Breaking research in The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine shows that the fentanyl in epidurals can pass on to babies during labor. While the infants in this study did not experience adverse effects…
In the first week since COVID-19 was designated a pandemic, requests for food pantries skyrocketed across the United States. Requests for home-delivered meals more than tripled in the same time period, said…
As the COVID-19 pandemic prompts governments to close schools, shutter restaurants, ban many gatherings and curtail travel, researchers at the University of Washington want to understand the impact of the disease and…
Public health crises such as COVID-19 — in which people may feel powerless and receive conflicting information — can lead to a flare-up of unsafe religious sentiments, says Baylor University epidemiologist Jeff Levin,…
The virus that causes COVID-19 remains for several hours to days on surfaces and in aerosols, a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found. The study suggests that people may acquire the…
Key factors must be taken into account in determining the need for and allocation of scarce ventilators during a severe pandemic, especially one causing respiratory illness. Strategies to help state and local…
James Diaz, Professor and Head of Environmental Health Sciences at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health New Orleans School of Public Health, has proposed a possible explanation for the severe lung complications being…
Ultrasound Laboratory Trento, which develops ultrasound diagnostic tools for health applications, is one of the research groups that are at work at the University of Trento to fight the spread of Covid-19.…
GLOBAL HEALTH BRIEF Thursday, March 19, 2020 Public Health Leadership Paramount to Emerging Coronavirus Pandemic, Understanding How, COVID-19 Affects Children Vital to Slowing Pandemic, One of Darwin’s Evolution Theories Finally…
Though COVID-19 so far appears to be largely sparing children, researchers are cautioning that it is critical to understand how the virus affects kids to model the pandemic accurately, limit the disease’s…
