The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly recommends against travel for Thanksgiving this year, as cases of COVID-19 soar throughout the country. “We’re alarmed with the exponential increase in cases, hospitalizations and deaths” in the United States, Dr. Henry Walke, the CDC’s COVID-19 incident manager, said in a news briefing Thursday (Nov. 19). […]
Undecided voters on what they’re considering when going to the polls A panel of undecided voters explain what will ultimately sway their votes on ‘Fox & Friends.’ While public health officials recommend that you wear a mask to help prevent the spread of coronavirus while at the polls on Tuesday, many election officials across the country […]
At a time when stroke is on the rise among young adults, nearly 30% of U.S. adults younger than age 45 do not know all five of the most common stroke symptoms, according to new research published today in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association. Stroke […]
Adults and children born with heart defects had a lower-than-expected risk of developing moderate or severe COVID-19 symptoms, finds a study of more than 7,000 patients from the congenital heart disease center at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Throughout the course of the pandemic, evidence has shown that individuals with heart disease […]
TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 — Delivering web-based vaccine messages tailored to parents’ vaccine beliefs and values does not improve uptake of infant vaccinations, according to a study published online Oct. 12 in Pediatrics. Jason M. Glanz, Ph.D., from Kaiser Permanente Colorado in Denver, and colleagues conducted a randomized clinical trial between April 2016 and June […]
Virologists at the KU Leuven Rega Institute have been working on two lines of SARS-CoV-2 research: searching for a vaccine to prevent infection, and testing existing drugs to see which one can reduce the amount of virus in infected people. To test the efficacy of the vaccine and antivirals preclinically, the researchers use hamsters. The […]
A novel study shows that face mask use does not affect indicators of cognitive performance when the wearers are resting or performing moderate physical work in hot environments. However, wearing a face mask does make it more difficult to breathe when performing moderate physical work in a hot environment. The study is conducted by researchers […]
A new research result from Aarhus University shows that a so-called circular RNA molecule, which has been designated as carcinogenic, is actually not found in cancer cells. The results have just been published in Nature Communications. In a major surprise, researchers from Aarhus University have discovered that an otherwise extensively studied carcinogenic RNA molecule is […]
A recent study found that a prior induced abortion did not negatively impact a woman’s psychological well-being or her thoughts about her competence as a parent when she later became a mother. In the Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica study, questionnaires were administered to 492 first-time mothers, 37 of whom had previously had an abortion, […]
Over one hundred years since psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer described the hallmarks of the disease that bears his name, significant gaps in our understanding of how and why the disease develops mean that we still do not have effective treatments. Alzheimer identified deposits of protein that had accumulated in the brain of a patient who died […]
