Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Should infants be separated from COVID-19-positive mothers?

In a new commentary, Alison Stuebe, MD, President of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, addresses the risks and benefits of separating infants from COVID-19-positive mothers following birth. Although multiple public health ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

France turns to speedy trains to catch up in virus response

The high-speed train whooshing past historic World War I battle sites and through the chateau-speckled Loire Valley carried a delicate cargo: 20 critically ill COVID-19 patients and the breathing machines helping keep them ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Virus crisis shines light on troubled North Africa health care

The coronavirus pandemic has put the spotlight on shortcomings in health care in several North African countries, even as governments moved quickly to announce restrictions to limit the spread of the virus.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Twenty-six infected with Covid-19 at Mexican hospital, doctor dead

The Mexican government is sanitizing a public hospital in a northern steel town that has become the center of a Covid-19 outbreak that has sickened at least 26 members of its medical staff and killed one of its doctors.

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Can medical workers safely reuse face masks in COVID-19 pandemic?

Urgent research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is investigating whether health care providers can safely reuse protective face masks, which could slow the Covid-19 pandemic and ease a critical equipment shortage ...

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India's stringent virus testing criteria may mask toll

A British citizen appeared at a public hospital in India's capital with a cough, difficulty breathing and a private clinic's referral for a coronavirus test. She was turned away.

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