Ray Ciccarelli, a NASCAR Truck Series driver, announced on social media Wednesday that he plans to quit the sport shortly after the release of new guidelines that include a ban on Confederate flags at races. David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Ciccarelli, 50, took to Facebook to announce that it has been a “fun ride and dream come true” to…
Surgeons in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus.Only a few other COVID-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants.The patient, who is her 20s, was on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for almost two months before her operation last Friday…
Surgisphere Corp., a little-known medical-data company, said it had a massive data set of patients that researchers could use to study the effect of blood-pressure and malaria drugs on Covid-19, leading to the publication of high-profile papers on the disease. Now, the Harvard researcher who co-authored two articles on its research says he never saw…
Testing the tests — And many of the tests available to the public produced variable results. John Timmer - Jun 11, 2020 10:15 am UTC Enlarge / Melissa Cruz elevates her arm after donating COVID-19 convalescent plasma as phlebotomist Jenee Wilson shuts down a machine. How much of an immune response does a SARS-CoV-2 infection…
The Atlanta-based American Cancer Society will lay off 1,000 employees nationwide because of effects of the coronavirus on fundraising. The nonprofit did not say how many of those jobs are in Atlanta but that its fundraising has been hurt by the spread of COVID-19, according to a statement released Wednesday to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The…