By Cara Roberts Murez HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Oct. 27, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Researchers in the United Kingdom have reassuring news for people with psoriasis based on the first analysis of a global registry of COVID-19 patients who also have the skin disease. Moderate-to-severe cases of psoriasis are treated with drugs … Read more
Vijay Sethupathi has opted out of 800, the biopic of former Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan after severe social media backlash. Muttiah Muralitharan, in a statement, requested Vijay Sethupathi to opt out of his biopic 800. Ever since the biopic was announced, there has been a severe backlash on social media against Sethupathi and the … Read more
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — In what will come as reassuring news to those who were born with a heart defect, new research finds these people aren’t at increased risk for moderate or severe COVID-19. The study included more than 7,000 adults and children … Read more
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
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Black and Asian COVID-19 patients are more likely than white patients to have severe illness, a new British study finds. Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,800 adult COVID-19 patients admitted to King’s College Hospital in London between March … Read more
A 25-year-old man in Nevada, US was re-infected with coronavirus and the second infection was “more severe” than the first one, a study published in The Lancet on Monday said. Unlike the first time when he contracted Covid-19, the patient had to be hospitalised and put on oxygen support during re-infection as he developed breathing … Read more
The report raises questions about how much immunity can be built up to the virus and how long it may last. Source link
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
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
Sept. 25, 2020 — Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have struggled to find out why some people who get COVID-19 develop severe disease, and others are infected but don’t notice symptoms. Now, new research from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions suggests that some people have antibodies that are … Read more