The growth in cases of coronavirus may be slowing down, the largest study of the infection in England suggests. A team at Imperial College London analysed samples from 84,000 people chosen at random from across the country. They said the R number, the virus’s reproduction number, appears to have fallen since measures including the “rule… Read More »
The World Health Organization on Monday reported the highest one-day increase in coronavirus cases, a total of 307,930 in a 24-hour period, the highest number recorded since the start of the pandemic. The United States, India, and Brazil, the countries with the highest number of total coronavirus cases, logged the highest numbers of new cases… Read More »
According to an expert report, a third of dementia cases worldwide could be prevented by the management of lifestyle factors such as smoking, hearing loss, depression and hypertension. The benefits of nonpharmacologic interventions such as exercise and social contact for dementia patients are also highlighted in the report.[1] 24 international experts were brought together to… Read More »
ROME — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil, as Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a vaccine against the virus. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that one of his two adult daughters had already been inoculated… Read More »
“We need to take ownership of this and implement a federal plan by which we bring every state to containment by October,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor and Dean of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, adding that some states have been able to do that already. “But other parts of the… Read More »