A Smidt Heart Institute analysis of lung transplantations performed nationally shows significant help for patients with severe, irreversible lung damage from COVID-19.
Jan 26, 2022
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(HealthDay)—The inclusion of a certified wound and skin care nurse on a multiprofessional prone-positioning team significantly reduces the odds of pressure injuries developing in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, ...
Jan 20, 2022
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The lab of Youyang Zhao, Ph.D., from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago developed a unique nanoparticle to deliver genome editing technology, including CRISPR/Cas9, ...
Jan 4, 2022
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Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a combination of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, or other conditions associated with metabolic syndrome were at much higher risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome and ...
Dec 22, 2021
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A clinical trial by the University of Southampton and University College London has revealed one reason why COVID-19 patients on ventilators have trouble breathing, and how refining a treatment could help save lives.
Dec 14, 2021
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Since March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has put an unprecedented strain on the American health care system as large surges of intensive care unit patients overwhelmed hospitals. Facing this challenge, Beth Israel Deaconess ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Severe COVID leading to hospitalisation and death overwhelmingly affects the older people and those who already suffer from other illnesses, like heart conditions, kidney disease and diabetes.
Nov 29, 2021
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Since the detection of the first SARS-Cov-2 infection cases in November 2019, more than 250 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with the disease, and more than 5 million have died.
Nov 23, 2021
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As soon as the 2019 novel coronavirus was characterized as capable of causing atypical pneumonia, and subsequently named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), medical and public health professionals ...
Nov 22, 2021
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As we've seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, serious infections sometimes trigger an excessive inflammatory reaction that does as much harm—or more—than the infection itself. New research at Boston Children's Hospital ...
Nov 12, 2021
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