Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
In Brazil, COVID increasingly hitting the young
Leading the morning medical meeting at an intensive care unit in Sao Paulo, Jaques Sztajnbok reviews his COVID-19 patients.
Mar 20, 2021
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News tagged with intensive care
Pediatrics
How dads can use 'kangaroo care' to bond with their infants
An Australian study examining how dads bond with their premature newborns in a neonatal clinic shows the immense power of skin-to-skin contact between father and infant in the initial weeks of life.
Jul 11, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
NSAIDs might exacerbate or suppress COVID-19 depending on timing, mouse study suggests
New research shows that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduced both antibody and inflammatory responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice. The study appears this week in the Journal of Virology, a publication ...
Jan 23, 2021
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Medications
Potential COVID-19 drug is successful in lab study
A new potential therapy for COVID-19 developed by researchers at Rush University Medical Center has shown success in preventing the disease's symptoms in mice.
Jan 15, 2021
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Health
From nightmares to PTSD: COVID stokes UK health care staff crisis
Long shifts working in intensive care and the risk of catching COVID and passing it on to his wife and children left Joan Pons Laplana exhausted.
Jan 21, 2022
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Neuroscience
Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought, exceeding 40 degrees C
New research has shown that normal human brain temperature varies much more than we thought, and this could be a sign of healthy brain function. In healthy men and women, where oral temperature is typically less than 37°C, ...
Jun 13, 2022
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Medications
Study suggests steroid nasal sprays may help improve outcomes in severe COVID-19 disease
A recent Cleveland Clinic study found that patients who regularly use steroid nasal sprays are less likely to develop severe COVID-19-related disease, including a 20 to 25% lower risk of hospitalization, ICU admission and ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Medications
Drug could more effectively treat patients hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia, early stage research finds
A proof-of-concept trial led by the Universities of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has identified a drug that may offer benefit some patients hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia.
Dec 16, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Men with COVID-19 three times more likely to need intensive care: study
Men infected with COVID-19 are three times more likely to require intensive care than women and are at significantly higher risk of dying from the virus, scientists said Wednesday.
Dec 9, 2020
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Medical research
3D 'assembloid' shows how SARS-CoV-2 infects brain cells
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
Jul 16, 2021
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