Registered nurses picketed outside 11 Twin Cities hospitals Wednesday, calling on health care executives to put patients over profits in contract negotiations with their union, the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA). Talks covering 15,000 nurses in the metro and Duluth began in March. Twin Cities nurses, who work at Allina Health, Children’s Hospital, M Health Fairview and North Memorial hospitals, saw their contracts expire Tuesday. On a combined picket line outside United and Children’s hospitals in St. Paul, nurses said the crisis facing their profession demands urgency and bold action to keep nurses from leaving the bedside. “I think a lot of our co-workers […]
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Above Photo: Richard Vogel / The Associated Press. Protesters demanded the agency allow patients with life-threatening conditions to legally use psilocybin to treat their anxiety and depression under the 2018 Right to Try Act. Virginia – More than a dozen activists staged a “die-in” outside the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Va., Monday, demanding the agency allow patients with life-threatening conditions to legally access psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” to treat psychiatric disorders. Federal police arrested 17 protesters who were lying down in front of the building’s entrance and refused to leave until a representative from the […]
COVID-19 Can Cause Parosmia and Phantosmia Some Covid-19 patients are reporting that foods including coffee, chocolate and red wine smell awful. https://t.co/1amx1QlyTU — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) September 21, 2020 Heath Editor’s Note: As if not being able to breath is not bad enough, we find out that loss of smell and subsequent and then distortion of smells into unpleasant odors befall COVID-19 patients. This article is a good explanation of why and how this happens…Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University […]
When 28-year-old Katie Kinsey moved from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles in early March she didn’t expect the pandemic would affect her directly, at least not right away. But that’s exactly what happened. She was still settling in, and didn’t yet have a primary care doctor when she got sick with symptoms of what she feared was COVID-19. “I had a sore throat and a debilitating cough,” she says, “and when I say debilitating, I mean I couldn’t talk without coughing.” She couldn’t lie down at night without coughing. She just wasn’t getting enough air into her lungs, she says. Kinsey, […]
Worried registered nurses held a vigil in July at Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., to remember their colleague Janine Paiste-Ponder, who caught COVID-19, likely from a patient, and died from complications. National Nurses United hide caption toggle caption National Nurses United Worried registered nurses held a vigil in July at Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., to remember their colleague Janine Paiste-Ponder, who caught COVID-19, likely from a patient, and died from complications. National Nurses United Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., were on edge as early as […]
On January 23, workers started building the Huoshenshan hospital for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. The photo above was taken on January 30. Construction was done on February 2, and the 1,000-bed hospital opened on February 3. Today it stands empty of patients. Stringer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stringer/Getty Images On January 23, workers started building the Huoshenshan hospital for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. The photo above was taken on January 30. Construction was done on February 2, and the 1,000-bed hospital opened on February 3. Today it stands empty of patients. Stringer/Getty Images In February, China pulled off […]
Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to an image of Robert Hadden during a news conference Wednesday to announce his arrest and indictment. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to an image of Robert Hadden during a news conference Wednesday to announce his arrest and indictment. John Minchillo/AP For nearly 20 years, a Columbia University gynecologist in New York City sexually abused dozens of female patients, including minors, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Robert Hadden, 62, was […]
Patients with a fast-progressing form of ALS who got daily doses of an experimental two-drug combination called AMX0035 scored higher on a standard measure of function than patients who didn’t get the drug. Zephyr/Science Source hide caption toggle caption Zephyr/Science Source Patients with a fast-progressing form of ALS who got daily doses of an experimental two-drug combination called AMX0035 scored higher on a standard measure of function than patients who didn’t get the drug. Zephyr/Science Source A combination of two experimental drugs appears to slow the decline of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an illness often known as ALS or Lou […]
www.youtube.com Remdesivir Received EUA for Use in Patients with Moderate COVID-19 Gilead announced the @US_FDA expanded the Emergency Use Authorization of our investigational antiviral to now also include hospitalized patients with COVID-19 not requiring oxygen supplementation: https://t.co/J4WzqE2wJu. — Gilead Sciences (@GileadSciences) August 29, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The antiviral, Remdesivir, Veklury© is now approved for use in the treatment of COVID-19 for all hospitalized patients. A phase 3 trial and an additional NIAID trial have been completed which evaluated remdesivir for use in hospitalized patients with moderate COVID-19 pneumonia. This FDA approval will allow for earlier treatment of patients with COVID-19….Carol […]
Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan and Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo from New York A recent study revealed 45% of all US coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes. That comes out to over 75,000 Deaths in US Nursing Homes!That is a bloodbath!! Only 0.6% of the US population lives in nursing homes but over 45% of the coronavirus deaths were in these centers. On Wednesday the Department of Justice requested data from four Democrat governors on their orders to send sick COVID-19 patients to nursing homes. TRENDING: INSANE VIDEO: 17-Year-Old Suspect Kyle Rittenhouse Identified as Kenosha Shooter — Was Jumped on […]
In a promising development, the last remaining coronavirus patients have been discharged from the hospital in the Chinese capital, where “wartime-like” quarantine measures were in force just two months ago. No hospital in Beijing is now dealing with Covid-19 cases, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. The last two patients, who were being treated at the Beijing Ditan Hospital, were sent home the day before. One of these cases was attributed to a spike in coronavirus infections in the northeastern city of Dalian, while another caught the contagion abroad, the city health authorities said. Meanwhile, no new locally transmitted or […]
A fresh study by the Queen’s Nursing Institute, one of the oldest British social care charities, has cited a number of insiders sharing the nitty-gritty details of the nation’s battle with the coronavirus, as well as updated figures on the heavy toll it has had on the NHS. UK nursing homes were “constantly pressed” to accept corona-infected and untested residents after they were discharged from packed hospitals, while their own wards were refused the assistance of GPs and hospital treatment at the height of the pandemic, a new study reveals, as cited by the Independent. The Queen’s Nursing Institute, an authoritative […]
UK care home staff was “under constant pressure” from the NHS to take in coronavirus-positive and untested patients, while nurses were instructed not to resuscitate them, a new study has revealed. In a study whose key findings were first published by the Independent, the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) surveyed nurses and managers working in 163 care homes across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The staff at 70 care homes, 43 percent of those surveyed, said that they received patients discharged from hospitals who were not tested for Covid-19 during March and April, when the outbreak first hit the country and peaked. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106758/47/1067584765_0:155:2972:1826_1200x675_80_0_0_d99eccd58648530ce95e323f86c8a5e6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008221080241569-fbi-probing-breach-that-may-have-compromised-identities-of-covid-19-patients—reports/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a data breach that may have exposed the identities of novel coronavirus disease patients in the state of South Dakota, local media reported. The US Rapid City Journal reported on Friday, citing a letter from the state’s Department of Public Safety, that on 19 June there was a data breach that targeted servers belonging to a third-party database shared between the Department of Health and law enforcement. The servers belong to a web development firm called Netsential.com, Inc., the report said. The identities of […]
Radical Democrat Governor Sisolak and Nevada Democrats called a special session this past weekend with no public present and inside of 24 hours they rammed through mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. Democrats did this during the special leglislative session. The Democrats are going to cheat at all costs to keep the state from going to Donald Trump! The new Democrat law allows people not related to or friends with elderly voters to fill out their ballots and turn them in to be counted! TRENDING: “Why Are You Going Out of State? I Can See It at the Airports!” -Ugh- Watch NM […]
Dr. Stella Immanuel How many Americans died of COVID-19 because the Democrat-media complex lied about Hydroxychloroquine? Frontline doctors from across the US held a “White Coat Summit” on Monday in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the Coronavirus. The fake news media, including CNN, NBC, CBS, WaPO and NY Times all waged a war on Hydroxychloroquine just because Trump touted the anti-malaria drug as an effective treatment for COVID-19. Dr. Stella Immanuel said on Monday that she has personally treated over 350 patients with COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Zithromax and they have all recovered. TRENDING: Swarm of […]
Health Editor’s Note: Trump has publicly toted ‘cures and preventions’ for COVID-19. One of these fake cures and one that he admitted to be taking, has continued to be from time to time generally recommended for treatment quality, by anyone who is writing non-peer reviewed medical articles. We have known for weeks that chloroquine and hydroychloroquine do not help patients with COVID-19, but are more likely to harm them by changing the electrical activity of the heart in a bad way. You will continue to see articles written by those who have no real medical knowledge about how we are missing […]
How the coronavirus almost killed a healthy woman with “no normal symptoms” by Tucker Reals/CBSNews London — Rebecca Wrixon knew that working as a nanny for a pair of doctors could leave her exposed to the coronavirus, but as a healthy 44-year-old with young children, she didn’t worry much about catching COVID-19. It was already clear then, in early April, that the disease hit the elderly and those with underlying conditions hard, but it didn’t seem much of a threat to her healthy family. Then one morning just after Easter, Wrixon woke up with a numb arm. She never had a cough […]
