International Death Counts Show Peaks of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Weekly death counts for 15 countries are now publicly available in an online database. Weekly death counts can be used to calculate how many more…
Weekly death counts for 15 countries are now publicly available in an online database. Weekly death counts can be used to calculate how many more…
Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are a major driver of total COVID-19 deaths. Reported today (June 5, 2020) in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,…
Clinical trial of those who don’t require hospital admission warranted. A widely available and inexpensive drug that is used to ease the symptoms of indigestion…
Billiard-like break shot to cell-membrane structures triggers brain’s loss of consciousness from anesthesia, scientists find. Surgery would be inconceivable without general anesthesia, so it may…
Certain hormone-like compounds boost dopamine levels in the brain. The Nurr1 protein maintains the health of neurons that produce dopamine and die off during the…
An online first study published in Critical Care Medicine indicates the actual mortality rate of adults with critical illness from COVID-19 is less than what…
Wake Forest researchers suggest nicotine replacement therapies may not be suitable smoking cessation strategies for this population. Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have…
Meningococci are bacteria that can cause life-threatening meningitis and sepsis. These pathogens use a small protein with a large impact: The RNA-binding protein ProQ is…
Biomedical scientists working with COVID-19 have an important new tool to help them better understand the virus and feel confident about the structural models they…
A joint research team led by Sunney Xie, Director of Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG) at Peking University (PKU) has successfully identified multiple…
A study conducted in Sydney during the early epidemic stage of COVID-19 has found an association between lower humidity and an increase in locally acquired…
Using skin cells from human volunteers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have created fully functional mini livers, which they then transplanted…
A personal, handheld device emitting high-intensity ultraviolet light to disinfect areas by killing the novel coronavirus is now feasible, according to researchers at Penn State,…
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports have demonstrated that physical activity prompts a clean-up of muscles as the protein…
First review of all available evidence including 172 observational studies looking at how physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection affect the spread of COVID-19,…
Fluctuating estrogen levels may make alcohol more rewarding to female mice, according to new research in JNeurosci. Untangling the involved signaling pathways could unveil sex-based treatments…
Virtual conference presents progress and pitfalls in understanding the best way to lose excess weight. Many of us are eating differently during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been promoted as a potential treatment for COVID-19, is known to have potentially serious effects on heart rhythms. Now,…