by Washington University in St. Louis Credit: CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 catastrophe in India has resulted in more than 30 million people infected with the virus and nearly 400,000 deaths, though experts are concerned that the figures most likely are much higher. Meanwhile, another public health crisis has emerged along with COVID-19: the widespread misuse...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Jun 30, 2021 Smell training used to be mainly a thing for wine enthusiasts, gourmets, and perfumers. But Covid-19 changed all that, and now Malmö University researchers have launched a new smell training device. The single most obvious symptom of Covid-19 is smell loss, but long before the pandemic, Simon...
In the “war” that the world has been fighting against COVID-19, scientists have been scanning their arsenals of previously used drugs in hopes of finding any that can be used to treat the disease. One of the contenders under scrutiny, an anti-malarial drug called mefloquine shows great promise, according to a new breakthrough study by...
By James Ducker, MRes Jul 1, 2021, Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Previous studies have shown that cats and dogs can catch coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from their owners, but new research attempting to understand how and why this occurs shows sleeping with the owner puts pets at risk. Cat sleeping on owner’s bed. Image...
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD Jun 21 2021 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been both prolonged and deadly, disrupting ordinary life and business activity to an extent unprecedented over the last hundred years. The agent responsible for this, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has shown itself largely unaffected by a...
CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL In rare cases, adults who have recovered from COVID-19 may develop the multisystem inflammatory syndrome, and clinicians should consider this possibility in adults with specific symptoms, as physicians describe in a case published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). A 60-year-old man, who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 four weeks before,...
Scientists are studying how well COVID-19 vaccines work against the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. We discuss the latest findings. How much protection against the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 can vaccines provide? Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images The delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was first identified in India, is now the dominant form of the virus in the United Kingdom....
by La Trobe University SARS-CoV-2 E binding to Pals1, a key protein found in human tissue. Credit: La Trobe University La Trobe University researchers are the first in the world to characterize precisely how COVID-19 attacks lung tissues—an important step in preventing long-term damage. Publishing their results today in Communications Biology Journal the researchers produced atomic-level images of...
by Yale University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exposure to the rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, can protect against infection by the virus which causes COVID-19, Yale researchers have found. In a new study, the researchers found that the common respiratory virus jump-starts the activity of interferon-stimulated genes, early-response molecules in the immune system which...
Many of the common procedures carried out by dentists have a very low risk of increasing the aerosol spread of COVID-19 and some procedures, such as ultrasonic scaling, were not shown to generate aerosol other than from the clean instrument itself, new research has found. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research...
