US data shows AstraZeneca vaccine effective against COVID-19 for all adults

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LONDON — Long-awaited preliminary data from final-stage testing in the United States of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by England’s University of Oxford and British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca shows the two-dose shot is highly effective in all age and ethnicity groups, stopped hospitalization in all cases and did not raise the overall risk of blood clots. The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was 79% […]

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Pay for elderly to live in care homes in lower income countries, rich nations advised

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Rich nations should consider paying for elderly people to live in care homes in lower income countries in a bid to ease the pressure on domestic residential and nursing care provision, argues an ethicist in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Providing such a move wouldn’t disadvantage local residents, and that appropriate quality checks could be made, this policy would enable […]

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Don’t Count Out Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Battle

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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Six months after it was controversially hailed by Trump administration officials as a “breakthrough” therapy to fight the worst effects of covid-19, convalescent plasma appears to be on the ropes. The treatment that infuses blood plasma from recovered covid patients into people newly infected in hopes of boosting […]

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Majority of cancer patients with COVID-19 have similar immune response to people without cancer

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Most people with cancer who are infected by the novel coronavirus produce antibodies at a rate comparable to the rest of the population—but their ability to do so depends on their type of cancer and the treatments they’ve received, according to a new study by researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The findings, published online […]

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Rupert Grint Recalls 'Terrifying' First Night at Home with Daughter Wednesday: 'Can't Sleep at All'

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Rupert Grint had a nerve-racking first night with his newborn. The 32-year-old Servant star and Georgia Groome welcomed daughter Wednesday, now 9 months, last year, and in a new interview with Esquire, Grint recalled the sleepless nights he had worried about his newborn baby and said he would constantly "think the worst" as he navigated new parenthood. "I don't want […]

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EU advises against using drug ivermectin for COVID

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The EU’s medicines regulator on Monday advised against using the anti-parasite drug ivermectin for coronavirus outside clinical trials, despite headlines touting it as a miracle cure. Facebook posts and articles endorsing ivermectin have proliferated in Brazil, France, South Africa and South Korea as governments around the world struggle with vaccination programmes. “EMA has reviewed the latest evidence on the use […]

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The Thermal Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2

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As with any biochemical system, viruses are sensitive to temperature extremes that denature their constituent proteins and disable the functional aspects of the organism. Image Credit: Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock.com Several factors influence the temperature that may inactivate a virus, including specifics of the structure of the particular virus, the test matrix employed, its pH and ionic strength, and environmental humidity. The […]

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Texas Roadhouse’s Kent Taylor Dealt with ‘Severe’ Tinnitus After COVID Illness: Here’s What to Know

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On Friday, the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse shared the sad news that their CEO and founder, Kent Taylor, died by suicide. His family said that Taylor had battled "unbearable" long-term symptoms after recovering from COVID-19. "Kent battled and fought hard like the former track champion that he was, but the suffering that greatly intensified in recent days became unbearable," they […]

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