Mar 12, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world and claim lives. Deaths that occurred by COVID-19 have been attributed to arterial thromboses and thromboembolism. Heparin-...

Mar 12, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has claimed close to 2.5 million lives worldwide. But a puzzling question is why the disease has largely skipped Africa. This study aims to directly measure the...

Mar 11, 2021

Polls show Americans are increasingly interested in getting vaccinated against covid-19, but such surveys are largely national, leaving a big question: When the vaccines become available to the genera...

Mar 11, 2021

Use Our Content It can be republished for free. Rickie Andersen took a brief break from work in March after she fell ill. Her cough, fever and chills were typical covid-19 symptoms...

Mar 11, 2021

Italy study ties Covid severity to anti-CD20 drugs, recent methylprednisolone Disability and advanced age were linked to severe Covid-19 outcomes including death in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients...

Mar 10, 2021

This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free. Each night it’s the same. Story after story on the TV news is about the covid vaccination effort, and they ...

Mar 10, 2021

TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patterns of clinical presentation and organ involvement may distinguish between children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and sever...

Mar 10, 2021

TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Symptom checkers could be of use for the health care COVID-19 response, but the U.S. and U.K. symptom checkers may delay health care contact for serious case...

Mar 10, 2021

TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Uniform guidelines are needed for credentials showing that travelers have been tested and vaccinated for COVID-19, major airline, airline labor unions, and b...

Mar 10, 2021

TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Implementing mask mandates is associated with a reduction in COVID-19 cases and deaths, while on-premises dining at restaurants is associated with increased ...

Mar 10, 2021

Vaccinated individuals see some relaxed restrictions, but precautions still apply The CDC has issued its first set of interim public health recommendations for individuals who have been fully vacci...

Mar 09, 2021

  Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. There’s good news and bad news on covid-19 this week. On the one hand, several million doses of the one-shot Johnson &...

Mar 09, 2021

MONDAY, March 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Two new models help predict which hospitalized COVID-19 patients will require mechanical ventilation or die, according to a study published online Feb. 25 in ...

Mar 09, 2021

MONDAY, March 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a consumer update last week regarding the use of ivermectin for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19. The ...

Mar 09, 2021

MONDAY, March 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For children with COVID-19-related hospitalization, neurologic involvement is common and is usually transient, according to a study published online March 5 i...

Mar 09, 2021

MONDAY, March 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- AstraZeneca says it will file for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States after it gets the results of a clinical trial withi...

Mar 09, 2021

MMWR report gives further evidence that masks work During the Covid-19 pandemic, the ubiquitous face mask has become a lightning rod of controversy. Mandatory masking raised the ire of many despite...

Mar 08, 2021

FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A five-day course of ivermectin does not improve the time to resolution of symptoms compared with placebo for adults with mild COVID-19, according to a study ...

Mar 08, 2021

FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Countries worldwide are struggling to find enough syringes to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Experts say between 8 billion and 10 billion syringes are neede...

Mar 08, 2021

The outbreak of COVID19 soon became a public emergency and led to radical changes in healthcare management. The electronic medical record–assisted telephone follow-up (E-TFU) of cancer survivors (CS...