Dear Mayo Clinic: Frequent hand-washing and cleaning during the COVID-19 pandemic has made my hands so dry that my skin in cracking. With recommendations for…
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Study quantifies China’s chronic health burden for the first time
University of Melbourne researchers have quantified the toll that having multiple chronic diseases takes in China for the first time, which could have significant implications…
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Direct oral anticoagulants associated with lower risk of fracture compared with warfarin for patients with AF
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) are associated with lower risk of osteoporotic fracture compared with warfarin for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). No difference was found…
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Scientists discover new targets for preventing damage from viral infections
When the body faces stressful conditions such as high temperatures or lack of nutrients, cells produce the same large structures they make to combat virus…
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New triple antiviral drug combination shows early promise for treating COVID-19 in phase 2 randomized trial
A two-week course of antiviral therapy with interferon beta-1b plus lopinavir-ritonavir and ribavirin, started within 7 days of showing COVID-19 symptoms, is safe and more…
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How to prepare for a pandemic
The exact place, time and variety of disease currently gripping the world could not have been predicted. Yet we knew a pandemic of some kind…
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COVID-19 limitations unique opportunity for researchers to decrease digital divide
The COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders and other limitations could offer researchers the chance to use technology to decrease the digital divide and disparities in academic research,…
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Working Mom Guilt? Here's Invaluable Advice for Getting Through It
For some of us, it’s sobbing for days when we first drop off our babies at daycare or leave them with caretakers. For others, it’s…
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Dubai launches home tests for coronavirus
Dubai on Friday launched a mobile testing service to carry out free coronavirus screening at home for the elderly and most vulnerable, after slightly easing…
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Homeless shelters are ‘tinder boxes’ for coronavirus, studies show
Even at the beginning of April, large percentages of residents at U.S. homeless shelters were testing positive for the new coronavirus, studies show. One study…
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