Coronavirus Live Updates: Potential New Paths of Transmission Put Global Authorities on Edge

Here’s what you need to know: ImageTravelers from Iraq being checked in Syria on Wednesday.Credit…Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The virus sweeps the globe, with cases in at least 47 countries. The fight to contain the coronavirus entered a new and potentially alarming phase on Thursday as public health officials in the United States…

Raising a Glass to Chronic Disease

Bunched on the kitchen counter, the bananas glowered. “Eat me, drink me, suck my juices,” they taunted, like the tempting fruit in Christina Rossetti’s kinky poem “Goblin Market.” I was flummoxed since I loathe the mushy texture of bananas. (Sorry, Chiquita!) But how else could I ingest more of the magnesium I need in order…

First-ever pathology of the early phase of lung infection with the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

Denver–An international team of clinicians and researchers for the first time have described the pathology of the SARS-CoV-2, or coronavirus, and published their findings in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. The article’s senior author, Shu-Yuan Xiao, M.D., from the University of Chicago Medicine…

University Hospitals part of study showing ‘Fast Breast MRIs’ outperform 3-D mammograms

CLEVELAND — According to a new study published Feb. 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (also known as “Fast Breast MRI”) detected significantly more cancers than digital breast tomosynthesis (3-D mammography) in average-risk women with dense breast tissue. The study compared Fast Breast MRI, which is a…