Safe ultraviolet light potential to sterilize high-risk COVID-19 environments
By Katherine Shagoury Computational modelling has shown that low dose far-ultraviolet C (UVC) lighting can be used to disinfect in-room air, increasing disinfection rates by 50 to 85 percent compared...
Read MoreFDA approves new high-performance antibody test
Photo Cred: Polina Tankilevitch/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued emergency use authorization of a semi-quantitative antibody testing kit for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that...
Read MoreModerna filing today for FDA emergency authorization
Photo Cred: Nataliya Vaitkevich/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Biotechnology company, Moderna, announced today it would be applying for emergency use authorization with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its...
Read MoreChildren’s Hospital Los Angeles conducts large-scale pediatric COVID-19 genomic study
Photo Cred: Piron Guillaume/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Scientists at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) published a new large-scale pediatric novel coronavirus (COVID-19) study, suggesting a possible link between specific viral...
Read MoreNature may improve mental health amid COVID-19 pandemic
Photo Cred: Sebastian Voortman/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Nature around one’s home may help mitigate some of the negative mental health effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a...
Read MoreStudy presents early details of brain damage in COVID-19 patients
Photo Cred: Anna Shvets/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury A new spectroscopic imaging-based study of neurological injury in novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients has been reported by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)...
Read MoreOxford COVID-19 vaccine in older adults safe, provokes immune response
Photo Cred: Polina Tankilevitch/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury The University of Oxford novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine showed similar safety and immunogenicity results in healthy older adults to those seen in younger...
Read MoreWHO advises against use of remdesivir for COVID-19
Photo Cred: Marcelo Leal/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury The antiviral drug remdesivir is not suggested for patients admitted to hospital with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) regardless of how severely ill they...
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