Study highlights mental health risks facing healthcare workers during pandemic
Photo Cred: Gustavo Fring/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Healthcare workers in the United States are struggling with a suite of mental-health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study...
Read MoreResearch points to ethical eating for health, environment
Photo Cred: Binyamin Mellish/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury During a global pandemic, eating well in a sustainable way is more important now than ever, according to new research by Flinders University...
Read MoreFDA issues emergency authorization for new COVID-19 antibody tests
Photo Cred: Ibrahim Boran/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization for two novel coronavirus (COVID-19) serology tests that display an estimated quantity...
Read MoreNew bill introduced to permanently extend telehealth services
Photo Cred: Harold Mendoza/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Members of the House Telehealth Caucus recently introduced the Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act, bipartisan legislation that would permanently extend waivers for...
Read MoreDiffering immune system variation may predict severe COVID-19 outcomes
Photo Cred: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay By Katherine Shagoury The differing immune system responses of patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) can help predict who will experience moderate and severe consequences of...
Read MoreStudy finds high COVID-19 risk among healthcare workers, especially those from minority backgrounds
Photo Cred: Osman Rana/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury, Katherine Shagoury At the peak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States and United Kingdom, frontline healthcare workers–particularly those from...
Read MoreJohnson & Johnson vaccine shows protection in pre-clinical trials
Photo Cred: ThisIsEngineering/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury An experimental novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson protected against infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in pre-clinical studies,...
Read MoreResearchers urge scientific community to stop pandemic bias
Photo Cred: Iñaki del Olmo/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury A group of researchers is bringing attention to the effects the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic could have the scientific community in a...
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