Monthly Archives: July 2020

Lung Radiation Helps Coronavirus Pneumonia Recover Faster, Study Says

Low-dose radiation therapy to the lungs has been shown to accelerate recovery in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with pneumonia, according to a new study. The research team at the Emory University Winship Cancer Institute in Georgia treated 10 patients with the therapy and compared the clinical results with 10 patients in …

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UK ‘overestimates’ death toll from coronavirus: study

Credit: CC0 Public domain Britain ordered an urgent review on Friday of how coronavirus deaths are counted after a study suggested that health authorities are overestimating the number by counting people who died long after recovering. More than 45,000 deaths have been recorded in patients who tested positive for COVID-19 …

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