groups, including older patients and those with underlying conditions, suggesting that physicians are getting better at helping ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times To Test Virus Vaccines, UK Study Will Intentionally Infect Volunteers The New York Times LONDON — Scientists at Imperial College London plan to deliberately infect volunteers with the coronavirus early next year, launching the world's first effort to study how vaccinated people respond to being intentionally exposed to the virus and opening up a ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Do Masks On Long Plane Flights Really Cut Your Risk Of Catching COVID-19? NPR Early in the coronavirus pandemic, air travel looked like a risky endeavor. Some scientists even worried that airplanes could be sites of superspreading events. For example, in March a Vietnamese businesswoman with a sore throat and a cough boarded a ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report What Will Convince Americans to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? U.S. News & World Report By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Oct. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Promoting any emerging COVID-19 vaccine to a skeptical public could be tough. But a new survey finds vaccine uptake might rise if the shot is promoted ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Why 'moderation' is the worst weight-loss advice ever Washington Post "Just eat everything in moderation." Anyone who's trying to lose weight hears it all the time, along with its cousins: Eat less, move more; eat fewer calories than you expend. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. Sure, fine, good, yes. All that is true. But if I ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Older patients, women and those with variety of early symptoms most at risk of 'long Covid,' paper suggests CNN London (CNN) Older people, women and those with a wide range of symptoms in the first week of their illness appear to be most likely to develop "long Covid," according to a preprint paper posted online by researchers at King's College London on ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Older COVID Patients Battle 'Brain Fog,' Weakness, and Emotional Turmoil Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. "Lord, give me back my memory." For months, as Marilyn Walters has struggled to recover from COVID-19, she has repeated this prayer day and night. Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post The coronavirus pandemic has caused nearly 300000 more deaths than expected in a typical year Washington Post The coronavirus pandemic has left about 285,000 more people dead in the United States than would be expected in a typical year, two-thirds of them from covid-19 itself and the rest from other causes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME UK Plans 'Challenge Trials,' Which Will Intentionally Give People COVID-19 to Test Vaccines TIME On Oct. 20, researchers at the Imperial College of London announced plans for the first human challenge study of COVID-19, which involves deliberately infecting volunteers with the virus that causes the disease, in order to test the effectiveness of vaccines. Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape UK COVID-19 Update: Risk Tool Predicts Hospitalisation and Death Medscape These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know about today. Risk Tool Predicts Hospitalisation and Death. UK researchers have developed a COVID-19 risk tool called QCOVID to help assess which patients are at the highest risk of hospital admission ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Longitudinal study reveals mechanism of early puberty as a driver of breast cancer risk Healio Early-onset of puberty and other pubertal parameters have been linked to a significantly increased risk for developing breast cancer later in life. The mechanism of this association was the focus of a longitudinal study conducted by researchers at Cincinnati ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates NPR ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now for some good news about coronavirus treatment - two studies soon to be published show that hospitalized patients in the U.S. and U.K. are much less likely to die from the virus than they were at the start of the pandemic. Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Evidence behind NI's Covid-19 response published BBC News The Department of Health has made public the evidence used to inform its decisions on managing the Covid-19 pandemic. The evidence includes the executive's paper on "non-pharmaceutical options for reducing the risk of Covid-19". It assesses the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal Volunteers to Be Infected With Coronavirus in Planned Experimental Trials Wall Street Journal LONDON—U.K. researchers plan to start infecting healthy volunteers with tightly controlled doses of the coronavirus in early 2021 in what they called a first-of-its-kind effort to more rapidly gauge the effectiveness of multiple vaccines against Covid-19. Flag as irrelevant
	The Boston Globe Scores of Mass. scientists, doctors sign open letter against herd immunity proposal The Boston Globe Scores of Massachusetts doctors and scientists are among the thousands who have signed onto an open letter that criticizes the idea of using herd immunity as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, even as the idea appears to have gained influential ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American Human Challenge Trials Will Deliberately Infect Dozens in the UK Scientific American Young, healthy people will be intentionally exposed to the virus responsible for COVID-19 in a first-of-its kind 'human challenge trial', the UK government and a company that runs such studies announced on 20 October. The experiment, set to begin in ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report UK to Infect Healthy Volunteers in Vaccine Research Trial U.S. News & World Report LONDON (AP) — U.K. researchers are preparing to infect healthy young volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19, becoming the first to announce plans to use the controversial technique to study