Nursing Assistant Rita Mays admitted this week to intentionally killing seven US veterans with insulin. She worked overnight at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center. Federal officials were investigating the mysterious deaths at the VA medical center. BREAKING: First photo of Reta Mays, former VA Medical Center nursing aide who admitted to killing seven veterans and trying to kill another by giving them insulin they didn’t need. pic.twitter.com/55jxcozWmd — Leslie Rubin (@LeslieRubinWCHS) July 14, 2020 TRENDING: GREAT NEWS! Tommy Tuberville Defeats Former AG Jeff Sessions in Alabama Senate Primary Race … 61% to 39%!! …Update: Trump Calls to Congratulate Tuberville […]
Florida has reported big jumps in hospitalizations for COVID-19. An ICU doctor at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami says he’s seeing more young people than before. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption toggle caption Wilfredo Lee/AP Florida has reported big jumps in hospitalizations for COVID-19. An ICU doctor at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami says he’s seeing more young people than before. Wilfredo Lee/AP Florida is breaking records in its explosion of coronavirus cases. On Sunday the state reported 15,299 new resident cases from the day before, a jump higher than any seen before in a single U.S. state. Dozens of hospitals are […]
Thomas Salts spent two weeks recovering from COVID-19 in a hotel in Phoenix, Ariz. Circle the City, a Phoenix-based nonprofit, is helping Salts and other people experiencing homelessness gain access to health care. Thomas Salts hide caption toggle caption Thomas Salts Thomas Salts spent two weeks recovering from COVID-19 in a hotel in Phoenix, Ariz. Circle the City, a Phoenix-based nonprofit, is helping Salts and other people experiencing homelessness gain access to health care. Thomas Salts Thomas Salts spent two weeks in a hotel in Arizona sleeping, watching TV and, most importantly, fighting COVID-19. “I mean it was truly one of […]
American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on Friday announced that recent analysis of its antiviral drug remdesivir reduced the risk of death for severely ill COVID-19 patients by 62% compared with standard care alone. According to a July 10 news release, the analysis, which will be presented at the Virtual COVID-19 Conference on July 10 and 11, suggests remdesivir is linked to a “significantly improved clinical recovery” in very sick COVID-19 patients. The study was based on 312 patients enrolled in a phase three trial. The patients’ results were compared to those of 818 patients in a “real-world retrospective cohort” who had […]
Video from July 2. Issues with mothers and newborns is first segment, minute 6 onward vital on issues of ECMO v. Ventilators. This is a serious report where doctors treating real patients do the talking. Be prepared, but in order to appreciate and be forewarned, this video needs to be seen and forwarded to skeptics and shills. VT Editors is a General Posting account managed by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff. All content herein is owned and copyrighted by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content, VT cannot guarantee content validity.We ask […]
In early April Senator Dr. Scott Jensen from Minnesota went on The Ingraham Angle to discuss how the CDC is encouraging American doctors to over-count coronavirus deaths across the US. The document is here. US HHS Document to Doctors … by Jim Hoft on Scribd TRENDING: DISGUSTING: Black Man Stops Car then Sucker Punches 12-Year-Old Boy Street Dancer in Missouri Giving Him Concussion (VIDEO) This was after Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Back in April, India’s federal drug regulator cleared a proposal by the country’s top biomedical research body for the clinical trial of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients. The trials are now being conducted by hospitals/research laboratories approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). India’s first-of-its-kind plasma bank for COVID-19 patients was opened in the national capital on Thursday. Set up at the state-owned Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), the plasma bank will act as the repository for plasma for patients with critical cases of COVID-19. Delhi Chief Arvind Kejriwal, while opening the facility […]
FACT: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted a policy that forced nursing homes to take patients, regardless of whether they were infect with COVID-19. But now, the Democrat is claiming the staggering death toll in New York nursing homes was all the fault of the federal government. “We followed federal guidance on the nursing homes,” Cuomo said Tuesday on NBC’s “Today Show.” “We had more people die than any other state. That’s a fact,” Cuomo said . “The reason that happened was because we had the virus coming from Europe when the federal government told us the virus was coming from […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Yoga guru claimed that the medicine titled ‘Coronil and Swasari’ is not an immunity booster but rather a cure for coronavirus. Patanjali Yogpith, a company of Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has officially launched an ayurvedic medicine that allegedly cures COVID-19 patients. “We’ve prepared the first Ayurvedic-clinically controlled, research, evidence and trial based medicine for COVID-19. We conducted a clinical case study and clinical controlled trial, and found 69% patients recovered in 3 days & 100% patients recovered in 7 days,” said Ramdev during the launch. © Sputnik / Patanjali Ayurved has officially launched an ayurvedic medicine that […]
