New app may rapidly detect Parkinson’s, severe COVID from people’s voice – ET HealthWorld

New app may rapidly detect Parkinson’s, severe COVID from people’s voice – ET HealthWorld

Melbourne: Researchers have developed a new smartphone app that can accurately and rapidly detect Parkinson’s disease and severe COVID-19 using just people’s voice recordings. The artificial intelligence (AI) enabled app records a person’s voice and takes just 10 seconds to reveal whether they may have Parkinson’s disease and should be referred to a neurologist. “Early … Read more

Regular Fasting Linked to Less Severe COVID: Study

Regular Fasting Linked to Less Severe COVID: Study

Aug. 10, 2022 – Intermittent fasting was not linked with a smaller chance of getting COVID-19, but it was linked with getting a less severe infection, according to the findings of a new study. The study was done on men and women in Utah who were, on average, in their 60s and got COVID before … Read more

Severe COVID-19 linked with long-term mental health outcomes: Lancet study

Severe COVID-19 linked with long-term mental health outcomes: Lancet study

The study found that symptoms of depression and anxiety mostly subsided within two months for non-hospitalised patients with COVID-19. Serious COVID-19 illness is associated with an increased risk of long-term adverse mental health outcomes, according to a study published in The Lancet Public Health journal. The researchers found that hospitalised patients with a SARS-CoV-2 infection … Read more

Lower Testosterone in Men Tied to Severe COVID Cases

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May 27, 2021 — While men have been shown to have greater risk of COVID-19 illness compared with women, a new study shows that the lower the testosterone level in men, the higher the likelihood of severe COVID-19 disease. “During the pandemic, there has been a prevailing notion that testosterone is bad,” senior author … Read more

74 Million U.S. Workers at High Risk for COVID

The findings were published online Nov. 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The risks to essential workers in all disciplines who could not work from home were clear from the beginning of the pandemic, said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “But the risk of … Read more

Blood Type May Predict Your Risk For Severe COVID

By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — There’s more evidence that blood type may affect a person’s risk for COVID-19 and severe illness from the disease. The findings are reported in a pair of studies published Oct. 14 in the journal Blood Advances. In … Read more

Risk of Severe COVID May Hinge on Type of Asthma

Grayson agrees with Khurana that in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was much concern that asthma could be a risk factor — a reasonable suspicion, given that the coronavirus attacks the lungs. But everything that came out of the initial epidemic in China suggested that asthma was not a risk factor … Read more

Low Vitamin D Levels Tied to Odds for Severe COVID

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By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Sept. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Low blood levels of vitamin D might heighten people’s odds for severe or even fatal COVID-19, new research shows. Taking in a healthy level of vitamin D may therefore “reduce the complications, including the cytokine storm [release of too many proteins … Read more

Blood Test May Show Who Is at Risk of Severe COVID

By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — If you’re unfortunate enough to be admitted to the hospital with COVID-19, a common blood marker may predict how severe your illness might become, new research shows. The blood marker is called “red cell distribution width” (RDW) — basically, the greater … Read more