Public Health

COVID-19 lockdowns may escalate the obesity epidemic

In a new study, researchers found emotional stress, economic anxiety, physical inactivity, and social distance—locking down society to combat COVID-19 creates psychosocial insecurity that...

This new test can diagnose COVID-19 in 20 minutes

In a new study, researchers have developed a new test that can diagnose COVID-19 in just 20 minutes. The findings show the rapid molecular test...

Scientists find the order of COVID-19’s symptoms

In a new study, researchers have found the likely order in which COVID-19 symptoms first appear: fever, cough, muscle pain, and then nausea, and/or...

Scientists discover an effective therapy to treat COVID-19, reduce death

In a new study, researchers found that convalescent plasma therapy is safe and effective to treat COVID-19. They tested more than 300 COVID-19 patients treated...

Popular anti-malaria drugs not recommended for treating COVID-19

Recently, several physicians hosted a press conference in which one physician claimed that the combination of hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin, and the mineral zinc...

Scientists find hundreds of possible drugs to treat COVID-19

In a new study, researchers have used machine learning to identify hundreds of new potential drugs that could help treat COVID-19, the disease caused...

Early spread of COVID-19 may be far greater than initially reported

Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning...

Why does COVID-19 harm only some organs, not others?

In severe cases of COVID-19, damage can spread beyond the lungs and into other organs, such as the heart, liver, kidney, and parts of...

New COVID-19 vaccine may prevent severe symptoms, new study shows

In a new study, researchers found an experimental vaccine is effective at preventing pneumonia in mice infected with the COVID-19 virus. The vaccine is made...

Social distancing could slow growth of COVID-19 in US, study shows

Between March 10 and March 25, 2020, all 50 states and the District of Columbia enacted at least one statewide physical distancing measure to...