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Pregnant Women May Be No More Likely To Become Severely Ill With COVID-19 Than Other Women, UK Study Indicates

Reuters (5/11, Kelland) reports that “pregnant women are no more likely to become severely ill with COVID-19 than other women, according to a preliminary study in Britain, but most expectant mothers who do develop serious illness tend to be in the later s...

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Obesity Tied To Severe COVID-19 In Younger Patients, Study Suggests

Medscape (5/11, Salamon, Subscription Publication) reports a study published in The Lancet indicates that “the younger an ICU patient with severe COVID-19 is, the more obese that patient tends to be.” Dr. David Kass, a professor of cardiology and medicine...

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Investigators Examine Association Between Statin Use, Acute Liver Injury In HIV, HCV, And Unaffected Patients

Infectious Disease Advisor (5/11, van Paridon) reports, “Patients using statins had a lower risk for any acute liver injury outcome within 18 months compared with non-users, regardless of HIV and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) status,” researchers concluded i...

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Experimental Vaccine Appears To Give Monkeys Extended Protection From HIV-Like Infection, Researchers Say

HealthDay (5/11, Norton) reports, “An experimental vaccine seems to give monkeys extended protection from an HIV-like infection – by ‘waking up’ an arm of the immune system that vaccines normally do not,” researchers concluded after designing “a regimen t...

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Researchers Say An App Shows Promise In Tracking Coronavirus Cases

The New York Times (5/11, Jacobs) reports that as public health officials struggle “to track the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in real time,” a team of scientists in the US and the UK “say a crowdsourcing smartphone app may be the answer to that quan...

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California Contact Tracing Plan Was Quickly Overwhelmed, Study Suggests

The New York Times (5/11, Waldstein) reports on a plan in California early in the coronavirus outbreak to limit the spread by “identifying travelers from high-risk countries and tracing their contacts with others.” The system “was quickly overwhelmed by a...

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FDA Approves First Coronavirus Antigen Test

The New York Times (5/9, Jacobs) reported the FDA “approved the first antigen test that can rapidly detect whether a person has been infected by the coronavirus, a significant advancement that promises to greatly expand the nation’s testing capacity.” The...

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FDA Authorizes First At-Home Saliva Test For Coronavirus

Reuters (5/8, Maddipatla) reported the FDA “has authorized the first diagnostic test for the new coronavirus that allows patients to collect saliva samples at-home.” The test “was developed by RUCDR Infinite Biologics, a unit of Rutgers’ Human Genetics In...

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Experts Say Coronavirus Testing In US Has Improved But Still Lagging

The Hill (5/9, Hellmann) reported, “Coronavirus testing has improved significantly over the past several weeks but is still not where it needs to be as states look to reopen, health experts say.” During the first week of May, there was an average of 250,0...

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Researchers Say Abbott Laboratories’ Coronavirus Antibody Test Is Very Accurate

Reuters (5/8) reported researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine found that “Abbott Laboratories’ antibody test for the new coronavirus is highly likely to correctly determine whether people have ever been infected with the fast-sprea...

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New York City Medical Examiner Limiting Coronavirus Testing On The Deceased

The Wall Street Journal (5/10, Hawkins, Subscription Publication) reports New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner is limiting coronavirus testing on the deceased due to a widespread shortage of testing materials.

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Nursing Homes In New York Must Test Staffers For Coronavirus Twice A Week

TIME (5/10) reported that “New York nursing homes must start twice-weekly coronavirus testing for all staffers and will no longer be sent COVID-19 patients leaving hospitals, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday after facing criticism over the handling of n...

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Agriculture, Exposure To Pollutants May Increase Risk For ALS, Study Indicates

ALS News Today (5/8, Martins) reported, “Agriculture and other areas that expose people to pesticides, paint solvents, electromagnetic fields, and heavy metals may increase their odds of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),” investigators concl...

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Men’s Blood May Have Higher Levels Of Enzyme Used By Coronavirus To Infect Cells Than Women’s Blood, Study Indicates

Reuters (5/10, Kelland) reports “men’s blood has higher levels than women’s of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European study” published in the European Heart Journal suggest. Reuters adds, “Angiotensin-conve...

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Serologic HEV-Ag Test Performs Best Overall For Detecting Persistence Of HEV Markers After Acute Self-Limited Hepatitis E, Researchers Say

Infectious Disease Advisor (5/8, van Paridon) reported, “The persistence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) markers after acute self-limited hepatitis E was assessed and...the serologic HEV-Ag test performed best overall,” research indicated. That test “had a pos...

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States Aim To Build Contact Tracer “Armies” To Battle Coronavirus

The Hill (5/10, Wilson) reports, “State governments are building armies of contact tracers in a new phase of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a fundamental practice in public health that can at once wrestle the virus under control...

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WHO To Launch Coronavirus App That May Contain Contact Tracing Ability

Reuters (5/8, Dave) reported that this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) will launch an app “to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel coronavirus, and is considering a Bluetooth-based contact tracing...

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NIH Director Says US Needs Better Technology To Rapidly Test For Coronavirus

Reuters (5/7, O'Donnell) reports NIH Director Francis Collins said the US needs better diagnostics to address the coronavirus pandemic. Collins “said existing testing technology still relies on sending samples to labs for results, and new technologies mus...

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FDA Releases New Guidelines For Developing, Marketing At-Home Coronavirus Diagnostic Tests

The New York Times (5/7, Jacobs) reports the FDA “has posted new guidelines that could pave the way for millions of people to test themselves for the coronavirus at home.” The guidelines “allow companies to develop and market testing kits with the tools t...

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Some Laboratories Say They Are Operating Below Capacity For Coronavirus Testing

360Dx (5/7, Bonislawski) reports, “Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., the country has struggled with a lack of nucleic acids tests to diagnose the virus.” However, some laboratories, “including the country’s largest reference labs h...

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Pregnant Women May Be No More Likely To Become Severely Ill With COVID-19 Than Other Women, UK Study Indicates

Obesity Tied To Severe COVID-19 In Younger Patients, Study Suggests

Investigators Examine Association Between Statin Use, Acute Liver Injury In HIV, HCV, And Unaffected Patients

Experimental Vaccine Appears To Give Monkeys Extended Protection From HIV-Like Infection, Researchers Say

Researchers Say An App Shows Promise In Tracking Coronavirus Cases

California Contact Tracing Plan Was Quickly Overwhelmed, Study Suggests

FDA Approves First Coronavirus Antigen Test

FDA Authorizes First At-Home Saliva Test For Coronavirus

Experts Say Coronavirus Testing In US Has Improved But Still Lagging

Researchers Say Abbott Laboratories’ Coronavirus Antibody Test Is Very Accurate

New York City Medical Examiner Limiting Coronavirus Testing On The Deceased

Nursing Homes In New York Must Test Staffers For Coronavirus Twice A Week

Agriculture, Exposure To Pollutants May Increase Risk For ALS, Study Indicates

Men’s Blood May Have Higher Levels Of Enzyme Used By Coronavirus To Infect Cells Than Women’s Blood, Study Indicates

Serologic HEV-Ag Test Performs Best Overall For Detecting Persistence Of HEV Markers After Acute Self-Limited Hepatitis E, Researchers Say

States Aim To Build Contact Tracer “Armies” To Battle Coronavirus

WHO To Launch Coronavirus App That May Contain Contact Tracing Ability

NIH Director Says US Needs Better Technology To Rapidly Test For Coronavirus

FDA Releases New Guidelines For Developing, Marketing At-Home Coronavirus Diagnostic Tests

Some Laboratories Say They Are Operating Below Capacity For Coronavirus Testing