FILE PHOTO: A man walks on the premises of the Vivantes Humboldt hospital, which is under quarantine due to infections with a new coronavirus variant, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2021. REUTERS/Annegret HilseBERLIN (Reuters) – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 9,997 to 2,424,684, data from the Robert Koch Institute […]
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Research scientists at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have investigated the mechanisms by which hypertension leads to arterial damage and atherosclerosis. The results may facilitate the development of new therapies. Hypertension is a prevalent condition affecting approximately one third of all adults. It is also the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality. The condition is often asymptomatic, but […]
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FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a “Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine” sticker and a medical syringe in front of displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken, October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved storage and transportation of COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE […]
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(HealthDay)—If you think you can safely exercise without your mask in a gym during the pandemic, two new government reports show you are mistaken. Coronavirus outbreaks at fitness centers in Chicago and Honolulu last summer were likely the result of exercisers and instructors not wearing masks, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered. In the Chicago […]
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While most of us were busy scavenging for toilet paper and swapping sourdough starters, Jenna Dewan was in the middle of more labor-intensive pandemic preparations. Quite literally. The actress gave birth to her second child—a son, Callum Michael Rebel Kazee, with fiancé Steve Kazee—on March 6, 2020, just days before Los Angeles’s stay-at-home order went into effect. “I was in […]
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Barack Obama is usually considered to be a pretty mild-mannered guy, but don’t mistake his diplomacy for passivity. The former president is a man of strong convictions and, while we might not see him lash out in anger, that doesn’t mean he never gets upset. This was especially true in his younger years when it seems that he had a […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score has “inadequate” discriminant accuracy for ventilator triage of patients with COVID-19, clinicians caution. “Although we all wish for an objective tool that would take bedside clinicians off the hook of deciding on ventilator triage, the objective tools we currently have are incredibly weak in terms of discriminating who […]
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Besides the highly publicized spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a number of other accessory proteins belonging to the virus are involved in pathogenesis by suppressing or evading the host immune response. One such protein is open reading frame 7a (ORF7a), which has previously been implicated in interferon antagonism and may be involved in triggering the […]
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Results of a world-first Canadian pilot study on patients treated with gene therapy for Fabry disease show that the treatment is working and safe. The Canadian research team was the first to use gene therapy in 2017 to treat patients with Fabry disease, a rare, chronic illness that can damage major organs and shorten lives. They report their findings today […]
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Keeping Sterling out of the spotlight! Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews aren’t showing their baby girl’s face for the time being. Singer Paloma Faith Gives Birth to Daughter No. 2, More Babies of 2021 “We will share photos of her when we [feel] the time is right,” the fitness guru, 25, captioned her Wednesday, February 24, Instagram Story. “I know […]
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