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The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. But just as some of the social changes are likely here to stay, so are some medical innovations.
Phthalates can be found in many common products and types of plastic packaging.
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Scientists issued an urgent call for better federal regulation of these endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Here’s what you can do to reduce your family’s risk.
Studies in poor countries have highlighted disparities in respectful and responsive care during childbirth based on women’s socioeconomic status and other characteristics.
Seventy-four percent of shows and films with an abortion plot line centered on an impregnated white character, including ‘Little Fires Everywhere.’
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Health systems around the US are on the cusp of receiving COVID-19 vaccines. At the end of this months-long effort are the nitty-gritty details of how health care providers are giving people the vaccine.
2020 is the international year of the nurse and midwife.
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Nurses represent 50% of the global healthcare workforce. And they are often the sole healthcare providers in many low and middle-income countries.
The discovery of effective drugs and experience treating COVID-19 gives patients a much better chance at recovery today than early on in the pandemic.
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Death rates for hospitalized COVID-19 patients fell from 25.6% in March to 7.6% in August, according to a new study on three hospitals in New York. A study in the UK found similar results.
Many factors influence how consistently women take their HIV medicine.
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There are ingredients in your pills other than the one designed to treat your ailments. Those unnamed ingredients can alter how you respond to a medicine or even make you sick.
Lorsqu’ils sont infectés, les gens qui portent des masques sont plus susceptibles d'avoir des symptômes plus légers. Wenmei Zhou/Vecteurs de vision numérique via
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Dans les lieux où le port du masque est respecté, les formes sévères de Covid-19 semblent moins fréquentes. Les masques protégeraient donc non seulement les autres, mais aussi leurs porteurs.
When people wear masks, they can still get infected, but they’re more likely to have milder symptoms.
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Monica Gandhi, University of California, San Francisco
In places where everyone wears a mask, cases of COVID-19 seem to be less severe. Evidence from labs and outbreaks suggests that masks protect not only others, but the person wearing the mask, too.
SARS-CoV-2 turns on a cellular switch to build the tubes in this photo – called filopodia – that might help viral particles – the little spheres – spread more easily.
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Kinases are cellular control switches. When they malfunction, they can cause cancer. The coronavirus hijacks these kinases to replicate, and cancer drugs that target them could fight COVID-19.
Screening for symptoms can catch some cases of COVID-19, but about people who are infected but not showing any symptoms?
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Monica Gandhi, University of California, San Francisco
There is a lot of confusion and concern around asymptomatic spread of SARS-C0V-2. An infectious disease expert explains how many people are asymptomatic and how they can spread the virus.
Today’s high-stress environment is an opportunity to reset how our brains deal with stressful situations.
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With the county facing a crisis in emotional health, we may need two vaccines: one for COVID-19 and another for toxic stress. Here’s a technique for dealing with all that stress.
Testing in cells is an important and exciting first step.
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Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, identified nine existing drugs that show promise to treat COVID-19. The proteins they target haven’t been tried before.
One of the first babies born on 1 January 2020 in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Findings that are effectively communicated can go a long way to serve the interests of the public. They can help to address social injustices or improve treatments offered to patients.
A healthcare worker examining a pregnant woman.
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Verbal and physical abuse appeared to be an expression of both helplessness and an exercise of power.
Il existe 20 000 médicaments approuvés par la FDA. Il en existe peut-être un qui pourrait combattre le COVID-19, mais encore faut-il trouver lequel.
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Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco
Parmi les 20 000 médicaments approuvés par la FDA, certains peuvent traiter le Covid-19. Une équipe de l’Université de Californie à San Francisco est en train d’identifier des candidats possibles.