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SARS-CoV-2-RNA viremia is a robust marker of critical illness in COVID-19

A new study by a large team of Spanish researchers and published on the preprint server medRxiv* in August 2020 reports that the presence of viral RNA in the blood is a useful marker of impending acute disease and can help triage COVID-19 disease patients who will require hospital care.

1 Sep 2020

Wearable device may more accurately assess the effects of hemorrhage blood loss

Emergency medical technicians (EMTs), military medics, and emergency room physicians could one day be better able to treat victims of vehicular accidents, gunshot wounds, and battlefield injuries thanks to a new device under development that may more accurately assess the effects of blood loss due to hemorrhage.

31 Aug 2020

New survey tool gathers, analyzes patient feedback on remote consultations

Healthcare surveys specialist, CFEP Surveys, has today announced the availability of a new survey to gather and analyse patient feedback on telephone and video consultations.

21 Aug 2020

Pioneering program empowers stroke survivors during COVID-19 lockdown

A pioneering program to empower people living with complex long-term conditions such as a stroke or multiple trauma manage their own rehabilitation has been kept on the road during the coronavirus pandemic – thanks to an expert from Kingston University and St George’s, University of London taking the service to online.

19 Aug 2020

Neuroscientists discover specific brain region that helps prioritize information

It is known that different regions of the brain help us prioritize information so we can efficiently process visual scenes. A new study by a team of neuroscientists has discovered that one specific region, the occipital cortex, plays a causal role in piloting our attention to manage the intake of images.

14 Aug 2020

Researcher to develop new technology that could aid in COVID-19 pandemic

Xin Ning, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering, specializes in developing materials for use in space.

14 Aug 2020

Study finds increase in support for telehealth and mobile health monitoring since COVID

Support for telehealth and mobile health monitoring has risen among healthcare workers and consumers since the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study.

13 Aug 2020

Surgical delay does not lower overall survival of women with early-stage breast cancer

A new breast cancer study brings reassuring findings for women with early-stage breast cancer who were forced to delay their cancer operations because of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

6 Aug 2020

SNIS 17th Annual Meeting highlights COVID-19 and racial disparities in stroke treatment

The next frontier in neurointerventional surgery, including advances in stroke triage and management, innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics in endovascular surgery, new findings on racial disparities in stroke treatment and the neurologic impact of COVID-19 are a few of the topics that will be covered at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 17th Annual Meeting taking place virtually August 4-7, 2020.

5 Aug 2020

Researchers initiate multiple studies to identify coronavirus-related heart problems

COVID-19 is shown to impact the heart and, in some cases, have long-lasting cardiac effects. To discover the extent to which COVID-19 affects the heart, cardiologists and researchers with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have begun multiple studies.

4 Aug 2020

Researchers outline areas of opportunity in COVID-19-related bioethics studies

The diverse situations experienced by health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic often present serious ethical challenges.

4 Aug 2020

New simple way of detecting COVID-19 in blood plasma

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic claims increasing numbers of patients, testing numbers are rising in most nations at the leading edge. However, the current reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) testing is often unavailable and takes up to several days for results to arrive.

31 Jul 2020

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SARS-CoV-2-RNA viremia is a robust marker of critical illness in COVID-19

Wearable device may more accurately assess the effects of hemorrhage blood loss

New survey tool gathers, analyzes patient feedback on remote consultations

Pioneering program empowers stroke survivors during COVID-19 lockdown

Neuroscientists discover specific brain region that helps prioritize information

Researcher to develop new technology that could aid in COVID-19 pandemic

Study finds increase in support for telehealth and mobile health monitoring since COVID

Surgical delay does not lower overall survival of women with early-stage breast cancer

SNIS 17th Annual Meeting highlights COVID-19 and racial disparities in stroke treatment

Researchers initiate multiple studies to identify coronavirus-related heart problems

Researchers outline areas of opportunity in COVID-19-related bioethics studies

New simple way of detecting COVID-19 in blood plasma

Researchers report a liquid biopsy for COVID-19

New technique can predict potential preterm birth with 73% accuracy in high-risk women

Urgent care providers are driven to deliver outstanding, integrated clinical care

New technique spots potential preterm birth in asymptomatic high-risk women

App for tracking COVID-19 symptoms may not be a good predictor of the spread of virus

Studies could help develop clinical evaluation tool to infer the symptomatology of COVID-19

Avicenna.AI secures FDA clearance for its CINA Head neurovascular imaging artificial intelligence tool

Experts develop recommendations for avoiding triage of COVID-19 patients

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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