A mobile telehealth system (MTS) has been used in a hospital in China where COVID-19 patients were treated in isolation wards set off from other healthcare providers. Click here to read the article free in the peer-reviewed journal Telemedicine and e-Health. This just-published paper provides a full description of the…
5 things asthma suffers can do to keep lungs healthy amid coronavirus
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, it potentially poses a particular issue for asthma sufferers. People with the chronic disease have narrowed and swollen airways that produce extra mucus. Asthma sufferers are among those who are at higher risk of contracting the novel virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. The American…
As virus cases rise, UAE adjusts to a new normal in pandemic
In a Dubai industrial park, workers weld, drill and build what one entrepreneur sees as key to the near future of this desert city-state amid the coronavirus pandemic: disinfection gates. Husam Zammar’s company builds such gates for government and commercial clients. He believes the new safety measures will find wide…
Poll: Cost makes nearly 1 in 10 leery of seeking COVID care
As states gear up to reopen, a poll finds a potential obstacle to controlling coronavirus: nearly 1 in 10 adults say cost would keep them from seeking help if they thought they were infected. The Gallup-West Health Healthcare Costs Survey out Tuesday finds that 9% of those age 18 and…
This simple breathing exercise could reduce stress during the pandemic
We’re all probably doing plenty of things to try to reduce anxiety during the pandemic. We exercise, make bread, trawl the internet, maybe eat more than we should (like we did when we were college freshmen), and maybe drink more than we should (like we did before college midterms or…
COVID-19: breakthrough in large-scale Test score – Naturopathy naturopathy specialist portal
New Test for COVID-19 quickly leads to results A newly developed diagnostic Test for COVID-19 is designed for large-scale studies may be of diseased persons. With the Test a lot more samples can be evaluated as previously, resulting in a more effective combating of the threat posed by COVID-19 is…
Kawasaki disease: What is Kawasaki disease? How do children get it?
Kawasaki disease is thought to occur in 4.5 in 100,000 children under the age of 18 in the UK. Kawasaki is the main cause of acquired heart disease in this group and now, a group of at least 12 young coronavirus victims in intensive care units in Britain have come…
Did the movie ‘Joker’ reinforce prejudice against mentally ill?
(HealthDay)—The movie “Joker” won multiple awards and broke a box office record, but a new study is questioning whether it also fueled prejudices against people with mental illnesses. Researchers found that shortly after viewing “Joker,” moviegoers showed an uptick in negative feelings toward the mentally ill. In contrast, there was…
‘World should have listened to WHO’ on virus: director
The World Health Organization’s director-general said Monday that the agency had sounded the highest level of alarm over the novel coronavirus early on, but lamented that not all countries had heeded its advice. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed out that the WHO warned the COVID-19 outbreak constituted a “Public Health Emergency…