Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The scientific evidence for airborne transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from different researchers all point in the same direction — that infectious aerosols are the principal means of person-to-person transmission, according to experts. Not that it’s without controversy. The science backing aerosol transmission […]
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Algorithm Uses Routine Blood Tests to Detect Advanced Liver Disease
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It may be possible to pick up occult liver cirrhosis with an algorithm that uses data from routine blood tests, according to new research. The CIRRUS algorithm can find “a fingerprint for cirrhosis in the common blood tests done routinely by GPs,” Dr. Nick Sheron of the Foundation for Liver […]