More articles about: infectious disease
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Staying Summer Safe During the Pandemic
Five ways to reduce your risk of COVID-19 over the holiday weekend and beyond.
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Experts Urge Caution on Sports After a COVID-19 Infection
New recommendations from the American College of Cardiology’s section on sports and exercise cardiology address resuming activity after a case of COVID-19.
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Thrive With Your Family: Having a Baby During a Pandemic
How to cope with anxiety and depression during pregnancy, concerns about birthing experiences and uncertainties, and support after getting home with your new baby.
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Everyone vs. COVID-19: How You Can Help Science Make Progress
Clinical research, surveys, symptom trackers and other studies can give the public a chance to help in the fight against COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Care is (Mostly) Free to Patients. Should Other Vital Care Be Too?
Rapid changes to insurance co-pays and deductibles for COVID-19 care helped remove the cost barrier to coronavirus care. Those changes could also help people with other conditions.
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What the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reveals
Researchers are mapping the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves.
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Two New Devices Protect Health Care Workers, Help Patients During COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is spurning innovation in medical technology as evidenced in two new devices designed to protect patients and providers during treatment for COVID-19.
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Rare, COVID-Related Inflammatory Disease Affecting Children
A rare and potentially fatal COVID-related disease is affecting some kids. A children's health expert discusses what is being called multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C.
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Even Before COVID-19, Many Adults Lacked Stable Food Supply
Food insecurity was already affecting older adults before COVID-19 disruptions to food supplies and the economy, a poll finds.
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Moms on the Frontline
A tribute to mothers who are serving double duty caring for COVID-19 patients at work while also balancing family life at home during the pandemic.
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Which Operations Can Restart First? New Guide Helps Hospitals Decide
As hospitals re-start elective surgery after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new guide can help them prioritize scarce resource use.
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Anticipating, Managing and Anticipating Again: The Phases of COVID-19 in Surgical Practice
How do you prepare for a pandemic? You plan, and then you adapt.
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Treating One of Their Own: COVID-19 Breaks Myth of Invincibility for Hospital Doctors
Two hospitalists reflect on caring for one of their own when a very sick critical care physician became one of their first COVID-19 patients.
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'A New Take on Life' After Recovering from COVID-19
COVID-19 brought one ICU doctor back to the unit where he trained - not as a doctor, but as a patient in need of the life-saving care he has spent his career providing others.
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Higher Levels of NETs in Blood Associated with More Severe COVID-19
New study explores the connection between levels of a type of destructive white blood cell, known as a neutrophil, with the severity of COVID-19.