AJR review of COVID-19 studies cautions against chest CT for coronavirus diagnosis
Regarding sensitivity, specificity, and clinical practice, CT should be reserved for evaluation of complications of COVID-19 pneumonia or for assessment ...
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Call for palliative care to be adapted for severely ill Covid-19 patients
Credit: Lancaster University Emergency-style palliative care needs to implemented to meet the needs of Covid-19 patients who wouldn't benefit from ...
IVI, INOVIO, and KNIH partner with CEPI in a Phase I/II trial of INOVIO’s COVID-19 vaccine
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) grants funding $6.9 million to INOVIO and IVI to conduct clinical testing in ...
Indoor precautions essential to stem airborne COVID-19
Researchers are urging health authorities to immediately recognise the role of airborne transmission of COVID-19 virus droplets from an infected ...
COVID-19 — Impact of containment measures in Italy: 200,000 hospitalizations avoided in March
Italian researchers say: 'It is possible to reconstruct the map of disease diffusion' infection has been reduced up to 45% ...
COVID-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication
May prevent or reduce severity of acute respiratory distress syndromeCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Regular exercise may reduce the ...
‘Frailty’ from age 40 — what to look out for
Diet, exercise, mental wellbeing, sleep all factorsCredit: Flinders University With all eyes on avoiding major illness this year, health researchers ...
Chemist developing 3D simulations of coronavirus spike proteins
Research will show how the virus binds to human cell receptors and will aid the development of vaccines and therapeuticsCredit: ...
UMass Amherst scientists prepare sterile solution for COVID-19 tests
Critical shortage of viral transport media has hampered diagnostic testing during pandemicCredit: UMass Amherst Answering an urgent call for assistance ...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing, next steps, and the role of small business
Credit: NIAID-RML, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. ...
Loss of smell and taste validated as COVID-19 symptoms in patients with high recovery rate
Study suggests clinicians should include sensory impairment as standard screening measureCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Loss of smell and ...
Data visualization tool examines community factors underlying COVID-19 outcomes
Updated daily, app shows how disparities in community conditions affect health outcomesCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- A new ...
Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare & U of U Health launch vital COVID-19 clinical trials
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare and University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City have launched two vital ...
Ocular scientists advise contact lens & spectacles wearers during COVID-19 pandemic
New findings published in Contact Lens & Anterior Eye provide evidence-based guidance for practitioners and patients, including 5 important facts ...
Mathematical modeling draws more accurate picture of coronavirus cases
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Mathematical modeling can take what information is reported about the coronavirus, including the ...
Newly emerged enterovirus-A71 C4 isolates may be more virulent than B5 in northern Vietnam
Kanazawa University researchers identified a novel sublineage of enterovirus A71-C4 isolates with two recombinants, which showed greater virulence than the ...
COVID-19 drug lead treatments identified
Credit: Professor Luke Guddat An international team of researchers has tested more than 10,000 compounds to identify six drug candidates ...
UC Davis researchers launch new COVID-19 tracking application
New web app offers user-friendly data visualization and maps of cases and testingCredit: Christopher Barker / UC Davis Researchers at ...
Top NAU microbiologist joins COVID-19 Genomics Union to track virus
Team will use genomic sequencing to track new coronavirus, provide critical data for global biomedical researchers and give Arizona an ...
Stanford researchers show how forest loss leads to spread of disease
Credit: Laura Bloomfield Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more ...