NEW DELHI — When the Indian government eased coronavirus restrictions last week, allowing many shops to reopen in rural parts of the country, Uday Shankar Sharma, a retail store owner in a small farming village, said he had no intention of complying. Over the past few weeks, Mr. Sharma said fear had deepened in Sabna,…
Sam Hawgood, the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, was getting concerned. It was March 19, coronavirus cases in California were rising at an alarming rate, and U.C.S.F., one of the Bay Area’s major medical providers, was already running perilously low on personal protective equipment. The university’s usual suppliers in the United States…
Ashley Dale was grateful she could end her pregnancy at home. As her 3-year-old daughter played nearby, she spoke by video from her living room in Hawaii with Dr. Bliss Kaneshiro, an obstetrician-gynecologist, who was a 200-mile plane ride away in Honolulu. The doctor explained that two medicines that would be mailed to Ms. Dale…
Health care providers and parents have been valuable partners in managing adolescent sexual and reproductive health. But research has been limited concerning the efficacy of “triadic” interventions, or those implemented with parents and providers with the goal of reducing adolescent sexual risk behavior. Now, a randomized clinical trial carried out under a grant by the…
African Americans with severe sleep apnea and other adverse sleep patterns are much more likely to have high blood glucose levels –a risk factor for diabetes–than those without these patterns, according to a new study funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The…
High family adversity in childhood tied to heart attacks, strokes as adult Childhood adversity can lead to lifelong stress, smoking, anxiety, depression, sedentary lifestyle in adulthood Social, economic support for young children has biggest ‘bang for the buck’ to combat issues CHICAGO — Children who experience trauma, abuse, neglect and family dysfunction are at…
TUCSON, Ariz., April 28, 2020 –The Critical Path Institute (C-Path) today announced that its Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Consortium has received a letter of support from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to facilitate the development and validation of the proposed regulatory qualification of pancreatic islet autoantibodies commonly used in clinical practice to diagnose T1D: insulin…
In one of the first reported cases of its kind, a 3-week-old infant in critical condition recovered from COVID-19 due to rapid recognition and treatment by physicians from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The case was published April 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.…
BOSTON – Boston Children’s Hospital has launched a two-pronged study of COVID-19 disease among children and youth up to age 25 across the country, with $2.1 million in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Overcoming COVID-19 study will perform real-time surveillance at more than 35 U.S. children’s hospitals to capture data…
In the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are racing to maintain quality care for patients with severe disease while facing a shortage of resources and limited understanding of the novel coronavirus. One physician on the front lines–Dr. Ariel Jaitovich, a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Albany Medical Center in New York–sought out…