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Friday, 25 October 2024

Combining remdesivir with other meds could boost COVID-fighting power

(HealthDay)—A combination drug therapy for COVID-19 aims to both prevent the virus from spreading inside the human body as well as quelling the immune system havoc that the germ wreaks. A U.S. federally funded clinical trial is testing whether the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir works better against COVID-19 if given…

Reading your partner’s emotions—when it helps, and when it hurts

Are you good at reading your partner’s emotions? Your perceptiveness may very well strengthen your relationship. Yet when anger or contempt enter the fray, little is to be gained and the quality of your relationship tanks, researchers find. A new study by a team of psychologists from the University of…

App will reduce high risk of falls during and after lockdown

A free app has been developed at the University of Manchester to help reduce the high risk of falls and physical decline in older people self-isolating during the COVID-19 lockdown. When used, the evidence-based app—called Keep-On-Keep-Up- will help reduce the thousands of injuries—which are often serious and sometimes fatal—in the…

Study: one in five Stockholm has Coronavirus antibodies

The Coronavirus pandemic holds the world in suspense! More than 5 million people were infected worldwide with the new Covid-19 – 176.486 of them so far in Germany. All messages to the Corona-crisis in Germany, Europe and the world, you will find in the News Ticker of FOCUS Online. Study:…

Boost your immunity with these 2 morning drinks

"It’s easy to take the immune system for granted because it does such a good job at keeping us free from infection. If you’ve got a healthy immune system, look after it and it will look after you," says Dr Rohini Somnath Patil, nutritionist. Falling ill is not a risk…

Multiple miscarriages can increase risk of diabetes, study suggests

Multiple miscarriages can increase a woman’s risk of developing diabetes by up to 71%, new study suggests Women who miscarry are ’18 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes’ Experts studied more than 24,700 diabetic women born between 1957 and 1997 Research suggests three miscarriages increased the chances by…

WHO record number of reports in the new Corona-infections in a day

In the past 24 hours Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Of 106,000, according to WHO Director-General to Re-infections as many as have never been registered in a single day. The world have yet to "a long way to go before sich", as the WHO Director-General. Especially the increasing Numbers in poorer countries,…

Advanced prostate cancer rates continued to rise after guideline change

A new study finds rates of advanced prostate cancer continued to increase in men aged 50 and over in the United States, five years after the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against prostate-specific antigen-based screening for all men. The study, led by American Cancer Society investigators, says…