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Keep your belly full! | Homemade bread
20 Apr, 2020There’s nothing better than freshly baked bread and Jamie has a simple recipe to guarantee you get a deliciously fluffy loaf that’ll change the way you eat bread forever! -
Fighting COVID-19 with Data and AI: A Review of Active Research Groups and Datasets
20 Apr, 2020
AI-Based Systems Detecting COVID-19
1. DAMO Academy (Alibaba Group) Detects Coronavirus Cases in CT ScansIn early February, Alibaba Research Academy (DAMO Academy) came up with an AI-based solution that can detect COVID-19 in under 20 seconds with 96% accuracy. The network is a deep computer vision model which takes the CT scan of a patient as input and outputs whether or not they show signs of coronavirus. The model was fine-tuned with more than 5,000 training samples and ... -
Washing your hands: The purple paint demonstration
20 Apr, 2020How's your handwashing technique? A Spartanburg Regional infection preventionist slathers on purple paint to show how it's done.
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3D Printing and COVID-19, April 19, 2020 Update
20 Apr, 2020
Companies, organizations and individuals continue to attempt to lend support to the COVID-19 pandemic supply effort. 3Dprint.com will be providing regular updates about these initiatives where necessary in an attempt to ensure that the 3D printing community is aware of what is being done, what can be done and what shouldn’t be done to provide coronavirus aid.
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ACS Guidelines for Triage and Management of Elective Cancer Surgery Cases
20 Apr, 2020The American College of Surgeons together with their Cancer programs published a list of statements for Elective surgery during the Acute and Recovery phases of the Covid-19 disease pandemic. There, they define the phases of the disease and how to manage all the oncologic surgery that must go forward depending on the infection stage.
It has been developed by the leaders within the ACS Cancer Programs (American Joint Committee on Cancer, AJCC, Clinical Research Program (CRP), Commissio... -
Can you get coronavirus twice? What we know so far about COVID-19 and immunity
20 Apr, 2020
Your immune system is like your own personal army: a vast network of cells, tissues and organs that coordinate your body's defences against illness and disease.
Yet how the immune system responds to coronavirus — and whether it mountsanylasting defence — is one of the biggest unknowns and most urgent questions facing researchers and health authorities right now.
"Like most other viruses, we're going to mount an immune response and in the short term that should mean that we'r... -
One hand, two hands and let your body dance!
20 Apr, 2020Music doesn't stop at County Hospital with Team AMU, now with Movedat!
The dancing continues at County Hospital with Team AMU #UHNMFamily pic.twitter.com/D9yCxc1wsx
— UHNM NHS Trust #StayAtHome (@UHNM_NHS) April 14, 2020
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Novartis steps up to study of hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19
20 Apr, 2020
The drug giant Novartis said Monday it would conduct a 450-person study to determine if hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug touted by many pundits and President Trump, can effectively treat Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
The study will be a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study, the medical gold standard in which patients will be assigned one of three options: hydroxychloroquine, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiot... -
Recommendations for good clinical practice in colorectal surgery during the novel coronavirus pandemic
20 Apr, 2020The Italian society of colorectal surgery (SICCR) stated a list of recommendations to ensure a good practice during the Covid-19 pandemic. These guidelines are based on the experience gained in the Sistema Sanitario Nazionale, SSN (National healthcare system). -
WHO: Alcohol does not protect against COVID-19; access should be restricted during lockdown
20 Apr, 2020Alcohol is known to be harmful to health in general, and is well understood to increase the risk of injury and violence, including intimate partner violence, and can cause alcohol poisoning. At times of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol consumption can exacerbate health vulnerability, risk-taking behaviours, mental health issues and violence. WHO/Europe reminds people that drinking alcohol does not protect them from COVID-19, and encourages governments to enforce measures which l... -
ACS Guidelines for Triage and Management of Elective Cancer Surgery Cases During the Acute and Recovery Phases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
20 Apr, 2020Developed by the leaders within the ACS Cancer Programs (American Joint Committee on Cancer, AJCC, Clinical Research Program [CRP], Commission on Cancer [COC], National Accreditation Program for Breast Cancer [NAPBC], National Accreditation for Rectal Cancer [NAPRC], and the Quality Integration Committee [QIC]). Collaborations and input from specialty societies acknowledged where appropriate in the disease sections. -
SARS-CoV-2 and viral sepsis: observations and hypotheses
20 Apr, 2020Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), clinicians have tried every effort to understand the disease, and a brief portrait of its clinical features have been identified. In clinical practice, the clinicians noticed that many severe or critically ill COVID-19 patients developed typical clinical manifestations of shock, including cold extremities and weak peripheral pulses, even in the absence of overt hypotension. Understanding the mechanism of viral sepsis in COVID-19 is wa...