The first case of a dead body transmitting the coronavirus to a living person has been reported by scientists in Thailand, according to reports. The case, described in a letter published Sunday in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, involved a forens…
A Seattle doctor who suffered from a near-fatal case of coronavirus said he felt like Rip Van Winkle when he woke up after 16 days of unconsciousness, according to a new report. Emergency physician Ryan Padgett, 45, who works at EvergreenHealth — which saw t…
Scientists are dusting off some decades-old vaccines that were developed long before the emergence of the new coronavirus from China to see whether they can provide a little stopgap protection against COVID-19 until a more precise shot arrives. It may sound …
A man wears a mask in his garden in Padang, Indonesia. (Getty Images) Experts have voiced concerns the coronavirus pandemic may trigger a resurgence in measles. The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the green light for countries without an active me…
Healthcare workers are finding that flipping COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs, or prone positioning, is an effective way to keep them alive in intensive care, according to CNN. Were saving lives with this, one hundred percent, Mangala Narasimhan, region…
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…