Many people across the world are still living under tough restrictions or lockdowns because of the pandemic, staying home as
Month: January 2021
Pandemic ‘leads to slump in heart disease tests’
Procedures to diagnose and treat heart disease fell by almost two-thirds in spring 2020 compared to 2019, a study suggested
Rapid blood test identifies COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe disease
One of the most vexing aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is doctors’ inability to predict which newly hospitalized patients will
EXPLAINER: Why expansion of vaccine to smokers caused a stir
New Jersey this week made millions of people eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including smokers, a move that prompted
WHO cites human behavior more than variants as virus spreads
The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said Friday that the impact of new variants of COVID-19 in places like Britain,
T cells linked to myelin implicated in MS-like disease in monkeys
Scientists have uncovered new clues implicating a type of herpes virus as the cause of a central nervous system disease
Study finds COVID isolation worsens student diets, inactivity, and alcohol intake
A University of Saskatchewan study has found that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant worsening of already poor dietary
India’s jumbo-sized vaccine rollout in numbers
India began one of the world’s biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes on Saturday, hoping to end a pandemic that has killed
Gene-mapping champion Iceland leads the way in COVID sequencing
Iceland has genetically sequenced all its positive COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, an increasingly vital practice as
New study connects religiosity in US South Asians to cardiovascular disease
The Study on Stress, Spirituality and Health (SSSH), a cutting-edge proteomics analysis, suggests that religious beliefs modulate protein expression associated
