Anxiety up for nonmedical health care workers versus those on front lines

(HealthDay)—Non-medically trained health care workers caring for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have an increased prevalence of anxiety compared with medically trained health care workers, according to a research letter published online April 6 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Benjamin Y.Q. Tan, M.D., from the National University of Singapore, and colleagues examined psychological distress, depression, anxiety, and stress […]

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Streaming services flouting India’s regulations banning tobacco imagery in all media

Streaming services that are popular with teens and young people in India are flouting the nation’s regulations on exposure to tobacco imagery in any media platform, reveals an analysis of 10 on-demand streaming series, published online in the journal Tobacco Control. The rules, which are designed to protect young people, should be more rigorously enforced, and the guidelines for the […]

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When you get COVID-19, this is what happens to your body

COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Since then, COVID-19 has spread across the globe, officially being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, NPR reported. According to the WHO, COVID-19 is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (aka SARS-CoV-2) — a highly contagious virus with the potential […]

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Alarming abusive head trauma revealed in computational simulation impact study

Abusive head trauma (AHT), like that of Shaken Baby Syndrome, is the leading cause of fatal brain injuries in children under two. While children can suffer permanent neurological damage, developmental delay, and disability, the long-term effects of AHT are difficult to diagnose and predict. Now, researchers at New York Institute of Technology have developed computational simulations to help clinicians and […]

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Canada projects coronavirus could kill 11,000 to 22,000

The coronavirus pandemic could kill between 11,000 and 22,000 people in Canada, the government projected Thursday. It said the country could see between 934,000 and 1.9 million cases of COVID-19 by the time the pandemic ends, assuming Canadians observe strict social distancing and other safety measures over the next few months. These are the federal government’s first projections on the […]

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