the disease and potentially speed up development of a ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Ebola Never Went Away. But Now There's A Drug To Treat It NPR While scientists work to develop effective treatments for COVID-19, there is good news on another disease front. This month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted formal approval to an antibody cocktail from the pharmaceutical company Regeneron ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Flavanols — found in tea, berries and apples — may reduce blood pressure, study finds CNN (CNN) People who consume a diet rich in flavanol-heavy food -- such as berries, tea and apples -- tend to have lower blood pressure, according to a new study. Researchers in the United Kingdom studied the diets of more than 25,000 people in the UK and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Yahoo Sports Dr. Fauci thinks this is when the public will be able to do things that 'feel like normal' Yahoo Sports Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House coronavirus task force. Steph Curry is a point guard for the Golden State Warriors. While it might seem like these two men don't have a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com COVID-19 is at least 5 times deadlier than flu for hospitalized patients Livescience.com Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were also at higher risk for 17 serious health complications, compared with flu patients. Shares. A patient in the ICU. (Image: © Shutterstock). COVID-19 truly is more deadly than the flu — patients hospitalized with COVID-19 ... Flag as irrelevant
	PBS NewsHour COVID-19 is taking a huge emotional toll on nursing home residents PBS NewsHour The cost of isolating frail elders in nursing homes — many of which have been on a literal lockdown for months — is taking an even steeper toll than aging advocates feared. A new survey of 365 nursing home residents in 36 states, conducted in July and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Study finds tocilizumab improves survival in critically ill patients with COVID-19 Medical Xpress Researchers from 68 sites across the country, led by David E. Leaf, MD, MMSc and Shruti Gupta, MD, MPH from the Division of Renal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, have investigated the effects of the anti-inflammatory drug tocilizumab on ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Rheumatoid arthritis drug tocilizumab advances as a COVID treatment, as other regimens fall back, studies show USA TODAY The list of drugs shown effective for treating COVID-19 got longer Tuesday, even as another well-used drug lost some of its luster. In a large clinical study, tocilizumab, an immune modulator long used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, showed it can save lives if ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Studies offer little hope for tocilizumab in treating COVID CIDRAP JAMA Internal Medicine today published a trio of studies on use of the immunosuppressive drug tocilizumab in COVID-19 patients with pneumonia, one of them a large US observational study that suggested some promise and two randomized clinical trials ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Rihanna's latest Savage X Fenty campaign stars Black breast cancer survivors CNN Rihanna is using her latest Savage X Fenty campaign to shine a spotlight on Black breast cancer survivors. In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the singer's lingerie brand asked three "survivors and thrivers" to model new styles from a capsule ... Flag as irrelevant
	PRI Public health experts warn against herd immunity strategy to manage COVID-19 PRI As herd immunity gains new ground as a possible public health strategy, a growing chorus of public health experts is speaking out against it as an extremely dangerous idea. The World. October 20, 2020 · 2:45 PM EDT. By Elana Gordon ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial Washington Post LONDON — Danica Marcos wants to be infected with COVID-19. While other people are wearing masks and staying home to avoid the disease, the 22-year-old Londoner has volunteered to contract the new coronavirus as part of a controversial study that ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal 'White Market Drugs' Review: Addiction by Prescription Wall Street Journal More than a century ago, the nation had its first opioid crisis. Narcotic-laced patent medicines, morphine powder and opium tinctures formed the core of a physician's pharmacopeia. Such medicines relieved the chronic wounds of Civil War veterans and ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Atlantic Paging Dr. Hamblin: I Don't See the Upside of a Flu Shot The Atlantic Editor's Note: Every Wednesday, James Hamblin takes questions from readers about health-related curiosities, concerns, and obsessions. Have one? Email him at paging.dr.hamblin@theatlantic.com. Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Long Covid: Who is more likely to get it? BBC News Old age and having a wide range of initial symptoms increase the risk of "long Covid", say scientists. The study, seen by the BBC, estimates one in 20 people are sick for least eight weeks. The research at King's College London also showed being female, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Seattle Times Fall surge of COVID-19 here, state officials warn Seattle Times The number of COVID-19 cases in Western Washington is rising at "an alarming rate" and health officials say we might be joining the rest of the nation in a "fall surge" of the pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health said in a Tuesday news ... Flag as irrelevant
	Seattle Times Next up in hunt for COVID-19 vaccine: Testing shots in kids Seattle Times The global hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine for kids is only just beginning — a lagging start that has some U.S. pediatricians worried they may not know if any shots work for young children in time for the next school year. Older adults may be most vulnerable to ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN A Texas woman died on a plane of Covid-19 CNN The woman died in late July on the tarmac at a New Mexico airport, Judge Clay Jenkins told CNN. The Dallas County Health and Human Services first reported her death in the news release Sunday. Flag as irrelevant
