On Friday, Dr. Mangala Narasimhan received an urgent call. A man in his 40s with COVID-19 was in a dire situation, and her colleague wanted her to come to the intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Hospital to see if he needed to be put on life support.Bef…
Doctors talk about working on diagnostic and antibody testing for the novel coronavirus, which experts say would need to be widespread to send people back to work and prevent another wave of cases.
According to a new study in the United States, sudden loss of smell really does appear to be an early sign of COVID-19, especially in those with mild cases. In over a thousand patients with undiagnosed flu-like symptoms, experts found those with a loss of sm…
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…