(HealthDay)—Smokers and vapers who get COVID-19 are more likely to have complications, so this might be a good time to quit, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons says.
Apr 20, 2020
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An international team of researchers has developed a urine test that can be used to predict how well a baby at risk of malnutrition will grow. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes ...
A cloth mask can help reduce the spread of COVID-19, but there's a right way and a wrong way to wear one.
Apr 7, 2020
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Ultraviolet light is being beamed through public buses and lifts in China to wipe out any possible germs as part of efforts to clear the country of the deadly coronavirus epidemic.
Mar 13, 2020
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Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a novel treatment for sepsis—one of the leading causes of hospital death—that enhances the body's bacteria-capturing neutrophil extracellular traps ...
Mar 5, 2020
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Hong Kong's health chief said Tuesday that a respiratory illness whose cause remains unknown will be added to an official list of diseases that medical practitioners are required to report to the government.
Jan 7, 2020
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There are currently no effective treatments for prion diseases, a family of fatal neurodegenerative conditions caused by accumulations of misfolded copies of a naturally occurring protein. But now, there is finally an effective ...
Nov 6, 2019
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The Cancer Atlas, 3rd edition, a comprehensive global overview of cancer around the globe, concludes that progress in the fight against cancer is not only possible, but achievable. The report was produced by the American ...
Oct 16, 2019
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An article published in the journal PLOS Pathogens reports a realistic computational model for the structure and mechanism of replication of prions, infectious agents responsible for mad cow disease and other neurodegenerative ...
Jul 11, 2019
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Risks for autism and depression are higher if one's mother was in hospital with an infection during pregnancy. This is shown by a major Swedish observational study of nearly 1.8 million children.
Mar 7, 2019
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