	Atlanta Journal Constitution High-dose flu vaccine in limited supply in Georgia Atlanta Journal Constitution Some health care providers across Georgia and the rest of the country already are running low on the high-dose flu vaccine recommended for older Americans as many in the public heed warnings about the dangers of contracting the flu and COVID-19 at the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress New tool predicts risks of hospital admission and death from COVID-19 Medical Xpress A new risk tool, developed by UK researchers to predict a person's risk of being admitted to hospital and dying from COVID-19 has been published by The BMJ today. With cases increasing in the UK and elsewhere, and winter approaching, there is an urgent ... Flag as irrelevant
	al.com Few dentists tested positive for coronavirus after reopening, Alabama researcher finds al.com Less than 1 percent of dentists tested positive for coronavirus in the first months after reopening, despite fears their practices could be hotspots of infection, according to research published this week in the Journal of the American Dental Association. Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News 'Little chance' coronavirus will be 'eradicated,' UK advisor reportedly says Fox News He reportedly told lawmakers the time to prepare for a vaccine's arrival is now by keeping coronavirus infections low. By Alexandria Hein | Fox News. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Comments; Print; Email. close. Could a coronavirus vaccine be approved by ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Smog Tied to Raised Risk for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's Disease U.S. News & World Report By E.J. Mundell, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Oct. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As the air people breathe gets dirtier, their odds for serious neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and other dementias rises, new ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Human coronaviruses 'inactivated' by mouthwash, oral rinses: study Fox News A new study conducted by researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine has found that a common dental item can inactivate human coronaviruses: mouthwash and oral rinses. For the study, the results of which were published in the Journal of Medical ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times UK Moves Toward Ethically Controversial Coronavirus Vaccine Trial NPR The British government has announced plans for a coronavirus vaccine challenge trial: Volunteers will receive an experimental vaccine and then be deliberately exposed to the coronavirus. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The British government is submitting what ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Microplastics Seeping Out of Baby Bottles: Study WebMD By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- New parents preparing a bottle for their baby should know the infant may ingest unwanted microplastics along with the nourishing formula, a new study warns. Flag as irrelevant
	Harvard Gazette Anti-inflammatory drug shows promise in treating COVID-19 patients Harvard Gazette Researchers from 68 sites across the country, led by David E. Leaf and Shruti Gupta from the Division of Renal Medicine at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, have investigated the effects of the anti-inflammatory drug tocilizumab on critically ill ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Scientists discover new organ in the throat Livescience.com Scientists have discovered a new organ: a set of salivary glands set deep in the upper part of the throat. This nasopharynx region — behind the nose — was not thought to host anything but microscopic, diffuse, salivary glands; but the newly discovered set are ... Flag as irrelevant
	Miami Herald Black Death's rapid spread in 2nd outbreak could have lessons for COVID-19, study says 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. A new study of thousands of personal wills, parish registers and other documents on ... Flag as irrelevant
	KWTX Texas is on the cusp of another COVID-19 surge. Is the state better prepared to handle it? KWTX (TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Cases of COVID-19 in parts of Texas surged to near catastrophic levels this summer as some hospitals were forced to put beds in hallways, intensive care units exceeded capacity and health officials struggled to stem the tide of the virus. Flag as irrelevant
	Infection Control Today Measuring Effects of Flu, COVID Co-Infections Infection Control Today Study: "There was no difference in the outcome in COVID-19 patients co-infected with influenza compared to non co-infected patients, however, a larger sample of cases will be needed for further assessment of these outcomes." Investigators with St. Barnabas ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Pandemic putting Americans under great mental strain, poll finds Medical Xpress (HealthDay)—COVID-19, health care, the economy, systemic racism and the presidential election are a threat to the nation's mental health, according to an American Psychological Association (APA) poll. Seventy-eight percent of adults polled said the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Tampa Bay Times Black women with breast cancer face far greater risks. 'Listen to your body.' Tampa Bay Times In June of 2010, Wantanisha Morant heard what she thought might be a death sentence. The doctor said she had stage 2 breast cancer, and there wasn't much to be done. Morant went numb, didn't even cry. All the people she knew who had been diagnosed ... Flag as irrelevant
	KNWA Hospitalizations Still Rising in Missouri, Prompting Worries U.S. News & World Report By JIM SALTER, Associated Press. O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A leading coronavirus expert in St. Louis is warning that hospital workers are "over-worked and demoralized" after months of battling the coronavirus, and the worst may be yet to come. Dr. Alex Garza ... Flag as irrelevant

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