Tag: Public Health

Credit: University of Otago A consumer tax on the saturated fat, salt and sugar content of food, accompanied by a ...

Traffic data show drastic changes in Floridians’ behavior at onset of the pandemic

Study uses statewide traffic data from the Florida department of transportationCredit: Florida Atlantic University It's not just health, social and ...

Exercise can slow or prevent vision loss, study finds

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Exercise can slow or prevent the development of macular degeneration and may benefit other ...

R&D of mRNA vaccine production technology against COVID-19 and further new coronavirus

TMIMS and iCONM started joint researchCredit: 2020 Innovation Center of NanoMedicine June 4, 2020 - Kawasaki / Japan: The Innovation ...

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 ...

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

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