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By Michaela Cabrera | Reuters PARIS – French researchers are preparing to launch a human trial to test their hypothesis that nicotine can help the body combat the COVID-19 infection. The trial will involve groups of healthcare workers and patients wearing nicotine patches and other groups wearing placebo patches. Then they will be tested to…

Say what you will, coffee purists, but the best way to brew is by the humble drip method, cardiologists claim. Between 2018 and 2019, the world’s coffee growers produced nearly 1.357 trillion pounds of coffee, and the unfathomable number of cups of joe that makes means the plant-derived stimulant has far-reaching health effects. A Swedish…

By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Published 2:05 pm PDT, Thursday, April 23, 2020 A COVID-19 study in the Paris hospital network found that the percentage of patients who are also regular smokers was dramatically less than the percentage of smokers in the general population. The findings suggest smoking may offer some protection against the disease, researchers say.…

The novel coronavirus can survive in high temperatures, researchers said, casting doubt on suggestions that the threat will subside in the summer.Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille in France, led by Remi Charrel and Boris Pastorino, found that the virus survived in 140-degree Fahrenheit temperatures typically used to disinfect research labs, The Jerusalem Post reported.It took…

PARIS (Reuters) - When managers at La Riviera nursing home on France’s Cote D’Azur found out a resident had the COVID-19 virus, they put into action a standard playbook they believed would contain the spread. It did not. Workers wearing protective suits enter in Korian La Riviera retirement home (Ehpad) in Mougins where numerous residents…