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black fungus
Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
Rare but fatal black fungus on the rise in COVID patients in India
Lourdes Antenor May 12, 2021

As the COVID-19 cases continue to rise in India, doctors have begun to notice another alarming trend. Some COVID-19 patients who have recently been released

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twins
Children's Health, Healthcare
For twins, gesture and speech go hand-in-hand in language development
Healthcare Channel May 11, 2021

Gestures — such as pointing or waving — go hand in hand with a child’s first words, and twins lag behind single children in producing

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white matter
Healthcare, Hospitals, Learning - Topics
White matter damage is linked to worse cognitive outcome after brain injury
Healthcare Channel May 11, 2021

A new University of Iowa study challenges the idea that grey matter (the neurons that form the cerebral cortex) is more important than white matter

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mothers
Children's Health, Healthcare, Healthcare News
Why we need to focus on quality care for mothers and newborns
Lourdes Antenor May 6, 2021

Quality care is a critical issue for mothers and newborn health. More women globally give birth in health facilities than ever before, but this has

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midwives
Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
New report sounds the alarm on global shortage of 900,000 midwives
Lourdes Antenor May 6, 2021

Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year. Millions of lives

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Germany
Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals, International News
Germany launches new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence
Lourdes Antenor May 6, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Federal Republic of Germany will establish a new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, data, surveillance and

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infection
Healthcare, Hospitals
Infection control practices and better hand hygiene given highlight
Lourdes Antenor May 6, 2021

WHO’s latest global survey on the implementation of national infection prevention and control programmes highlights the urgent need to reduce inequalities in the availability of

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pregnancy
Children's Health, Healthcare, Hospitals, International News
Pregnancy loss and developmental abnormalities all linked to genetics and not mother’s intrauterine health
Lourdes Antenor May 4, 2021

Yale researchers have shown that developmental abnormalities, including those that lead to pregnancy loss and autism, are controlled by the genetics of the fetus and

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human
Hospitals
Human organ chips enable COVID-19 drug repurposing
Lourdes Antenor May 4, 2021

A Wyss Institute-led collaboration spanning four research labs and hundreds of miles has used the Institute’s human organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) technology to identify the antimalarial

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molecules
Healthcare, Healthcare News
New tool helps rapidly screen molecules for anti-COVID properties
Lourdes Antenor May 4, 2021

In a paper published this week in Nature Machine Intelligence, the researchers introduced REDIAL-2020, an open-source online suite of computational models that will help scientists rapidly

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gastro
Children's Health, Healthcare
Handwashing not hand sanitiser best way to stop gastro causing norovirus
Lourdes Antenor May 3, 2021

The Food Safety Information Council warned that good handwashing rather than using hand sanitiser was more effective in reducing the risk of catching the gastro

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tool
Hospitals
A powerful new tool awakens “ghost” in patients with Parkinson’s
Healthcare Channel Apr 29, 2021

Scientists are developing a completely new ‘brain stress test’ tool for evaluating the mental status of patients with Parkinson’s disease, the second most prevalent neurodegenerative

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