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UC San Diego partners with five leading diagnostics manufacturers to ramp up testing for COVID-19

Partnering with five leading in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, an interdisciplinary team of scientists and physicians at UC San Diego Health and University of California San Diego School of Medicine today announced that the UC San Diego Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine is significantly ramping up testing for COVID-19, projecting a capacity to complete 1,000 to 1,500 tests per day within two to three weeks.

22 Mar 2020

Vivli to launch COVID-19 portal for sharing of interventional treatment trial data

In a visible sign of data sharing leadership, Vivli, the Center for Clinical Research Da,ta has committed to serving the open science community through the launch of a COVID-19 portal for sharing of completed interventional treatment trial data.

22 Mar 2020

Tel Aviv University joins volunteer initiative to improve detection of novel coronavirus in Israel

Israeli hospitals and universities, including Tel Aviv University, have joined forces to build an enormous student volunteer base to expand and improve the detection of people infected with novel coronavirus all over Israel.

22 Mar 2020

Style of language influences credibility and trust in health forums

More and more, people are using internet forums as first place to look for information on health issues. However, the scientific medical information being provided there is often so complex that laypeople are barely able to form considered judgments on the content of much of the advice.

22 Mar 2020

New European case registry to collect clinical data of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

When do patients infected with the new coronavirus develop severe symptoms and when do they develop mild courses of disease? What is the best possible treatment and which measures have been successful up to now?

21 Mar 2020

Now on the menu at closed schools: Drive-thru lunches

There were no hugs, handshakes or high-fives Tuesday morning at Juniper Elementary School, where the student drop-off line had transformed into a school lunch drive-thru.

21 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

Hoping that insurance expansion will help tamp outbreak, 9 states reopen marketplaces

At least nine states are offering their uninsured residents another opportunity to sign up for a health plan this year as they seek new ways to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic.

21 Mar 2020

Older cancer patients taking multiple medications are at higher risk of hospitalization

As adults age, they accumulate a number of medications for chronic conditions. Older patients take anywhere between 5-15 medications per year, which increases the risk that some of the drugs will counteract each other.

21 Mar 2020

C-Path awarded FDA grant to establish Rare Disease Clinical Outcome Assessment Consortium

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has funded a cooperative agreement to establish a Rare Disease Clinical Outcome Assessment Consortium.

21 Mar 2020

The final cut

The barber had with him his tools of trade: a black leather smock, a razor, clippers, scissors and tufts of black locks he had collected from the floor of his shop.

20 Mar 2020

Mask shortage straps pharmacists who need them to keep medicines pure

Pharmacy staff who prepare IV drugs inside hospitals are the latest health care workers decrying a shortage of masks as they scramble to prepare medications for patients with everything from cancer to COVID-19.

20 Mar 2020

As coronavirus spreads widely, millions of older Americans live in counties with no ICU beds

More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up - older patients who face the highest risk of serious illness or death from the rapid spread of COVID-19, a Kaiser Health News data analysis shows.

20 Mar 2020

Public health leadership needed to direct COVID-19 response and communications

In the United States today, healthcare providers seem appropriately confused about present and future issues concerning coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

20 Mar 2020

UC researchers identify populations most at risk of overdosing on opiates

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are helping to identify those most at risk in Ohio of overdosing on opiates.

19 Mar 2020

Researchers highlight urgent need for public health leadership during COVID-19 pandemic

For decades, public health officials have directed the containment of emerging pandemics - perhaps most notably - the worldwide eradication of smallpox starting in the early to mid-1960s.

19 Mar 2020

Researchers invent portable AI device for flu and pandemic forecasting

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine learning - called FluSense - which can detect coughing and crowd size in real time, then analyze the data to directly monitor flu-like illnesses and influenza trends.

19 Mar 2020

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UC San Diego partners with five leading diagnostics manufacturers to ramp up testing for COVID-19

Vivli to launch COVID-19 portal for sharing of interventional treatment trial data

Tel Aviv University joins volunteer initiative to improve detection of novel coronavirus in Israel

Style of language influences credibility and trust in health forums

New European case registry to collect clinical data of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

Now on the menu at closed schools: Drive-thru lunches

Some hospitals continue with elective surgeries despite COVID-19 crisis

Hoping that insurance expansion will help tamp outbreak, 9 states reopen marketplaces

Older cancer patients taking multiple medications are at higher risk of hospitalization

C-Path awarded FDA grant to establish Rare Disease Clinical Outcome Assessment Consortium

The final cut

Mask shortage straps pharmacists who need them to keep medicines pure

As coronavirus spreads widely, millions of older Americans live in counties with no ICU beds

Public health leadership needed to direct COVID-19 response and communications

UC researchers identify populations most at risk of overdosing on opiates

Researchers highlight urgent need for public health leadership during COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers invent portable AI device for flu and pandemic forecasting

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

Social policies may also have a positive effect on population health

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

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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