Apps to fight a crisis?

How can apps like the Corona-Warn app help combat the pandemic? How can people use their data to help manage crises in our society without putting their data at risk of misuse? What role can technological configurations or government regulations play in the success of such apps? A research team at the University of Göttingen…

Story tip from Johns Hopkins experts on COVID-19

CASE STUDY SUGGESTS YOUNG PEOPLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CHRONIC FATIGUE FOLLOWING COVID-19 https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/covid-19-story-tip-case-study-suggests-young-people-may-be-susceptible-to-chronic-fatigue-following-covid-19 Media Contact: Michael E. Newman, mnewma25@jhmi.edu With more adolescents and young adults being treated for COVID-19, clinicians are concerned that these people also will start showing post-COVID — or “long haul” — symptoms from their bouts with the virus. A recent…

In severe ankle arthritis, total ankle replacement yields better function than ankle arthrodesis

May 19, 2021 – For patients with severe arthritis of the ankle, total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) provides better long-term function than ankle arthrodesis (AA), reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio in partnership with Wolters Kluwer. “Both established treatments for end-stage ankle arthritis…