By putting a piece of soft, strain-sensing sheet on the skin may be able to detect skin disorders non-invasively and in real-time very soon. A research team co-led by a scientist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has designed a simple electromechanical device that can be used for deep tissue pathology diagnosis, such as psoriasis, in an automated and […]
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Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Have we arrived at a much-anticipated tipping point in the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States? Or do we still have some time before we can return to some semblance of life as we knew it in 2019? The CDC relaxation of masking and social distancing guidance for […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative systemic therapy seemed feasible, safe and capable of inducing a response in a phase 2 trial comparing the treatment to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC) alone for resectable colorectal peritoneal metastases (CPM). The results justify moving ahead with the phase 3 randomized CAIRO6 trial, according to Dr. Ignace H. J. T. de […]
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Seventy percent of American adults could be vaccinated by this summer, a new poll suggests. The survey results bode well for the country and likely mean that President Joe Biden’s goal of 70 percent vaccine coverage for adults by July 4 will be reached. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest survey found 62 percent of respondents said they had received at […]
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Back-to-back babies! Usher Raymond’s girlfriend, Jenn Goicoechea, is pregnant with their second child together, his fourth. Celebrity Pregnancy Announcements of 2021 “‘Another one’ in my DJ Khaled voice. #IHeartAwards,” the record executive, 37, captioned her Instagram baby bump debut on Thursday, May 27. In the social media slideshow, the singer, 42, cradled his girlfriend’s stomach backstage at the iHeartRadio Music […]
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As vaccination rates rise, and infection rates fall, many of us may be aching to go outside and pick up where we left off more than a year ago. Yet, as businesses start to reopen, we may discover that the world that we’re returning to isn’t exactly the same world as the one we left behind — and this is […]
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We asked a handful of nutrition experts to explain the relationship between food and sleep, and what we should be eating before bed for a good night’s rest. There are a number of different factors in your day-to-day life that can make it difficult to get to sleep, from stress to our central heating. Right now, people are reporting sleep […]
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The pandemic has highlighted poor care in America’s nursing homes, where nearly 175,000 people have died of covid-19 — a third of all deaths from the disease nationwide. Even before the pandemic, patient advocates pointed to dangerous conditions in U.S. nursing homes, including staffing shortages and infection control failures. Many nursing homes didn’t provide quality care, they charged. Studies have […]
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While earlier research has mostly looked into factors such as fear, perceived risk, age and political views to determine what makes individuals and societies more or less willing to drastically change their lifestyle and support government-imposed strict restrictions, in order to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, psychologists at the University of Zurich Charlotte Kukowski, Katharina Bernecker and Veronika […]
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FDA authorizes third Covid antibody treatment that cuts risk of hospitalization or death by 85% Sotrovimab is the third monoclonal antibody drug to receive approval for use fighting Covid-19, fifth drug overall Believed to be able to reduce Covid hospitalizations and deaths by 85 percent The drug will be the first to have a point of use cost for Americans […]
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