Public Health

Scientists find new COVID-19 treatment for people with diabetes

In a new study from UCL, researchers developed a new COVID-19 treatment for people with diabetes, which has shown promising results in a trial. The...

Vitamin D can be an inexpensive COVID-19 treatment, study finds

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, researchers found that active forms of vitamin D can inhibit the replication...

Physical inactivity linked to severe COVID-19 and death

In a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers found that physical inactivity is linked to more severe COVID-19 infection...

COVID-19 vaccine efficacy does not support boosters for general population

In a new study from WHO and FDA, researchers found that, even for the delta variant, vaccine efficacy against severe COVID is so high...

COVID-19 may strongly affect your brain

In a recent study published in Neurobiology of Stress, researchers found that COVID-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray...

This drug can block multiple COVID-19 variants, study finds

In a recent study published in Science Immunology, researchers found that the drug diABZI—which activates the body’s innate immune response—was highly effective in preventing...

This study confirms a strong link between COVID and stroke

Ever since the coronavirus became a widespread global pandemic, medical researchers have sought to understand how the virus impacts other medical ailments, especially neurological...

What is flu season likely to bring in an era of COVID-19?

The emergence of COVID-19 has brought with it a steep decline in another—but common—viral infection: the flu. As the United States prepares for the 2021–22 influenza...

This stuff adds fuel to COVID-19 inflammation, blood clots

In a recent study published in JCI Insight, researchers found another functional autoantibody in COVID-19 patients that contributes to the disease’s development and the...

This study shows 16 drugs could treat COVID-19

In a recent study is published in Pharmaceutics, researchers found a new way to identify existing medicines that could be applied to treat COVID-19. This...