UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON IMAGE: AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE OSO REGION THE DAY OF THE MARCH 22, 2014, LANDSLIDE CAPTURED BY A U.S. NAVY SEARCH AND RESCUE CREW ASSISTING WITH SEARCH AND RECOVERY EFFORTS. The March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Seattle, became the deadliest landslide event in United States...
Christie Aschwanden A New Jersey campaign rally for US President Donald Trump, who has espoused herd immunity as a strategy to deal with the pandemic. In May, the Brazilian city of Manaus was devastated by a large outbreak of COVID-19. Hospitals were overwhelmed and the city was digging new grave sites in the surrounding forest....
By Layal Liverpool Plastic baby bottles can shed microparticles into the contents Plastic feeding bottles release an average of 4 million microplastic particles per litre into baby formula during preparation, but it still isn’t clear whether ingesting microplastics is harmful to infant health. John Boland at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and his colleagues measured microplastics released during...
by Marlowe Hood There is growing evidence that face masks can considerably reduce the transmission of respiratory viruses like SARS-CoV-2, thereby limiting the spread of COVID-19 Even if state-level governments in the United States reimpose limited social distancing measures to halt the spread of COVID-19, the death toll could more than double by the end...
Between taking care of yourself and family members and trying to manage a social life and career, it’s common for women to feel tired and achy. But are these symptoms of a stressful life, or could they be tied to an underlying condition like autoimmune disease? Ana-Maria Orbai, M.D., M.H.S., is a rheumatologist at the Johns...
SPINK HEALTH IMAGE: THE STUDY, PRESENTED TODAY AT UEG WEEK 2020 VIRTUAL, ANALYSED 1,435,350 PATIENTS WITH CONCURRENT DIABETES AND OBESITY OVER A 20-YEAR PERIOD. (Vienna, October 12, 2020) Weight loss surgery significantly cuts the risk of developing pancreatic cancer in people who are obese with diabetes, a new 20-year analysis has found. The study, presented...
by Chuck Gill, Pennsylvania State University Penn State sensory scientists are encouraging people to do a daily smell test — using something as simple as their morning coffee — to check for anosmia, or loss of smell, which research indicates is a common symptom of COVID-19. With mounting scientific evidence that anosmia, or loss of smell,...
Created using synthetic DNA, viltolarsen is an excellent example of precision medicine. A University of Alberta researcher’s past work has led to a new drug being approved for use in the United States to treat patients suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The drug, viltolarsen, was approved for use in Japan earlier this year and...
by NYU Langone Health Without directly invading the brain or nerves, the virus responsible for COVID-19 causes potentially damaging neurological injuries in about one in seven infected, a new study shows. These injuries range from temporary confusion due to low body-oxygen levels, to stroke and seizures in the most serious cases, say the study authors. Led...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, October 13, 2020 — More than half of older patients hospitalized for heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart doesn’t pump blood as well as it should, are discharged from the hospital with prescriptions for 10 or more medications, according to new research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure,...
