A digital health Texas-based company is rolling out an at-home testing kit for coronavirus starting next week. Everlywell, which offers a variety of at-home lab tests for everything from vitamin deficiency to cholesterol levels to fertility, will make the kit available on March 23. After the delay in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Read more
Heidi Klum self-quarantines in her lavish $10M Bel-Air mansion while awaiting coronavirus test results By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 00:30 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 02:19 GMT, 20 March 2020 Advertisement America’s Got Talent: The Champions judge Heidi Klum will receive the results to her coronavirus test any moment now, and she’s been … Read more
Dozens of healthcare workers across the US are testing positive for coronavirus as they battle the highly-infectious disease on the front lines. At a Chicago suburban hospital, two emergency room physicians have been diagnosed with the virus. Meanwhile, in nearby St Louis, Missouri, two doctors associated with Washington University tested positive for COVID-19, the disease … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Dr Martin Marshall, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, said there is a ‘shortage of available testing kits’ in the UK The UK has a shortage of coronavirus tests, one of the country’s most senior doctors has warned. Dr Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said there are not enough … Read more
UK has a SHORTAGE of coronavirus test kits, top doctor warns after US flies in a batch of 500,000 swabs from Italy and chief British scientist says current testing is ‘clearly not enough’ The chair of the Royal College of GPs said there is a shortage of available kits He is calling for NHS staff … Read more
Boris Johnson today announced that coronavirus testing was to ramped up to 25,000 per day after the government was lashed for potentially allowing tens of thousands of infected people to walk the streets undiagnosed. Only 5,000 were being swabbed for COVID-19 previously, a fraction of the number seen elsewhere. It comes as the number of positive … Read more
New blood test for prostate cancer could help monitor patients without invasive procedure and would reveal if they need urgent treatment Prostate cancer is most common among UK men with 50,000 diagnosed a year Study published in Journal of Clinical Investigation offers hope of a blood test At present the cancer is diagnosed through physical … Read more
The immense scale of this crisis is terrifying to comprehend, not least for those politicians and scientists who find themselves taking decisions with life and death consequences. Yet in a war, one thing should be beyond debate: you must equip and protect your frontline forces to the best of your ability, whether they are soldiers … Read more
Twelve residents of a Louisiana nursing home have tested positive for coronavirus, the facility confirmed Tuesday. After the discovery of the first positive resident, Lambeth House, in uptown New Orleans, went into lockdown on Friday. Of the home’s 268 residents, 26 have been tested for the virus, 17 are in isolation and the results of … Read more