Africa has registered a 43% jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicenter of the global outbreak. Africa also has a “very, very limited” and “very, very strained” testing capacity, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control […]
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Most queries that came in were from people in the age group of 21-30, followed by those between 31 and 40 years old. The portal also also a rise in the number of women aged 60 and above consulting gynaecologists online. With doctors and hospitals offering telemedicine services to ensure social distancing in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, a […]
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Samantha Oliver, 33, always dreamed of becoming a mum but believed it wouldn’t be possible after she diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome. Incredibly, the stay-at-home mum fell pregnant after shedding five stone but a disastrous caesarean delivery saw her lose five pints of blood – and nearly her life. Determined Samantha fought bravely with a 10cm blood clot in hospital […]
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Good for the memory: the thyroid affects the brain more powerful than believed The thyroid is a vital Organ that plays a major role for metabolism, growth and maturation of the body and helps to regulate many body functions. And the hormone gland is good for the memory, as Researchers now report. Research, the Medical faculty of the University of […]
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The Coronavirus pandemic, the world will continue to be in respiratory: Significantly more than two million people worldwide are already infected with the Virus 147.496 of them in Germany. All the News about the Coronavirus-crisis you will find in the Ticker from FOCUS Online. Well, two months after the first messages to the Corona outbreak in Italy, the number of […]
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(HealthDay)—The coronavirus pandemic has supercharged the financial stress that already plagues many Americans, an expert says. About half of Americans lived paycheck to paycheck before the pandemic, according to a recent survey from First National Bank of Omaha, and now many have lost their jobs. “The pervasive financial stress the majority of Americans feel is now on steroids, as most […]
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Tejas Patil, MD, is a medical oncologist. Lisa Ferrigno, MD, MPH, FACS, is a trauma surgeon. Working with lung cancer patients at University of Colorado Cancer Center, they both, independently, noticed something strange: A small percentage of patients taking high doses of the drug osimertinib (Tagrisso) were developing a rare twist in the right side of their colon, a condition […]
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Encouragingly, though, the virus did not spread far — the 73 other people who dined in the five-story restaurant that day and the eight employees working on the floor with the infected cases were all told to quarantine for 14 days, and none tested positive for COVID-19. That includes the people dining at nearby tables that were not directly in […]
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Researchers at Mount Sinai have found that a novel class of genes known as long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) expressed in the brain may play a pivotal role in regulating mood and driving sex-specific susceptibility versus resilience to depression. In a study published online, in the journal Neuron on April 17, the team highlighted a specific gene, LINC00473, that is downregulated […]
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The 1918 influenza pandemic—called the “Spanish flu”—remains the most significant public health event ever recorded in human history. It’s estimated that half a billion people were infected, and that between 20 million and 100 million people died. Most deaths occurred in Asia (36 million). In Africa 2.5 million died, Europe 2.3 million and North America 1.6 million. The exact origin […]
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