COVID-19 masks: Expert tips for what you should (and shouldn't) do
Face masks are one of the most crucial measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but confusion and misinformation still surround their use.
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Face masks are one of the most crucial measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but confusion and misinformation still surround their use.
Jun 1, 2023
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If you came down with a respiratory infection in the spring and it wasn't influenza (flu), COVID-19 or RSV, it may have been a virus you've never heard of.
Jun 1, 2023
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The US drug regulator approved a second vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), its American developer Pfizer said Wednesday, a month after the authorization of the first shot against the pathogen, a leading cause ...
Jun 1, 2023
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Newborn babies who experience low levels of oxygen in their body tissues (hypoxia) due to sleep apnea, for example, tend to develop respiratory problems and hypertension (high blood pressure) in adulthood, and these problems ...
May 31, 2023
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On World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2023, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), of which The American Thoracic Society is a founding member, is encouraging policy makers to take steps to prevent young people ...
May 31, 2023
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Opioid drugs such as morphine and fentanyl are like the two-faced Roman god Janus: The kindly face delivers pain relief to millions of sufferers, while the grim face drives an opioid abuse and overdose crisis that claimed ...
May 31, 2023
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Hydrogen sulfide is usually a highly toxic gas. However, with careful preparation, it can be used to support photothermal therapy (PTT) in treating cancer, as a team of researchers reporting in the journal Angewandte Chemie ...
May 26, 2023
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a highly contagious and seasonal respiratory virus that mainly causes common cold symptoms in healthy adults but can cause more serious lung infections in infants, the immunocompromised ...
May 24, 2023
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Despite intensive research since the beginning of the pandemic, it is still unclear which components of the immune system are involved in the early control of virus replication in the respiratory tract, preventing COVID-19 ...
May 24, 2023
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A team of medical researchers from Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has found that mortality rates are higher for transplant patients receiving a new heart from a person infected ...