As coronavirus spreads, many questions and some answers
The rapid spread of the coronavirus now called COVID-19 has sparked alarm worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency, and many countries are grappling with a rise in confirmed cases. In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising people to be prepared for disruptions to daily life that will be necessary if the coronavirus spreads within communities.
Below, we’re responding to a number of questions about COVID-19 raised by Harvard Health Blog readers. We hope to add further questions and update answers as reliable information becomes available.
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Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Todd Ellerin, MD Tags: Children's Health Cold and Flu Infectious diseases Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Reasons to chill and reasons not to chill
Okay, I ' m not an epidemiologist or a virologist. But I do know something about those subjects, I ' m a public health professor, and I am an expert in clinical communication and risk communication. So I ' m going to offer some observations that I hope will help people keep this public health scare in proper perspective and maybe be of practical use.There are two important parameters we need to understand the risk caused by any communicable disease. I ' m going to broadly say transmissibility, and the probability that exposure will lead to serious disease.We often see transmissibility represented as a single number, called...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Improved PCR Flu Diagnostic for Pandemic Response: Interview with Chris Hole of TTP
TTP, a technology company based in Melbourn, UK, is developing a handheld PCR (polymerase chain reaction) diagnostic device that can rapidly detect influenza viruses, and one day other viruses, in samples of nasal mucus. The company claims that the system, which uses a high speed version of traditional RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction), incorporates several breakthroughs that translate to improved speed, cost, and size when compared with existing molecular diagnostics systems. Such technology could be crucial in providing diagnostic and surveillance capability for infectious disease outbreaks such as...
Source: Medgadget - February 20, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Public Health Source Type: blogs
Novel coronavirus - information for health professionals
I have four separate posts - News ; Epidemiology and genetics ; Information for the public, including travel advice ; Information for health professionals, including published research.This post contains information for health practitioners. The epidemiology and genetics page may also be useful.Last updated 30th January 2020, 1540 UK time.Find recent novel coronavirus articles using PubMedSorted by the date added to PubMedDepartment of Health and Social Care (UK)The department ' sadvice for the public does contain information of interest to health professi...
Source: Browsing - January 25, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus NCOV Wuhan Source Type: blogs
Novel coronavirus - clinical information
I am also maintaining posts aboutnews,travel information andepidemiological and genetic information.This post contains information for health practitioners. The epidemiological and genetic information page may also be useful.Last updated 25th January 2020, 1940 UK time.BMJBMJ - Coronavirus special issueBMJ Best PracticeThere is free access to theBMJ Best Practice topic on the novel coronavirus, as well as those for SARS and MERS. PubMedPubMed search for the novel coronavirus, sorted by date added to PubMed(University of Leicester health undergraduate students can have access to all of BMJ Best Pr...
Source: Browsing - January 25, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus Wuhan Source Type: blogs
The new coronavirus: What we do — and don’t — know
A rapidly evolving health story broke in late December when a novel illness originating in Wuhan, China made the news. Reports of the number of infected people swiftly rose, and isolated cases of this new coronavirus — dubbed 2019-nCoV by scientists — have appeared in several countries due to international travel. At this writing, almost 1,300 confirmed cases and over 40 deaths have occurred in China, according to an article in the New York Times.
Fortunately, public health officials in many countries, including the US, have put measures in place to help prevent further spread of the virus. These measures include healt...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Todd Ellerin, MD Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Oh no! Are we all going to die?
Yes. However, very probably not because of the novel coronavirus that has appeared in China. This seems to be front page headlines in every media outlet on the planet, and the World Health Organization has convened a meeting to decide whether to declare an official Global Health Emergency.This sort of flapdoodle happens every time a novel pathogen appears. Back when I lived in the Hub of the Universe a mosquito-borne disease called West Nile virus appeared (having formerly been large confined to, yes, west of the Nile). For weeks, every time a new case was identified it would be on the front page of the Boston Globe....
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 22, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A new coronavirus causing respiratory disease in China
A new coronavirus appears to be causing a pneumonia-like illness in China. It is certainly a zoonotic infection – jumping from non-human animals to humans – as exemplified by previous outbreaks of SARS and MERS coronaviruses. The government in Wuhan, China confirmed on 31 December that dozens of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause were […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 10, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information coronavirus emerging virus MERS pneumonia respiratory disease SARS viral viruses Wuhan outbreak zoonosis Source Type: blogs
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: jufyolor Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Reforming Passenger Rail
The United States is more socialistic than other advanced economies in numerous ways. Federal and state governments attempt to run businesses that have been privatized in other countries, such aselectric utilities,airports,air traffic control,postal services, and passenger rail.The federal government took over passenger rail after it helped ruin private passenger rail with taxes, regulations, and unions in the post-WWII years. Remaining passenger rail routes were assembled into Amtrak in the 1970s, which was supposed to become self-supporting but has consumed billions of dollars in subsidies.Today, Amtrak operates 44 rou...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 11th 2019
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - March 10, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
TWiV 538: An Iowa caucus of viruses
TWiV travels to the University of Iowa to speak with Wendy Maury and Stanley Perlman about their research on Ebolavirus entry and coronavirus pathogenesis. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 538 (37 MB .mp3, 62 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 10, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology ebolavirus MERS coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus SARS coronavirus TIM-1 viral virus entry viruses Source Type: blogs
Control of Inflammation May Contribute to the Longevity of Bats
Bat species tend to be very long lived in comparison to other mammalian species of a similar size. The usual explanation for this involves evolutionary adaptation to the metabolic demands of flight. Bats and birds exhibit similar biochemical and metabolic features, despite their evolutionary distance from one another. Bats may have evolved mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, that are more efficient and more resilient to oxidative damage than their closest mammalian relatives that do not fly, and it is generally acknowledged that mitochondrial function and metabolic rate are important determinants of species longevi...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 4, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
TWiV 501: Outbreak
Vincent visits the Smithsonian Institution and speaks with Sabrina Sholts, Jon Epstein, and Ed Niles about the exhibit Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>&lt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=&...
Source: virology blog - July 8, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology ebola virus epidemic influenza virus MERS National Museum of Natural History Nipah virus One Health outbreak SARS smallpox virus Smithsonian spillover viral viruses zoonosis zoonotic Source Type: blogs
