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The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Stroke Council Leadership has released “Temporary Emergency Guidance to U.S. Stroke Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was published late yesterday in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association. In broad terms, the Stroke Council Leadership recommends that U.S. stroke centers: […]
Measures taken by German officials to slow the spread of the coronavirus are starting to show effect, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control said on Friday. “We are seeing that the spread of the virus is getting slower… it’s working,” said RKI president Lothar Wieler, stressing that restrictions on public life “need to […]
Emmie Gizatullin, who’s just two and a half years old, was born with a one in a million genetic condition called Kniest Dysplasia, the rarest form of dwarfism that affects fewer than 150 people worldwide. The toddler, from Colchester, Essex, went into total isolation with her mum Hannah, 40, and her brother Adam, 11, earlier […]
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there are several factors that determine the life of the virus, including temperature and humidity. Research suggests that on hard, shiny surfaces (think glass, countertops, plastic and stainless steel) it can stick around for up to 72 hours. On other porous materials, however, like cardboard, paper and fabrics […]
Long-term effects of a Diet Adequate evidence suggests that the majority of diets and forms of nutrition, over a period of six months to a rather modest weight loss and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors. After twelve months, the weight reduction decreased and the improvements of cardiovascular risk factors disappeared to a large extent. In […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to many health care systems across the globe. With limited science to guide staff and structure surge response, authors Matteo Paganini, Andrea Conti, Eric Weinstein, Francesco della Corte and Luca Ragazzoni from the Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine (CRIMEDIM), Università del Piemonte Orientale in Novara, Italy reviewed […]
There are a million reasons people get tattoos. Some get them in memory of a relative or friend, others get them to commemorate a special time in their lives. Some people just get tattoos for no other reason than the fact that they look really awesome. And then there are the people who choose to […]
Researchers used accelerometers to measure daily physical activity in 30 stroke survivors for a week, assessing how much the participants moved and how well they performed routine physical tasks. The study revealed that stroke survivors who engaged in a lot of light physical activity—taking leisurely walks or attending to nonstrenuous household chores, for example—also reported […]
A point-of-care testing device that may help diagnose the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is under development by Weihua Guan, assistant professor of electrical engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering. This research is supported by Penn State seed funding that has been awarded for “research with the potential for significant and rapid impact on human […]
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Annette Adams-Brown’s 87-year-old mother was an avid follower of TV news. Now Adams-Brown has to channel-surf for a less stressful pastime. Her mother, Bertha, has dementia, and each time she hears the news about a terrible disease spreading through the country, it’s like she is hearing it for the first time. […]