The Corona-pandemic keeps the world in suspense: More than 17 million people have been infected with the Coronavirus, 210.724 of them in Germany. The United States reported almost daily new record numbers. The latest news on Corona-crisis in Germany, Europe and the world read in the News-Ticker of FOCUS Online. Corona-News from Germany and around […]
We all love Clorox wipes, but since the pandemic began back in March, they’ve become as difficult to spot on supermarket shelves as unicorns in a field of rainbows. Unfortunately, things will stay that way for the foreseeable future, because the company’s CEO Benno Dorer tells Reuters that the company is struggling to meet demand […]
Doctors in Brazil, the country with the second-highest number of cases and deaths in the coronavirus pandemic, have a new tool in their fight against COVID-19: artificial intelligence to detect infections. Under-testing remains a huge problem in the sprawling South American country, but AI is helping fill the gap, thanks to a system called RadVid-19 […]
The US has begun late stage clinical trials into a drug formulated to fight COVID-19, officials said Tuesday. The medicine is an antibody against the new coronavirus called LY-CoV555, which was identified in the blood sample of a recovered patient by Canada’s Abcellera Biologics. It was then developed synthetically for mass production by US-based Lilly […]
The drug tocilizumab, which is used in the treatment of various forms of arthritis, can greatly shorten the time on ventilation and shorten hospital stays for patients with severe COVID-19, a new study from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital published in The Journal of Internal Medicine reports. “The report is, as far as we […]
Type 2 diabetes can be latent for many years because the symptoms do not necessarily make you feel unwell. In fact, symptoms only tend to appear once high blood sugar levels – a persistent feature of the condition – start to inflict damage on the body. To understand why this happens, a brief overview of […]
A new study led by NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and the University of Chicago took a novel approach to identifying SNPs influencing the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar and major depressive disorder, the institutions announced today. The findings, published in the current issue of Science, significantly advance understanding of the genetics of neuropsychiatric […]
In the current global situation many people have been forced to rethink what we previously referred to as a work-life balance. There was much pressure from good mental health advocates for us to opt for more leisure time if that were a possibility. Now, in the time of the global coronavirus pandemic, we can see […]
Before ventilators and CPR came along in the 1950s, declaring death was simple: A person with no heartbeat or respiration was dead. With technology that can restart the heart or keep the heart and lungs going, determination of death moved to the brain—unleashing ethical dilemmas, lawsuits and confusion among doctors and families. A landmark consensus […]
For the past 15 years, Laura Teare-Jones, 30, has dealt with cyclical bouts of what she thought was depression. When it strikes, socialising with friends becomes very difficult, watching a moving advert on TV can trigger meltdowns, and she often experiences cluster migraines that leave her bedridden. Laura, of Deeside in Flintshire, north Wales has […]
