Study shows potential of heartburn drug for COVID-19 According to an observational study, which was conducted at Irving, Medical Center of Columbia University (USA), could help a common drug for heartburn by the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2-induced disease COVID-19. In a new study has shown that COVID-19-patients and in -patients in the Famotidine, a common drug for […]
A steroid called dexamethasone reduced the death rate among hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 infections in a large clinical trial, U.K. researchers announced today (June 16). One caveat: The trial data have not been published and have not undergone scientific review. Leaders of the U.K.-based study, known as the Randomized Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) […]
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 […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and their clinicians have had questions and concerns about whether immunotherapies for MS could influence risk for infection or lead to an unfavorable outcome. In the Journal of Neurology, Rohit Bakshi, MD, a senior neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and international co-authors present the cases […]
Study: Extremely low SARS-CoV-2-Rate, Blood-giving With the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infected people develop in the course of the disease after a few days to weeks, antibodies against characteristics of the pathogen. In a study of how many “silent” infections with the novel Virus, i.e. infection without symptoms, there has been a Blood donor has now been […]
In a first, a young COVID-19 patient in the U.S. has received a double-lung transplant after the coronavirus ravaged her lungs. The patient, a Hispanic woman in her 20s, spent six weeks in the intensive care unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after developing severe COVID-19, according to a statement from Northwestern Medicine. She […]
Studies show people with the coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Tuesday. This feature has made it so hard to control spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, but it can be done through rigorous testing and social […]
The first documented cases of U.S. household cats infected with COVID-19 have emerged in New York state, a new government report shows. Two cats—one in Nassau County, the other in Orange County—appear to have contracted COVID-19 from the humans with whom they lived, a team of veterinarians reported online June 8 in the Morbidity and […]
