Aug 05, 2020

Experts suggest encouraging patients to visit ED for serious, non-Covid-related illnesses that cannot be managed elsewhere Emergency department (ED) visits declined considerably in the early phases...

Aug 05, 2020

Heart pumps authorized for patients with myocarditis or pulmonary edema WASHINGTON —The FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Impella Left Ventricular (LV) Support Systems as an LV un...

Aug 05, 2020

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Aug 05, 2020

[khn_slabs slabs="1144749" view="inline" /] [partner-box]Millions of people, including the president of the United States, have seen or shared a video in which a doctor falsely claims there is a ...

Aug 04, 2020

The virus spread easily among campers and staff increasing with longer exposure. A report published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which found that SARS-CoV-2 easily spread a...

Aug 03, 2020

The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around the reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are the highlights from the chat. You can read the full transcript here, b...

Aug 03, 2020

BMI of 35 or higher is independent risk factor Obesity is associated with an increased risk of death or intubation in patients younger than age 65 who contract Covid-19, according to a retrospective ...

Aug 03, 2020

Study suggests screening every two days, but barriers remain There may be a safe route to reopening college campuses this fall, researchers found, and it might require a huge uptick in Covid-19 testi...

Aug 02, 2020

FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Bacterial and fungal infections are uncommon in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, but coinfection is associated with high mortality and antibiotic use is widesp...

Aug 02, 2020

FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many of the first COVID-19 cases reported from affected countries outside of mainland China involved recent travel to affected countries, according to a study...

Aug 02, 2020

FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The United States is buying up another potential COVID-19 vaccine, the Associated Press reported Friday. Drug makers GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur wil...

Aug 02, 2020

FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- When a COVID-19 vaccine is approved, there should be plenty of it available, Anthony Fauci, M.D., infectious diseases chief at the U.S. National Institutes of...

Jul 31, 2020

Modeling study also estimates that 40,600 lives were saved over a 16-day period School closures in the United States last Spring were associated with significant declines in Covid-19 incidence and ...

Jul 31, 2020

Two studies raise new concerns about long-term cardiac injury Two newly published studies raise concerns about lasting myocardial injury and heart failure related to Covid-19 infection. An analysi...

Jul 30, 2020

After learning that several players on the Miami Marlins baseball team had tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, the team went ahead with a scheduled game on Sunday, July 26. How did they make the d...

Jul 30, 2020

NEW YORK CITY — Nancy Perez, a 45-year-old resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, contracted COVID-19 in March. She stayed quarantined in her room for a month to isolate from h...

Jul 30, 2020

Steve Alvarez started feeling sick around Father’s Day weekend this year. His symptoms started as mild, but developed into a fever, chills and shortness of breath he couldn’t shake. “Just whe...

Jul 30, 2020

California’s outpatient health care practices largely shrugged off two recessions, adding more than 400,000 jobs during a two-decade climb from the start of 2000 to early 2020. It was an enviable gr...

Jul 30, 2020

Reversing a three-year decline, the number of people covered by Medicaid nationwide rose markedly this spring as the impact of the recession caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 began to take hold. Y...

Jul 29, 2020

The experimental vaccine, mRNA-1273, is put to its biggest test as 30,000 American volunteers roll up their sleeves (pun intended) to randomly receive two doses of the vaccine or a placebo. The partic...