Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Deaths among those waiting for, or receiving, a kidney transplant rose dramatically in 2020, and these patients were especially vulnerable to dying from COVID-19, new US research reveals. Compared with just a year earlier, overall deaths were 24% higher among waitlisted kidney transplant candidates and 20% […]
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Paralympics highlights: Kadeena Cox retains thrilling gold in the velodrome We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The BBC One cooking show champ has lived with multiple […]
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Restrictive eating and current or past eating disorders are associated with increased risk of injuries, reveals a study conducted at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä. The findings also showed that menstrual dysfunction was associated with more missed training/competition days. Of the athletes who participated in the study, 25% reported restrictive eating, 18% reported […]
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(HealthDay)—One-quarter of U.S. parents report that their child has had to quarantine because of possible COVID-19 exposure since school started, a new poll finds. The nationally representative survey of 1,519 people conducted between Sept. 13 and Sept. 22 included 414 people who identified themselves as parents of children aged 17 and younger. Still, about two-thirds of parents said they thought […]
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GENEVA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Only 15 of Africa’s 54 nations have fully vaccinated 10% of their populations against COVID-19 and many frontline health workers remain at risk, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Council of Nurses (ICN) said on Thursday. They called for speeding up distribution of doses to those at risk on the continent amid what the WHO called […]
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In a recent article, The Australian’s health reporter asked: “has any modeling put forward by scientific institutes throughout the pandemic ever proved accurate?” It’s a good question but the answer lies in understanding the truth about modeling—it cannot predict the future. Rather, it’s a process that identifies variables most likely to shape the course of, say, a pandemic and to […]
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NHS explain the best ways to treat back pain We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info While COVID-19 and its associated symptoms have been the main focus […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini’s fascists, ground steel for the U.S. war effort and advocated for her disabled daughter in a far less […]
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) seroprevalence studies have been used since early in the pandemic to identify population immunity, rates of transmission, risk factors, and the response of 'immune' individuals to variants of concern. Generally, these studies involve gathering serum from individuals, recording evidence of prior COVID-19 infection/vaccination, and then examining the response of the sera using commercially available assays for […]
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The survey polled 2,000 American parents of school-aged children and found 80 per cent believed parenting is more challenging than 30 years ago, because technology has started to play a big role in our everyday lives. The one thing that parents have been most concerned about, ever since the pandemic made children take up virtual learning as opposed to being […]
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