CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski and wife Rachel Louise Ensign are mourning the loss of their 9-month-old daughter Francesca, who died on Christmas Eve after a months-long battle with cancer. On Friday, Kaczynski shared the tragic news on Twitter, writing that he and Ensign, a Wall Street Journal reporter, are "heartbroken" over the loss of their little […]
The coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 10,000 residents in Belgian retirement homes, more than half of the national death toll, health officials said Friday. Belgium, a country of 11.5 million people, has counted 18,371 deaths from COVID-19 since the outbreak began, the highest per capita death rate in the world, according to an […]
The interdisciplinary team of scientists from three different countries (Belgium, Italy, and Russia) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Dmitri V. Krysko (Ghent University, Belgium) unravels the immunogenicity of ferroptotic cancer cells. Cell death is an essential biological process that plays an active role both during human embryonic development and in the onset of various […]
Abnormally high blood sugar may worsen outcomes and mortality rates for COVID-19 patients, including those without diabetes, according to major research published in the peer-reviewed open access journal Annals of Medicine. The study, based on more than 11,000 non-critically ill hospital patients in Spain, is the largest of its kind to date. It adds to […]
A 20-year-old student has died in her dorm room while in quarantine after testing positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Bethany Nesbitt — a third-year psychology major at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana — was found dead in a residence hall on Friday around 10 a.m., her school confirmed in a statement. Kosciusko County […]
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have mapped out the cellular pathway that connects the most common genetic mutation associated with Parkinson’s disease to brain cell death. In a new study, they show that the mutation initiates a biological pathway that could target brain cells most susceptible to the patterns of cell death leading to Parkinson’s disease […]
MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 — Preventive antifungal medications cut the risk for death following a lung transplant by more than half, according to a study published online Sept. 23 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. Kelly M. Pennington, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues evaluated the effect of antifungal […]
A new risk tool, developed by UK researchers to predict a person’s risk of being admitted to hospital and dying from COVID-19 has been published by The BMJ today. With cases increasing in the UK and elsewhere, and winter approaching, there is an urgent need for reliable models that predict the likely course of COVID-19, […]
Not alone. Kara Keough opened up about grieving her late son, McCoy, and encouraged other women to share their own stories as a way of healing. Rainbow Babies: Stars Who Had Children After Miscarriages In a powerful essay posted to Good Morning America‘s website on Thursday, October 15, the Real Housewives of Orange County alum, […]
Can mosquitoes carry COVID-19 and infect another person? Dr. Manny Alvarez answers if mosquitoes can be a carrier of coronavirus and transmit the illness to another person A Chicago resident died of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus. The death marks the first West Nile virus-related fatality in the state this year, Illinois health officials announced […]
