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In this May 1, 2021, file photo, Maoula Jan, 52, receives his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for coronavirus from volunteer Steve Kriss, at a vaccine center in the Swaminarayan School in Neasden, north London. Britain’s Conservative government is hoping a combination of relatively high vaccination rates and common-sense behavior will keep a lid …
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ireland on Saturday stopped its system of mandatory hotel quarantine for travellers arriving in the country, as coronavirus curbs continue to wind down in the Republic. Since late March travellers arriving from a government list of “designated states” have been subject to a mandatory two week hotel quarantine. On Saturday the …
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Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, has been a vocal advocate for the removal of race from the kidney function algorithm and is a member of the joint task force that generated the new clinical recommendations. Credit: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania A national task force …
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Credit: sebra/Shutterstock Despite the effectiveness of vaccines, we still need drugs to treat COVID. Even people who have been double vaccinated stand a small chance of getting COVID and ending up moderately or even severely ill. There are drugs to treat COVID, but they have to be given in hospital. One promising drug that could …
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Credit: Northwestern University The two largest national kidney associations—the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN)—have outlined a new race-free approach to diagnosing kidney diseases. “As the largest organizations representing kidney patients and health professionals, NKF and ASN are committed to eliminating health disparities that harm kidney patients and ensuring that …
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(A) In-hospital survival by presence of LoQRS. In this Kaplan-Meier analysis, patientsdischarged from the hospital were considered to have survived (not censored). (B) In-hospital survival by presence of LoQRS and troponin positivity. Trop = troponin level. A positive troponin level (+) is demarcated by a troponin-I level by the Abbot architect methodology exceeding0.03 ng/ml. Credit: …
The coronavirus pandemic continued to slow down for a fourth week in a row around the world. Here is the global state of play based on an AFP database. Slowing down The number of new daily cases dropped globally by eight percent last week to 510,000, according to an AFP tally to Thursday. However, the …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The University of Kent’s School of Biosciences and the Institute of Medical Virology at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, have identified a protein that may critically contribute to severe forms of COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. While many individuals develop only mild or no symptoms upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, others …
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women with general practitioner (GP) recorded exposure to domestic abuse or violence were at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19 during the first two waves of the pandemic in the UK, finds a new study led by the University of Birmingham. Public health policies put in place to prevent the spread …
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Should children under the age of 12 be vaccinated against COVID-19? Is it possible to achieve herd immunity? Will an 80 per cent vaccination rate keep us safe? In this video, UniSA epidemiologist Professor Adrian Esterman answers these questions and a lot more. The former World Health Organization consultant shares his …
