MONDAY, Dec. 7, 2020 — Specific geographic areas in the United States are associated with higher rates of mortality from early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) in women, according to a study published in the December issue of Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. Andreana N. Holowatyj, Ph.D., from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues […]
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday urged German regions with high coronavirus rates to tighten social contact restrictions before Christmas as the country struggled to slow a second wave of infections. Long hailed as an example in the pandemic due to a far lower death rate than most of its neighbours, Germany has seen its infection […]
Tiffany Thornton has a fourth little one on the way! The Sonny with a Chance alum, 34, announced on Sunday that she is pregnant with her fourth child, her second with husband Josiah Capaci, whom she married in October 2017. Thornton shares daughter Juliet Joy, 2, with Capaci, and she is also mom to sons […]
Southern California will come under stricter pandemic safety measures after its intensive care unit capacity dropped to dangerous levels because of the national spike in coronavirus cases, state health officials said Saturday. The California Department of Public Health said the region’s ICU capacity had dropped to 12.5 percent, the second day it was below a […]
A multi-channel recording device developed at TU Graz for pathological lung sounds and associated automatic lung sound analysis could support existing screening methods for early detection of, for example, COVID-19 infections. This now requires clinical data and interdisciplinary collaboration. They whistle, hiss and crackle. Our bodies constantly make sounds that (fortunately) are not always audible […]
The GCC’s Medcare Hospitals has come out on top in the healthcare category of the latest edition of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Digital Awards. Known as a leading private healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Medcare won the award for “Best Use of Digital in Healthcare” for its smart chatbot, […]
Southern California went into a strict lockdown Monday, with more than 20 million people under stay-at-home orders triggered after hospitals faced being overwhelmed by record COVID-19 cases. Governor Gavin Newsom last week announced new statewide bans on gatherings and “non-essential” activities would come into effect once 85 percent of intensive care unit beds have been […]
Maddy Duxbury was more surprised than anyone by her positive reaction to a failed attempt to swim across the Channel. Here, she reflects on how learning to ‘fail successfully’ has been the greatest success of all. Against the backdrop of a moonlit sky, I plunged into the dark English Channel waters and struggled for breath […]
Chris Lane and Lauren Bushnell Lane are going to be parents! On Sunday, the country star, 36, and the Bachelor alum, 30, announced the exciting news that they are expecting their first child. The couple shared a video of an ultrasound of their baby on the way on Instagram. Bushnell Lane tells PEOPLE exclusively about […]
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, reports on Sunday said, as the biggest immunisation programme in UK history begins next week. The monarch, 94, and her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip are in line to get the jab early in the rollout, which gets underway Tuesday, due to their age […]
