Clear will and capacity to help emergency care in crisis
Credit: Phot by Emily Glantz Operators beyond the confines of conventional emergency healthcare are willing and able to assist in ...
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LSU Health New Orleans team creates better tool to aid COVID diagnosis
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA -- An LSU Health New Orleans radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed ...
Top coma experts develop plan to improve patient outcomes
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Leading coma experts have created an ambitious plan to help doctors better care for ...
Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells
Stem cell capsules implanted on heart surface improve function in four weeksCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 18, 2020) ...
New study shows increase in domestic violence injuries during COVID-19
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - There was a higher incidence and severity of physical intimate ...
Retesting for COVID-19: UPMC shares its experience
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10, 2020 - In the first large, multicenter analysis of its kind, the 40-hospital UPMC health ...
Massey scientist suggests COVID-19 should be treated as an acute inflammatory disease
Credit: Blake Belden, VCU Massey Cancer Center The COVID-19 pandemic has had detrimental effects on global infrastructure sectors, including economic, ...
Half of low-income communities have no ICU beds
Policies that facilitate hospital coordination are urgently needed to mitigate effects of the COVID-19 pandemicCredit: Health Affairs, August 2020 PHILADELPHIA ...
Why is stroke so deadly for people of African descent?
Credit: UVA Health African-Americans have up to three times the risk of dying from strokes as people of European descent, ...
A photonic device comes to the aid of COVID-19 patients
Credit: H. Parc Taulí Few could have foreseen the considerable impact that SARS-CoV-2 has had so far and is still ...
AJR study associates coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with large vessel occlusion strokes
After stratification for race and ethnicity, the risk of large vessel stroke among patients with COVID-19 was 2.4 times as ...
Breathe easier: ONR helps develop ventilators in fight against COVID-19
Credit: (Photo: University of California San Diego) ARLINGTON, Va.--One of the most dangerous effects of coronavirus is the inability to ...
Pitt collaborative receives $7 million for COVID-19 outpatient convalescent plasma therapy
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, July 28, 2020 - A team of University of Pittsburgh, Michigan Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina ...
Lung ultrasound shows duration, severity of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Thickened pleural line more frequently observed in patients with longer time intervals after symptom onset; pulmonary consolidation more common in ...
No single sign or symptom is sufficient to rule in or rule out community acquired pneumonia
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- While the history and ...
Quality heart and lung care earns UVA international award
Credit: UVA Health For its lifesaving care of patients with severely injured hearts and lungs, University of Virginia Medical Center ...
Penn researchers find three distinct immune responses for sicker COVID-19 patients
New immune profiles could help predict disease and guide treatments, suggests two Penn studiesCredit: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of ...
Spread of flu virus in hospital environment common
Credit: Photo by Alana da Silva One in four inpatients with influenza in a given season showed signs of having ...
New study shows SARS-CoV-2 viral load peaks in the early stages of disease
Less symptomatic patients have a higher viral load when diagnosed and may carry a higher virus shedding risk potential, possibly ...
Keck Medicine of USC enrolling patients as part of international clinical trial to study antiviral drug as treatment for COVID-19
The experimental therapy, DAS181, will be available for hospitalized patients with low oxygen levels and pneumonia caused by COVID-19Credit: Ricardo ...