Sep 19, 2020

FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An inflammation-fighting medicine was associated with reduced use of ventilators among COVID-19 patients, according to a study that included mainly Hispanics...

Sep 19, 2020

FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Adult obesity is increasing, with considerable racial and ethnic disparities, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

Sep 18, 2020

Victor Coronado felt lightheaded one morning last month when he stood up to grab an iced tea. The right side of his body suddenly felt heavy. He heard himself slur his words. "That’s when I knew I...

Sep 18, 2020

The staff at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital is accustomed to the number of patients tripling or even quadrupling each summer when wealthy Manhattanites flee the city for the Hamptons. But this year,...

Sep 18, 2020

The patients walk into Dr. Melissa Marshall’s community clinics in Northern California with the telltale symptoms. They’re having trouble breathing. It may even hurt to inhale. They’ve got a cou...

Sep 18, 2020

Participation in clinical trials among Black people is low, according to Food and Drug Administration statistics. Still, including them in coronavirus vaccine trials has been a stated priority for the...

Sep 18, 2020

From the moment she learned she was pregnant late last year, TaNefer Camara knew she didn’t want to have her baby in a hospital bed. Already a mother of three and a part-time lactation consultant...

Sep 17, 2020

Child cases jumped 16% from Aug. 20 through Sept. 3 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced that the U.S. has reached a "grim milestone" in the Covid-19 pandemic — over half a million ki...

Sep 17, 2020

Focus will be on individual passengers and ’robust illness response’ WASHINGTON — The United States will no longer require international airline passengers from China, Iran, the Schengen region...

Sep 16, 2020

Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them. The Centers...

Sep 14, 2020

MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Using an anti-inflammatory medicine along with the antiviral drug remdesivir appears to shorten COVID-19 patients' recovery time, according to drug company E...

Sep 14, 2020

MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A study to assess the effectiveness of two experimental COVID-19 vaccines when they are inhaled, rather than injected, has been announced by researchers. ...

Sep 14, 2020

MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Oxford University has announced that final-stage testing of a COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with drug maker AstraZeneca will restart following a pause la...

Sep 14, 2020

MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time in six months, Canada on Friday reported no new COVID-19 deaths. Reuters said the last time that happened was on March 15, at the start...

Sep 14, 2020

MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Two of three planned adaptive phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the safety and effectiveness of varying types of blood thinners to treat adults diagnosed wi...

Sep 14, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There have been 792 confirmed cases in the United States of a rare condition in children that is linked to COVID-19, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a...

Sep 14, 2020

Covid-19 symposium, PD congress, ESMO, pending FDA decisions, and more Lynne Peterson is the Senior Writer for Trends-in-Medicine. Covid-19: The American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy (ASGCT) w...

Sep 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There was widespread reporting of avoidance of medical care due to COVID-19-related concerns in June 2020, according to research published in the Sept. 11 ...

Sep 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- During the height of the pandemic, the incidence of nosocomial COVID-19 was rare, according to a study published online Sept. 9 in JAMA Network Open. Ch...

Sep 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Young adults hospitalized with COVID-19 have substantial rates of adverse outcomes, according to a research letter published online Sept. 9 in JAMA Interna...