Month: June 2020

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28 additional COVID-19 deaths reported in Massachusetts, 373 new cases Updated: 5:24 PM EDT Jun 27, 2020 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported 28 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state Saturday, bringing the state's total to 8,041.In addition, state health officials reported 373 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 108,443.DPH recently began reporting both confirmed cases and probable cases. Of the new cases reported Saturday, 68 are probable. Two of the newly reported deaths fell into the probable category.State health officials said the addition of probable cases and deaths is part of an effort to cont...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — About 200 Florida-based doctors, including many from the First Coast, signed an open letter to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry on Saturday , calling for the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville to be postponed and for the use of masks to be mandated in the city. The letter notes that more than 40,000 people are expected to attend the RNC from all over the country. "Allowing this number of people to descend on Jacksonville is unequivocally provocative of disease, predictably harmful, and medically disrespectful to the citizens of this city, much less the rest of the country," the letter said.  In the letter, doctor...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as Vice President Pence speaks during a news conference Friday at the Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. has lost more people to COVID-19 than any other country. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as Vice P...

Not only did the system work in 13 monkeys, the researchers reported, but it appeared that every liver cell was edited. After gene editing, the monkeys’ LDL levels dropped by 59 percent within two weeks. The ANGPTL3 gene editing led to a 64 percent decline in triglyceride levels. One danger of gene editing is the process may result in modification of DNA that scientists are not expecting. “You will never be able to have no off-target effects,” warned Dr. Deepak Srivastava, president of the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. In treating a condition as common as heart disease, he added, even an uncommon side effect can mean many patients are affected. So far, however, the researchers say that they have not seen any inadvertent editing of other genes. Another question is how long the eff...

A new study has found further evidence of a correlation between severe cases of COVID-19 and brain complications, but researchers say they still aren't sure whether those complications are directly caused by the disease. The preliminary study, billed as the first nationwide survey of the neurological complications of the disease, was published in The Lancet Psychiatry this week. Over the course of three weeks in April, researchers surveyed 153 hospitalized patients in the U.K. who had both a new confirmed or probable COVID-19 diagnosis and a new neurological or psychiatric diagnosis. Researchers found that, among the 125 patients with complete medical records, 57 had a stroke caused by a blood clot in the brain and 39 had an altered mental state. Among the patients with an altered men...