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 ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
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 ...
COVID-19 response plan addresses unique challenges for rural hospitals and health systems
Surgeons develop a strategy that expands use of telehealth and streamlines systemwide staff communicationCredit: American College of Surgeons CHICAGO (April ...
A remote military medical team can offer insights to US hospitals preparing for COVID-19
A surgical team was converted into a pandemic response team to offer care to an isolated population during the COVID-19 ...
UM School of Medicine launches new large scale COVID-19 testing initiative
Enhanced testing capability could help ensure sustained COVID-19 surveillance across the state of maryland after lifting of restrictionsCredit: University of ...
Should infants be separated from COVID-19-positive mothers?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 9, 2020--In a new commentary, Alison Stuebe, MD, President of ...
FDA approves COVID-19 innovations; Ohio State Medical Center to share nationwide
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center The Food and Drug Administration has approved solutions created by scientists at ...
Surgeons develop operation-triage plan to reduce OR volume during COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of the American College of Surgeons article describes 'early and aggressive' actions that were taken to ensure enough hospital ...
Large majority of Washington state’s heroin users want to reduce use
Syringe programs helping during COVID-19 crisisCredit: Photo courtesy of the Snohomish syringe services program A new survey of people who ...
Call to action: Traditional, complementary and integrative health COVID-19 support registry
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 9, 2020--The new, global Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Health and ...
UPMC led global trial fast tracks testing of hydroxychloroquine, other COVID-19 therapies
Credit: Elena Gialamas Cerri/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, April 9, 2020 - A novel clinical trial developed by researchers at the ...
Researchers seek new drugs to fight coronavirus using computers in schools across Kentucky
Drug discovery work shifts from cancer to COVID-19 using DataseamGridCredit: University of Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The novel coronavirus may ...
Anti-coronavirus (COVID-19) face shield — Easy to make at low cost
With a 3D printer and clear plastic file -- sharing 3D data for the shield frame and preparation processCredit: Osaka ...
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 ...