Sweden on Thursday said it had passed 10,000 deaths associated with COVID-19, as it reported a record number of 351 deaths in a day. The latest tally of deaths reported by the country’s Public Health agency brings the total to 10,185 deaths related to COVID-19 in the country of some 10.3 million inhabitants. The daily […]
In the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Aging a research team led by aging expert Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, synthesizes converging evidence that the aging-related pathophysiology underpinning the clinical presentation of phenotypic frailty (termed as “physical frailty” here) is a state of lower functioning […]
Retinal cells derived from a cadaver human eye survived when transplanted into the eyes of primate models, an important advance in the development of cell therapy to treat blindness, according to a study published on January 14 in Stem Cell Reports. The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), a layer of pigmented cells in the retina, functions […]
1of26 On April 23, 2018, the Rampage star announced he and now-wife Lauren Hashian welcomed their second child, daughter Tiana, together. “I was raised and surrounded by strong, loving women all my life, but after participating in baby Tia’s delivery, it’s hard to express the new level of love, respect and admiration I have for […]
The sluggish rollout of COVID-19 vaccines so far has many causes, but one of the biggest has been a suboptimal infrastructure for coordination and record keeping. A new coalition of some of the biggest healthcare and technology organizations is hoping to change that, and quickly. WHY IT MATTERS The new Vaccination Credential Initiative announced Thursday […]
On December 22nd, I watched along with the rest of the country as Dr. Anthony Fauci received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC. Years ago, I was an intern at the NIH, and as an Italian American in medicine, I have greatly admired Dr. Fauci’s intelligence, level-headedness and […]
Africa should see the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March from the global COVAX effort aimed at helping lower-income countries obtain the shots, the World Health Organization’s Africa chief said Thursday, as deaths on the continent are rapidly rising. Matshidiso Moeti told reporters that a larger rollout of the millions of doses from COVAX is […]
Males are more likely to test positive for COVID-19, more likely to have complications and more likely to die from the virus than females, independent of age, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Farhaan Vahidy of Houston Methodist Research Institute, US, and colleagues. As the COVID-19 […]
I've been obsessed with fun hairstyles for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I scoured the Barbie aisle for hairstyle inspiration. I never managed to make my hair change color with ice like the mermaid Barbies, but I dreamt of mastering the green pigtails that my favorite Fairytopia mermaid wore. I spent […]
Scientists say they’ve developed a nasal spray that can cut your risk of contracting coronavirus risk by 78%. According to experts, Taffix costs 7p a day and provides up to five hours protection with just one application. Dr Dalia Meggido, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nasus Pharma, the firm behind the spray, said: “Taffix […]
