In many parts of the world there is great shame and stigma tied to vitiligo, an autoimmune disease of the skin that causes disfiguring white spots, which can appear anywhere on the body. In some societies, individuals with ...
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When Nina Dalsania Makadia felt the first symptoms of COVID-19 in March, she braced herself for a couple of miserable weeks.
Jun 23, 2020
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Following is a short question-and-answer piece with the University of Rhode Island Department of History's Joëlle Rollo-Koster, professor of medieval history. She discusses the Black Death, a devastating global pandemic ...
Apr 23, 2020
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Vitamin D is most often recognized for its role in bone health, but low levels of the supplement have been associated with a range of autoimmune, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases. Early on in the pandemic health officials ...
Feb 3, 2022
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British cancer doctor Prof Karol Sikora recently claimed that the current COVID-19 pandemic would "burn itself out". His thinking is that if there are more infections than we realise, and that those milder, unrecorded infections ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours, researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Unvaccinated people threaten the safety of the vaccinated even when SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates are high, according to a new modeling study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Apr 25, 2022
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Vietnam—a developing country that has a large land border with China and a population of 97 million people—has not reported a single death from coronavirus. As of April 21, the country had reported 268 cases of COVID-19, ...
Apr 21, 2020
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A new study by researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine finds those who received the Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine are less likely to experience "breakthrough" COVID-19 cases, compared to recipients ...
Jan 20, 2022
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What if preventing respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 and influenza could be as easy as a quick spritz of nasal spray every morning?
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