France on Friday reported 78 more deaths from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the outbreak in the country to 450 people. Top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters that 12,612 people were now confirmed by tests in France to have been infected with the coronavirus, while […]
The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-delay 2, have introduced many hospitals, doctor’s offices and other health facilities with strict rules. Also in pharmacies of caution apply now, in many places, measures such as a limitation on the number of clients that may simultaneously be in the shop. "We ask our patients for your understanding for these […]
(HealthDay)—From 2013 to 2016, there was a large decrease of 17.9 percent in melanoma mortality, according to a study published online March 19 in the American Journal of Public Health. Juliana Berk-Krauss, M.D., from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, and colleagues used the U.S. National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology […]
An underlying virus does not stop the body’s immune system from launching a strong defense against a second, newly introduced virus, according to a Yale-led study that appears in the March 9 online edition of the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. For the study, Yale researchers obtained blood samples from patients from India with dengue […]
Coronavirus testing is currently being prioritised for people in intensive care units and those with respiratory illness – particularly pneumonia. The UK government’s latest advice is people in the community with a fever or cough don’t usually need testing. The failure to test more widely means people may be self-isolating for no reason, which has […]
What do stress, loneliness and lack of sleep have in common? They are all factors that can weaken your immune system and make you more susceptible to COVID-19, according to Rice University’s Christopher Fagundes, an associate professor in the department of psychological sciences who studies the link between mental and immune health. Fagundes is available […]
Healthy aging has become one of the priorities of research in Europe. University of Tartu researchers looked for differences in the immune systems of young and old people with a focus on monocytes; they found that the monocytes of the elderly do not seem to produce as much energy, and there is an increase in […]
Coronavirus death toll tops 10,000 worldwide as crisis continues to escalate in Europe Total deaths have reached 10,000 and there are more than 245,600 cases The coronavirus is ravaging Europe, which accounts for half of deaths China accounts for a third of victims having battled COVID-19 since December Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you […]
The World Health Organization has been criticized for being slow to declare a public health emergency and a pandemic as COVID-19 spread. Yale SOM’s Saed Alizamir, with Francis de Véricourt of ESMT and Shouqiang Wang of the University of Texas at Dallas, recently published a study that uses game theory to play out the tradeoffs […]
(HealthDay)—Overall, opioid-related deaths in the United States fell 2% between 2017 and 2018, according to newly released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said deaths involving prescription opioids were down 13.5%, while heroin-related deaths fell 4%. But fatal overdoses involving synthetic opioids (excluding methadone) were up 10%. “Decreases in […]
