Home health care improves COVID-19 outcomes

PHILADELPHIA (November 23 2020) – Survivors of COVID-19 are a vulnerable population who often have health ramifications from their illness and hospital stay. Upon returning home from acute care, large proportions of survivors experience functional dependencies, pain, dyspnea, and exhaustion. Until now, no data has been available on the outcomes of COVID-19 patients discharged home…

Tracing the flow of cerebrospinal fluid

VIRTUAL MEETING (CST), November 22, 2020 — Swelling is one of the most dangerous and immediate consequences of a brain injury or stroke. Doctors have long known about the dangers of swelling, which has traditionally been blamed on ruptured blood vessels. New research suggests the brain’s other plumbing system, the one that circulates cerebrospinal fluid…

Understanding dangerous droplet dynamics

VIRTUAL MEETING (CST), November 22, 2020 — Researchers who study the physics of fluids are learning why certain situations increase the risk that droplets will transmit diseases like COVID-19. At the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, the scientists offered new evidence showing why it’s dangerous to meet indoors–especially…

Social needs linked to low health-related quality of life among African American cancer survivors

Social needs–such as food and economic insecurity, poor housing and neighborhood conditions, and lack of access to transportation–were common in a group of African American cancer survivors in Detroit, and they were associated with lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The findings are published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer…

Drag Proms and Comfort Food With Truffles

With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Georgina Bloomberg Age: 37 Occupation: equestrian show jumper, young adult novelist, philanthropist Favorite Charities: the Humane Society of the United States, the Rider’s Closet Where have you been sheltering? We…