Cooped up with a bad back? An osteopath gives their top tips on how to help ease your agony Feeling a bit cooped up? Tense and achy? It’s not surprising if you are, really, considering the situation. To add to this,…
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To get on top of the coronavirus, we also need to test people without symptoms
As the World Health Organisation keeps reminding health officials around the world, in order to get COVID-19 under control, we must “test, test, test.” Along with tracing contacts of cases, travel bans and social distancing, testing is one of the…
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Validation may be best way to support stressed out friends and family
In uncertain times, supporting your friends and family can help them make it through. But your comforting words can have different effects based on how you phrase them, according to new Penn State research. The researchers studied how people responded…
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New study uses robots to uncover the connections between the human mind and walking control
Many of us aren’t spending much time outside lately, but there are still many obstacles for us to navigate as we walk around: the edge of the coffee table, small children, the family dog. How do our brains adjust to…
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E-learning could train community health workers to help COVID-19 efforts
UK researchers say an emergency program to train thousands of community health workers could help vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing in a comment piece today in The Lancet, they suggest a large-scale program could train a workforce to…
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Platform gives teachers a chance to help health workers stay at work
For Alex Flavel, a casual relief teacher, Tuesday's abrupt closure of Victoria's schools to stem the spread of coronavirus cost him work but also created an urgent need to assist healthcare workers with children to keep them at their posts….
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Crisis brings robots to medical frontline: researchers
Robots are expected to demonstrate their value for “dirty and dangerous” medical tasks in the fight to quell the coronavirus pandemic, researchers said Wednesday. An editorial in Science Robotics noted that robots can help with telemedicine, decontamination, handling of hazardous…
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What It's Like to Be An Uninsured Mom in 2020
A few years ago, Linda Spencer became a single mom. Shortly after that, her company downsized and she lost her job. To make ends meet, she started Awesomesauce Photography, and is now self-employed wedding photographer. “This way I could get…
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Cardiac injury linked to increased mortality in COVID-19
(HealthDay)—Cardiac injury is associated with increased mortality in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a study published online March 25 in JAMA Cardiology. Shaobo Shi, M.D., from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in China, and colleagues explored…
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What happens to your body when your have COVID-19?
As the number of cases of COVID-19 rises, experts continue to learn more about the disease. They know that symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath. But what does the virus do inside your body to cause those symptoms?…
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