by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 9, 2020 | Health News
“The number of US prison residents who tested positive for Covid-19 was 5.5 times higher than the general US population,” according to an analysis led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study, published as a research letter in JAMA Wednesday, analyzed cases and deaths from March 31 to June 6 […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 8, 2020 | Health News
“It’s a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned in a press conference Tuesday with Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat....
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 6, 2020 | Health News
“The effect of short REM time on mortality has not been previously shown,” said Dr. Vsevolod Polotsky, who directs Sleep Basic Research in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and was not...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jun 30, 2020 | Health News
“If people are sick, they can just give them medicine so they get better, right?” my daughter asked with the hopeful perspective of an 11-year-old. “They can just go to the hospital so the doctors and nurses can help them?” The questions...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jun 16, 2020 | Health News
The two lead investigators of the Recovery Trial, a large UK-based trial investigating potential Covid-19 treatments, announced to reporters in a virtual press conference on Tuesday that a low-dose regimen of dexamethasone for 10 days was found to reduce the risk of...
