Emerging concerns that common antihypertensive treatment approaches with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) – jointly known as renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors – may exert a negative effect in COVID-19 patients are not grounded in scientific evidence, as reported by researchers in a recent review article published…

Around the world, scientists race to develop a vaccine or treatment against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Now, a team of researchers has found that a drug already available around the world can kill the coronavirus in a lab setting in…

About Professor Sin-Interview conducted by Emily Henderson Don Sin is the Director of the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI), and a Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in COPD and the De Lazzari Family Chair…

After coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 18,000, researchers are saying the number of daily reported deaths could peak on Friday.The latest version of an influential model tracking the coronavirus pandemic estimates the US will see peak daily death numbers on Friday instead of Sunday. The peak use of resources…

An ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first confirmed to have spread to the Republic of Italy on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus.[2] One week later an Italian man repatriated back to Italy from the…

In the coming decades, ecological degradation, rising temperatures, and extreme weather events could intensify the threats to human health posed by viruses. We know from past epidemics that changes in temperature, rainfall, and humidity can have profound effects on the spread of infectious disease.  In the summer of 1878, for example,…

A simple to use, paper-based test for the novel coronavirus in wastewater could help identify the infection in communities, including those with people who carry the virus but show no symptoms. In January 2020, doctors treating the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United Statesidentified the SARS-CoV-2 virus not only…

It is hard to imagine a topic more sensitive, and a situation more difficult, than deciding who gets to live and die in the time of a pandemic. Yet this is the reality of the COVID-19 outbreak and the resource shortage it has caused.  In particular, the insufficient number of…

Source: Stanford Medicine Summary: There’s a new disease-detecting technology in the lab, and its No. 1 source of data is number one. And number two.There’s a new disease-detecting technology in the lab of Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir, MD PhD, and its No. 1 source of data is number one. And number…

Source: Drexel University Summary:A new brain-imaging study has studied the brain activity of jazz guitarists during improvisation to show that creativity is, in fact, driven primarily by the right hemisphere in musicians who are comparatively inexperienced at improvisation. However, musicians who are highly experienced at improvisation rely primarily on their…

Source: American Society for Microbiology Summary:No vaccines exist that protect people against infections by coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, or the ones that cause SARS and MERS. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, many labs around the world have developed a laser-like focus on understanding the virus and finding…

Old human cells return to a more youthful and vigorous state after being induced to briefly express a panel of proteins involved in embryonic development, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers also found that elderly mice regained youthful strength after…

 When most people think of COVID-19, they imagine symptoms such as a dry cough and high fever. But new research out of China shows that a minority of cases appear with gastrointestinal symptoms only. In about one-quarter of patients in the new study, diarrhea and other digestive symptoms were the…

 A drug originally developed to treat Ebola is getting a second chance in the spotlight, as research teams in the United States, Asia and Europe race to test it against the new coronavirus. The drug, called remdesivir, has already been given to a limited number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19, on…

 The first community-acquired case of COVID-19 in the United States posed many questions for doctors, but the answers they found led to key changes in federal guidelines for coronavirus testing, according to a case study. The patient was an otherwise healthy woman in her 40s who was admitted to University of…

While the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on respiratory problems and securing enough ventilators, doctors on the front lines are grappling with a new medical mystery. In addition to lung damage, many COVID-19 patients are also developing heart problems — and dying of cardiac arrest. As more data comes…

Excitement about a potential new treatment for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic currently engulfing the world is causing problems for patients with arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who routinely use the drug to control their symptoms.The antimalarial drug chloroquine and its safer derivative hydroxychloroquine have been used since…

The increasing frequency of disease outbreaks is linked to climate change and biodiversity loss. The past 20 years of contained outbreaks may have led to complacency. New technologies offer hope in the search for countermeasures – but protecting the natural world must play a part, too. The frequency of disease…

Zoonotic diseases will rise due to deforestation, says Zurich Insurance Group’s head of sustainability risk, while one report shows key financial institutions have yet to adopt deforestation policies. Order Read all Euromoney coronavirus coverage John Scott, head of sustainability risk for Zurich Insurance Group, called for greater pandemic preparedness and…

As regards health monitoring relating to the spread of the new Coronavirus on the national territory, there are 128,948 total cases in our country, currently 91,246 people are positive for the virus. 21,815 people were healed. There are 28,949 patients hospitalized with symptoms, 3,977 patients admitted to intensive care, while…

You may have seen the tweets, or even worse, you may have even shared the news; that there are dolphins and swans in Venice or there are elephants in China, all roaming around freely in this fresh and pure human-free world. We all want to believe in something good in…

The Trump administration announced Friday that doctors and hospitals can use federal aid to cover the costs of treating uninsured people who are suffering COVID-19. The federal payments, part of a $100 billion aid package to health care providers, will specifically cover COVID-19 care. But some health policy experts say…

People in face masks observe three minutes of silence in Beijing, on a national day of mourning for the thousands of patients and medical workers killed by the coronavirus in China.Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images For three minutes on Saturday, people across China stopped what they had been doing. In…

Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, discussed one of the models used to estimate potential deaths from coronavirus in U.S. during a briefing Tuesday.Alex Brandon/AP At a White House briefing on Tuesday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator, laid out a grim vision of the future.  The…

COVID-19: U.S. at a Glance Total cases: 277,205 Total deaths: 6,593 Jurisdictions reporting cases: 55 (50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam,  Northern Marianas, and US Virgin Islands) * Data include both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 reported to CDC or tested at CDC since January 21, 2020, with…

Survivor’s guilt is when a person has feelings of guilt because they survived a life-threatening situation when others did not. It is a common reaction to traumatic events and a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this article, we explore the phenomenon of survivor’s guilt and look at its…

Different people experience grief in different ways. It is likely that a person will experience a range of emotions while grieving. Although grief is a very personal experience for everyone, there are often similarities between people’s experiences.  In 1969, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote a book called On Death and Dying that introduced the scientific…

Researchers have found that online mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) can improve lingering depressive symptoms. A team of researchers has found that online MBCT can improve a range of lingering depressive symptoms in people who have already received treatment for depression. The findings, which feature in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, are significant…

A new report assessing the effectiveness of China’s emergency response during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak suggests that measures such as the travel ban may have prevented more than 700,000 cases outside Wuhan. “The number of confirmed cases in China by day 50 (February 19) of the epidemic…

As you lie in slumber, your spirit body snaps free and drifts upward while your physical shell is left lonely on the bed below, connected only by a fragile, silvery cord. You turn and observe yourself peacefully sleeping. Could this be evidence of the soul? Could it be proof of…