Doctors Save the Lives of COVID-19 Patients by Using Existing Treatment Earlier
The lives of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are being saved by doctors who are using an existing medical treatment at an earlier stage. Dr. Luigi…
The lives of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are being saved by doctors who are using an existing medical treatment at an earlier stage. Dr. Luigi…
A new therapy for influenza virus infections that may also prove effective against many other pathogenic virus infections, including HIV and COVID-19, has been developed…
International taskforce announced to look into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, which sparked COVID-19 pandemic nearly one year ago. Named to taskforce is the scientific director…
Temperature inversions or Saharan dust intrusions can favor the presence of fine particles in the air. Their high concentration can aggravate the consequences of COVID-19….
Understanding Dangerous Droplet Dynamics New fluid dynamics research reveals why social distancing alone doesn’t necessarily prevent infection indoors and how to detect COVID-19 super-spreaders. Researchers…
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, announced that the fourth iteration of the Adaptive COVID-19…
The future could hold portable and wearable sensors for detecting viruses and bacteria in the surrounding environment. But we’re not there yet. Scientists at Tohoku…
The quantum sensing abilities of nanodiamonds can be used to improve the sensitivity of paper-based diagnostic tests, potentially allowing for earlier detection of diseases such…
Currently, there are over 10 million confirmed cases and more than 240,000 casualties attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. LSU researchers have applied computational models…
Forecasting cannot foresee COVID-19 infection rates peaking or plateauing. During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joseph Lee McCauley, a physics professor at the…
Funding from the National Institutes of Health will enable a Penn State researcher to study whether vitamin D supplementation could help people ward off or…
Laboratory tests of talc-based cosmetics products, commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, found asbestos — a deadly human carcinogen for which there is no safe…
Retooled adenovirus not caught by liver/innate immune system. Many cancer researchers can claim to have devised “smart bombs.” What has been missing is the stealth…
Fewer headaches reported when school starts later, UCSF-led study shows. Research indicates that starting school later in the morning yields health and academic benefits for…
None of the mutations currently documented in the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear to increase its transmissibility in humans, according to a study led by University College…
Algorithm outperformed thoracic radiologists in detecting COVID-19 in new study. Algorithm was trained, tested on the largest COVID-era dataset (17,002 X-ray images) Algorithm analyzed X-ray…
TB Vaccine Linked to Lower Risk of Contracting COVID-19 A widely used tuberculosis vaccine is associated with reduced likelihood of contracting COVID-19 (coronavirus), according to…
A new assessment tool developed by Kaiser Permanente researchers and physicians helps guide clinical decisions in emergency departments and urgent care centers. A study published…