Archive: 03/09/2021

Study suggests Delta does not cause more severe childhood COVID

US pediatric COVID hospitalizations have surged since Delta became predominant, but a new study that offers a first look at the relevant data suggests that fears the variant causes more severe disease are unfounded.

Sep 3, 2021

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Efforts grow to stamp out use of parasite drug for COVID-19

Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19, warning that it can cause harmful side effects and that there's little evidence it helps.

Sep 3, 2021

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Neuroscientists define safe protocol for EEG-fMRI imaging

A team of psychologists and neuroscientists at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology led by assistant professor of psychology Sepideh Sadaghiani and graduate student Maximillian Egan published a study ...

Sep 3, 2021

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Focus on coercive control and gendered approach must be at the heart of efforts to address domestic violence and abuse

The Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which received Royal Assent in April, has the potential to save lives, increase safety, protect children from the ongoing impact of growing up with violence and abuse, and improve the protections ...

Sep 3, 2021

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Bisexual adults more than twice as likely to have asthma as straight adults

A new national study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society finds that bisexual Americans had over two times the rates of asthma and other lung diseases as heterosexual adults. Overall, 29% of bisexual adults ...

Sep 3, 2021

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Study reveals underreporting of domestic violence in Black communities during Chicago's stay-at-home order

As resources for people experiencing domestic violence in Chicago's South Side dwindled during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home order, so did reporting of violence within the home, according to new research published ...

Sep 3, 2021

UK's vaccine assessor opts against COVID jabs for children

The U.K.'s vaccine advisors declined Friday to recommend the vaccination of healthy older children against COVID-19, saying the direct health benefits are "marginal." However, the British government said it may join others ...

Sep 3, 2021

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Idaho hospitals nearly buckling in relentless COVID surge

The intensive care rooms at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: All unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged ...

Sep 3, 2021

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Covid surges in US as rest of world stabilises

North America suffered a new surge in coronavirus infections this week and US deaths increased by a fifth, while the pandemic stabilised in the rest of the world.

Sep 3, 2021

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South Africa to encourage vaccinations, but not force them

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says his government will encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccinations but will not force them.

Sep 3, 2021

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