Inpatient pediatric admissions were down across a wide range of diagnoses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Feb. 12 in JAMA Network Open. Jonathan H. Pelletier, M.D., from the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and colleagues used data from the Pediatric Health Information Systems database (49 hospitals) to analyze inpatient admissions across […]
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Integrating pharmacists into general practice teams to review medication management lowered the number of emergency department presentations and resulted in potentially significant cost savings to the health system, according to research published today in the Medical Journal of Australia. Researchers from Brisbane, Melbourne, and the UK recruited patients at 14 general practices who had recently been discharged from seven public […]
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Showing her support! Pregnant Mandy Moore wrote the sweetest message for her ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama after his daughter’s birth. Singer Paloma Faith Gives Birth to Daughter No. 2, More Babies of 2021 “Look at that gorgeous angel!” the This Is Us star, 36, commented on the That ‘70s Show alum’s Sunday, February 21, Instagram slideshow. “Congrats to and your beautiful […]
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After what has felt like the longest and most challenging lockdown yet, Boris Johnson is set to reveal how we’re getting out of this. The government is finally going to outline the roadmap out of lockdown, with the first few steps towards easing the restrictions that have dominated our lives for weeks. Speculation suggests we could get answers about schools, […]
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The belly of the Emirates plane that touched down in Dubai early Sunday from Brussels was stuffed with precious cargo: tens of thousands of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The arrival was part of an effort by the Middle East’s biggest airline to pivot from shuttling people to shipping cargo—and grabbing a central role in the global vaccine delivery race. […]
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House COVID relief includes $100M for California railroad Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason joins ‘America’s News HQ’ to discuss the COVID bill earmark controversy. A Michigan woman contracted COVID-19 and died last fall after she got a double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to have the virus, according to a study. The incident may be the first […]
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The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000—roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns Hopkins University surpasses the number of people who died in […]
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Maria Piparinen and other elderly residents of Ikhala were relieved when they heard that doctors were finally bringing a few doses of the coronavirus vaccine to their remote, snowy village in the Russian region of Karelia, near the border with Finland. Otherwise, the 75-year-old said she would have had to hire a car to take her 10 kilometers (6 miles) […]
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Proteases are enzymes that catalyze the break-down of proteins by hydrolysis and are key to the infection process of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The spike protein that initially interacts with the ACE2 receptor on the surface of host cells must undergo cleavage to initiate a conformational change that allows entry into the cell. Proteolysis can be […]
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