There is some onward transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from household contacts released from quarantine after seven or 10 days, according to research published in the Jan. 1 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Melissa A. Rolfes, Ph.D., from the CDC COVID-19 Response...
WILEY A reduced sense of smell, or olfactory dysfunction, is one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19. A recent study published the Journal of Internal Medicine has examined it prevalence and recovery in patients with varying degrees of severity of COVID-19. In the study of 2,581 patients from 18 European hospitals, the patient-reported prevalence of olfactory...
By HELEN BRANSWELL @HelenBranswell A pharmacist prepares to administer the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Twenty-nine people in the United States have developed anaphylaxis after being vaccinated against Covid-19 since the vaccine rollout began, health officials reported Wednesday, with cases occurring after vaccination using both the Pfizer-BioNTech and...
by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People taking immunosuppressive drugs to prevent organ transplant rejection or to treat inflammatory or autoimmune diseases do not fare worse than others on average when they are hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...
by University Health Network In the first of its kind research, Princess Margaret Scientist Dr. Catherine O’Brien identified an ancient, evolutionary survival mechanism co-opted by cancer cells to survive the harsh environment of chemotherapy. Credit: Visual Services, University Health Network Tapping into an ancient evolutionary survival mechanism, cancer cells enter into a sluggish, slow-dividing state to...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES FINDINGS A study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, frequently underestimates the size of prostate tumors, potentially leading to undertreatment. The study authors found that such underestimation occurs most often when the MRI-measured tumor size...
by John Hewitt , Medical Xpress In a recent paper in the journal Heart Rhythm, doctors describe how they turned off the potentially life-saving cardiac defibrillator function of an implanted Medtronic device simply by holding an iPhone 12 near it. The authors had nothing personal against Medtronic, or for that matter, against the new iPhone. The...
by Lauran Neergaard In this Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, file photo, a Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant sign is shown in Portage, Mich. New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa. Those variants are causing...
JANUARY 7TH, 2021 MEDGADGET EDITORS Strados Labs, a company based in Philadelphia, PA, but with R&D offices in Atlanta, GA, won FDA clearance to introduce its RESP system for monitoring lung sounds. The RESP device has already been employed in clinical trials to help monitor how various therapies, patient reports, and other vital signs correlate with changes in...
By Sarah MooreReviewed by Sophia Coveney, B.Sc. Phagocytosis is a form of endocytosis where a cell modifies its plasma membrane to engulf and internalize external matter, creating an internal compartment known as the phagosome. The word phagocytosis is derived from the Ancient Greek word “phagein”, meaning to eat. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock.com During the process...
