coronavirus health news sept 2020

Half of Britons with tell-tale coronavirus symptoms
such as a fever and persistent cough may not
actually have the disease,...
Comparing face coverings in controlling
expired particles
IMAGE: Laboratory tests of surgical and N95 masks
by researchers at UC Davis show that they do cut
down the amount...
COVID-19 spurs anxious, upsetting
dreams
WASHINGTON — The anxiety, stress and worry
brought on by COVID-19 is not limited to daytime
hours. The pandemic is...
NASA finds post-tropical storm Beta’s
clouds blanketing the Southeastern US
IMAGE: On Sept. 24 at 1:30 p.m. EDT NASA’s Terra
satellite provided a visible image of Post-Tropical
Cyclone...
Study shows Massachusetts response to
COVID-19 in nursing homes helped stem
infection rate
A paper just published in the Journal of the
American Geriatrics Society found that adherence to
infection control processes,...
A better alternative to Phthalates?
IMAGE: Former NIST postdoctoral Dr. Abby Wenzel
demonstrates the extraction process for the
measurements of DINCH metabolites...
New tool mimics human skin to allow
detailed study of mosquito biting
The tool, which uses an artificial blood meal and a
surface that mimics human skin, will provide detailed
understanding of...
Nerve cells let others "listen in"
IMAGE: Single fragment of a neuron in green and
the astrocyte processes mentioned in the
communication in yellow. ...
Novel educational program puts a human
face on biomedical research
IMAGE: TL1 scholar XInh Xinh Nguyen (left), who
studies scleroderma, shadowed Dr. DeAnna Baker
Frost (right) as she...
Higher narcissism may be linked with
more political participation
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A politically engaged
electorate is key to any thriving democracy, but not
everyone participates...
‘Trojan horse’ approach to kill cancer
cells without using drugs
The researchers created their ‘Trojan horse’
nanoparticle by coating it with a specific amino acid
— L-phenylalanine...
Fructose made in the brain could be a
mechanism driving Alzheimer’s disease,
researchers propose
The study was published in the Frontiers in Aging
Neuroscience and outlined the hypothesis that
Alzheimer’s disease...
Variation in genes associated with viral
entry of SARS-CoV-2 unlikely to influence
COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, study
finds
African Americans and Latinos in the United States
and ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom are
disproportionately affected...
Tracking shape changes in amazon fish
after major river is dammed
IMAGE: UMass Amherst biologists compared
museum collections of cichlid fishes from before a
dam was closed in 1984...
Novel neuroimaging study on
dissociative symptoms reveals wounds
of childhood trauma
IMAGE: Researchers have found connections in the
brain to dissociative symptoms view more Credit:
McLean Hospital Being...
New vulnerability found in lung
squamous cancer may facilitate drug
targeting
IMAGE: UNC Lineberger’s Chad Pecot, MD, and
colleagues, report findings in Cancer Research that
show the potential...
Remote neuropsychology tests for
children shown effective, study finds
Patients with a variety of neurological disorders
require periodic neuropsychological evaluations to
track their cognition,...
Placenta is initiated first, as cells of a
fertilized egg divide and specialize
In a study published in the journal Nature,
researchers looked at the biological pathways active
in human embryos during...
Historical racial & ethnic health inequities
account for disproportionate COVID-19
impact
IMAGE: Health care disparities in historically
disadvantaged communities like the Navajo Nation
are worsened by the...
Tree rings show scale of Arctic pollution
is worse than previously thought
IMAGE: Widescale pollution has caused devastating
forest decline east of Norilsk, Russia. view more
Credit:...
High-performance single-atom catalysts
for high-temperature fuel cells
IMAGE: Conceptual diagram of single atom catalyst
developed by KIST researchers view more Credit:
Korea Institue...