THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) Aerosol boxes meant to protect health care workers when they intubate COVID-19 patients may actually increase their exposure to airborne virus particles, an Australian study warns. Intubation is done when patients are placed on a ventilator. Aerosol boxes have been touted as a quick, […]
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THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) E-cigarettes and pot may go hand in hand when it comes to young Americans, a new report suggests. There’s been a sharp rise in the use of both among young adults in California, and many of them are underage, the new analysis finds. Researchers […]
By Robin Foster and E.J. MundellHealthDay Reporters FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 States across America reported nearly 60,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, setting yet another daily record as the pandemic tightens its grip on a country struggling to reopen. The surge has been largely fueled by states in the South […]
FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — It may be possible for the new coronavirus to be passed from infected pregnant women to their babies, Italian researchers say. They assessed 31 women with COVID-19 who delivered babies in March and April, and found signs of the virus in several samples […]
Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 A nontoxic antiseptic developed in the former Soviet Union may be a valuable weapon for fighting common infections, British researchers say. The drug, miramistin, was developed for the Soviet Space Program. While little known in the West, it blocks or […]
By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) Kids should be able to safely return to reopened schools this fall, resuming their studies with little risk that they will contribute to the COVID-19 pandemic, some infectious disease experts argue. The scientific evidence so far indicates that children do […]
Good-quality medicines, given at the right time, can save the lives of pregnant and recently pregnant women and their newborn babies. New evidence synthesis reveals however, that in many health-care settings across the world, women with life-threatening maternal complications are given poor quality medicines – putting their lives and […]
GENEVA — A new Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco aims to help the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users quit. Stopping smoking is more important than ever as evidence reveals that smokers are more likely than non-smokers to have severe outcomes from COVID-19. The project gives people free access to nicotine […]
India is among the countries most dramatically affected by snakebite and accounts for almost half the total number of annual deaths in the world. Authors of the article entitled ‘Trends in snakebite mortality in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study’ analysed 2,833 snakebite deaths from […]
WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (American Heart Association News) If you’ve been keeping a healthy distance from other people because of COVID-19, you probably feel smart. But if you’re also feeling lonely and stressed, it doesn’t mean anything is wrong. It could simply mean you’re human. The need to be around […]