More than 100 cases of COVID-19 have been linked back to a single bar in Michigan, less than a month after restaurants and bars were given the green light to partially reopen their dining rooms, The Detroit News reports. Ingham County officials issued a statement yesterday saying there were now 107 cases of COVID-19 cases linked to Harper’s Restaurant & […]
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Parents and clinicians need to be aware in looking for symptoms of multiple inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in children who have been diagnosed or exposed to COVID-19, according to two Rutgers researchers who were among the leaders of the first nationwide study of the disease, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. MIS-C is defined as an inflammation impacting two […]
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Arthritis is a common condition that can affect people of all ages, according to the NHS. But you could lower your chances of developing painful arthritis symptoms by regularly using olive oil, it’s been claimed. Arthritis pain can lead to a number of debilitating symptoms that patients will want to try and avoid. The condition can make life more difficult […]
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The July 4 holiday weekend usually means cookouts and big gatherings in Texas, but right now, the state is facing a public health catastrophe. Hospitals in Dallas and Houston are nearing ICU capacity as the number of COVID-19 cases spikes across the state. The death toll from the virus is up 50% from a month ago. It did not begin […]
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Causal connection between air pollution and premature death found Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) and ozone is associated with a significantly shortened life expectancy. This shows how important it is that the occurring air pollution is effectively reduced. In a new study by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, it was found that exposure […]
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By the end of January, a Munich-based research group found that Covid-19-patients in the incubation period, infectious. They published their results immediately in a professional journal. But instead of taking the warning seriously, played the health organizations, you down. Currently, worldwide there are more than ten million Corona-Infected (Stand 29. June), and more than 500,000 people have already died in […]
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Drugs that were developed to treat Alzheimer’s Disease could be re-purposed to prevent—or even reverse—the damage done to the blood vessels in people who are obese or suffer from type 2 diabetes, according to new research. People suffering from a range of conditions called metabolic syndrome—which includes type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity—have a stiffening of […]
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(HealthDay)—COVID-19 is being diagnosed in Hispanic communities at a disproportionately high rate, a new study of the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area shows. Researchers found that among nearly 38,000 patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 at Johns Hopkins Health System, 16% were positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. That figure was much higher—almost 43%—among Hispanic patients, according to findings published online June 18 […]
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The name ‘cytokine storm’ is apt: It describes a furious gale-force swarm of molecules unleashed by the body’s immune system that causes extreme inflammation, tissue damage, even death. Cytokines—from the Greek cyto for cells and kinos for movement—are important in the fight against viral infections. But they worsen those same infections in the extreme, a phenomenon that is proving lethal […]
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Cancers arise when the genetic code of normal cells is altered, causing excessive growth. Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a protein that drives the growth of cancers of the esophagus or liver by altering the genetic code in a novel way. The protein, death associated protein […]
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