Pollen count is based on a measurement of the number of grains of pollen in a cubic metre of the air. The higher the count, the greater the chance people suffering from hay fever will experience worse symptoms when they are outside. READ MORE High pollen count and thunderstorms could trigger this condition The Met Office has forecast low levels […]
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A new study shows that some workers may not properly use PPE, which causes the cross-contamination. Researchers say the training method can help healthcare workers build trust in their training and their PPE. Another video from Japan showed how one person with COVID-19 in a restaurant can quickly contaminate others. As healthcare workers struggle to get personal protective equipment (PPE), […]
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Turkey on Thursday reported its lowest daily increase in confirmed coronavirus cases in the past two months, with 961 new infections in the past 24 hours. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca also reported 27 more deaths in the past 24 hours. The total number of infections in the country now stands at 153,548, with a total of 4,249 deaths. Koca tweeted […]
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(HealthDay)—Factors associated with in-hospital mortality include older age, chronic cardiac disease, and chronic pulmonary disease in a cohort of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in New York City, according to a study published online May 19 in The Lancet. Matthew J. Cummings, M.D., from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and colleagues conducted a […]
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Roughly a month after first announcing their unprecedented collaboration, Apple and Google have updated their devices’ operating systems today with the first component of their contact tracing API. Referred to by the companies as “Exposure Notifications,” the technology aims to help public health agencies deploy apps that tell individuals when they may have been exposed to another person with COVID-19. […]
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The microbes that inhabit our bodies are influenced by what we eat, drink, breathe and absorb through our skin, and most of us are chronically exposed to natural and human-made environmental contaminants. In a new paper, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign review the research linking dozens of environmental chemicals to changes in the gut microbiome and associated […]
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Hundreds of new links have been found between people’s DNA and the heart’s electrical activity, according to a study of almost 300,000 people led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The results could one day lead to advanced screening methods to discern who is at greatest risk of developing disease, […]
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Doctors in Japan have successfully transplanted liver cells derived from embryonic stem cells into a newborn baby, in a world first that could provide new treatment options for infants. The newborn was suffering from urea cycle disorder, where the liver is not capable of breaking down toxic ammonia. But the six-day-old was too small to undergo a liver transplant, generally […]
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The Coronavirus pandemic holds the world in suspense! More than 5 million people were infected worldwide with the new Covid-19 – 176.486 of them so far in Germany. In South Africa, has died, according to the authorities a two-day-old Baby who was infected with the Coronavirus. As the Minister of health had announced Zweli Mkhize on Wednesday night, it was […]
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Coronavirus can cause adverse reactions. The disease may lead to mild symptoms, or no symptoms at all, but the WHO is set to expand its list. On Monday, May 18, the UK chief medical officers updated the key symptoms for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The NHS had officially expanded its list of symptoms to include “a loss of taste and […]
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