For COVID-19 patients with serious lung disease, targeting endothelial cells—cells that comprise the blood vessel wall which regulate oxygen exchange between airways and the bloodstream—may be a novel approach restoring ...
Dec 14, 2020
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COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has posed serious health threats to humanity and jeopardized the global economy.
Dec 14, 2020
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For nearly a year, the novel coronavirus and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic have dominated headlines across the world, and justifiably so. With nearly 68 million cases reported and more than 1.5 million deaths worldwide ...
Dec 10, 2020
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A single protein that appears necessary for the COVID-19 virus to reproduce and spread to other cells is a potential weakness that could be targeted by future therapies.
Dec 10, 2020
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In a well-resourced health system with adequate PPE (Personal Protection Equipment), health care worker risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection was more strongly driven by community exposure than patient exposure early in the pandemic, ...
Dec 9, 2020
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(HealthDay)—For women with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, rooming-in and breastfeeding are feasible for those who can care for their infants, with postnatal transmission occurring ...
Dec 8, 2020
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Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found elevated levels of a biomarker related to blood vessel damage in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection, even if the children had minimal or no symptoms of ...
Dec 8, 2020
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If we are ever to return to some semblance of normality, then the world's population needs to be immune to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But with so many different vaccines in production, questions are undoubtedly ...
Dec 8, 2020
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QIMR Berghofer researchers have developed a way of testing whether or not COVID-19 patients' immune systems are gearing up to fight the virus that causes the deadly disease.
Dec 7, 2020
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Since the novel coronavirus emerged at the end of last year, scientists around the world—including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) immunologist Dan Barouch, MD, Ph.D.—have been developing vaccines to protect ...
Dec 4, 2020
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