Archive: 02/03/2020

Prompt colonoscopy should follow up positive bowel cancer tests

A prompt colonoscopy should be provided to all patients with positive fecal immunochemical test (FIT) results, regardless of whether the test was offered through the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, or via a community-based ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Squaring up to silent tumors: The research burden of pancreatic cancer

By the time a pancreatic tumor begins to cause symptoms, it is usually pretty advanced, since many of the tumors are 'silent."

Mar 2, 2020

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What are the novel coronavirus health risks?

The novel coronavirus that first broke out in Wuhan, China in late 2019 has now spread to 48 countries, and the first case of possible community spread has been reported in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Measuring the injury risks of football, cycling and other sports

Sporting injuries make a mark every year, with almost one-third of the 60,000 Australians admitted to hospital connected to one of the football codes.

Mar 2, 2020

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Expert discusses global response to coronavirus

Earlier this month, experts from around the world convened at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to strategize how to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Mar 2, 2020

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Calculating the beginnings of the coronavirus epidemic

Analyses of publicly available genome data provide clues to the beginnings of the coronavirus epidemic in China. Researchers from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel used a statistical ...

Mar 2, 2020

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Are electronic health records useful yet?

On Friday, July 19, 1907, a grand experiment began at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. As the first patients of the day arrived, doctors assigned each of them a unique number and started a medical chart, noting the chief ...

Mar 2, 2020

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First coronavirus case confirmed in Moscow

Russian authorities on Monday confirmed the first case of coronavirus in Moscow, saying the patient had recently returned from Italy.

Mar 2, 2020

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Iran reports 12 more coronavirus deaths, raising total to 66

Iran said Monday that novel coronavirus had killed 12 more people in the Islamic republic, raising the country's overall death toll to 66.

Mar 2, 2020

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58 quarantined in Nigeria over coronavirus contacts

Nigeria is monitoring 58 people who had contact with an Italian man infected with the new coronavirus, the health minister said Monday, as officials scrambled to stop the disease spreading.

Mar 2, 2020

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