Research shows telehealth is an important tool for rural hospitals in treating COVID-19
Expansion can help US hospitals prepare for possible second waveCredit: Florida Atlantic University Rural hospitals are more likely than urban ...
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RDA publishes final version of COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines on data sharing
Credit: Research Data Alliance Under public health emergencies, and particularly the COVID19 pandemic, it is fundamental that data is shared ...
Study gauges how Kansans get information on COVID-19, which sources they trust
Survey finds social media least trusted source, health officials mostCredit: Mugur Geana LAWRENCE -- New information emerges about the novel ...
Seeing is believing: Effectiveness of facemasks
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science researchers use flow visualization to qualitatively test facemasks and social distancingCredit: Florida Atlantic ...
Whole-town study reveals more than 40% of COVID-19 infections had no symptoms
Credit: Andrea Crisanti A study of COVID-19 in the quarantined Italian town of Vò, where most of the population was ...
Microbiome confers resistance to cholera
Not everyone exposed to infectious diarrhea-causing bacteria gets sickCredit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cholera can kill within hours ...
Social distancing and dying alone
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 29, 2020)- The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes in how hospitals provide end-of-life ...
The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 journal
The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in COVID-19 researchCredit: The MIT Press CAMBRIDGE, MA - ...
NUS research team develops portable COVID-19 diagnostic system for rapid on-site testing
With Epidax, COVID-19 testing can be done at the point of care, and diagnosis -- from sample collection to result ...
1/3 of parents in 3 states may not send children to school because of COVID-19
Parents in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois varied in their support for risk-reduction measures like random COVID-19 testing and face mask ...
FCC grant to expand UVA Health’s COVID-19 telehealth care
More than $750,000 to support remote patient monitoring, virtual urgent careCredit: UVA Health The Federal Communications Commission awarded UVA Health ...
Nationwide EMS calls have dropped 26% since the start of the pandemic
Credit: ©2020 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine BUFFALO, N.Y. - Since early March and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Researchers study effects of COVID-19 on caregivers of people with ADRD
Credit: Northern Arizona University Sixteen million family members in the U.S. are caregivers for the more than 6 million people ...
Common food additive causes adverse health effects in mice
UMass Amherst researchers find TiO2 nanoparticles produce inflammation in colonCredit: UMass Amherst A common food additive, recently banned in France ...
USask medical researchers awarded $900,000 to help fight COVID-19
Credit: University of Saskatchewan/Kristen McEwen The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded three University of Saskatchewan (USask) research ...
New study looks at post-COVID-19 emerging disease in children
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. (June 24, 2020) - In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition ...
Race, rurality play prominently in Georgia areas hardest hit by COVID-19
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University While counties in populous metropolitan Atlanta had the highest number of COVID-19 cases ...
Dangerous tick-borne bacterium extremely rare in New Jersey
The mystery behind the rise in spotted fever cases continuesCredit: Jim Occi/Rutgers University-New Brunswick There's some good news in New ...
Researchers discover improved treatment for children with sickle cell anemia
Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: IU School of Medicine A team of international researchers has ...
Researchers find best way to treat children with sickle cell anemia in sub-Saharan Africa
Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, and KAMPALA, Uganda ...
