You CAN have a good death in hospital, insists top surgeon who argues it needn’t be the undignified end many fear If you’re anything like me, you probably spend a fair bit of time wondering where to go on holiday, where to have lunch or where to go for a nice…
85 Infants Tested Positive for Coronavirus in Texas: They 'Have Not Even Had Their First Birthday Yet'
In the past seven days, Nueces County has had 2,499 new cases and 40 deaths — “the fastest growth in new cases on the seven-day average than any other metropolitan county in the state,” Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni told CNN. "You can see the trend line is relatively…
Man wearing ideal Corona-antibodies in When he wants to donate blood, get a doctor for him
Who survives a Corona infection and enough antibodies, can donate his blood for the science and Ill help. Also, Hagen S. declared himself ready for it – shortly before the blood sampling, the Doctors sent him back home. Because he is gay. Hagen, S., on whose case the "Welt" reported,…
Silly cat nearly died after sneakily eating hairbands and bits of string
Cat owners will know that our feline pals absolutely love to play with hair bobbles, bits of string, and whatever other rubbish they can get their paws on – completely ignoring the fancy toys us humans stupidly paid loads of money for. But it’s important to keep a close eye…
Alex Trebek Says He Will Stop Cancer Treatment if the Latest Round Isn’t Successful
Alex Trebek has given an update on the treatment plan for his stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The longtime Jeopardy! host, 79, recently told The New York Times that he plans to stop treatment if his current round isn’t successful, but "he's currently doing well," a rep for the star shares…
Female surgeon scientists claim more than their share of research grants
While their ranks in academic surgery may be not be robust, women surgeons are holding their own when it comes to surgical research, securing a greater percentage of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants than their numbers suggest. However, their overall numbers remain low and academic medicine still needs to…
Mathematicians help to develop COVID-tracking database
A William & Mary mathematician and an undergraduate student are part of a team that has developed an interactive, user-friendly dashboard tracking COVID-19 infections and deaths across the U.S. GuanNan Wang, a professor in the university’s Department of Mathematics, and Yuan Gu ’20 were members of a research team based…
The most personal device: Researchers probe how much psychological data smartphones generate
Everyone who uses a smartphone unavoidably generates masses of digital data that are accessible to others, and these data provide clues to the user’s personality. Psychologists at LMU are studying how revealing these clues are. For most people around the world, smartphones have become an integral and indispensable component of…
Researchers: Victoria should aim to eliminate, not suppress, COVID-19
Leading epidemiologists have presented a 10-point plan to help Melbourne and Victoria achieve the elimination of COVID-19 within the 6-week lockdown period. Professor Tony Blakely, an epidemiologist and public health physician at the University of Melbourne, and colleagues wrote that, “Melbourne and Victoria should not waste the opportunity this lockdown…
Contact tracing useless unless it’s speedy: study
(HealthDay)—It’s the Holy Grail for containing the spread of coronavirus, but contact tracing only works if it is done quickly, researchers report. The modeling study showed that even if all contacts are successfully traced, a delay of three days or more between the start of symptoms and testing will not…