MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Sixteen gallons of sanitizer was sitting in the foyer of the Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority House at the University of Wisconsin as mother Karen Mullis set up tables in the dining room to maintain social distance. Erik Johnson, President of the Interfrateration Board at the University …
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With a vaccine against a coronavirus still months away, companies are rushing to test what the next best thing might be: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight off the virus, without training the immune system to make them. Antibodies are proteins that the body makes when an infection occurs; they …
Read More »Delay routine dental check-ups, WHO requests, until COVID risk is known
FILE PHOTO: A dentist sues a patient at Silveroaks Dental Surgery as it opens for non-aerosol-generating assessments in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Milton Keynes, UK, June 8, 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Boyers / File photo GENEVA (Reuters) – Dental patients and staff need to be …
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The results of a new clinical trial can provide more hope for children with myopia, often known as nearsightedness. The study found that children as young as 7 who regularly wore strong bifocal contact lenses had less increase in their myopia than children who wore less powerful than single-vision lenses …
Read More »Delay routine dental check-ups, WHO requests, until COVID risk is known
FILE PHOTO: A dentist sues a patient at Silveroaks Dental Surgery as it opens for non-aerosol-generating assessments in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Milton Keynes, UK, June 8, 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Boyers / File photo GENEVA (Reuters) – Dental patients and staff need to be …
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