The recent announcement that the United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the “compassionate use” of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with coronavirus disease has been received with mixed emotions around the globe. While many have hailed this move as a welcome development in the search for therapeutics against the COVID-19 pandemic, some […]
Twice per year, Ed Dever’s group at Oregon State University in Corvallis heads out to sea off the Oregon and Washington coasts to refurbish and clean more than 100 delicate sensors that make up one segment of a US$44-million-per-year scientific network called the Ocean Observatories Initiative. “If this had been a normal year, I would […]
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My alarm clock sounds at 6:45 A.M. I reach over and extend my arm to the empty space beside me, feeling for the lingering heat from his body that I know will be gone. He has been awake for hours already. If I strain to listen through the walls between our bedroom and his office, […]
Confrontée au Coronavirus, la Chine a pris une décision radicale : mettre le pays en quarantaine. Tout l’appareil sécuritaire du régime communiste a été … source
Two of the nation’s essential commercial waterways face extraordinary risk from climate change and associated flooding, a new report from the nonprofit American Rivers says. In its updated list of “America’s Most Endangered Rivers,” the group says marked increases in precipitation across the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri rivers, combined with poor floodplain management, have placed millions […]
This dispatch is from the not so distant past. It is time to see a patient. We flock together as a team: attending physician, a handful of resident physicians, a cohort of medical students, the hospital floor’s charge nurse, the bedside nurse, a respiratory therapist, a pharmacist, a pharmacy student and maybe a few others. […]
US president Donald Trump has again urged Americans to try the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus. Though the drug has not undergone tests to … source
For those with diabetes or prediabetes, managing blood sugar levels is a critically important part of preventing the progression of this disease and avoiding serious complications. But even for healthy people, keeping your blood sugar in a healthy range can help reduce the risk of obesity and the risk of developing diabetes. How do you […]
This video animation on COVID-19 and the coronavirus is a collaboration between Nucleus Medical Media and our friends at the What If Channel. To watch … source