Helping Children With Pandemic Grief

Between travel restrictions and limits on visitors to hospitals, parents may get the news of a loved one’s death over the phone and find themselves having to tell children who may be unprepared. At the end of March, doctors in the child and adolescent psychiatry group at Oxford University, led by Alan Stein, published an…

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Top 6 Million

This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ImageA medical worker performing a test at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Friday.Credit…Pete Kiehart for The New York Times Confirmed virus cases in the U.S. surpass 6 million. Twenty-two days. It took more than three months…

Study: Anonymized cell phone location data can help monitor COVID-19 growth rates

Cambridge, Mass. – In March 2020, federal officials declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency. Around the same time, most states implemented stay-at-home advisories – to different degrees and at different times. Publicly available cell phone location data – anonymized at the county-level – showed marked reductions in cell phone activity at the workplace and…

Aluminium in antiperspirants

This is the result of the current risk assessment by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). BfR President Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel: “Significantly less aluminium is absorbed through skin than previously calculated on the basis of the limited data available at the time.” BfR assessed absorption via the skin, i.e. dermal absorption,…