coronavirus health news sept 2020

PEM can be in a study in...
conditions humans would...
NASA imagery reveals strongest areas of
Tropical Storm Beta
IMAGE: On Sept. 21 at 3:29 p.m. EDT (1929 UTC)
NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm Beta
using the Atmospheric...
Mining molecular data with cryo-EM
unveils hidden biological secrets
IMAGE: Abhishek Singharoy is a researcher at the
Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery
and ASU’s...
NASA sees Hurricane Teddy threaten
Eastern Canada
IMAGE: On Sept. 22 at 1:55 a.m. EDT (0555 UTC),
the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite
gathered temperature...
Coronavirus restrictions are extended
across NI
Covid-19 restrictions are to be extended to all of
Northern Ireland from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, the
Stormont Executive has...
Smart cells: Chemists develop tool with
potential to treat illness at the cellular
level
New research by an international team of chemists
describes a new type of artificial cell that can
communicate with other...
Covid: UK coronavirus alert level moving
to 4
The UK’s coronavirus alert level is being upgraded
from 3 to 4, meaning transmission is “high or rising
exponentially”,...
Flu jab ‘more important than ever’ this
winter
People are being advised to get a flu jab to help
protect against the “double danger” of flu and
coronavirus....
Covid: Pubs and restaurants in England
to have 10pm closing times
All pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality
venues in England must have a 22:00 closing time
from Thursday, to help...
TASTE test may predict how severely ill
coronavirus patients will become, study
finds
Could a TASTE test predict who will get severely ill
from coronavirus? Patients who can’t detect bitter
flavors are...
‘Do I need a hernia operation if I’m not in
pain?’: DR MARTIN SCURR answers your
health questions
My doctor has advised me to have my hernia
treated, even though it doesn’t cause me pain. I
would like to have the procedure...
Lack of sunshine does NOT make people
feel more depressed, new study claims
‘No such thing as the winter blues’: Lack of sunshine
does NOT make people feel more depressed, new
study claims A...
Can vitamin pills protect you from
cancer?
Winter is just around the corner, and with the fresh
threat of a second wave of Covid-19, you are
probably thinking of giving...
Are you willing to try DIY dentistry? We
review the at-home remedies to get your
teeth stuck into
A trip to the dentist tops the poll of things in life that
make us most nervous, according to the Oral Health
Foundation,...
Are migraines and the menopause linked
to cardiac issues?
When I did my cardiology training in the 1980s, I
learnt that women with chest pain were ‘weird’, with
strange symptoms. This...
Corona-induced CO2 emission
reductions are not yet detectable in the
atmosphere
The corona pandemic has changed both our
working and our private lives. People increasingly
work from home, have video conferences...
Richmond emergency room experienced
a surge in opioid overdoses during
pandemic
Nonfatal opioid overdose visits to the VCU Medical
Center emergency department in Richmond
increased from 102 between March...
Researchers discover new molecules for
tracking Parkinson’s disease
The infection that could be more deadly
for students than coronavirus
Waking up with a pounding head and feeling sick,
student Ben de Souza put his symptoms down to a
hangover and decided...
Human trials of the Oxford coronavirus
vaccine are STILL on hold in the US over
safety fears
Human trials of Oxford’s vaccine are still on hold in
the US over safety concerns, two weeks after they
were first...
Soft robots, origami combine for potential
way to deliver medical treatments
The researchers from The Ohio State University and
the Georgia Institute of Technology detailed their
discovery, which makes...
‘Front of package’ nutrition labels
improved nutrition quality
“We wanted to know whether food companies were
responding to increased public interest in healthier
food,” says...
BCG vaccination in infancy does not
protect against COVID-19, Swedish data