Tag: Public Health

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

June 26, 2020

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

June 26, 2020

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

June 26, 2020

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