Editor’s note: Get the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. According to a press release from the ColCORONA trial investigators, the oral, anti-inflammatory drug colchicine may prevent complications …
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Get the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Among the many vaccine candidates worldwide, the next possibility in the arsenal against COVID-19 is a single-dose Ad26.COV2.S vaccine in …
Read More »Toothbrush disinfection can protect against COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted from asymptomatic individuals, even in various ways, including droplets, aerosols, and to a lesser extent, in phomites. Now, Brazilian researchers have evaluated the use of these products in …
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Editor’s note: Get the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. One in five COVID-19 patients are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder such as anxiety or depression within 3 …
Read More »Vanning COVID-19 Antibody Expected, No Reason for Alarm
Update November 5, 2020 The original text has been changed to clarify that Adaptive Technologies is located in Seattle, Washington. In recent months Omanus has been common in the headlines that antibodies …
Read More »Common SARS-CoV-2 mutations may make COVID more infectious
Get the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Most SARS-CoV-2 virus strains have a specific mutation that makes them more contagious, to the extent that these strains now …
Read More »Vitamin D for COVID? We have burned before
Get the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Welcome to impact factor, Your weekly dose of comment on a new medical …
Read More »This week in cardiology 2 October 2020
Please note that the text below is not a full transcript and is not copied. For more information and commentary on these stories, subscribe this week to the Cardiology Podcast. In this …
Read More »Flu vaccine 2020-2021 recommendations
Each influenza season, millions of Americans are affected by influenza, sometimes severely. During the 2016–2017 sessions in the United States during the 2018–2019 seasons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …
Read More »More evidence that vitamin D sufficiency is equivalent to less severe COVID-19
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 have sufficient amounts of vitamin D that show a significant reduction in severe outcomes and insufficient levels, lower risk of death than new research shows. Senior author Michael …
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