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Covid ‘decimated our staff’ as the pandemic ravages health workers of color in US

Last spring, New Jersey emergency room nurse Maritza Beniquez saw "wave after wave" of sick patients, each wearing a look of fear that grew increasingly familiar as the weeks wore on.

5 Jan 2021

Looking to the future will help safeguard mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns

Practicing gratitude and looking to the future will help safeguard our mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns, a new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology reports.

5 Jan 2021

A paper-based sensor for detecting COVID-19

News-Medical talks to Dipanjan Pan about the development of a paper-based electrochemical sensor that can detect COVID-19 in less than five minutes.

5 Jan 2021

Middle-aged adults with comorbidities high-risk category for COVID-19-related mortality in Mexican study

Researchers from Mexico demonstrate how they calculated age-stratified COVID-19 case fatality rates, years of life lost (YLL), and relative risk for 9 comorbidities and 23 comorbidity combinations in a retrospective study.

5 Jan 2021

Researchers develop detailed map of protein-protein interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and the host

By conducting a state-of-the-art interactome study between SARS-CoV-2 and host cells, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston identified 437 human proteins as the high-confidence interacting proteins – with substantial implications for understanding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pathology and potential treatments.

5 Jan 2021

Researchers develop immunity monitoring to determine the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine

As the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available to the public, immunity monitoring will play an important role in determining whether the vaccine is effective for an individual, and for how long.

5 Jan 2021

Study describes physician experiences with online harassment

While many physicians benefit from social media by networking with potential collaborators or interfacing with patients, a new study from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago found many physicians also report being sexually harassed and personally attacked on these platforms on the basis of their religion, race or medical recommendations.

4 Jan 2021

Sweetened beverage sales bounced back following the repeal of Cook County tax

Following the repeal of the short-lived Cook County, Illinois Sweetened Beverage Tax, sales of sweetened beverages went right back to where they were before the tax went into place, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago. The study is published in JAMA Network Open.

4 Jan 2021

Revision of WHO guideline on ensuring balance in national policies for safe use of controlled substances

In June 2019, WHO announced the revision of two pain management guidelines.

4 Jan 2021

Experts assess the impact of COVID-19 on pediatric patients with special needs

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children with disabilities has not received much attention, perhaps because the disease disproportionately affects older individuals.

4 Jan 2021

Sugar-binding protein could promote inflammation and worsen sepsis

A sugar-binding protein could fuel terrible inflammation and worsen sepsis, a disease that kills more than 270,000 people every year in the US alone, reports a team of researchers led by UConn Health in the 4 January issue of Nature Immunology.

4 Jan 2021

Frequent travelers are happier with their lives than others

People dreaming of travel post-COVID-19 now have some scientific data to support their wanderlust.

4 Jan 2021

Study explores perspectives of patients and their families during and after critical illness

The outcomes that matter to patients and their families may not mirror the metrics commonly used by healthcare professionals to evaluate the quality of care, according to a study published in American Journal of Critical Care.

4 Jan 2021

‘Last responders’ brace for surge in COVID deaths across US

Funeral director Kevin Spitzer has been overwhelmed with COVID-related deaths in the small city of Aberdeen, South Dakota.

4 Jan 2021

Heading off the next pandemic

As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it's expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused on preventing the next one.

4 Jan 2021

Children’s hospitals are partly to blame as superbugs increasingly attack kids

A memory haunts Christina Fuhrman: the image of her toddler Pearl lying pale and listless in a hospital bed, tethered to an IV to keep her hydrated as she struggled against a superbug infection.

4 Jan 2021

P2 COVID-19 study shows no material safety differences between opaganib and control arms

Preliminary data from the non-powered U.S. Phase 2 study of 40 hospitalized patients shows that orally-administered opaganib was safe, with no material safety differences between opaganib and control arms.

4 Jan 2021

People who move due to unaffordable housing may not receive medical care

People who move due to unaffordable housing are at increased risk of failing to receive the medical care they need, according to a new study from Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, Los Angeles.

4 Jan 2021

New effort to support those who fall on the wrong side of global vaccine divide

As SciDev.Net celebrates 20 years of reporting about the impact of science on people in low- and middle-income countries, the need for our work is greater than ever.

4 Jan 2021

FDA-approved COVID-19 drug should be used cautiously, says UC researcher

While the world has its eyes on vaccines to stop the spread of coronavirus, therapeutics are still necessary to treat hospitalized patients. One of these treatments, remdesivir, is the first and only antiviral agent of its kind that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved so far for COVID-19.

3 Jan 2021

covid 19 News and Research

Covid ‘decimated our staff’ as the pandemic ravages health workers of color in US

Looking to the future will help safeguard mental wellbeing during future Covid-19 lockdowns

A paper-based sensor for detecting COVID-19

Middle-aged adults with comorbidities high-risk category for COVID-19-related mortality in Mexican study

Researchers develop detailed map of protein-protein interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and the host

Researchers develop immunity monitoring to determine the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine

Study describes physician experiences with online harassment

Sweetened beverage sales bounced back following the repeal of Cook County tax

Revision of WHO guideline on ensuring balance in national policies for safe use of controlled substances

Experts assess the impact of COVID-19 on pediatric patients with special needs

Sugar-binding protein could promote inflammation and worsen sepsis

Frequent travelers are happier with their lives than others

Study explores perspectives of patients and their families during and after critical illness

‘Last responders’ brace for surge in COVID deaths across US

Heading off the next pandemic

Children’s hospitals are partly to blame as superbugs increasingly attack kids

P2 COVID-19 study shows no material safety differences between opaganib and control arms

People who move due to unaffordable housing may not receive medical care

New effort to support those who fall on the wrong side of global vaccine divide

FDA-approved COVID-19 drug should be used cautiously, says UC researcher

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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