The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning in late October 2023 urging consumers to avoid purchasing and to immediately stop using 26 over-the-counter eye drop products because of risk of eye infection that could result in partial vision loss or even blindness. More products were soon added to the list, and a few others […]
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Air filtration systems do not reduce the risk of picking up viral infections, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published today reveals that technologies designed to make social interactions safer in indoor spaces are not effective in the real world. The team studied technologies including air filtration, germicidal […]
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Air filtration systems do not reduce the risk of picking up viral infections, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published today in Preventive Medicine reveals that technologies designed to make social interactions safer in indoor spaces are not effective in the real world. The […]
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Estimating the number of probable new SARS-CoV-2 infections among tested subjects from the number of confirmed cases – BMC Medical Research Methodology
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The study population The data were extracted from the SARS-CoV-2 infection surveillance system in South Kivu (DRC) during the 2020 pandemic. The population of South Kivu is approximately 4,800,000 people who live in a 64,492 km² area. The study considered the first thousand alert cases recorded between March 29 and November 29, 2020. An alert case […]
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Senescent cells in the brain contribute to age-related neurodegeneration. Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human brain organoids, animals and post-mortem brain samples from patients with COVID-19 reveals virus-induced senescence. Pharmacological senolytic treatment following SARS-CoV-2 infection improves COVID-19 neuropathology and could help to protect people from long COVID. This is a preview of subscription content, access […]
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The impact of immunosuppressive therapy on secondary infections and antimicrobial use in COVID-19 inpatients: a retrospective cohort study
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Our study at a large London tertiary hospital during the first wave of the UK epidemic found that 84.7% of patients with severe COVID-19 received antimicrobial therapy, despite only 13.3% developing a microbiologically confirmed bacterial or fungal infection. The majority of infections were hospital-acquired, secondary infections with Gram-negative organisms. In those who received immunosuppressive therapy […]
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Abstract Persistent symptoms following the acute phase of COVID-19 present a major burden to both the affected and the wider community. We conducted a cohort study including over 856,840 first COVID-19 cases, 72,422 re-infections and more than 3.1 million first negative-test controls from primary care electronic health records from Spain and the UK (Sept 2020 […]
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CDC reports a ‘staggering’ rise in measles infections globally, Texas doctor urges people to get vaccinated
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CDC reports a ‘staggering’ rise in measles infections globally, Texas doctor urges people to get vaccinated | KXAN Austin Skip to content