Some doctors in New York have warned that COVID-19 might cause sudden strokes in adults in their 30s and 40s who aren’t otherwise seriously ill. Those patients, doctors said in a new report this week, might not call the hospital or 911 because they have heard that medical facilities are overwhelmed with patients. The researchers…
Officials in Venezuela say robust testing along with tough lockdown measures have kept its COVID-19 cases to just 300 - one of the world's lowest infection rates.But doctors are questioning the accuracy of those tests, saying Venezuela's healthcare systems will fail should the outbreak spread. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports. - Subscribe to our channel:…
Cristina, tested positive for COVID-19 and has since recovered. But she revealed on her blog that she used some unconventional methods in her road to recovery that are raising concerns in the medical community." data-reactid="16" type="text">CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's wife, Cristina, tested positive for COVID-19 and has since recovered. But she revealed on her blog…
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that scientists should look into using disinfectants as a coronavirus treatment.Medics leaped to criticize this suggestion and outlined the dangers of taking any form of disinfectant internally, whether by inhalation, ingestion, or injection.FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn defended the president on CNN, saying he had been musing on questions any ordinary…
Three weeks ago, critical care pulmonologist Hugh Cassiere encountered something he hadn't seen in 24 years of practicing medicine.A 45-year-old man arrived at the hospital where Cassiere works, North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, New York, with fever and severe fatigue — well-known symptoms of the coronavirus — and went on to test positive…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…