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Countries that develop a coronavirus vaccine may not share it, health expert warns

The pandemic has sparked a worldwide race to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus. But a health expert has warned that the world might face a risk of "vaccine nationalism," wherein countries who will produce a coronavirus vaccine will not share it with others.

20 May 2020

Report describes clinical characteristics and outcomes of children hospitalized with COVID-19

While most children infected with the novel coronavirus have mild symptoms, a subset requires hospitalization and a small number require intensive care.

20 May 2020

Nori Health offers conversational coach for people with Crohn's or Colitis during Covid-19

Covid-19 forced the most vulnerable in our society to go into self-isolation, such as the 600.000 people living in the UK with Inflammatory Bowel Disease of which Crohn’s and Colitis are most common.

20 May 2020

Researchers describe new methods to speed up drug approvals during pandemics

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a pair of studies in a COVID-19 special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review, freely available via open access, describing new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics and for providing more accurate measures of the probabilities of success for clinical trials of vaccines and other anti-infective therapies.

20 May 2020

Ortho receives CE mark for COVID-19 IgG antibody test

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a global leader of in vitro diagnostics with a rich history of bringing critical tests for infectious diseases to market, today announced its second COVID-19 antibody test—the VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG Test received CE Mark. The test offers 100% specificity.

From Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. 20 May 2020

Loss of smell added to the UK's official list of Covid-19 symptoms

The UK has joined the US, Europe and the World Health Organisation by including loss of smell or taste as an officially recognized symptom of Covid-19 – thanks in part to an international research project involving Professor Carl Philpott at the University of East Anglia.

20 May 2020

V-Sensor and e-Checkup-enabled smartphones help monitor vital signs with medical accuracy

The rapid development and deployment of mobile phone apps during the Coronavirus pandemic by governments desperate to find a way to contain the virus by using mobile device technology for tracking and tracing is a clear indicator that mass adoption of smartphones to improve health outcomes in populations is set to become mainstream.

20 May 2020

Olympus Professional Dictation offers antimicrobial, alcohol-wipe resistant dictation solutions

Olympus Professional Dictation, which provides comprehensive and efficient solutions for streamlining dictation workflows through speech-to-text hardware and software, offers antimicrobial and alcohol-wipe resistant dictation devices that can reduce exposure to viruses and other microbes for those on the frontline of duty.

20 May 2020

Single Use Surgical donates 5p from every product sold in the UK to Cavell Nurses’ Trust

Single Use Surgical will donate 5p from the sale of every disposable surgical instrument sold in the UK to Cavell Nurses’ Trust to help support the nursing family in their time of need.

20 May 2020

Australian COVID-19 prevention trial begins for frontline and allied healthcare workers

COVID SHIELD is a major collaborative effort led by the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in partnership with human data science company IQVIA.

19 May 2020

Aerosol transmission through new vs. reused N95 masks

The world is grappling with the worst pandemic in over 100 years. Caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus which emerged in China in December 2019 but has now spread across the globe. With a rapid rate of transmission, SARS-CoV-2 has now affected over 4.88 million people and resulted in over 322,000 deaths.

19 May 2020

Modified clinical trial design to meet urgent community needs during COVID-19 pandemic

A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society describes a nimble, pragmatic and rigorous multicenter clinical trial design to meet urgent community needs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

19 May 2020

A minimally invasive approach to managing pain without opioids

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin (UW) are adopting a minimally invasive, safer approach to electrically treating pain directly at the source as part of the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative.

19 May 2020

Researchers are developing a diagnostic test that predicts the advanced stages of COVID-19 patients

A research team from the University of Valencia, led by Professor Juan Saus from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is developing a project to provide the healthcare system with a diagnostic test that anticipates the entry into advanced stages of patients with COVID-19 and a scalable oral treatment for the disease.

19 May 2020

Study: Personalized ovarian cancer risk prediction reduces worries among a majority of women

Offering personalised ovarian cancer risk prediction to women shows that 98 per cent of participants felt less worried after finding out their ovarian cancer risk status, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London.

19 May 2020

Primary care-based intervention promotes parent-teen communication

A primary care-based intervention to promote parent-teen communication led to less distress and increased positive emotions among adolescents, as well as improved communication for many teens, according to a new study by researchers at the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

19 May 2020

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Countries that develop a coronavirus vaccine may not share it, health expert warns

Report describes clinical characteristics and outcomes of children hospitalized with COVID-19

Nori Health offers conversational coach for people with Crohn's or Colitis during Covid-19

Researchers describe new methods to speed up drug approvals during pandemics

Ortho receives CE mark for COVID-19 IgG antibody test

Loss of smell added to the UK's official list of Covid-19 symptoms

V-Sensor and e-Checkup-enabled smartphones help monitor vital signs with medical accuracy

Olympus Professional Dictation offers antimicrobial, alcohol-wipe resistant dictation solutions

Single Use Surgical donates 5p from every product sold in the UK to Cavell Nurses’ Trust

Australian COVID-19 prevention trial begins for frontline and allied healthcare workers

Aerosol transmission through new vs. reused N95 masks

Modified clinical trial design to meet urgent community needs during COVID-19 pandemic

A minimally invasive approach to managing pain without opioids

Researchers are developing a diagnostic test that predicts the advanced stages of COVID-19 patients

Study: Personalized ovarian cancer risk prediction reduces worries among a majority of women

Primary care-based intervention promotes parent-teen communication

New UV disinfection technology is effective for deactivating SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces

Spraying disinfectants on streets can be harmful, WHO warns

Global study to test whether antimalaria drug can prevent COVID-19 in health-care workers

HDR UK announces £3.4m health data initiative to benefit patients

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