More than 100 scientists and clinicians have questioned the authenticity of a massive hospital database that was the basis for an influential study published last week that concluded the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat people with Covid-19 did not help and may have increased the risk of abnormal heart rhythms and death. Use…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA Brazilian man praying at the grave of his grandfather, who died from Covid-19.Credit…Dado Galdieri for The New York Times The pandemic is growing at a faster pace. The coronavirus pandemic’s pace is quickening worldwide, with nearly 700,000 new known infections reported in the last week after the pathogen…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageDowntown Los Angeles earlier this month.Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York Times As new hot spots emerge, the pandemic may be entering another phase. The simplest way to track the progress of any outbreak is by seeing how many new cases and deaths are reported in a given area…
Save the date for HFA Discoveries, the latest scientific platform of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Find out what’s on the horizon for prevention and treatment during this innovative online event. Worldwide, an estimated 26 million people have heart failure.1 In Europe, one-year all-cause mortality rates for acute and chronic heart failure are 23.6%…
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- May 29, 2020 – According to the National Autism Association, people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may experience sensory hypersensitivity. A University of Minnesota Medical School researcher recently published an article in Nature Communications that illustrates why that may be true by showing the differences in visual motion perception in ASD are accompanied…
DURHAM, N.C. — A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, found that it was especially well-suited to jump from animals to humans by shapeshifting as it gained the ability to infect human cells. Conducting a genetic analysis, researchers from Duke University, Los Alamos National Laboratory,…
Previous pandemics have often disproportionately impacted ethnic minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. While early evidence suggests that the same may be occurring in the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, research into the subject remains limited. A team of researchers at the University of Glasgow and Public Health Scotland, UK analysed data on 392,116 participants in the UK…
ATLANTA–Older men may be at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 because they worry less about catching or dying from it than women their age or than younger people of both sexes, according to a new study by Sarah Barber, a gerontology and psychology researcher at Georgia State University. This is a concern because older men…
THE STUDIES SEEM LIKE something straight out of science fiction. There’s one focused on using stem cells to regenerate skull bone for patients with skull defects. Another aims to develop a hydrogel patch that could reduce scarring and regenerate hair follicles and sweat glands in burn victims. Another looks to create a transdermal patch that…
A large international trial involving UCL and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has found that pembrolizumab, a form of immunotherapy, more than doubled the ‘progression free survival’ time of patients with a specific subtype of advanced bowel cancer, when compared with chemotherapy. ‘Progression free survival’ is the length of time during and…