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In the next few days: in Short, the Plan announces counter-proposal to the Merkel –

05/20/2020 Health News

The Coronavirus pandemic in Germany medicine, politics, tourism and society firmly in its grip: More than 4.8 million people globally have become infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2, 175.672 of them in Germany. Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz, has announced a counter-proposal of several countries to the German-French-Corona-plan for the reconstruction of the European economy. "We believe that it […]

Statistical approach to COVID-19 clinical trials aims to accelerate drug approval process

05/19/2020 Health News

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a pair of studies in a COVID-19 special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review, freely available via open access, describing new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics and for providing more accurate measures of the probabilities of success for clinical trials of vaccines […]

Intense fitness classes can lead to rapid spread of COVID-19, report shows

05/19/2020 Health News

Fitness dance classes are yet another venue where the new coronavirus appears to easily spread, according to a new report. The report found that dozens of people in South Korea caught COVID-19 after participating in fitness dance classes at the beginning of the pandemic. The researchers traced the cluster back to a workshop that was held for fitness dance instructors […]

Exposure to TV alcohol ads linked to drinking behavior

05/19/2020 Health News

The Most Interesting Man in the World preferred Dos Equis, James Bond promoted Heineken and a rescue dog fetched Bud Light for partygoers. Aired in 2012, those were just a few of the nearly 600 televised commercials for alcohol products—mostly beer—that the average American adult was exposed to that year, according to new Cornell research. The study provides some of […]

Additional genetic cause for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease discovered

05/19/2020 Health News

In Germany about 18 million people suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver. The causes of this disease are manifold and include environmental as well as genetic factors. DZD researchers have now discovered new genes that play a role in the development of fatty liver. In humans and mice, respectively, the genes IRGM, Ifgga2 and Ifgga4 are responsible for the production of […]

How to recover from an exercise injury – according to a sports physiotherapist

05/19/2020 Health News

Being active is beneficial for our bodies and mental health. But sometimes we can overdo it, resulting in sprains, strains, or pulled muscles. We need time to rehabilitate, or more injuries will occur. If you’ve sustained an injury, the first thing to ask yourself is whether there was a specific incident or moment when something happened—if you felt a muscle […]

DIY solution to reagent bottleneck in COVID-19 testing could also enhance future tests

05/19/2020 Health News

Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to the use of, and production of, future tests. The high demand for the reagents used COVID-19 tests is creating some supply issues in the UK (and even more so for […]

Six-month follow-up appropriate for BI-RADS 3 findings on mammography

05/19/2020 Health News

Women with mammographically detected breast lesions that are probably benign should have follow-up surveillance imaging at six months due to the small but not insignificant risk that the lesions are malignant, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology. The Breast Imaging and Reporting System (BI-RADS) was established by the American College of Radiology to help classify findings […]

A Virus among many? Mother and son fail with application for a temporary injunction against Corona-restrictions

05/19/2020 Health News

The Coronavirus pandemic in Germany medicine, politics, tourism and society firmly in its grip: More than four million people globally have become infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2, 175.173 of them in Germany. A Virus among many? Mother and son fail with application for a temporary injunction against Corona-restrictions A mother and her son have failed in Baden-Württemberg with an […]

Iraq faces full local lockdowns as virus cases jump

05/19/2020 Health News

Iraq will impose a complete lockdown on some areas of the capital, the country’s new health minister said on Monday, amid an uptick in coronavirus cases in recent weeks since curfew hours were relaxed. The new government under Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was sworn into power just two weeks ago following a five-month leadership vacuum. Responding to the pandemic and […]

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