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Researchers enlist the help of citizen scientists to design new drugs against coronavirus

The best thing most of us can do to fight COVID-19 is stay home, to curb the respiratory disease's spread. But anyone with a computer can pitch in more actively too: by helping scientists design drugs to combat the virus now responsible for hundreds of thousands of infections worldwide.

27 Mar 2020

Coronavirus has upended our world. It’s OK to grieve.

On weekday evenings, sisters Lesley Laine and Lisa Ingle stage online happy hours from the Southern California home they share. It’s something they’ve been enjoying with local and faraway friends during this period of social distancing and self-isolation. And on a recent evening, I shared a toast with them.

27 Mar 2020

Not so fast using CPAPs in place of ventilators. They could spread the coronavirus.

The limited supply of ventilators is one of the chief concerns facing hospitals as they prepare for more COVID-19 cases. In Italy, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients in respiratory failure, doctors have had to make difficult life-or-death decisions about who gets a ventilator and who does not.

27 Mar 2020

Help wanted: Retired doctors and nurses don scrubs again in coronavirus fight

Laura Benson retired from nursing in 2018, but this week she reported for work again in New Rochelle, New York, where the first cluster of COVID-19 cases occurred a few short weeks ago.

27 Mar 2020

In coronavirus relief bill, hospitals poised to get massive infusion of cash

Congress is on the verge of approving a massive funding bill that would steer an unprecedented amount of cash to the nation's hospitals that are or soon will be struggling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

27 Mar 2020

Response: £2.9 billion funding to strengthen care for the vulnerable

£2.9b of the £5b fund to tackle coronavirus will be used to strengthen care for vulnerable people, including those living with dementia.

27 Mar 2020

Despite failures, chemotherapy still promising against fatal pediatric brain cancer

The pediatric brain cancer known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma is almost uniformly fatal. In part, this is due to where and how it grows, forming as a diffuse net of cells in a part of the brainstem called the pons, which controls essential functions like breathing and swallowing.

25 Mar 2020

Parental physical activity support helps improve motor skills in kids with developmental disabilities

It's a self-perpetuating cycle: Kids with developmental disabilities face challenges in building motor skills, which makes them less able to participate in routine physical activity, which gives them less opportunity to practice those same motor skills.

25 Mar 2020

Researchers aim to find the genetic basis of severe coronavirus infection in young people

Hundreds of clinicians worldwide are banding together in an effort to study some types of severe cases of the new coronavirus disease.

25 Mar 2020

Researchers show possibility to control cell bioenergetics by changing mitochondria content

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have shown that they can give cells a short-term boost of energy through mitochondrial transplantation.

23 Mar 2020

Coronavirus threatens the lives of rural hospitals already stretched to breaking point

Rural hospitals may not be able to keep their doors open as the coronavirus pandemic saps their cash, their CEOs warn, just as communities most need them.

22 Mar 2020

Some hospitals continue with elective surgeries despite COVID-19 crisis

In the same week that physicians at the University of California-San Francisco medical center were wiping down and reusing protective equipment like masks and gowns to conserve resources amid a surge of COVID-19 patients, 90 miles away teams of doctors at UC Davis Medical Center were fully suited up performing breast augmentations, hip replacements and other elective procedures that likely could have been postponed.

21 Mar 2020

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Researchers enlist the help of citizen scientists to design new drugs against coronavirus

Coronavirus has upended our world. It’s OK to grieve.

Not so fast using CPAPs in place of ventilators. They could spread the coronavirus.

Help wanted: Retired doctors and nurses don scrubs again in coronavirus fight

In coronavirus relief bill, hospitals poised to get massive infusion of cash

Response: £2.9 billion funding to strengthen care for the vulnerable

Despite failures, chemotherapy still promising against fatal pediatric brain cancer

Parental physical activity support helps improve motor skills in kids with developmental disabilities

Researchers aim to find the genetic basis of severe coronavirus infection in young people

Researchers show possibility to control cell bioenergetics by changing mitochondria content

Coronavirus threatens the lives of rural hospitals already stretched to breaking point

Some hospitals continue with elective surgeries despite COVID-19 crisis

Gig economy workers hurt by coronavirus eye new federal funds for relief

Sebelius, looking back at ACA, says the country’s never ‘seen this kind of battle’

Funeral homes, families ponder deaths in the age of COVID-19

Take a deep breath: Making risk-based decisions in the coronavirus era

To stop coronavirus in its tracks, here’s your guide to 5 degrees of separation

Trump wrongly said health insurers will pay for all coronavirus treatment

Researchers encourage a synergistic relationship between AI and family medicine

How to avoid coronavirus? Lessons from people whose lives depend on it

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