UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER IMAGE: CORRIE DETWEILER IN THE LAB AT CU BOULDER CREDIT: CU BOULDER As scientists around the globe wage war against a novel, deadly virus, one University of Colorado Boulder lab is working on new weapons to battle a different microbial threat: a rising tide of antibiotic-resistant bacteria which, if left...
SOME CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS EXPERIENCE A “WARPED” SENSE OF TASTE AND SMELL. COVID’s grim superpower is that its vast range of symptoms makes it difficult to track and diagnose. Though early in the pandemic, many were on the lookout for a telltale fever and cough, it’s become increasingly clear that plenty of patients never exhibit these better known symptoms. Today, we know that...
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DR. BABAK BABAN, DCG IMMUNOLOGIST AND ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH AND DR. JACK YU, PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST AND CHIEF OF PEDIATRIC PLASTIC SURGERY AT MCG One way CBD appears to reduce the “cytokine storm” that damages the lungs and kills many patients with COVID-19 is by enabling an...
By Rich Haridy, October 20, 2020 The first stage of the trial will be infecting healthy volunteers with the virus to discover the lowest dose that consistently leads to the development of COVID-19 Researchers in the United Kingdom are set to undertake controversial human challenge trials to accelerate the testing of COVID-19 vaccines. The trials, planned to commence...
Public health officials in the U.S. could take heart at the end of the summer. Even as the new coronavirus continued to spread, fewer people were winding up in the hospital because of Covid-19, and fewer were dying. Now, as the seasons turn and the global death toll from Covid-19 tops 1 million, signs suggest...
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — Severely ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it’s easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality. But that life-saving position can also cause permanent nerve damage in these vulnerable patients, reports a newly accepted study from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University Feinberg...
Greetings, As of March 3rd, testing for patients who qualify will be done at Eastside Family Health Center as per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations. Sample will then be sent to Department of Health click here to see the article published by Evergreen Hospital There are 3 levels of care at this...
