Category: Infectious diseases

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Anchor lead: Are higher or lower oxygen levels best in patients with respiratory failure? Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute respiratory distress syndrome or ARDS is one complication of severe Covid-19 disease, with a new study in the New England Journal of …

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Anchor lead: There are specific training strategies to help regain smell after Covid infection, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve lost your sense of smell due to Covid-19, you may have seen kits for sale that purport to help you regain …

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Anchor lead: Both loss and altered sense of smell are features of Covid-19, Elizabeth Tracey reports Smell and taste aren’t just senses that improve our lives, they also help keep us safe by alerting us to the smell of something …

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Anchor lead: Can smell training help people who’ve lost their sense of smell due to Covid recover? Elizabeth Tracey reports Not only is loss of smell and taste a prominent symptom of Covid-19, for a sizeable number of people that …

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Anchor lead: Could using mouthwash help prevent Covid-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Using mouthwash may help reduce the number of Sars-CoV2 viruses in the mouth and throat and may therefore reduce infections. That’s at least the hypothesis being tested by one …

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Anchor lead: Protein based vaccines are also being studied for Covid-19, Elizabeth Tracey reports Even as several vaccine types are being rolled out against Covid-19, additional types remain in clinical trials and seem poised for wider use. Andrew Pekosz, a …

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Anchor lead: The Covid Astra Zeneca vaccine is being used in the UK and elsewhere, Elizabeth Tracey reports Even as vaccines against Sars-CoV2 in the US use technology known as mRNA, elsewhere in the world another type of vaccine using …

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