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COVID-19 Update: HCQ Trial Resumes, Virus Not Weakening
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
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COVID-19 Replace: HCQ Research Questioned, Protests and Outbreaks
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the coronavirus stories Medscape's editors around the globe think you need to know about today: Scientists Question Data, Ethics, Findings of The Lancet HCQ Study More than 140 scientists and physicians are challenging the validity of an influential study…
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Scientists Query Knowledge, Ethics, Findings of Lancet HCQ Examine
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. More than 140 scientists and physicians are challenging the validity of an influential study that found an association between prescribing the antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 patients and increased in-hospital mortality. After the observational study's results were published in…
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Docs’ Group Confronts ICE Over ‘Risks of Detention’ From COVID-19
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. In mid-May, 30 members of Doctors for Camp Closure and other immigrant rights groups camped outside the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey for 24 hours, hoping their plea would be heard: Release the immigrants to help stop the spread of…
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Thyroid Screening in Being pregnant: Too A lot of a Good Factor?
Regularly screening pregnant women for thyroid dysfunction may lead to overdiagnosis, Canadian researchers reported. In an analysis of over 188,000 pregnant women, about 60% underwent at least one measurement of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), according to Jennifer Yamamoto, MD, of the University of Calgary, and colleagues. Less than 6% of these pregnancies had free thyroxine measured…
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The New One-Eyed Babysitter
Toddlers spent nearly 2 hours a day on tablets or smartphones, but few parents accurately estimated how long their children were spending on these devices, researchers reported. In a group of 121 children ages 3 to 5 who had their own tablet or smartphone, kids spent an average 115.3 minutes on their devices each day,…
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Can We Flatten the Second Wave With out Common Masking?
With the U.S. recently passing the milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, MedPage Today Editor-in-Chief Martin Makary, MD, of Johns Hopkins University, discusses reasons behind a potential spike in cases in our nation's Sun Belt states, what China has taught us about the value of masks, and what vaccines and treatments in the pipeline are…
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‘Why Do We At all times Get Hit First?’ Proposed Funds Cuts Goal Weak Californians
Shirley Madden, 83, relies on a caregiver and her two grown daughters to remain living at home — and not in a nursing home. Her daughters, 55-year-old Carrie and 60-year-old Kristy Madden, both use wheelchairs and need a second caregiver to help them navigate their own daily lives. But that critical caregiving support, along with…
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Democratic Tremendous PAC Makes use of Acquainted Political Play To Hit Trump On Medicare
Priorities USA Action, a Democratic super PAC, announced a new digital and TV ad series criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Among the ads is a 15-second spot, titled “Pause,” that alleges Trump is trying to cut Medicare during the global health emergency. “Our lives are on pause. We’re worried about our…
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John Lewis Is Nonetheless Combating for the Soul of America
Rep. John Lewis, civil-rights giant and the congressman for the Fifth District of Georgia.Anthony Geathers/Redux REP. JOHN LEWIS has been arrested 45 times in his 80 remarkable years on the planet. He’s been beaten, spat on, doused in scalding water, and insulted, impugned, and harassed in every way imaginable. Yet through it all—the marches with…
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A Compilation of Command Prompt Tips, Tricks & Cool Things You Can Do
Although Windows settings provide easy access for configuring most things, the Command Prompt -- elevated or otherwise -- can be indispensable in a number of scenarios, especially when you know how to take advantage of it. Sometimes settings can be applied by typing a few characters instead of clicking through a series of menus, while…
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White House Lists ‘Ending’ Covid-19 Pandemic As Trump Accomplishment
Topline The White House science office lists "ending the Covid-19 pandemic" as one of the top accomplishments of the Trump administration's first term despite the fact that new coronavirus cases are rising precipitously throughout the country, resulting in many hospitals nationwide approaching maximum capacity. President Donald Trump walks on the south lawn of the White…
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Ubisoft Toronto’s Watch Dogs: Legion is a triumph of innovative game design
Playing as multiple characters in a video game is hardly a novel concept, especially in party-based role-playing games. In fact, you could even argue that letting you assume the roles of many different characters is one of the most unique and appealing aspects of the medium. But what about a game where you can play…
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Commvault launches Metallic backup service in Europe
viperagp - stock.adobe.com Backup giant adds backup as a service, with cloud-to-cloud backup and e-discovery functionality that can work across on-site datacentres and the AWS and Azure clouds By Antony Adshead, Storage Editor Published: 28 Oct 2020 0:01 Commvault has launched its Metallic cloud backup-as-a-service product in several European countries and in Israel. Metallic comes…