People are changing their hand washing, laundry, and eating habits in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the fear of getting sick by eating contaminated food has led to some questionable cleaning practices, such washing produce with soap or diluted chlorine. Some people even spray their food with Lysol. “Do not do that,” warns Benjamin Chapman, Ph.D., food safety expert […]
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The steep rise in coronavirus deaths in New York appears to be leveling off in a possible sign that social distancing is working in the most lethal hot spot in the U.S., the governor said Monday—a trend that seems to have taken hold even more convincingly in hard-hit Italy and Spain. Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that this is no time […]
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(HealthDay)—Older age is associated with an increased risk for bacteremia in hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published in the March issue of the United European Gastroenterology Journal. Idan Goren, M.D., from the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel, and colleagues used data from 5,522 hospitalized patients with IBD (aged 16 to 80 years) […]
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(HealthDay)—The coronavirus pandemic has turned grocery shopping into a mission filled with anxiety, but a food science expert’s advice can make it a safe one. The first thing to consider is whether you should go to the store at all, said Donald Schaffner. He’s a professor in the department of food science in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences […]
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(HealthDay)—Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) can shorten time to clinical recovery and promote pneumonia absorption among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a study that has not yet been peer reviewed and was posted online March 31 at medRxiv.org. Zhaowei Chen, from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in China, and colleagues examined the efficacy of HCQ in treatment of COVID-19. […]
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A simple, low-cost ventilator based on the resuscitation bags carried in ambulances—and widely available in hospitals—has been designed by an international team of university researchers. The device, which is powered by a 12-volt motor, could help meet peak medical demands in the industrialized world and serve resource-constrained countries that don’t have supplies of conventional ventilators. “The high transmission rate and […]
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With 1.3 million Americans living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), you probably know someone who has the condition. Specifically, you probably know a woman living with RA, given that we are up to three times more likely to have it than men. And the fact that women (still) handle more household tasks than men — things like bending down to clean […]
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Daily updated graphs illustrating the rising COVID-19 death rates in different countries raise hopes that we can understand the impact of the virus and work out how to stop it from spreading further. But when comparing countries as different as South Korea, China, Italy and the UK, we may find the impression of how different interventions work is obscured by […]
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According to Reuters, WHO officials stated at a news conference last week that “globally, about 3.4 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have died.” But this is where it gets complicated: in order to accurately calculate a survival rate, scientists have to know exactly how many people were infected. And, due to the fact that testing isn’t widely available yet, this statistic […]
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