health

Common Heart Drugs' Risk With COVID-19 Unproven.

Could a blood pressure or diabetes medicine make COVID-19 more severe?
A Parent's Guide to Fighting Coronavirus Stress

Stressed-out parents should reach out to others for support during the coronavirus pandemic, child health experts say.
What Dental Offices Are Doing to Prevent COVID-19

On March 16, the American Dental Association called on dentists to suspend elective care for three weeks to lower the risk.
Common Lab Test Changes You Should Know

A doctor's visit often includes a stop at the lab for blood tests. But the last few years have brought changes to how some common lab tests are done.
Do Gene Mutations Explain Young COVID-19 Cases?

Plans call for enrolling 500 patients worldwide who are under age 50, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and admitted to an intensive care unit, and have no underlying health problems such as diabetes, heart disease or lung disease.

psychology

Go For Love

Try to focus less on how others should be, and focus more on your own practice of finding your own genuine love. It's like strengthening your heart.
5 Times You are Still Allowed to Grieve

Does it feel like you're not allowed to grieve? Like your loss isn't big enough or recent enough? Understand how we deligitimize our own experiences and what we should do instead.
Do You Want Your Romantic Partner to Lie to You?

Is complete honesty really what people want in their love lives? Research finds that most people expect and even demand that their lovers lie to them.
Respond Instead of React: Managing COVID-19 Anxiety

Borrowing from CBT tools for anxiety, we can learn to turn our reactions into responses, helping us and our loved ones cope well in times of crisis.
Working Memory Executive Control

There's more to working memory than remembering a phone number long enough to dial it.

Common Heart Drugs' Risk With COVID-19 Unproven.

Could a blood pressure or diabetes medicine make COVID-19 more severe?
A Parent's Guide to Fighting Coronavirus Stress

Stressed-out parents should reach out to others for support during the coronavirus pandemic, child health experts say.
What Dental Offices Are Doing to Prevent COVID-19

On March 16, the American Dental Association called on dentists to suspend elective care for three weeks to lower the risk.
Common Lab Test Changes You Should Know

A doctor's visit often includes a stop at the lab for blood tests. But the last few years have brought changes to how some common lab tests are done.
Do Gene Mutations Explain Young COVID-19 Cases?

Plans call for enrolling 500 patients worldwide who are under age 50, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and admitted to an intensive care unit, and have no underlying health problems such as diabetes, heart disease or lung disease.
Coronavirus Daily Digest: March 30, 2020

A roundup of the latest news about COVID-19
President Trump Signs Coronavirus Relief Bill

President Donald Trump signed into law a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package after the U.S. House voted Friday to approve it.
Shortages Looming for Respirators, Masks, Gowns

Only about 12% of facilities have been able to get supplemental PPE from federal resources, compared with 25% that have drawn from local donations and 17% from do-it-yourself efforts to cobble together masks and gowns, results show. State and local governments have supplied PPE to 29% of facilities surveyed.
Respirator Masks - In Short Supply

As the coronavirus pandemic stresses the U.S. health care system, personal protective equipment -- including high-tech masks -- are in desperately short supply.
How Three Countries Have Kept COVID-19 In Check

Although the United States missed its chance to head off a COVID-19 epidemic, and is well on its way to becoming the pandemic's new epicenter, these lessons drawn from other countries could still be used to help manage infections in the months and years ahead, Adalja and Kullar said.