When your child has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it can turn your home upside down. Mark Bertin, MD, a developmental behavioral pediatrician in Pleasantville, NY, and author of Mindful Parenting for ADHD, offers tips to help you keep control. What do parents need to know about their child’s ADHD? ADHD relates to something called … Read more
Since March, schools have offered twice weekly rapid tests to all pupils, with those testing positive having to self-isolate, along with close contacts, for 10 days. They replaced PCR tests, which were sent away to a lab for results, when students had symptoms. Source link
By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporters TUESDAY, Feb. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Fill up that mug: Having one or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day may reduce your risk of heart failure, new research suggests. There was one caveat, however: Decaffeinated coffee doesn’t appear to provide the same protection as caffeine-rich … Read more
Mass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January. Source link
Andrew Hayward, professor of infectious diseases epidemiology at University College London, told BBC Radio 4 he expected the number of deaths to continue to increase for the next few weeks “because they’ll lag two or three weeks behind the number of cases in the community, and those have been increasing”. Source link
Contacts of people with the virus will not need to quarantine if they test negative, the government says. Source link
Intensive care units are now beginning to fill, the World Health Organization tells the BBC. Source link
October 26, 2020 – The coronavirus pandemic continues to pound the United States as record number of cases are reported from around the country. The 7-day average of new cases in the U.S. topped 68,000 on Sunday. That’s more than 1,000 cases higher than the previous record reported July 22. Friday and Saturday … Read more
There has been a clear decline in the number of daily Covid-19 cases in the country, along with a decline in the growth rate and number of deaths, over the past three weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. PM Modi chaired a high-level meeting to take stock of the Covid-19 pandemic situation in … Read more
Oct. 5, 2020 — The highest daily rate of new COVID-19 cases in the United States in nearly two months was reported late last week. There were 54,506 new reported cases on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University, the highest single-day number since 64,601 cases were reported on Aug. 14, according to CNN. … Read more