You’re probably inundated with news and messages about coronavirus at the moment. But how do you know if you’re consuming evidence-based information or just speculation and myth? There’s still a lot we don’t know but here’s what the evidence tells us so far about the coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19. How does it spread? COVID-19 is […]
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease is putting many people on high germ alert in a way they never thought about before. For many people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), this is their reality every day. Or, as Erik, who was diagnosed 20 years ago, puts it, “welcome to my brain, all the time.” Here, his strategies for coping with […]
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The coronavirus death toll in Spain rose to 1,002 on Friday after another 235 people died in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said. The number of cases also soared to 19,980 after another 2,833 infections were confirmed over the same period, the ministry’s emergencies coordinator Fernando Simon said. The figures showed a 16.5 percent […]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in February 2019 an official name for the disease causing the current pandemic. The word coronavirus refers to a family of viruses that cause respiratory infections. COVID-19 is the official name for the disease behind the current pandemic. Just last December, people only knew of novel coronavirus as an emerging outbreak. Three months later, […]
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Using standard-of-care computed tomography (CT) scans in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), researchers utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to train algorithms to predict tumor sensitivity to three systemic cancer therapies. The study is published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, by Laurent Dercle, MD, Ph.D., associate research scientist in the Department […]
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The doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are putting themselves at unnecessary risk due to the national shortages of protective gear. They also fear they are infecting their patients, according to an investigative report by ProPublica. One emergency room (ER) physician in Amite, Louisiana, John Gavin tested positive for COVID-19 (the disease caused by the […]
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At the weekend, a mysterious spread voice message. Ibuprofen should aggravate the progression of the disease from Covid-19, it said. The message was declared as Fake-News. Now, the WHO warns, however, against taking the drug. The chronology of the discrepancies to the warning. Saturday, 14.03.20: "I wanted to give you just a brief Information, I would ask you to give […]
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A new study has shown a novel peptide antagonist, given in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor, to be safe and well-tolerated in patients with advanced, refractory pancreatic and rectal cancer. The highest dose tested had a good safety profile and was recommended for use in future patient trials, as reported in Journal of Pancreatic Cancer. “Safety and Pharmacokinetics of CXCR4 […]
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Although some people who contract SARS-CoV-2 experience serious symptoms, others are able to recover after a fairly short period of time. A new study shows how the immune system of one otherwise healthy person was able to fight the virus within days. For live updates on the latest developments regarding the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, click here. In a new […]
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Channel 4 News released a video this week showing gym-goers happily pumping iron despite clear warnings that all non-essential outings should be curtailed. One of the fitness fanatics said, ‘Everyone’s gonna get it, it’s just one of those things’, while another said that nothing would stop her going to the gym. For most of us, this is an astounding view […]
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