In March, someone in Seattle became the first person in the United States to take an experimental dose of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Doctors injected 45 healthy people as...

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When you hear the term “breast massage,” you might think of breast self-exams for lumps. But there’s a whole other kind of breast massage that’s much more pleasurable than a self-check...

The use of coercive measures in psychiatric care has decreased over the past years. However, a new study shows that coercive measures are still frequently used in Finland, and periods of both seclusion...

How is the COVID-19 crisis impacting the most vulnerable among us? Tens of millions of Americans fit that description—the poor, the homeless, immigrants, the detained and incarcerated, the precariously...

Patients who experience chest pain and have abnormal results on a cardiac stress test but who do not have blocked arteries often experience changes in their symptoms and stress test results over time,...

We’re all washing our hands vigorously during the Covid-19 pandemic. But what about our nails? A nurse has warned that long nails can be one of the fastest spreaders of coronavirus as they can harbour...

Analysis of human mobility and epidemiological data by a global consortium of researchers, led by the University of Oxford and Northeastern University, shows that human mobility was predictive of the...

Last night, Boris Johnson announced in a televised statement that stricter measures were to be introduced to keep people indoors and curb the spread of coronavirus. In what many are calling a lockdown,...

As we brace ourselves for the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus, it may be worth looking at a study carried out by the Chinese Center for Disease Control. The research, which studied the impact of the...