Red Cross warns that coronavirus cases are exploding in Asia
Coronavirus cases are exploding in Asia and the Pacific with over 5.9 million new confirmed infections in the past two weeks, more than in all other...
Category: Health
16 new cases cause worry in Taiwan, Tsai says don’t panic
Taiwan’s president on Wednesday sought to reassure the public that the government is capable of withstanding a further outbreak of COVID -19 after 16 local cases...
Panel suggests WHO should have more power to stop pandemics
A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.N. health agency should be granted “guaranteed rights...
Artificial intelligence tool uses chest X-ray to differentiate worst cases of COVID-19
Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up to 80 percent accuracy which COVID-19 patients would develop life-threatening...
Make job conditional on COVID jab for frontline healthcare workers, argue ethicists
Employment for frontline healthcare workers should be conditional on COVID-19 vaccination, and unless they have a valid medical reason for not getting the jab, persistent refusniks...
Long term use of prescription meds for insomnia not linked to better quality sleep
Long term use of prescription meds for insomnia doesn’t seem to improve disturbed sleep in middle-aged women, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Fivefold rise in young children swallowing magnets over past 5 years in UK
There’s been a fivefold rise in the number of young children requiring treatment after having swallowed a magnet over the past 5 years in the UK,...
Blitz data used to identify those at risk of mental illness following COVID
New research from the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has suggested that policy makers should utilize mental health data from...
Updated guidance issued for maintaining ethics and professionalism in cardiovascular care
Issued today, a new report from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) on medical ethics and professionalism addresses important and...
Metagenomic analyses used to identify changes in the gut microbiome after spinal cord injury
Using metagenomic sequencing, researchers have identified changes in populations of bacteria and viruses that occur after spinal cord injuries in mice. The novel metagenomic data sets,...
