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Released: 21-Oct-2020 4:20 PM EDT
Covid-19 Interventions Can Cut Virus Infections, Severe Outcomes, and Healthcare Needs
Georgia Institute of Technology

Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths, a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE has found.

Released: 21-Oct-2020 10:40 AM EDT
Vaccines and rare diseases: using one to help the other
Universite de Montreal

An immunology researcher in Canada has found a simple solution to prevent infections in children with lactic acidosis: get them vaccinated.

Released: 20-Oct-2020 11:00 AM EDT
Story Tips From Johns Hopkins Experts On COVID-19
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine has launched a new Spanish-language COVID-19 resources portal. This one-stop shop for information in Spanish offers COVID-19 testing sites, information about telemedicine and communicating with health care providers, social distancing tips and resources for children, among other helpful links. The mobile-friendly portal serves community members, patients, faculty and staff members as well as students who need COVID-19 resources and information in Spanish.

19-Oct-2020 2:00 PM EDT
Newborn brains lack maturity to process emotions as adults do
Ohio State University

Humans aren’t born with mature brain circuitry that attaches emotions to the things they see or hear in their environment, a new study shows.

13-Oct-2020 9:00 AM EDT
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health research yields improved methods to identify children at high risk of preventable death
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Health care leaders have new, improved tools to identify children at the greatest risk of preventable deaths, based on surveys of more than 67 countries around the world by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

9-Oct-2020 1:05 PM EDT
Workplace Wellness Programs Could Improve If More Personalized, Study Shows
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

In a program that used three different types of behavioral nudges, a study showed significantly different results for people with different personal and psychological characteristics

   
Released: 9-Oct-2020 2:55 PM EDT
Cultivating a Healthy Environment for Our Children
Seattle Children's Hospital

In unprecedented times like this, we often reflect on what we as humans can do to better our world. In terms of climate change, there are many ways we can make a difference, whether on a small or large scale, in order to create a sustainable and healthy environment for all.

   
6-Oct-2020 11:25 AM EDT
Heat has stronger effect on health in less developed cities, study finds
PLOS

Compared to high income cities, less developed cities in Brazil have a higher hospitalization rate associated with increased heat exposure, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Yuming Guo of the Monash University, Australia, and colleagues.

   
Released: 7-Oct-2020 6:05 PM EDT
Certain pre-existing conditions can double, triple mortality risk for COVID-19 patients
Penn State College of Medicine

A large, international study of COVID-19 patients confirmed that cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, stroke and cancer can increase a patient’s risk of dying from the virus.

2-Oct-2020 1:15 PM EDT
Major Deficits in Addressing Mental Health Needs of Asylum Seekers
PLOS

A new study of asylum seekers in Germany suggests that, among those with symptoms of depression, anxiety, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), few receive a diagnosis from the health care system, and of those diagnosed, many do not receive treatment.

2-Oct-2020 1:35 PM EDT
COVID-19 disproportionately affects the finances of low-income workers in developing countries
PLOS

Results from a large-scale survey of households in Latin America and the Caribbean show that the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been concentrated among those who had lower incomes prior to the pandemic, according to a study published October 7 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Nicolas Bottan of Cornell University, Bridget Hoffmann and Diego Vera-Cossio of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Released: 7-Oct-2020 1:40 PM EDT
New Approach Helps EMTs Better Assess Chest Pain en Route to Hospital
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

A study conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Health shows that on-scene use of a new protocol and advanced diagnostic equipment can help paramedics better identify patients at high risk for adverse cardiac events.

1-Oct-2020 11:55 AM EDT
Exploring the golden hour: Delays in trauma treatment linked to disability and death
PLOS

Some clinicians consider that after a traumatic injury, patients are most likely to survive if they receive medical treatment within one hour—the so-called “golden hour.”

Released: 2-Oct-2020 5:20 PM EDT
Genetic tracing 'barcode' is rapidly revealing COVID-19's journey and evolution
Drexel University

Drexel University researchers have reported a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the virus that causes COVID-19.

   
Released: 2-Oct-2020 2:45 PM EDT
New COVID-19 Test Doesn’t Use Scarce Reagents, Catches All But the Least Infectious
University of Vermont

Scientists at the Univ. of Vermont and Univ. of Washington have developed an accurate COVID-19 test that doesn’t use scarce reagents, paving the way for widespread testing in developing countries and industrialized nations like the United States, where reagent supplies are again in short supply.

30-Sep-2020 1:00 PM EDT
Building an antiracist lab: Scientists offer steps to take action now
DePaul University

“Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab,” is the subject of a paper by scientists at DePaul University in Chicago and the University of California in Merced. The paper is published Oct. 1 in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

30-Sep-2020 10:30 AM EDT
Researchers call for loss of smell to be recognized globally as a symptom of COVID-19
PLOS

Four out of five people experiencing the recent loss of smell and/or taste tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies—and of those who tested positive, 40 percent did not have cough or fever, reports a new study in PLOS Medicine by Prof. Rachel Batterham at University College London and colleagues.

29-Sep-2020 2:30 PM EDT
Antipsychotics for Treating Adult Depression Linked with Higher Mortality
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers researchers have reported an increased mortality risk in adults with depression who initiated augmentation with newer antipsychotic medications compared to a control group that initiated augmentation with a second antidepressant.

24-Sep-2020 9:40 AM EDT
New Mechanism for Anti-Infection Effects of Dietary Fiber
PLOS

New research in mice has uncovered a previously unknown interaction between molecules derived from dietary fiber and an immune cell protein, which triggers protection against infection with Salmonella bacteria.



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