As kids head back to school - in-person or virtually - debate continues about how safe it is for children to interact with one another and with adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is now a consensus that children are at relatively low risk for severe illness resulting from COVID-19, how likely they are to be infected but asymptomatic … [Read more...]
Asymptomatic Kids Testing Positive for COVID-19 at Rates Less than 1 Percent
Which Children Should Be Tested for COVID-19?
The role that children play in the spread of COVID-19 remains unclear. While it is largely consensus amongst the medical community that children are unlikely to become severely ill after infection with the virus, their infection rates and their likelihood of transmitting the virus to others is still not well understood. As schools slowly reopen, … [Read more...]
How Mindfulness Can Help Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare providers often face significant work-related stress, and the rates of burnout among healthcare workers have been on the rise in recent years. Though much research corroborates the high prevalence of stress amongst this demographic, little headway has occurred with respect to developing and deploying effective measures to combat this … [Read more...]
Data Show Hydroxychloroquine Reduces Fetal Heart Block Occurrence
Few drugs have received as much media attention in recent years as hydroxychloroquine. Though used clinically for years and for several different conditions, there has been heated debate amongst physicians and other healthcare providers about the safety and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19. One major concern amongst skeptics has been the … [Read more...]
New Information on How Social Determinants of Health Impact Stroke Risk
Social determinants of health are regularly explored as a means for elucidating the complex contributions to disease and mortality. New research aimed at understanding how social determinants of health may help to predict stroke risk has revealed that social determinants of health may be particularly important in adults under the age of 75. The … [Read more...]