Archive: 29/04/2020

Researchers devise new model to track COVID-19's spread

Yale University researchers and colleagues in Hong Kong and China have developed an approach for rapidly tracking population flows that could help policymakers worldwide more effectively assess risk of disease spread and ...

Apr 29, 2020

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India virus deaths pass 1,000, but low toll puzzles experts

India's confirmed coronavirus death toll passed 1,000 on Wednesday following its highest daily increase, but the numbers remain low compared with Europe and the United States in a phenomenon that is puzzling experts.

Apr 29, 2020

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Online map tracks drive-through COVID-19 testing sites across the U.S.

As COVID-19 began to spread abroad and then within the United States, Jim Kyung-Soo Liew decided to join the fight against the pandemic by putting his expertise in big data and artificial intelligence to work.

Apr 29, 2020

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I was a nurse on the front lines of Ebola, and I saw that nurses need support for the trauma and pain they experience

Since the beginning of the profession, nurses have played pivotal roles during outbreaks of disease, delivering care throughout even the bleakest of public health emergencies.

Apr 29, 2020

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How social distancing deepens inequalities among older people

Patty Doran, Chris Phillipson, Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Camilla Lewis of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group discuss the negative impact of social distancing and suggest what needs to be done to better support ...

Apr 29, 2020

Feeling burned out? The contributors could be more related to depression than you think

An article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine looks at the relationship between burnout and depressive symptoms in medical interns.

Apr 29, 2020

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Researchers publish new insights into COVID-19

Researchers at the Radboud University Medical Center seem to have found an essential mechanism in the disease process of COVID-19, which has so far been overlooked. If the insight is correct, it probably has important consequences ...

Apr 29, 2020

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Millions of US workers at risk of infections on the job

A University of Washington researcher calculates that 14.4 million workers face exposure to infection once a week and 26.7 million at least once a month in the workplace, pointing to an important population needing protection ...

Apr 29, 2020

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Nasal biomarkers predict severity of pollen-specific allergy symptoms

For people with allergies, contact with pollen leads to symptoms such as sneezing, rhinitis and watery eyes. This may sound trivial, but is in fact a complex correlation of physiological processes. As these have not yet been ...

Apr 29, 2020

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Improving immunotherapy for cancer

Our immune system not only protects us against infection, but also against cancer. This powerful protection is based in particular on the activation of special cells of the immune system, CD8+ T cells. These cells recognize ...

Apr 29, 2020

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