Tag: COVID-19

A new correspondence in BMC Infectious Diseases links the COVID-19 pandemic to a marked rise in antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections across ...

When Behavior Splits a Population: Two-Group SEIQR Model Reveals How Heterogeneity Reshapes Optimal COVID-19 Control

A two-group SEIQR model with heterogeneous behavior reveals that transmission among low-risk individuals can dominate epidemic potential and reshape the ...

Phone-Delivered Lifestyle Coaching Helped Older Adults Stay Healthier During COVID-19

A nationwide randomized trial in Hungary found that telemedicine lifestyle counselling improved diet, smoking, and alcohol habits in older adults, ...

COVID-19 Reshaped Antibiotic Resistance in Children’s Urinary Infections, Six-Year Study Finds

A six-year Chinese surveillance study of nearly 5,700 pediatric urine isolates shows the COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered both the bacterial ...

Virtual Reality Reshapes Nursing Education, Landmark Review of 198 Studies Finds

A scoping review of 198 studies charts the rapid post-pandemic rise of virtual simulation in nursing education while exposing gaps ...

National Survey Reveals How the Internal Medicine Clerkship Survived the Pandemic Era

A nationally representative survey of internal medicine clerkship directors finds traditional eight-week block rotations still dominant, but rising student numbers, ...

Empathy training for security guards reveals cougars and sloths in Ecuador’s campus forests

A six-hour empathy-based sensitisation course for security guards at ESPOL University in Ecuador boosted wildlife knowledge by 163 percent and ...

When COVID Inflammation Strikes the Brain: A Child’s Rare Battle With MIS-C and Cerebral Vein Thrombosis

A newly reported case from Iran describes a seven-year-old boy who developed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and intracranial hemorrhage as ...

How COVID-19 Reshaped Stroke Care: A Global Scoping Review Reveals Delays, Fear, and the Rise of Telemedicine

A comprehensive scoping review of 107 studies reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every stage of stroke care, from patient ...

Working From Home May Lift Mood in Older Chinese Workers, Study Suggests

A longitudinal CHARLS analysis finds that pandemic-era telework was linked to lower depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Chinese workers, ...

Landmark Study Maps 406 Rare Diseases and COVID-19 Infection Across 62.5 Million People in England

A national analysis of 62.5 million English health records reveals that rare disease prevalence varies substantially across ethnic groups, with ...

Platelet markers fall short as severity predictors in children with COVID-19, Indonesian study finds

A retrospective cohort study of 297 pediatric COVID-19 patients in Indonesia found that platelet count, mean platelet volume, and the ...

AI Transformer Reads Raw Protein Fingerprints to Sort Cells and Spot Severe COVID-19

A transformer-based deep-learning pipeline called ProFormer classifies single-cell and plasma proteomes directly from raw mass-spectrometry fingerprints, outperforming CNNs and enabling ...

COVID-19 Lockdowns Pushed Chinese Teens Toward Obesity, Then the Trend Reversed

A five-year study of over 120,000 Chinese adolescents found that the first pandemic year significantly raised BMI and overweight rates, ...

COVID-19 Disrupted Diabetes Care for Women in Fiji, Study Finds

A qualitative study of 45 women in Fiji reveals how COVID-19 disruptions to healthcare, diets, and physical activity worsened type-2 ...

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines in Pregnancy Cut Hospitalization Risk in Four-Country Study

When COVID-19 vaccines first rolled out, pregnant women were largely left out of the original clinical trials, leaving them and ...

Quercetin–Bromelain Supplement Cut Respiratory Deterioration in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, Trial Finds

A randomized placebo-controlled trial in Tunisia found that quercetin–bromelain supplementation significantly reduced respiratory deterioration in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, though mortality ...

From crisis to new routine: shifts in urban shopping mobility and socioeconomic inequality during and after the COVID-19 shock

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept through New York City in 2020, it did more than empty the subways and shutter ...

AI protein design lessons from COVID-19 point to pandemic-ready vaccines

When SARS-CoV-2 first swept across the globe in early 2020, the pharmaceutical world faced a brutal mismatch: conventional vaccine and ...

Pandemic-era opioid treatment flexibilities widened racial gaps in Veterans Health Administration care