Can a 2-Week ‘Circuit Breaker’ Lockdown Curb COVID-19? The U.K. May Be About to Find Out
The coronavirus is having its way with the United Kingdom—a fact that is told starkly by the numbers. The 21st most populous country in the world, the U.K. is 11th in total number of COVID-19 infections—and climbing fast. Its daily infection rate is doubling every seven to eight days in some regions, more people are now hospitalized there than on March 23 (when the country went into general lockdown), and in some regions, hospital beds and intensive care units are at 90% capacity. With cold weather coming on and flu season beginning, things look darker still.
“We could sleep-walk into a long and bleak wi...
Source: TIME: Health - October 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Covid-19: Pooled testing among recommendations to fix test, trace and isolate system
(SAGE) In a series of recommendations to fix the struggling Covid-19 test, trace and isolate system in England, health researchers from University College London and the London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine say that pooled testing for Covid-19 could significantly increase testing capacity in a relatively short space of time and help with the identification of asymptomatic cases in key workers. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - October 16, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
AJTMH tip sheet for October 2020
(Burness) Your advance look at two new studies publishing online on October 15, 2020 in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - October 15, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Academics behind 'circuit breaker' study admit their death figures are over-estimated
Professor Graham Medley, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it might be too late to organise a planned lockdown for October but December may be too far away. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Young adults face higher risk of severe disease from infections than school-age children
(London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine) The first systematic review of how the severity of infectious diseases changes with age suggests that the human immune system might start to lose the ability to protect against infections earlier than previously thought, according to new research published in Scientific Data.Led by the London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine, the study analysed data of 32 different infectious diseases, 19 viral and 13 bacterial, looking for patterns in severity at different ages using case fatality and hospitalisation rates. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - October 14, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
COVID-19: Examining Theories for Africa ’ s Low Death Rates
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The post COVID-19: Examining Theories for Africa’s Low Death Rates appeared first on Inter Press Service. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Africa Headlines Health Source Type: news
‘It’s a Game for Them.’ Scientists Around the World Are Teaching Dogs to Sniff Out COVID-19
Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University, is midway through explaining how dogs might play a role in detecting COVID-19 infections when a decidedly less-well trained canine interrupts our conversation.
“If you’ll excuse me for a minute, I’ve got a naughty black Labrador out in the back garden doing something it shouldn’t be doing,” Lindsay says. He disappears. I hear barking. He returns accompanied by a chocolate lab. “She’s not as skilled as the detection dogs,” Lindsay says as the pup tries to lick his face. “But it’s really interesting t...
Source: TIME: Health - October 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
‘It’s a Game for Them.’ Scientists Around the World Are Teaching Dogs to Sniff Out COVID-19
Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University, is midway through explaining how dogs might play a role in detecting COVID-19 infections when a decidedly less-well trained canine interrupts our conversation.
“If you’ll excuse me for a minute, I’ve got a naughty black Labrador out in the back garden doing something it shouldn’t be doing,” Lindsay says. He disappears. I hear barking. He returns accompanied by a chocolate lab. “She’s not as skilled as the detection dogs,” Lindsay says as the pup tries to lick his face. “But it’s really interesting t...
Source: TIME: Science - October 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Medknow journals in EMBASE / EMCARE from 2009
Following journals included in EMBASE / EMCARE from 2009Annals of Pediatric CardiologyAnnals of Tropical Medicine and Public HealthAsian Journal of PharmaceuticsAsian Journal of Transfusion ScienceHepatitis B AnnualIndian Journal of Community MedicineIndian Journal of NephrologyIndian Journal of Nuclear MedicineIndian Journal of PsychiatryIndian Journal of Sexually Transmitted DiseasesInternational Journal of Green PharmacyInternational Journal of YogaJournal of Conservative DentistryJournal of Emergencies, Trauma and ShockJournal of Gynecological Endoscopy and SurgeryJournal of Human Reproductive SciencesJournal of Indian...
Source: Medknow News - September 30, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
ATMPH is now online
The inaugural issue of Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, the official publication of Africa Health Research Organization, is now online at www.atmph.org. The journal will be published twice in the year 2008 and subsequently four times in a year. ATMPH considers for publication both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts dealing with issue on tropical medicine, microbiology, epidemiology, virology, therapeutics, public health, social sciences and laboratory medicine.Articles can be submitted electronically from www.journalonweb.com/atmph. There is no fee for submission, processing or publication of articles.Sept...
Source: Medknow News - September 30, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New way of giving life-saving drug will help frontline responders save the lives of trauma victims
(London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine) A life-saving treatment for bleeding trauma victims, tranexamic acid (TXA), can now be given by a simple injection at the scene of the injury, according to a new study in British Journal of Anaesthesia. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Paul McDonald obituary
My friend Paul McDonald, who has died aged 74, was a physicist and expert in cryogenics whose work advanced a variety of technologies, including satellite tracking, superconducting magnets and cryostat thermometers. He was also a keen supporter of Cruisewatch, the protest group that tracked cruise missile convoys at Greenham Common, Berkshire, in the 1980s.Born in Salford, Paul was the eldest son of Frank McDonald, a PoW survivor of the Burma Railway, and Elsie (nee Rosser), who had nursed Frank back to life in the Tropical Medicine hospital, Liverpool.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 29, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Wendell Bailey Tags: Physics Greenham Common People in science University of Southampton Source Type: news
Combating climate change health impacts and fighting COVID-19: Key themes of TropMed20
(Burness) Planetary health, a discussion with Dr. Anthony Fauci and other influential COVID-19 experts; new findings on how climate change is affecting fetal health and tick behavior; and reckoning with tropical medicine's racist past are among the highlights of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene -- a virtual gathering this year of the world's leading infectious disease fighters amidst a global pandemic. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - September 29, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Contact tracing study results recommend consistent wearing of masks, handwashing, and social distancing in public to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection
(European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) A contact tracing study presented at this year's ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID) confirms the effectiveness of wearing of masks in public, handwashing, and social distancing to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection. The study is by Assistant Professor Direk Limmathurotsakul, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Britain hasn't learnt from March and is about to make another 'mistake', SAGE members warn
Professor John Edmunds, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a SAGE member (left) said the outbreak will be allowed to 'double and double and double again'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
