Plasma helped severely ill patients but not life-threatening patients
Severely ill coronavirus patients treated with plasma from COVID-19 survivors recovered FIVE days faster – but the experimental treatment did not improve survival odds in life-threatening cases Convalescent plasma therapy is when the liquid portion of blood is taken from…
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Here’s What Risk, Really, Protestors Have of Getting COVID-19
There’s no question the mass protests across the United States will spread the novel coronavirus, according to experts. This is because the virus is transmitted via respiratory droplets that you emit when you talk, yell, sneeze, and cough. The more…
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Yes, You Can Have PTSD Even if You Weren't Violently Attacked
It’s often assumed that a person with post-traumatic stress disorder is a survivor of military combat, rape or some other form of horrific violence — and in plenty of cases, this is true. In fact, PTSD was first added to…
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Patients with ARDS, COVID-19 face significant financial effects in recovery
It begins with shortness of breath. And for approximately one third of patients, acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, ends in death. For those who survive, their lives are often turned upside-down. Michigan Medicine researchers have been investigating the downstream…
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Coronavirus: What is the role aerosols play in contagion? – Naturopathy Naturopathy Specialist Portal
Coronavirus aerosols: Infectious Mini-droplets in the air More and more research work suggest that aerosols play in the air a greater role in the spread of the novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, as was previously thought. An expert on aerosols, summarizes the…
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Studies of brain activity aren’t as useful as scientists thought
Hundreds of published studies over the last decade have claimed it’s possible to predict an individual’s patterns of thoughts and feelings by scanning their brain in an MRI machine as they perform some mental tasks. But a new analysis by…
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When insurers cover infertility treatments, fewer women die
When states require that insurers provide coverage of infertility treatments, 20% fewer mothers die during pregnancy, childbirth or shortly after birth, according to a University of Michigan study. Nearly 11% of women ages 15-44 and 21% of currently married, childless…
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Nuance launches new AI-powered and cloud-based speech recognition solution in the Nordics
Physicians nowadays spend about twice as much time entering or re-entering data into computers than they do interacting with patients, causing what the president of the World Medical Association has called a “pandemic of physician burnout,” with 51% of physicians…
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Corona outbreak in Göttingen: hundreds of contact persons identified – Naturopathy naturopathy specialist portal
Göttingen: hundreds of people after Corona outbreak in quarantine Just a few days ago the Dutch had informed the Saxon state government, the new medical commutes with COVID-19 in the Northern German state on a stable low level. But now…
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What are the risks and benefits of low-dose aspirin?
Low-dose aspirin significantly lowers cardiovascular disease risk but increases the risk of bleeding, according to a review published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Investigators conducted the review because the overall balance between risks and benefits of taking aspirin…
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