The researchers say there are also concerns that a vaccine may be less effective for overweight people due to a weakened immune response. Scientists at UNC are reviewing data from 75 studies conducted between January and June with 400,000 coronavirus patients. They found obese people a 46% greater risk of …
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The 28-year-old woman had about 300 South Koreans evacuated from Italy in March in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in Milan, the researchers wrote in the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. “On the flight from Milan, Italy, to South Korea, she was wearing …
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to Abbott Laboratories for a $ 5 rapid response COVID-19 antigen test that is about the size of a credit card. The inexpensive, rapid-response test could be administered in an office of a physician as a school nurse and uses …
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And patients who received anticoagulants were also 30% less likely to need a ventilator to breathe, a team at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York reported. Their study of more than 4,300 patients, including those who died, often had evidence of blood problems in their bodies, although many …
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A woman who was diagnosed with HIV almost 30 years ago may have been cured of the virus – without taking medication or having a bone marrow transplant. Scientists have been studying Loreen Willenberg for decades, with the 66-year-old insisting she never took medication to keep the virus at bay. …
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