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Japan reported no daily deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday for the first time in 15 months, as infections decline rapidly in the country. Health officials on Monday said there were no deaths the previous day, giving Japan a total of 18,310 fatalities since the pandemic began. Japan on Monday also eased entry restrictions for foreign […]
(Reuters) – Becton Dickinson and Co has partnered with Amazon.com Inc to begin shipment of a new at-home rapid COVID-19 test that can confirm results using an entirely automated smartphone app. The BD Veritor At-Home COVID-19 Test, which was authorized by U.S. regulators in August, also automatically reports results to federal and state public health […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pregnant women with symptomatic COVID-19 are more likely to have emergency deliveries, compared with peers with COVID but no symptoms, and their newborns are more likely to require oxygen support and a stay in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU), according to a single-center experience. “The results were pretty surprising and […]
Recipients of liver transplants who contracted COVID-19 recovered faster with less severe inflammation than heart or kidney transplant recipients, and some even did better than non-transplant patients, according to a study conducted at Hospital das Clínicas (HC), the hospital complex run by the University of São Paulo’s Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil. An article describing […]
The COVID-19 pandemic and its solution has only partially displaced other social and political concerns—and not persistently, despite the pandemic’s high and constant media presence. This is shown by an international team of researchers led by the economist Esther Blanco from the University of Innsbruck. The results were recently published in the journal “Frontiers in […]
The conventional wisdom among pandemic researchers was that vaccine-hesitant parents would come around once federal authorities green-lit COVID-19 shots for children. But, as a new study shows, that hasn’t happened. Parents actually have even more concerns about vaccines, catching researchers by surprise. Parents registered high levels of worry across the board, with more than half […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil was set on Friday to become the second country in the world to pass 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, a dark milestone for a government that has been sharply criticized by health experts for mismanaging the outbreak. The country has ramped up vaccinations after a slow start, however, and there are […]
As flu season comes around and our children are going back to school, there are many concerns on how to monitor your child’s health. Not only can a common cold mimic the symptoms of COVID-19, but allergies and the flu can both have similarities as well. With school being in-person, it is crucial that we […]
A COVID-19 treatment using monoclonal antibodies is one step closer thanks to the efforts of Australian researchers. Scientists found antibodies that blocked the SARS-CoV-2 virus from entering cells in preclinical models. The discovery paves the way for clinical trials of monoclonal antibody treatments for the prevention of severe COVID-19 infection. Published in the journal Cell […]
With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, researchers have been steadily gathering new and important insights into the effects of COVID-19 on the body and brain. These findings are raising concerns about the long-term impacts that the coronavirus might have on biological processes such as aging. As a cognitive neuroscientist, […]