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Posts from the ‘medicine’ Category

02020-08-06Diffusion Tensor Imaging– what is it? New form of MRI scanning that is as yet poorly defined

02020-07-31COVID-19 study shows similar nasal SARS-CoV-2 antigen levels in children and adults: JAMANETWORK– Pediatrics. Opening schools will spread the virus even faster.

02020-07-27TLR7: What is it, why in COVID-19? Answers in Wikipedia.

02020-07-21Increase in stillbirths found at London hospital: JAMA. Was it the pandemic, chance, or an explanation for reduced prematurity?

02020-07-20Fewer premature babies born during pandemic: mystery discussed in NYT article July 19

02020-07-08Statin use (cholesterol-lowering drugs) lowered all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in US veterans: JAMA

02020-07-06What the coronavirus reveals about the US healthcare system: New Yorker. Our medical system is controlled by profit-hungry investors and costs twice as much as it should.

02020-07-03New cases of COVID-19 in the US continue to set records, despite a bottleneck in testing. Death rates have not yet risen to match but chronic symptoms are appearing more often.

02020-07-03MedRxiv: “Suppression of COVID-19 Outbreak in the Municipality of Vo’ Italy”: testing the whole population found 41% were asymptomatic.

02020-07-02CDC–MMWR report shows a 23% drop in ED visits for symptoms of MI and 20% fall for symptoms of CVA during early weeks of COVID-19 pandemic; more than 60,000 excess deaths in US have not been explained…