The ethical case for allowing medical trials that deliberately infect humans with COVID-19
Despite the urgent need to beat COVID-19, health officials may be delaying the development of an effective vaccine.
Aug 17, 2020
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Despite the urgent need to beat COVID-19, health officials may be delaying the development of an effective vaccine.
Aug 17, 2020
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Nancy Perez, a 45-year-old resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, contracted COVID-19 in March. She stayed quarantined in her room for a month to isolate from her two sons and grandson.
Aug 14, 2020
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The BCG vaccine, a vaccine originally made against tuberculosis, has a general stimulating effect on the immune system and is therefore effective against multiple infectious diseases—possibly also against COVID-19. This ...
Aug 6, 2020
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Without timely reversal, opioid overdose causes respiratory depression that may deteriorate into apnea, leading to brain injury and even death. Naloxone, a medication that rapidly reverses opioid overdose, can quickly restore ...
Aug 3, 2020
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Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. In a recent study of epilepsy patients and healthy volunteers, National Institutes of ...
Jun 29, 2020
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Thanks to new technology, researchers at the Clinical Physiology group, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, have demonstrated that females have higher myocardial perfusion, blood volume and ...
Jun 25, 2020
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Researchers in Brazil began administering an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University to volunteers, the Federal University of Sao Paulo said Wednesday.
Jun 24, 2020
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(HealthDay)—An inhaled version of the antiviral drug remdesivir will soon be tested outside a hospital setting, Gilead Sciences announced Monday.
Jun 22, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has found evidence suggesting that people who are addicted to drugs may find gaining control over compulsive behaviors a path to recovery. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Eating a late dinner may contribute to weight gain and high blood sugar, according to a small study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Jun 11, 2020
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