Tag: virus
What’s Working for COVID-19 Patients in the Epicenter
Our large tertiary care ED in Queens, NY, usually sees more than 100,000 adults a year. As we write this, we have 850 COVID-19-likely or -positive patients (several hundred above our bed capacity just one month ago), more... read more
COVID-19 Patients with Respiratory Failure: What Can We Learn From Aviation Medicine?
Patients with COVID-19 may present to hospitals and emergency medical services with an atypical form of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Although anecdotal, a common clinical pattern has emerged, with a remarkable... read more
COVID-19: Two More Trials Just Published on Remdesivir
Currently, there are no approved medications for the treatment of COVID-19, but, there are many investigational agents that have shown antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Unfortunately in vitro studies do... read more
Pandemic Science Out of Control
A toxic legacy of poor-quality research, media hype, lax regulatory oversight, and vicious partisanship has come home to roost in the search for effective treatments for COVID-19. The rush to offer unproven treatments... read more
Lessons From Ebola and Cholera Could Help Us Get Out of This Sooner
Two front-line emergency physicians recommend three specific and immediate interventions that can help stop COVID-19 here in the U.S. They are easy and inexpensive, and each of us with our friends, family, and neighbors—both... read more
PPE for Both Anesthesiologists and Other Airway Managers
Healthcare providers are facing a coronavirus disease pandemic. This pandemic may last for many months, stressing the Canadian healthcare system in a way that has not previously been seen. Keeping healthcare providers safe,... read more
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Renowned microbiologist Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for... read more
U.S. May Get More Ventilators But Run Out Of Medicine For COVID-19 Patients
As hospitals across the country fill with COVID-19 patients, medical personnel are sounding the alarm about shortages of drugs essential to those patients' care. "We have seen an increase in demand on pharmaceuticals that's... read more
Introduction and Dressing for COVID-19
Internal Medicine Rapid Refreshers is a series of concise information-packed videos refreshing your knowledge on key medical issues that general practitioners may encounter in their daily practice. The first episode introduces... read more
Plasma Transfusion Shows Promise for COVID-19 Treatment
Donor blood plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 appears to work as a treatment for the virus, a new analysis has revealed. In this preliminary uncontrolled case series of 5 critically ill patients with... read more
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Clinicians
The Association of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Intensive Care Society and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine are aware of their members' significant concerns about their own health and that... read more
UC Davis Researchers Race to Develop Coronavirus Solutions
Clinical pathologists, infectious disease physicians and scientists at the UC Davis Medical Center, School of Medicine, California National Primate Research Center and Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases are collaborating... read more
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
A riveting memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more. Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist... read more
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost... read more
