Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey joined the University in 2018 under its Strategic Hires and Retention Pathways (SHARP) scheme, an initiative of the UNSW 2025 Strategy to recruit world-class researchers to the University, and the NeuRA Discovery Fund. Her current area of focus is the epidemiology of cognition and dementia, including working with the World Health […]
The much-anticipated Corona-Warning App is now available for Download, with some delay, but the blessing of the data protection and hardly more expensive than planned. What the App can do, how you use it, and whether it is safe, read here. Actually, it should already be in April so far that Smartphones in Germany should […]
Overuse or misuse of antibiotics in hospital settings is a global problem, fueling one of the most serious public health threats: antimicrobial resistance. An estimated 20 per cent to 50 per cent of acute care hospitals worldwide are not prescribing antibiotics appropriately. As a result, micro-organisms become resistant to antimicrobials, including antibiotics, and can become […]
A new study found that even people drinking within the government’s guidelines experienced more deaths and cancers than those who abstain from alcohol. However, some doctors say that the study fails to consider other risk factors and that the findings may be overblown. Finding ways to get people to pay attention to how much they’re […]
Gabrielle Union shared a photo of Black Lives Matter activist Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, who was confirmed dead by police on June 13, to Instagram. In the post, the actress called Salau, who recently opened up on Twitter about being sexual assaulted, a “warrior.” Gabrielle has previously opened up about being raped at age 19 and […]
The complex food shopping patterns that financially insecure families employ have been upended by the COVID-19 crisis. While increasing the maximum benefit for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps) is an essential step in addressing the current food insecurity crisis, this policy change alone will not address many of the barriers low-income […]
(HealthDay)—Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 in children differ widely from adult cases, according to a review published online June 3 in Pediatric Pulmonology. Tiago H. de Souza, M.D., Ph.D., from the State University of Campinas in Brazil, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify studies that describe the clinical, laboratorial, and radiological characteristics of […]
(HealthDay)—Approximately 12 percent of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection report gastrointestinal symptoms, according to a review published online June 11 in JAMA Network Open. Sravanthi Parasa, M.D., from the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and colleagues pooled prior studies to estimate gastrointestinal symptoms, liver enzyme levels outside reference ranges, and […]
This past week, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma said she “can’t imagine going back” to making beneficiaries return to in-person visits after the agency’s relaxation of telehealth regulations in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Verma’s comments came as industry leaders pushed for two-dozen federal regulatory waivers surrounding telehealth to become permanent, […]
In the global race to create a vaccine against the corona virus, the Confederation of the German Biotech company Curevac enters. As Federal Economics Minister, Peter Altmaier (CDU) said on Monday, takes on the government development Bank KfW for a 300 million euros, approximately 23 percent of the shares. The objective is to give the […]
