British students, backed by a robust coronavirus testing program, are gearing up to return to school Monday after a two-month closure, in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson says is a plan to get the country “moving closer to a sense of normality.” The reopening of schools is the first step in the U.K. government’s plan […]
Two out of five individuals delayed or missed medical care in the early phase of the pandemic—from March through mid-July 2020—according to a new survey from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The survey of 1,337 U.S. adults found that 544, or 41 percent, delayed or missed medical care during the […]
More frequent internet use has been linked to increases in wellbeing in older adults, particularly those who are wealthy and more educated, finds a new UCL study. Published today in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, it is the first study of its kind to examine the links between different internet usage and the associated […]
A research team from the University of Valencia has carried out a study of infection and immunity markers by detecting antibodies in the blood of seven different genotypes of the rotavirus VP8 protein, the virus that causes infectious diarrhoea, and concludes that more frequent types mainly affect the child population. The work, with samples from […]
Pancreatic cancer is caused by the abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells in the pancreas, a large gland that’s part of the digestive system. According to Mayo Clinic, pancreatic cancer is seldom detected at its early stages when it is most curable. “This is because it often doesn’t cause symptoms until after it has spread […]
