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Bodies pile up, patient care falters as covid-19 devastates LA County hospitals
Los Angeles County’s healthcare system was buckling Wednesday under the unprecedented surge of covid-19 patients, with bodies piling up at morgues and medical professionals resorting to increasingly desperate measures as they brace for conditions to worsen in the coming weeks. With hospitals overwhelmed by patients and no outlet valve available,
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Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to COVID-19
In a study published in September, researchers from Ohio State University found that out of more than two dozen athletes from the university who tested positive for COVID-19, 30% had cellular heart damage and 15% showed signs of heart inflammation caused by a condition known as myocarditis.
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A New Therapy to Prevent People With SARS-CoV-2 From Getting Sick Just Started Trials
Scientists in the UK have just recruited the first participants in the world to be part of a new long-acting antibody study.
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COVID-19 and GUT HEALTH in 2021
This gastroenterologist provides some interesting insights.
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Medical schools see surge in applicants, thanks to "Fauci effect"
Medical schools applications are surging, as the coronavirus outbreak prompts young people to reconsider health care professions. Applications are up 18% nationwide to medical school nationwide, compared to the same period last year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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The thymus as key to healthy pregnancies
How the immune system adapts to pregnancy has puzzled researchers for decades. An international team of researchers, including scientists from IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences – has now discovered that important changes in the thymus occur in order to prevent miscarriages and gestational diabetes. The results are published in the journal Nature.
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New study identifies greatest risk factors of mortality from COVID-19
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or are obese or have complications from diabetes or hypertension, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers. In a study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers evaluated nearly 67,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 613 hospitals across the country to determine link between common patient characteristics and the risk of dying from COVID-19.
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At Least 128,000 People in the U.S. Have Received the Covid-19 Vaccine
More than 128,000 people received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine this week as the United States began an unprecedented mobilization to deploy vaccines and eventually end a pandemic that has upended every aspect of American life.
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A COVID patient with sepsis was given a megadose of vitamin C. The change in him was 'remarkable'
A young Australian man who was critically ill with COVID-19 and suffering early stages of sepsis made a remarkable recovery after being given massive doses of vitamin C, according to his doctors.
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1st Patients To Get CRISPR Gene-Editing Treatment Continue To Thrive
The last thing a lot of people want to do these days is get on a plane. But even a pandemic would not stop Victoria Gray. She jumped at the chance to head to the airport this summer. "It was one of those things I was waiting to get a chance to do," says Gray. She had never flown before because she was born with sickle cell disease. She feared the altitude change might trigger one of the worst complications of the devastating genetic disease — a sudden attack of excruciating pain.
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Gene therapy injection in one eye surprises scientists by improving vision in both
Injecting a gene therapy vector into one eye of someone suffering from LHON, the most common cause of mitochondrial blindness, significantly improves vision in both eyes, scientists have found.
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Dr. Paul Offit Answers Our COVID Vaccine Questions
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Randomized Controlled Trials Versus Real World Evidence: Neither Magic Nor Myth
Whether randomized controlled trials of niche medicines can work
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CRISPR and another genetic strategy fix cell defects in two common blood disorders
It is a double milestone: new evidence that cures are possible for many people born with sickle cell disease and another serious blood disorder, beta-thalassemia, and a first for the genome editor CRISPR.
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Japan’s 10-Year Cancer Survival Rate Rises to 58.3%
The 10-year survival rate for cancer, once regarded as an incurable disease, has steadily been improving in Japan and if the cancer can be detected early enough, this survival rate increases further.
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Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days
Just a few doses of an experimental drug can reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice, according to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists. The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI), reverse cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome, prevent noise-related hearing loss, fight certain types of prostate cancer, and even enhance cognition in healthy animals.
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Immunity to COVID-19 may persist six months or more
Even after recovery, the body continues to improve its antibody response to the coronavirus — perhaps thanks to viral bits hiding in the intestine. As coronavirus cases in the United States and around the world rise, scientists are uncovering hints that immunity for those who have had COVID-19 can last at least six months, if not longer.
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War against natural medicine
Why is a group of prestigious doctors and scientists who have the backing of the most profitable industry in the world according to Fortune 500 – the pharmaceutical industry – targeting a few poorly-funded natural medicine courses?
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Nanobots Will Be Flowing Through Your Body by 2030
According to some futurists, in the next 10 or so years, your blood could be streaming with tiny nanorobots to help keep you from getting sick or even transmit your thoughts to a wireless cloud. They will travel inside of you, on a molecular level, protecting your biological system and ensuring that you'll have a good and long life. The future is closer than you may think.
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Everyone in UK ‘could be vaccinated by April’, reports say
Everyone in the UK ‘could be vaccinated by April’ according to leaked documents. Leaked NHS documents, seen by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), suggest that mass vaccination could begin before the end of January if supplies can be secured. Under the plan, every adult who wants a jab could be vaccinated by early April, the HSJ said.
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