More than 200,000 people in the US have died from COVID-19. Some argue that statistic is inaccurate due to inconsistencies in how deaths are being reported. But...Research Issues
In response to a withering of trust in US health agencies, a group of Black physicians has created their won task force to independently vet regulators’ decisions...
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...
People are engaged in a frenzy of disinfecting anything and everything they touch, despite science telling us that surface cleaning to prevent COVID-19 is largely...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,...Cardiology
The link between influenza and serious heart conditions just grew stronger. A study looking at more than 80,000 adult patients hospitalised with flu over eight seasons...
July 29th, 2020Research presented at ASM Microbe Online found that 43% of Staphylococcus bacteria found on exercise equipment in university gyms were ampicillin-resistant, with 73% of...
More than 100 top US scientists, including 15 Nobel laureates, have written an open letter calling for volunteers to be exposed to the coronavirus in order to speed the...Coronavirus
Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received a single dose of a drug that calms an overreacting immune system were 45% less likely to die overall, and more likely to be...Coronavirus
The two hair stylists in Springfield, Missouri, broke the cardinal rule of infection control: STAT News reports that despite having respiratory symptoms, one...
