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New Global Registry to Measure the Risk Among Clinicians Who Intubate COVID-19 Patients Launched

The United States component of a global registry that aims to help protect health care providers who intubate patients with COVID-19 and better quantify




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New Guidance for Patients with IBD During the COVID-19 Pandemic

New study provides guidance on the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings of the study




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Palliative Care Should be Adapted for Severely Ill COVID-19 Patients

New study describes how palliative care needs to adapt to an emergency style to help make the best decisions and support families. The findings of the




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Delaying Bariatric or Metabolic Surgery During Coronavirus Pandemic Puts Patients at High Risk

New guidance recognizes patients with the greatest need for bariatric and metabolic surgery as a new study warn delaying treatment may put them at a higher risk of complications from their disease as well as from COVID-19.




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Most COVID-19 Infected Patients may Lose Sense of Smell by Third Day

Loss of the sense of smell and taste is most likely to occur by the third day of infection with the novel COVID-19 virus, reports a new study.




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Olanzapine Reduces Nausea, Vomiting Among Cancer Patients

Olanzapine, a generic drug used to treat nervous, emotional and mental conditions, also may help patients with advanced cancer manage nausea and vomiting unrelated to chemotherapy.




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Rapid Decline in Stroke Patients Seeking Help During COVID-19 Pandemic

Several people who experience strokes may not be seeking potentially life-saving medical care during the coronavirus pandemic as a new study finds a decline in the number of people evaluated for stroke.




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Promising Discovery: New Insulin Compound Could Enhance Therapy for Diabetes Patients

Newly developed insulin compound could offer fresh hope of better diabetes treatment to millions of diabetics, reports a new study. The findings of the




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Drone Delivers Insulin For Patients

Diabetes care reaches new heights as world's first documented drone delivery of insulin for a patient living in a remote community. The 16-minute test




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Affordable Insulin Option Can Now Be Used By Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Through Wearable Device

Using regular human insulin (RHI) in a wearable, patch-like insulin delivery device with type 2 diabetes helps adults requiring insulin therapy safely achieve good blood sugar control.




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Blood Sugar Control is Key for Diabetic Patients with COVID-19

People with type 2 diabetes are at higher risk of a poor outcome if they become infected with the novel coronavirus but controlling their blood sugar




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New App can Help Patients with Binge Eating Disorders

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)-guided self-help (GSH) plus Noom Monitor delivered through telemedicine by routine-practice health coaches in a nonacademic




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Virtual Reality can Help Physiotherapy Patients Perform Exercises at Home

Virtual reality may help physiotherapy patients perform their exercises at home successfully using a VR technology with 3D motion capture now, reports a new study.




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AI Tool Predicts Which COVID-19 Patients Develop Respiratory Issue

New experimental artificial intelligence tool accurately predicted which COVID-19 patients would develop severe respiratory disease, according to a new study.




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Hypnotherapy may be Beneficial to Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), that affects one in five people worldwide is treatable through gut-directed hypnotherapy delivered by psychologists. IBS




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Psoriasis Patients Found to Seek Alternative Medicine

Patients with psoriasis found to use complementary or alternative medicine regularly to treat their symptoms, according to a survey of George Washington




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Community Based Health Information Exchanges Can Help Serve the Patients Better

Community health information exchanges can help the members of the community by providing information useful to a particular patient. They have also been




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Australia’s health system is too complex for patients

Australia should improve the integration of care across the patient pathway to prepare for a rise in chronic disease and make the health system less complex for patients, according to a new OECD report.




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Australia’s health system is too complex for patients

Australia should improve the integration of care across the patient pathway to prepare for a rise in chronic disease and make the health system less complex for patients, according to a new OECD report.




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Doctors debate when best to place virus patients on ventilators

Warning of potential harm from tendency to use invasive equipment too quickly




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Lucid Lane has developed a service to get patients off of pain meds and avoid addiction

Four years ago, Adnan Asar, the founder of the new addiction prevention service Lucid Lane, was enjoying a successful career working as the founding chief technology officer at Livongo Health. It was the serial senior tech executive’s most recent job after a long stint at Shutterfly and he was shepherding the company through the development […]




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Ventilator standards set out for UK makers ‘of no use’ to Covid patients 

Ministers’ challenge to manufacturers sets basic specifications that are not suitable to task, say experts 




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Lucid Lane has developed a service to get patients off of pain meds and avoid addiction

Four years ago, Adnan Asar, the founder of the new addiction prevention service Lucid Lane, was enjoying a successful career working as the founding chief technology officer at Livongo Health. It was the serial senior tech executive’s most recent job after a long stint at Shutterfly and he was shepherding the company through the development […]





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Doctors at hospital's children's unit fix cartoons to their masks to reassure young patients

Staff working in the children's Panda Unit at Salford Royal came up with the innovative way to reassure young patients after fearing they could be spooked by the medics' concealed faces in PPE.




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More than one million coronavirus patients have now recovered

Statistics show the US has seen more than 153,000 people recover from the deadly illness, followed by Germany (123,000) and Spain (112,000).




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Former Chelsea star Joe Cole donates £25,000 to NHS staff taking care of coronavirus patients

ADRIAN KAJUMBA: Joe Cole has donated £25,000 to the 'unbelievable' NHS staff working round the clock to fight coronavirus and urged the nation to give what they can to help out.




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Singapore threatens coronavirus patients with jail if they don't tell officials where they have been

In a desperate attempt to contain a crisis, the Asian nation is 'working around the clock' to trace potential carriers of the killer infection.




