Tag Archives: Mortality

[ad_1] Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School and the UnitedHealth Group found that metformin was associated with significantly reduced risks of death from COVID-19 in women in one of the world’s largest observational studies of COVID-19 patients. Metformin is an established generic drug for managing blood sugar levels …

[ad_1] The World Health Organization (WHO) calls on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives every year. Better targeting of interventions, new tools and more funding are needed to change the …

[ad_1] As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread globally, proactive measures to reduce the risk of infection are vital as there is still no approved vaccine to block severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV- 2) nor drugs approved for the safe treatment of COVID-19 disease. Vitamin D …

[ad_1] In an article recently published on Trends in endocrinology and metabolism, Graziano Pinna of the University of Illinois at Chicago outlines some of the evidence that suggests that female reproductive hormones may play a role in the sexual bias that has been observed in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Reports …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 The correlation between the high concentration of fine particles and the severity of flu waves is well known to epidemiologists. An interdisciplinary team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and ETH Zurich’s spin-off Meteodat investigated the possible interactions between acutely high levels …

[ad_1] The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread around the world, causing over 59.17 million confirmed infections and over 1.39 million deaths. The causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Understanding the size of the virus and its prevalence …

[ad_1] There are nearly 10 companies that have achieved the production of vaccines to combat Corona Moderna and Pfizer are the most effective vaccine so far, with rates between 90 and 95% The World Health Organization has confirmed the right of each country to the Corona vaccine The second wave …

[ad_1] Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has rapidly progressed into a devastating pandemic affecting global public health and paralyzing economies. So far, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 55.4 million infections and over 1.33 million …

[ad_1] The second wave of the coronavirus epidemic is present in French hospitals, with more than 500 deaths registered for the day of November 9 alone. The total number of deaths attributed to Covid-19 in France has so far reached 40,987 deaths since January. But faced with these daily reports …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.October 29, 2020 The use of bariatric surgery for the treatment of severe obesity in adolescents and racial disparities in access to such treatment were analyzed in a retrospective study published in Annals of surgery by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center …