Paramedics lower a patient from an ambulance outside the emergency department of the Royal London Hospital in London, England, on January 26, 2021. David Cliff | NurPhoto | Getty Images Most regions of the globe are seeing an increase in new Covid-19 cases as highly contagious variants continue to spread, the World Health Organization said… Read More »
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at the University of Arizona and Illumina, Inc., estimate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely circulating undetected for at most two months before the first human cases of COVID-19 were described in Wuhan, China in late-December… Read More »
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A research team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed a mathematical model to estimate the false negative rate for COVID-19 tests. According to a study published earlier this month in Clinical Infectious Diseases, the assay limit of detection (or the smallest amount of viral DNA detectable that a test will catch 95%… Read More »
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A recently approved rheumatoid arthritis medication appears to be an effective second-line therapy when biologic treatments start to fail, a new clinical trial reports. Arthritis sufferers treated with upadacitinib had a significantly greater reduction in their symptoms and disease activity than people treated… Read More »
Record high infection rates in the Midwest are driving the latest surge in coronavirus cases that have exceeded some daily totals reported over the summer. Midwestern states have recently recorded their highest case increases and test positivity rates since the pandemic began. Many of the states fueling the latest surge had not experienced an outbreak… Read More »