NICE advises against using graded exercise therapy for patients recovering from covid-19
Graded exercise therapy may not be appropriate for treating post-viral fatigue in patients recovering from…
Month: July 2020
STAT Plus: Cancer startup aims precision medicine at rare genetic driver
A company focused on developing precision medicines to treat patients whose cancers are driven by…
Covid-19: Prisons exposed in Brazil’s crisis
In the two months since Brazil became the country second most affected by the covid-19…
Lessons from Ebola as DRC grapples with conflict, measles, and covid-19
The world’s second largest Ebola outbreak is over. An outbreak that began on 1 August…
Risks of reacting to risk: rights and wrongs of health checks at 25 for BAME groups
MPs are considering reducing the age at which NHS health checks begin for black, Asian,…
Covid-19: Shielding doctors express concerns about returning to work
Doctors who have been shielding during the covid-19 pandemic have said they are worried for…
Opinion: Lower the cost of producing doctors, not just the price of going to medical school
Medicine has become a profession accessible mainly to the rich. Just look at the price…
Opinion: Chronic fatigue syndrome may hold keys to understanding post-Covid syndrome
Some survivors of acute bouts of Covid-19 experience a range of persistent medical issues —…
Dermatology faces a reckoning: Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color
When dermatologist Jenna Lester learned that rashes on skin and toes were a symptom of…
Nicki Minaj announces pregnancy – CNN
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With a Funded Internship, Griffin Marshall ’21 Seeks An Alternative Treatment for Aquaculture – Bowdoin News
With a Funded Internship, Griffin Marshall ’21 Seeks An Alternative Treatment for Aquaculture Bowdoin News Read…
New model connects respiratory droplet physics with spread of Covid-19
Respiratory droplets from a cough or sneeze travel farther and last longer in humid, cold…
STAT Plus: Many drug companies working on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments are lobbying harder than usual
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies racing to develop coronavirus treatments and vaccines have upped their lobbying…
Acadia fails in attempt to expand use of antipsychotic to treat patients with depression
Acadia Pharmaceuticals reported negative results Monday from a pair of late-stage clinical trials seeking to…
Mutant zebrafish reveals a turning point in spine’s evolution
A chance mutation that led to spinal defects in a zebrafish has opened a little…
New Pain Definition Aims to Better Comprehend, Treat Those Whose Pain Is Not Visible
Chronic pain is often misunderstood because it often isn’t related to a specific tissue or…
Rebuilding Healthy Kids: Getting Them Active Again
How healthy are America’s children? According to a statement issued earlier today by the American…
STAT Plus: FDA extends deadline for stem cell clinics to comply with drug development rules
The Food and Drug Administration has pushed back by six months the deadline by which…
Plant roots increase carbon emission from permafrost soils
A key uncertainty in climate projections is the amount of carbon emitted by thawing permafrost…
CDC Reminds Us How to Do it Right: Social Distancing Guide
Social distancing is an important aspect in staying as save as we can amid the…
Covid-19: UK agrees “early access” deal with companies to get 90 million vaccine doses
The UK government has agreed a deal with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to get “early…
Acne Troubles? You May Want to Watch What You Eat
Are acne and “bad skin” making you self-conscious? Do you think you’ve tried everything? Rethinking…
Covid-19: Study reveals six clusters of symptoms that could be used as a clinical prediction tool
An analysis of data obtained from a symptom tracker app has shown that there are…
A new idea on how Earth’s outer shell first broke into tectonic plates
Plate tectonics theory posits that Earth’s outer shell is subdivided into plates that move relative…
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The Azores: Exotic insect species increase on islands through human impact
A new study reveals that the diversity of exotic species of insects, spiders and other…
A new species of darkling beetle larvae that degrade plastic
A research team confirms biodegradation of polystyrene using darkling beetle larvae found in Korea. Read…
Study provides first glimpse of efficacy of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
A Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and the drug giant AstraZeneca generated an…
Covid-19: England could need another lockdown in winter, say government’s chief advisers
England could require another national lockdown during the winter because of the prevalence of flu…
Simple test helps to predict and prevent falls
Scientists have developed a simple clinical test that can assess the lower limb strength of…
A plot twist in pharmaceuticals: Single nanoparticles could pave the way for medicines on demand
For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterized in…
Geoengineering is just a partial solution to fight climate change
Could we create massive sulfuric acid clouds that limit global warming and help meet the…
Portable DNA device can detect tree pests in under two hours
A new rapid DNA detection method can identify forest pests and pathogens like Asian gypsy…
Traditional PTSD therapy doesn’t trigger drug relapse
Researchers have now demonstrated that behavior therapy that exposes people to memories of their trauma…
STAT Plus: Three lawmakers own large sums of stock in vaccine makers set to testify before their committee
Three of the lawmakers tasked with grilling pharmaceutical executives on the development of Covid-19 vaccines…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: U.K. inks coronavirus vaccine deal; Synairgen says its drug lowers Covid-19 risk
Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here in Boston, sitting in for Ed Silverman, who’s on holiday…
Economic consequences of better health: insights from clinical data
Most people will agree that healthier individuals and populations are likely to generate higher economic…
Sixty seconds on . . . outbreak
The Dustin Hoffman movie?Sadly not, although the film’s introduction feels relevant: “The single biggest threat…
Caring for vulnerable patients during the pandemic: the consultant ophthalmologist
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the work of Kin Sheng Lim, who is…
Placebos in chronic pain: evidence, theory, ethics, and use in clinical practice
ABSTRACTDespite their ubiquitous presence, placebos and placebo effects retain an ambiguous and unsettling presence in…
Covid-19: Male disadvantage highlights the importance of sex disaggregated data
Although covid-19 is a new and emerging disease, it could be one of the best…
Shropshire trust is under threat of special administration as CQC reports “escalating concerns”
A hospital trust embroiled in a police investigation of its maternity services is facing the…
Covid-19: Leicester’s lockdown to ease this weekend as infection rates fall
Some lockdown restrictions are to be eased in Leicester two weeks after local measures were…
Opinion: To begin addressing racial bias in medicine, start with the skin
“Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color…
What will it cost? And 5 other questions Congress could push Covid-19 vaccine makers to answer
Some drug companies say we’ll have a coronavirus vaccine by the winter. Others say that’s…
Trump said more Covid-19 testing ‘creates more cases.’ We did the math
The counter-narrative began almost instantly. After the U.S. count of Covid-19 cases began an inexorable…
Black children are more likely to die after surgery than white counterparts, new study finds
Even among apparently healthy children, Black patients are almost three and a half times more…
Civil War vaccination kits, discovered in a drawer, yield genetic clues to how smallpox was defeated
As the world anxiously pins its hopes on vaccines to halt the coronavirus pandemic, scientists…
Stop Mom Shaming – Motherhood Is Not A Competition
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Scientists achieve major breakthrough in preserving integrity of sound waves
In a breakthrough experiment, physicist and engineers have shown that it is possible to limit…
Obamacare Alternative Health Plans Can Stay, Appeals Court Rules (1) – Bloomberg Law
Obamacare Alternative Health Plans Can Stay, Appeals Court Rules (1) Bloomberg Law Court backs Trump expansion…