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Updated CDC guidelines support the use of hand dryers for hand hygiene

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated handwashing guidelines, standardizing language and updating visuals.

22 Mar 2021

Stress-free life may lead to lower cognitive function

Stress is a universal human experience that almost everyone deals with from time to time. But a new study found that not only do some people report feeling no stress at all, but that there may be downsides to not experiencing stress.

22 Mar 2021

Scarce medical resources should be allocated equally during public health crisis, say ethicists

During a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. hospitals need to allocate scarce medical resources in an equitable manner, according to clinicians and ethicists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

22 Mar 2021

Vaccine passports raise questions of equity, security, and privacy

Vaccine passports raise questions of equity, security, privacy, argues Crispin Maslog. China, where the COVID-19 pandemic began a long year ago, has now become the first country in the world to issue a vaccine passport to promote world economic recovery and facilitate cross-border travel.

22 Mar 2021

RADLogics AI-Powered COVID-19 solution reduces turnaround time

Moscow Center for Diagnostics & Telemedicine and RADLogics shared the results of a large-scale study (Moscow Experiment on the Computer Vision for the Analysis of Medical Images - mosmed.ai, NCT04489992) conducted by the Research and Practical Clinical Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies of the Moscow Health Care Department.

22 Mar 2021

Neurodiverse employees within organizations can promote skill base

At the start of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, new research from Cranfield University demonstrates the importance of organizations becoming more inclusive employers when it comes to neurodiversity.

22 Mar 2021

People's politics, values shape COVID-19 risk perception and adoption of protective behaviors

People's politics and values are exerting a bigger influence on how much of a threat they feel from COVID-19 compared to objective indicators such as the number of confirmed cases.

21 Mar 2021

A review of the resilience of Chinese hospitals to the COVID-19 pandemic

A new review article, published on the medRxiv* preprint server, deals with several different aspects such as medical response capability, disaster health management, disaster preparedness, and health infrastructure safety, in China, by which they survived the COVID-19 crisis.

21 Mar 2021

Study: 8 out of 10 Spanish health professionals are willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19

Approximately 8 out of every 10 health professionals in Spain are willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a study led by researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

20 Mar 2021

Wildlife protection, surveillance of zoonosis are the key to preventing future pandemics

Understanding animal disease is essential if we want to prevent future pandemics, writes Keith Hamilton.

20 Mar 2021

In-school COVID-19 transmission is rare with masking, social distancing and hand-washing

In-school COVID-19 transmission is rare - even among close school contacts of those who test positive for the virus - when schools heed public health precautions such as mandatory masking, social distancing and frequent hand-washing, according to results of a pilot study in Missouri aimed at identifying ways to keep elementary and secondary schools open and safe during the pandemic.

20 Mar 2021

Swedish study finds increased risk of workplace bullying for foreign-born people

The risk of being bullied at work is twice as high if you were born abroad. And if you come from a culture that is culturally dissimilar to Sweden's, the risk is even higher.

19 Mar 2021

Study reveals worsening health profiles in Gen X and Gen Y

Recent generations show a worrying decline in health compared to their parents and grandparents when they were the same age, a new national study reveals.

19 Mar 2021

Research shows the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among Canadian adults

New research from McMaster University has found that roughly three in every five Canadian adults aged 45 to 85 have been exposed to childhood abuse, neglect, intimate partner violence or other household adversity.

19 Mar 2021

Blue Shield spent years cultivating a relationship with Newsom. It got the state vaccine contract.

Gavin Newsom was just making a name for himself as mayor of San Francisco in 2005 when Blue Shield of California wrote him its first major check.

19 Mar 2021

Developing a COVID-19 vaccine using inactivated E. coli

A team of researchers inactivated whole-cell E.coli with a reduced genome and utilized this to express coronavirus-specific fusion peptides, demonstrating a potent anamnestic response.

19 Mar 2021

How effective has rapid COVID-19 vaccination been in Israel?

Despite high vaccination rates, analysis shows a definite positive impact, but patience is needed to see the real-world impacts in Israel, a pattern that may hold true in other countries also.

19 Mar 2021

SARS-CoV-2 spike stimulates hyperinflammation via Toll-like receptor 2

A new study, released on the bioRxiv* preprint server, describes the mechanism of inflammation in severe COVID-19, besides revealing a potential new therapeutic target to modulate the severity of COVID-19.

19 Mar 2021

DNA spike-ins increase reliability of amplicon-based sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

In the interests of cost-effectiveness and rapidity, amplicon-based sequencing of the viral genome has been used to provide a sensitive means of genomic surveillance. A new preprint, which was released on the bioRxiv* server, shows how this can be tweaked to make it a reliable source of genomic data by reducing the known potential for contamination.

19 Mar 2021

Covid-inspired Montana health insurance proposal wouldn’t kick in for 2 years

For employees of small businesses in Montana suddenly laid off during the covid-19 pandemic, maintaining health insurance coverage could be a struggle.

19 Mar 2021

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Updated CDC guidelines support the use of hand dryers for hand hygiene

Stress-free life may lead to lower cognitive function

Scarce medical resources should be allocated equally during public health crisis, say ethicists

Vaccine passports raise questions of equity, security, and privacy

RADLogics AI-Powered COVID-19 solution reduces turnaround time

Neurodiverse employees within organizations can promote skill base

People's politics, values shape COVID-19 risk perception and adoption of protective behaviors

A review of the resilience of Chinese hospitals to the COVID-19 pandemic

Study: 8 out of 10 Spanish health professionals are willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19

Wildlife protection, surveillance of zoonosis are the key to preventing future pandemics

In-school COVID-19 transmission is rare with masking, social distancing and hand-washing

Swedish study finds increased risk of workplace bullying for foreign-born people

Study reveals worsening health profiles in Gen X and Gen Y

Research shows the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among Canadian adults

Blue Shield spent years cultivating a relationship with Newsom. It got the state vaccine contract.

Developing a COVID-19 vaccine using inactivated E. coli

How effective has rapid COVID-19 vaccination been in Israel?

SARS-CoV-2 spike stimulates hyperinflammation via Toll-like receptor 2

DNA spike-ins increase reliability of amplicon-based sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

Covid-inspired Montana health insurance proposal wouldn’t kick in for 2 years

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