Online medical consultation platforms see huge rise in traffic during lockdown
The volume of traffic has also grown significantly from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities as the lockdown and fear of contracting infection is even keeping regular patients away from hospitals. Queries regarding fever, cough, cold, sore throat and body ache have increased by 200 per cent. And most of the questions are from people in the age group of 25-40. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hay fever or coronavirus: Is your sore throat a symptom of hay fever or COVID-19?
HAY FEVER season is here. Coronavirus is rampant. Both can cause a sore throat. How can Britons tell the difference? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pollen season: Can hay fever cause tight chest? Is a sore throat a symptom?
POLLEN SEASON is among us and hayfever sufferers are already showing symptoms. Can hayfever cause tight chest? What about a sore throat? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coronavirus symptoms: Is a sore throat a symptom of COVID-19?
CORONAVIRUS cases are increasing every day in the UK, and we have been told to look out for symptoms of the virus. So is a sore throat a symptom of COVID-19? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I ’m a Doctor Recovering From COVID-19. I Can’t Get Over the Government’s Callousness for Human Life
Dr. Laura Mulvey, 33, practices emergency medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. After spending six days receiving treatment in her own hospital, she is now recovering at home from what is presumed to be COVID-19, though her test was inconclusive. What follows is a lightly-edited transcript of her story as told to TIME.
Early on, sometime in February, [COVID-19] was something that people were thinking about. And worried about. Certainly, the worries were not what they are now. But hospital-wise, we had a bit of an earlier jump on it, because we recognized that this was a potential threat. We’re ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Laura Mulvey Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 UnitedWeRise20Disaster Source Type: news
The Coronavirus Sidelined Me From My Work as a Doctor. Soon I ’ll Be Back on the Frontlines
On March 11 I started my day at 6 a.m. with my usual busy calendar: rounding on patients in the hospital, attending meetings, hopping on a quick conference call, then heading off to the operating room. I was energized by my morning coffee and felt great. By mid-afternoon, everything was different. I had terrible body aches, fever, sudden fatigue. It was an effort just to walk to my car, parked three blocks away. A few more hours and I was short of breath. I saw my local physician in urgent care, and within minutes she was able to rule out two of the three likely culprits: influenza and strep.
Five days earlier, the Presid...
Source: TIME: Health - March 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bruce Gelb Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Source Type: news
Early-Warning System for Detecting Infections Is Being Studied
Most of the early physiological and biochemical changes that could be an indication of an infection in a patient’s body are asymptomatic, said Ben Hwang, chairman and CEO of Profusa, in an interview with MD+DI. “People don't see or feel [them],†he said, noting that it could be weeks before patients present with symptoms such as a fever or cough. But in the meantime, as we have seen with the COVID-19 pandemic, asymptomatic people could be spreading diseases unknowingly.
“What will be helpful is to be able to identify individuals at the presymptomatic s...
Source: MDDI - March 26, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Susan Shepard Tags: Implants Source Type: news
Time To Call OB/GYN If Cough Develops While Pregnant? Dr. Mallika Marshall Answers Your Coronavirus Questions
BOSTON (CBS) – As the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow, we are receiving a number of questions from the public. Dr. Mallika Marshall answered some of the questions sent to WBZ-TV’s Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts.
I’m 27 weeks pregnant. Developed a deep, painful cough last night. Call the OB/GYN or wait? – Jaclyn, Instagram
If you have a persistent cough and especially if you have a fever, you should call your doctor. You may not meet criteria for being tested for coronavirus, but you can get advice over the phone about what to do. Don’t ever hesitate to call your OB.
Is the s...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Syndicated Local Coronavirus Dr. Mallika Marshall Source Type: news
‘We Hand-Sanitize and Hold Hands.’ What It’s Like When Your Partner May Have Coronavirus
In February, when Jacob came home from an international trade show in Arizona with a cough, he wasn’t concerned. He slept in a separate room so that his hacking wouldn’t disturb his wife, Caitlin.
But within days, Jacob developed a fever and a sore throat so raw it felt like hamburger meat. He could barely sleep or eat. Caitlin sent their doctor’s office a note describing Jacob’s symptoms, and when Jacob arrived for an exam, “they almost tackled him to get a mask on him when he walked in the door,” Caitlin says. “The doctor told us it might be COVID-19.”
That possibility put...
Source: TIME: Health - March 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mandy Oaklander Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Source Type: news
What to do if you think you have COVID-19: A guide to each province and territory
If you have symptoms of the illness caused by the coronavirus — including cough, fever and difficulty breathing in adults, or a runny nose, sore throat and diarrhea in children — here's what to do. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Second Mar-a-Lago Guest Tests Positive for Coronavirus After Attending Fundraiser at Trump Resort
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said Friday he will likely be tested for the novel coronavirus “fairly soon,” as questions swirled about why the president, his top aides and his family weren’t doing more to protect themselves and others against COVID-19.
Trump spent time last weekend with a top Brazilian official who tested positive for the virus after returning from a weekend at the president’s private club in Florida. And late Friday, news broke that a second person who was at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend had tested positive, according to a Republican official who spoke on condition of ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JILL COLVIN, JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk wire Source Type: news
Is It Allergies, The Flu Or The Coronavirus? How To Tell The Difference
(CNN) — The coronavirus has infected more than 100,000 people worldwide. With all of the news of event cancellations, empty flights and health precautions (wash your hands!), it’s natural that people may get a little anxious every time they feel a tickle in their throat or the beginnings of a bad cough.
While the coronavirus is certainly something to take seriously, the chances of any individual person getting it are still low. But if you’re wondering whether that stuffy nose could end up being a worst case scenario, CNN talked to Dr. Greg Poland, a professor of medicine and Infectious diseases at the May...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News CNN Coronavirus Source Type: news
What Are Some Risk Factors for Cerebral Palsy?
Discussion
The term, cerebral palsy, or CP has gone through many iterations with the first description in 1861 by W.J. Little who described it as “The condition of spastic rigidity of the limbs of newborn children.” The most recent definition is from Rosenbaun et al. in 2007 which states it is “a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cog...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 9, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
‘There Has to Be a Plan.’ For Relatives of Nursing Home Residents, Anger and Worry as the Coronavirus Spreads
Kevin Connolly says his father-in-law credits the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington with “giving him his life back.” It’s where he recovered from hospice care, flirted with nurses and enjoyed eating chicken pot pie. But now, it’s where Connolly worries the 81-year-old will die because of what he says has been a bungled response to the coronavirus outbreak that has devastated the nursing home facility, which is linked to at least 13 of the 19 coronavirus deaths that had been reported in the U.S. as of Sunday morning.
“I can no longer sit around and wait for a phone call to tell me my lo...
Source: TIME: Health - March 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katie Reilly Tags: Uncategorized coronavirus COVID-19 elder care nursing homes Source Type: news
Country diary: jelly ears on rotting wood listen out for rain
Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Also known as wood ear, this brown fungus is waiting to release thousands of sporesThere is something uncannily alien about living jelly. Lobes of brown, gelatinous fungus growing out of dead and fallen branches are jelly ear,Auricularia auricula-judae. Once called the Judas ’s ear fungus because it often grows on the elder, the tree Judas Iscariot was supposed to have hanged himself on, it was mistranslated in the casual racism of 16th-century English as Jew’s ear.Also known aswood ear, it has an orangey brown to a deep chocolatey colour. It is edible (not tried it yet) and, as the “fungus ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 5, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Paul Evans Tags: Fungi Plants Environment Rivers Biology Science Source Type: news