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NHS 111 is NOT asking if patients with coronavirus symptoms have been to China

One of the UK's top doctors' unions, the British Medical Association, has reportedly complained to the NHS and Department of Health that the helpline tells potentially contagious patients to go to a GP.




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Pope Francis expresses solidarity with coronavirus patients

During his weekly audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis showed his solidarity with those suffering from the global outbreak of the coronavirus as he kissed people in the crowds.




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Sophie Wessex meets patients at Leeds Children's Hospital

Prince Edward's wife, née Rhys-Jones, embraced the warmer weather in a midnight blue fit-and-flare dress featuring a pretty daisy pattern during her visit to Yorkshire on Monday.




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New Delhi to continue using plasma therapy to treat coronavirus patients

Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said Delhi will continue the trial of Plasma therapy as it has approval from the Centre.He also said that he is happy that most of those who recovered in Delhi are ready to donate the plasma.Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said Delhi will continue the trial of Plasma therapy as it has approval from the Centre."The Centre has only said that Plasma is on trial and it is not an official treatment. Delhi will continue the plasma trial as we have approval from the Centre," Kejriwal said while speaking to the media.He also said that he is happy that most of those who recovered in Delhi are ready to donate the plasma.On the students stuck in Kota in Rajasthan, Kejriwal also said that 40 buses from Delhi will go to Kota to bring back the students.




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3 corona patients die in Indore on Friday; case count rises to 1,727 till 8th May morning

Indore, May 8 () Three COVID-19 patients, two ofthem senior citizens, succumbed in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, taking the toll to 86 in the district, where the count of positive cases breached the 1,700-mark, a senior official saidon Friday. Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Praveen Jadiasaid with 28 more people testing positive for the virus inpast 24 hours, the count has reached 1,727 in the district,the worst-hit by the infection in the state.Three men, aged 82, 63 and 40, succumbed to COVID-19,the CMHO said, adding they were also suffering from different illnesses.Of the 1,727 cases reported in the district so far,663 patients have recovered, while 86 have died.According to the latest data, the case-mortality rate(that is total deaths out of total COVID-19 infections),stands at 4.98




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An Indian hospital is using robots with thermal cameras to screen coronavirus patients — here's how they work




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Maldives sees rapid spike in coronavirus patients

MALE, Maldives (AP) - The Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago nation with one of the world's most congested capitals, has seen a rapid rise in coronavirus...




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Germany will build a new hospital for 1,000 coronavirus patients

The Berlin city government has agreed to build a new hospital for up to 1,000 coronavirus patients with the help of the military and other partners.




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Three men found dead in New York City hotel quarantining coronavirus patients

Three men, aged 42, 64 and 70, have been found dead over the weekend in at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Manhattan that was used to quarantine recovering COVID-19 patients.




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Coronavirus is killing patients with silent hypoxia, or low oxygen

Emergency room doctors say coronavirus patients are coming into the hospital with pneumonia and low oxygen levels, but they aren't struggling to breathe, meaning they are in critical condition already.




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North Korean coronavirus refugees are quarantined with terminal tuberculosis patients

North Korean refugees suspected of having caught coronavirus during their escape to China have been quarantined among terminal tuberculosis patients. Pictured: Pyongyang Hospital.




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Lung bypass machines that oxygenate blood have kept 68% of critically ill coronavirus patients alive

A new study looked at 32 critically ill COVID-19 patients who were placed on ECMO machines at nine different hospitals and found that 68% were still alive at the time of analysis.




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Patients with blood and lung cancers three times more at risk of dying of coronavirus

A new study led by Wuhan University in China has found that people with blood and lung cancers are three times more likely to die from coronavirus compared patients with other tumors.




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Yale researchers lunch trial on asthma drug to test if it could treat coronavirus patients

Yale University will begin a clinical trial to test the safety and effectiveness of asthma drug ibudilast after it was found to reduce lung inflammation caused by coronavirus in mouse models.




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Coronavirus can damage the heart in up to 20% of severely ill patients

Cardiologist Dr Robert Bonow says that in the US as well as Italy and China, coronavirus has attached itself to the hearts of infected people and even triggered heart attacks due to severe inflammation.




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Coronavirus patients treated with hydroxychloroquine fared no better, early study results find

Preliminary results of New York state testing of hydroxychloroquine to treat some 600 coronavirus patients suggest those treated with the drug fare no better than those who did not receive it.




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Arthritis drug may prevent severely ill coronavirus patients from needing life support

A small French study has found that severely ill coronavirus patients given tocilizumab, a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, were less likely to be put on life support and less likely to die.




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Elderly coronavirus patients should be given anti-ageing drugs to make immune systems 'younger'

As a person ages, their immune system becomes suppressed and it takes longer for their body to recognise and attack the virus. Harvard scientists say this could be fixed by with NAD boosters.




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One in four coronavirus patients on ventilation suffer KIDNEY failure

Charities in the UK have warned the killer infection can lead to acute kidney injury (AKI), a sudden serious condition that can be fatal if not treated immediately.




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The patients fast-tracked on new drugs BEFORE they've been approved

As many as 400,000 people a year in England and Wales are told they've reached the end of their treatment options, according to charity Marie Curie.




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High levels of protein in the blood could predict which coronavirus patients will need ventilators

A new study from Rush University Medical Center looked at the protein, known as suPAR, is a marker of disease severity and aggressiveness as well as activating of the immune system.




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75 coronavirus patients to get experimental HIV and cancer drug this month

Leronlimab is a drug in development for treating HIV and cancer. Two of seven critically ill coronavirus patients who were given the drug were taken off ventilators in a matter of days.