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How can teenagers deal with mental distress?

07/25/2020 Health News

Analysing teenage psychological well-being and a guide to coping with mental disturbances. Being a teenager is not easy, juggling homework, extra-curricular activities, friends and maintaining an image on social media. Numerous physical and social changes including exposure to financial challenges or abuse can make them vulnerable to mental health problems, suggested Chandra Ganjoo, executive director and group CPO, Trivitron Healthcare. […]

1 in 4 young adults with COVID-19 still have symptoms weeks later

07/24/2020 Health News

Young people should not expect to bounce right back after a COVID-19 infection — a new study finds that about a quarter of young adults were still not back to their normal health weeks after contracting the infection, even if they had no medical conditions and were not hospitalized. The findings show that recovery from COVID-19 “can be prolonged, […]

How COVID-19 causes smell loss

07/24/2020 Health News

Temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is the main neurological symptom and one of the earliest and most commonly reported indicators of COVID-19. Studies suggest it better predicts the disease than other well-known symptoms such as fever and cough, but the underlying mechanisms for loss of smell in patients with COVID-19 have been unclear. Now, an international team of researchers […]

Lockdown anxiety: How to overcome anxiety and social fears as life ‘reopens’

07/24/2020 Health News

Fear and anxiety are possibly the most common emotional responses any of us will feel as we approach a return to normal life. For many, the lockdown was emotionally comfortable, which makes it all the more difficult to leave it behind. And now, as the world starts opening up again, it will be difficult for many to leave their protective […]

Cerner, Holon partner on decision support automation

07/24/2020 Health News

Holon Solutions and Cerner on Thursday announced that they’ll jointly deploy patented technology to automate delivery of patient data from Cerner’s EHR-agnostic HealtheIntent population to keep clinicians informed about relevant health information. WHY IT MATTERS The aim is to deliver needed contextual information directly to clinicians within their EHR workflow, according to the companies, and eliminate the need to spend […]

Rapid COVID-19 test detects neutralising antibodies with high specificity and sensitivity

07/24/2020 Health News

As the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to adversely impact communities and economies across the world, efficiency in testing for the infection and antibodies is vital. A unique and rapid SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test (sVNT), developed in Singapore, may be the much-needed boost to current COVID-19 investigations to determine infection rate, herd immunity, predicted humoral protection, and vaccine efficacy during […]

T cells can shift from helping to harming in atherosclerosis

07/24/2020 Health News

High cholesterol kills. In fact, one in four Americans will die from the consequences of atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaques of fat and cholesterol in the arteries. Statins have helped reduce mortality, but millions are still at risk. At La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) researchers are dedicated to finding a way to stop plaques from forming in the first […]

68 percent more acute Infected: Essen reports a significant increase in the Corona case numbers

07/24/2020 Health News

The Corona-pandemic keeps the world in suspense: More than 15 million people have been infected with the Coronavirus, 203.624 of them in Germany. The United States reported almost daily new record numbers. The latest news on Corona-crisis in Germany, Europe and the world read in the News-Ticker of FOCUS Online. Corona-News from Germany and around the world – the top […]

Hooking human lungs up to sleeping pigs could boost transplant success, research says

07/24/2020 Health News

Doctor shows how COVID-19 affects the lungs of severely sick patients Making lung transplants more successful may ultimately come down to pigs. Columbia and Vanderbilt researchers conducted a study recently that found connecting human lungs to live pigs, under anesthesia, could make it easier for doctors to transplant the organs. A human lung can be sustained outside of the body […]

With tighter handgun laws, U.S. would see fewer suicides by young people

07/23/2020 Health News

(HealthDay)—Hundreds of suicides could be prevented in the United States each year if the minimum age for buying a handgun was raised to 21 in the 33 states that have a minimum age of 18, according to a new study. Suicide rates, especially among teens, have been rising in the United States. Guns have caused more than half of these […]

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