Without directly invading the brain or nerves, the virus responsible for COVID-19 causes potentially damaging neurological injuries in about one in seven infected, a...Coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 can survive on human skin for up to nine hours, Japanese scientists have reported in a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Other research has...Obstetrics
Vitamin D levels in the womb may modify the association between maternal pre-eclampsia and hypertension in childhood, found a Johns Hopkins study.
Children appear to...Coronavirus
Preliminary data from a small study suggests convalescent plasma may have some efficacy in patients with severe COVID-19. The retrospective, propensity score-matched...
September 16th, 2020Between 35%- 70% of post-COVID-19 patients struggle to recover their usual health, writes MedicalBrief. Some answers may be found in data and biological material...
Novartis and Roche have been fined a collective $528m by France’s anti-trust regulator for allegedly conspiring to promote the expensive macular degeneration treatment...
September 9th, 2020A small study from the University of California-Berkeley matched the overnight sleep quality of healthy older adults against the build-up in their brains of the toxic...
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong...International
In moves seen as an effort to restore the credibility of agency, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has fired a Trump appointee after only 11 days on the job,...Harm Reduction
A study of more than 300,000 couples in Sweden has found that marriage to a spouse who grew up exposed to parental alcohol misuse increases a person's likelihood of...