Health Editor’s Note: What scientist are finding is that just because someone has had coronavirus and develops antibodies to coronavirus, those antibodies may not be permanent. It seems the more symptomatic the patient, the higher the antibody levels and the longer the antibodies can be found in the patient’s blood. There is a distinct possibility that to have COVID-19 and recover, does not make it certain that you cannot get COVID-19 again. This is a nasty business as coronavirus has defeated the common antigen/antibody mechanism. 10 Percent of Wuhan Study Patients Lose Coronavirus Antibodies Within Weeks by Kashmira Gander/Newsweek Health […]
Man-made disaster: The actions of New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo led to thousands of coronavirus deaths in his state. A memo dated March 25, 2020, ordered state officials to move coronavirus patients to nursing homes. TRENDING: Fulton County DA Announces 11 Charges, Including Felony Murder on the Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Rayshard Brooks – Says Brooks Never Informed He Was Under Arrest? It was New York state policy to put the sick patients back in the nursing home. In early May the New York State Department of Health took down their state order demanding nursing homes welcome coronavirus patients. […]
(Source: G. Girvan / FREOPP; Graphic: A. Roy / FREOPP) An updated study revealed 42% of all US coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes. That comes out to over 40,000 Deaths in Nursing Homes!That is a bloodbath!! Another 60,000 deaths were outside of nursing homes.Which is what you might expect from a typical flu season. TRENDING: BREAKING: Three New York Police Detectives Poisoned at a Shake Shack in Manhattan Italy also saw 40% of their coronavirus deaths in nursing homes. Only 1.8% of the US population lives in nursing homes but over 40% of the coronavirus deaths were in these centers. […]
A COVID-19 patient is attached to a ventilator in the emergency room at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. A steroid treatment is showing promise in reducing mortality for patients on ventilators. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP A low-cost anti-inflammatory drug appears to reduce the risk of death in patients with COVID-19. The drug is called dexamethasone. It’s been used for decades to treat conditions such as arthritis and asthma. Because patients with advanced COVID-19 disease can have severe lung inflammation, scientists wanted to see if dexamethasone could treat that. It was one of the drugs studied in […]
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, MarylandNIAID Study identifies potential approach to treat severe respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19 NIH News Release What Early data from a clinical study suggest that blocking the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) protein provided clinical benefit to a small group of patients with severe COVID-19. Researchers observed that the off-label use of the cancer drug acalabrutinib, a BTK inhibitor that is approved to treat several blood cancers, was […]
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (pink), isolated from a patient sample, that’s heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (green).NIAID Early results show benefit of remdesivir for COVID-19 NIH Research Matters At a Glance Early results showed that remdesivir benefited hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 who required supplemental oxygen. While the findings support remdesivir as a standard therapy for such patients, they suggest more research is needed to improve outcomes for people with COVID-19. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses like the common cold. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has stealthily attempted to rewrite history, deleting his controversial order requiring nursing homes to admit Covid-19 patients from the state health website and blaming facilities for obeying it. After being lambasted in the press for the March 25 executive order that forced New York elder care facilities to accept patients infected with the highly contagious virus, Cuomo attempted to blame the nursing homes for not disobeying his orders during a Wednesday press conference. “The obligation is on the nursing home to say, ‘I can’t take a Covid-positive person,’” the governor insisted. “If they said ‘I can’t […]
RT/Moscow: The World Health Organization has paused the clinical trials of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus patients. It says the drug, notably taken and endorsed by US President Donald Trump, has raised safety concerns. The drug’s safety data is being reviewed by a monitoring board, and the trials have been put on hold, the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. It was being tested as part of the Solidarity international program aimed at tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. The UN health body took the step out of an “abundance of caution,” said Mike Ryan, the head of the organization’s emergencies program. Ghebreyesus said […]
25 May, 2020 17:31 Follow RT on The World Health Organization has paused the clinical trials of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus patients. It says the drug, notably taken and endorsed by US President Donald Trump, has raised safety concerns. The drug’s safety data is being reviewed by a monitoring board, and the trials have been put on hold, the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. It was being tested as part of the Solidarity international program aimed at tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. The UN heath body took the step out of “abundance of caution,” said Mike Ryan, the head […]
Governor Cuomo launched his defense plan on Sunday. He tried to anway. New York Governor Cuomo was asked about the tragic number of deaths in New York nursing homes due to the coronavirus. New York state under Cuomo’s leadership forced nursing homes to take in sick coronavirus patients. The policy resulted in at least 4,900 coronavirus deaths in New York state nursing homes. TRENDING: “Could Be Unlawful” – Pelosi Says Congress to Investigate Trump’s Firing of Obama Holdover State Department IG Steve Linick (VIDEO) It took 4,900 deaths before they corrected their coronavirus nursing home policy. On Sunday Governor Cuomo was […]
USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) approaches the pier in Los Angeles, March 27. (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Alexa M. Hernandez) In mid-March crazed Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter to President Trump claiming that 25 million people in California would be infected with Coronavirus over an 8-week period. Newsom asked President Trump in a letter on March 19 to deploy the USNS Mercy hospital ship “to help decompress our current healthcare delivery system in the Los Angeles region in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.” “In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts […]
US 20:28 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL A recent study based on New York medical system data has found that some 36.6% of patients diagnosed with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus also experienced acute kidney injury (AKI) and, in some cases, required dialysis to survive. Northwell Health, the largest health provider in New York State, issued a news release on Thursday, highlighting large-scale research examining the “alarming number” of patients who developed AKI after being hospitalized for a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. AKI is a condition that occurs in relation to a sudden episode of kidney failure or damage. Though treatable, a kidney injury […]
World 17:53 GMT 14.05.2020(updated 18:00 GMT 14.05.2020) Get short URL The term “patient zero” or “index case” is used to describe those victims of epidemics who appear to be the first ones to be properly documented as carriers of the infection. However, it is not always that easy to trace the roots of the world’s deadliest pandemics. Although it is now believed that the first cases of coronavirus were reported in China’s Hubei province last year, maybe as early as 17 November according to some recent reports, the “patient zero” of SARS-CoV has not been officially confirmed. But there are some […]
French drugmaker Sanofi has walked back its promise to give US patients priority access to a potential Covid-19 vaccine. The firm’s favoritism triggered a backlash in France that drew in the country’s government. Sanofi Chief Executive Paul Hudson said on Thursday that it is vital any coronavirus vaccine be made available worldwide, and called on European Union countries to work collectively toward such a vaccine. A day earlier, Hudson had told a different story. Speaking to Bloomberg News on Wednesday, the pharma executive said that, as the US has funded his company’s vaccine research, it has “the right to the largest […]
Beachgoers enjoy a day at Galveston Beach on May 2 in Galveston, Texas, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As states have started to reopen, people have begun gathering again. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Beachgoers enjoy a day at Galveston Beach on May 2 in Galveston, Texas, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As states have started to reopen, people have begun gathering again. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images On this broadcast of The National Conversation, a doctor answers some of your questions about visiting friends and family as states reopen. We’ll also answer your […]
At least 4,900 seniors have died in New York State nursing homes from the coronavirus so far this year.Around 20 percent of all New York state deaths were in nursing homes. Recently Republican Chele Farley called on Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate this state policy that lead to so many deaths in New York state. Advertisement – story continues below 4,900+ seniors have died from #COVID19 in NYS nursing homes following the state’s order that facilities cannot refuse a patient based on infection status. Read my letter to AG Barr requesting a federal investigation into these deaths & the role […]
At least ten people have died after a fire ripped through part of a nursing home leaving about 20 immobile patients trapped inside the facility, its second floor being engulfed with flames. It’s unclear what sparked the blaze. The fire, which erupted shortly after midnight local time, spread to the area of 15 sq. m. (160 square feet) before it could have been put down by the firefighters. The blaze reportedly started at the second floor of the private elderly care home, located in Krasnogorsk, northwest of Moscow. The facility, that works as a hospice, has been housing dozens of patients. […]
Health Editor’s Note: Even though some diseases are rare, with only a few hundred to several thousand people having one, added together there are approximately 30 million people in the U.S. alone with a rare disease. Children make up half of these numbers and many of these rare diseases are life-threatening….Carol NIH-supported research survey to examine impact of COVID-19 on rare diseases community NIH News Release For the millions of people living with a rare disease, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 presents challenges, from potential reduced access to needed medical care to possible heightened anxiety and stress. A new online survey […]
Construction at the COVID-19 field hospital at McCormick Place in Chicago on April 10. The city pared back plans for a 3,000-bed temporary hospital at McCormick Place, the nation’s largest convention center, as infection numbers decreased. Nam Y. Huh/AP hide caption toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP Construction at the COVID-19 field hospital at McCormick Place in Chicago on April 10. The city pared back plans for a 3,000-bed temporary hospital at McCormick Place, the nation’s largest convention center, as infection numbers decreased. Nam Y. Huh/AP As hospitals were overrun by coronavirus patients in other parts of the world, the Army Corps […]