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WHO, IMF say saving lives ‘prerequisite’ to save jobs

04/03/2020 Health News

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The WHO and IMF chiefs insisted Friday that saving lives was a “prerequisite” to saving livelihoods in the coronavirus pandemic—a crisis they called “one of humanity’s darkest hours”. World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva said getting the COVID-19 virus under control first was necessary to revive economic […]

A strange paradox: The better we contain coronavirus, the less we will learn from it

04/03/2020 Health News

Every prophet of doom, unless he also happens to be a psychopath, hopes that his predictions will not be borne out. This is also true for the epidemiologists and virologists who have been warning the world since January that the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus poses a severe threat to public health around the world. Since then, these pessimists have been butting […]

Virologists: Germany better prepared against Coronavirus as Spain and Italy

04/03/2020 Health News

The Coronavirus spreads in Germany: 1001 people have already died, 79.450 are infected with Covid-19. Worldwide already more than a Million cases were registered. Meanwhile, the United States recorded more than 234,000 cases, most of the Corona cases worldwide. All the information about the Corona-crisis you will find in the News Ticker of FOCUS Online. According to a survey, which […]

Econometrics researcher’s calculations illustrate why we should social distance

04/03/2020 Health News

Social distancing—the main containment strategy for the coronavirus pandemic—is showing tentative results in lowering the rate of transmission in several U.S. cities. Not only does social distancing work to slow the spread of the virus, it’s an exercise in probability, according to Richard Sheehan, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Sheehan, who specializes in […]

Opinion: Young people are anxious about coronavirus. Political leaders need to talk with them, not at them

04/03/2020 Health News

Young people in Australia are among the fastest-growing group to contract COVID19. According to the Department of Health, there are now more cases in Australia among people aged 20—29 years than any other age group. Our research has found that, contrary to popular belief, many young people in Australia are seriously concerned about the virus. YouthInsight, the research arm of […]

Indigenous American ancestry may be associated with HER2-positive breast cancer

04/03/2020 Health News

An increased proportion of Indigenous American (IA) ancestry was associated with a greater incidence of HER2-positive breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “The risk of breast cancer-related mortality varies between different populations, with Latina women having a greater risk of breast cancer-specific mortality than non-Hispanic white women,” […]

Global virus cases top a million, deaths surpass 50,000

04/03/2020 Health News

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has soared past one million and fatalities have topped 50,000 as the United States reported the highest daily death toll of any country so far. Despite more than half the planet living in some form of lockdown, the virus is continuing to spread rapidly, and to claim lives at an alarming […]

COPD linked to heightened risk of lung cancer in people who have never smoked

04/03/2020 Health News

COPD, short for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is linked to a heightened risk of lung cancer in people who have never smoked, indicates research published online in the journal Thorax. The risk is on a par with that of smokers without chronic lung disease, the findings indicate. COPD is an umbrella term for respiratory conditions that narrow the airways, such […]

Heart attack: Smelling this unusual odour could be an early warning sign

04/02/2020 Health News

Heart attack results when a blood clot completely obstructs a coronary artery supplying blood to the heart muscle and the heart muscle dies. The blood clot that causes the heart attack usually forms at the site of rupture of an atherosclerotic, cholesterol plaque on the inner wall of a coronary artery. The risk factors for a heart attack include elevated […]

Racial disparities seen for insurance coverage around time of pregnancy

04/02/2020 Health News

(HealthDay)—Disruptions in insurance coverage around the time of pregnancy disproportionately affect indigenous, Hispanic, and black non-Hispanic women, according to a study published in the April issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Jamie R. Daw, Ph.D., from Columbia University in New York City, and colleagues analyzed survey data from 107,921 women in 40 states participating in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control […]

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