Fox News Flash top headlines for November 16 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. A man hospitalized with mysterious seizures and an “altered mental status” had tapeworms living in his brain for decades, according to researchers. In a case study published last week in The New England Journal […]
People who work shifts appear to be significantly more likely to end up in hospital with COVID-19 than people who have regular work patterns, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax. Researchers found that shift working could be just as important a risk factor as already known high risk features such as ethnicity and […]
U.S. health officials are warning people not to use a brand of alkaline water known as “Real Water” after several children in Nevada who drank the water were hospitalized with liver failure, according to news reports. Such water goes through an ionizing process to raise its pH so that it becomes more basic or alkaline. […]
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and abnormal sodium levels in the blood have an increased risk of experiencing respiratory failure or dying, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. “This study shows for the first time that patients presenting at the hospital with COVID-19 and low sodium are […]
November 5, 2020 — Regeneron announced today an update from the independent data monitoring committee (DMC) for the United Kingdom-based RECOVERY trial evaluating REGN-COV2 in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The DMC reviewed available safety and efficacy data for the 15,545 total patients randomized, including the 325 patients who were in the arm randomized to receive […]
THURSDAY, Nov. 5, 2020 — If you’ve recovered from a COVID-19 infection, you can help as many as four other COVID-19 patients get better, simply by donating your plasma. Is it worth it? Just ask Melissa Sullivan. The 35-year-old COVID-19 survivor and self-confessed needle-phobe donated her plasma soon after she recovered, and she plans on […]
More than a dozen children in New York City have been hospitalized with an unusual inflammatory syndrome possibility related to COVID-19. The syndrome, which doctors are still working to understand, has been previously reported in children in the United Kingdom and other European countries. On Monday (May 4), the New York City Health Department alerted […]
(HealthDay)—Persons aged 60 to 69 years with COVID-19 are the most commonly hospitalized, according to a research letter published online April 24 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Laura C. Myers, M.D., M.P.H., from Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) in Oakland, and colleagues characterized adults with nasal/throat swabs positive for severe acute respiratory […]
Child evacuated from Wuhan amid Chinese coronavirus outbreak is hospitalized with a fever after being quarantined in California A child who was among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan has been hospitalized with a fever in Riverside, California, officials there said The passengers were placed under a federally ordered 14-day quarantine, the first of its […]
