SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, likely does not directly infect the brain but can still inflict significant neurological damage, according to a new study from neuropathologists, neurologists, and neuroradiologists at Columbia University Vagelos College ...
A new study using human genetics suggests researchers should prioritize clinical trials of drugs that target two proteins to manage COVID-19 in its early stages. The findings appeared online in the journal Nature Medicine in March 2021. ...
According to the CDC, cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths. Using other tobacco ...
The fund has raised more than US$ 242 million from more than 661 000 individuals, corporations, and other organizations to support WHO and partners’ global COVID-19 response. The fund helps WHO to deploy lifesaving supplies, ...
Phase 1B of the COVID-19 vaccine national roll-out strategy will commence on March 22, 2021. Here is what you need to know: Who will be vaccinated under Phase 1B, based on recommendations by the Australian ...
A new model of disease spread describes how competing economic and health incentives influence social contact – and vice versa. The result is a complex and dynamic epidemic trajectory based on people’s behavior. The morning ...
FIFA is teaming up with the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote the need for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics, and to encourage people to keep practicing life-saving, everyday public health measures ...
Global scientists are intensifying research into COVID-19, as the World Health Organization (WHO) moves to expand its scientific collaboration and monitoring of emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. A day-long virtual meeting ...
COVAX now has agreements in place to access nearly two billion doses of several promising vaccine candidates and laid the groundwork for further doses to be secured through contributions from donors These agreements mean that ...
The first COVID-19 Vaccine for public use was given to 90-year-old grandmother, Margaret Keenan, in the biggest vaccination campaign by the NHS. Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 ...
What are the ingredients in a vaccine? Vaccines contain tiny fragments of the disease-causing organism or the blueprints for making the tiny fragments. They also contain other ingredients to keep the vaccine safe and effective. ...
During the halfway point of Queensland’s Mental Health Week, and Mental Health Commissioner Ivan Frkovic is urging residents to follow the week’s theme and “take time – for mental health”. Frkovic said the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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