Public Health

During COVID-19 pandemic, more people get this dangerous heart problem

In a new study, researchers have found a big increase in patients experiencing stress cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, during the COVID-19...

More people are dying during the pandemic – and not just from COVID-19

More people in the United States are dying during the COVID-19 pandemic, but not just because of the coronavirus. One reason, experts say, is people...

This stuff in blood could predict breathing failure in COVID-19

In a recent study from Rush University and elsewhere, researchers found that a very high level of a protein known as suPAR in the...

Researchers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask

Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a silicone rubber face mask that they believe could stop viral particles as effectively...

Your speech may show signs of COVID-19

It's often easy to tell when colleagues are struggling with a cold—they sound sick. Maybe their voices are lower or have a nasal tone. Infections...

How to make your homemade mask work as well as an N95

How do you make a mask as effective as the N95 respirators used by healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients? Northeastern researchers sought solutions from materials...

These things can make COVID-19 more likely to kill

In a new study, researchers found risk factors linked to COVID-19 death, based on analyses of health records of 17 million adults in England. The...

New evidence supports this anti-viral drug as COVID-19 treatment

The news about remdesivir, the anti-viral drug that has shown early promise in the fight against COVID-19, keeps getting better. In a new study, researchers...

New evidence that diabetes may be a big risk factor for COVID-19

In a new study, researchers have recently applied an advanced statistical approach to analyze risk factors that may be causally related to COVID-19 infection. Results...

From lung scarring to heart damage, COVID-19 may leave lingering marks

For some individuals with COVID-19, recovering from the acute phase of the infection is only the beginning. Worrying reports now indicate that the virus may...