Just six months ago, coronavirus didn’t yet have a name, but since January, the virus has exploded, circled the globe and sickened nearly 13.5 million people with alarming speed, a new animation demonstrates. Data visualization designers at Global Stats used data from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Situation Reports to create a timelapse video that … Read more
The Trump administration has ordered US hospitals to send all data directly to a central White House database, cutting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) out of the process collecting and sharing information on the pandemic. Officials say their aim is to streamline data gathering and analysis and fix lags that have plagued … Read more
Moderna’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. No study volunteers experienced a serious side effect, but more than half reported mild or moderate reactions such as fatigue, headache, chills, muscle aches or pain at … Read more
More than half of vulnerable elderly people infected with coronavirus at US nursing homes have no symptoms, a new study has found. Long-term care facilities residents account for more than 40 percent of coronavirus fatalities in the US, according to a New York Times analysis. As a result, some homes have established universal testing. Johns … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning Americans to stop using certain hand sanitizers because they may be toxic. Regulators expanded their list of potentially dangerous hand sanitizers to 59, manufactured by 13 companies. Last month, the FDA cautioned that nine products manufactured by Mexico-based Eskbiochem SA de CV and contain varying amounts of methanol. … Read more
France has agreed a £7billion payrise and hiring spree for its healthcare workers after they took to the streets in protest following the coronavirus crisis. The money will largely cover pay rises for existing staff – with nurses, care workers and non-medical staff getting the bulk of it – while 15,000 new staff will be … Read more
There has long been debate about supplements — whether they can boost your health by ‘supplementing’ the nutrients you get from food or whether they are merely expensive placebos. For the most part, experts agree that we should be getting our nutrients from a healthy balanced diet rather than pills: the exceptions are vitamin D … Read more
Under the microscope: TV presenter and Strictly winner Ore Oduba, 34, answers our health quiz By Sarah Ewing for the Daily Mail Published: 00:53 BST, 14 July 2020 | Updated: 00:54 BST, 14 July 2020 TV presenter and Strictly winner Ore Oduba, 34, answers our health quiz TV presenter and Strictly winner Ore Oduba, 34, … Read more
One in three young Americans are at risk for developing severe COVID-19 if they contract the virus, a new study suggests. The new research comes as young adults are making up a growing proportion of coronavirus cases. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) analyzed data on about 8,400 Americans between ages 18 … Read more
Could GPs soon be detecting hidden liver disease, simply by shaking a patient’s hand? While social distancing means it’s currently barred, it is a real prospect raised by new research that shows a limp handshake or a weak grip is an early warning sign of a potentially fatal condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). … Read more