Covid-19: AAP Issues Guidance for Keeping Kids Safe as Pandemic Continues
Documents outline recommendations for face coverings, testing protocols, and PPE for pediatricians...
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Documents outline recommendations for face coverings, testing protocols, and PPE for pediatricians...
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About 70 college students are enrolled this summer in a program developed by San Francisco researchers and funded by the National Institutes of Health that allows them to explore the pandemic’s impact on communities facing health disparities.
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Hospital employees say they must choose between their paychecks and their health or that of their families. Returning to work with symptoms also risks infection among the patients they are meant to heal.
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Public health organizations emphasize saving resources for medically-indicated tests CHICAGO — The...
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KHN and The Guardian unveil an interactive database documenting front-line health care worker deaths. The majority of them are people of color — and nurses face the highest toll.
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People have flooded U.S. testing sites with requests to participate in the pivotal, late-stage clinical trials of the first two COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
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Skeptics say the lack of enforceable federal safety standards geared toward the coronavirus allows these employers to prioritize the harvest over worker safety.
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Researchers at Duke University tested the effectiveness of 14 commonly available masks in a...
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Studies highlight potential harms from lockdown-related delays There is growing evidence that the...
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Organization condemns targeted attacks against physicians who are ’merely doing their jobs’...
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Vaccines engineered to protect the public from influenza, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies are less effective for obese people, leaving them more vulnerable to serious illness. As scientists race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, experts say obesity could prove an impediment — a sobering prospect for a nation in which nearly half of all adults are obese.
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Harvard research shows minorities are most likely to report inadequate PPE and to work with COVID-positive patients.
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In a town in the southwestern corner of Missouri, where COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Latino immigrants, language barriers and economic pressures among factory workers have stymied efforts to slow the virus that causes the disease.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled life in all countries globally, and the UK is no different....
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Research institutes from across the world are testing various drug combinations to develop a...
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The SARS-CoV-2 primarily affects the respiratory system of the infected individual. But lately,...
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The workforce faces physical, mental, financial risks as well as the risk of contracting Covid-19...
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Teams are starting to test vaccines using messenger RNA or chimpanzee cold viruses to inoculate humans. Will their benefits last?
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Experts suggest encouraging patients to visit ED for serious, non-Covid-related illnesses that...
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Heart pumps authorized for patients with myocarditis or pulmonary edema WASHINGTON —The FDA issued...
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