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CORONA VIRUS (COVID-19)

Singapore claims first use of antibody test to track coronavirus infections

A single coronavirus case exposes a bigger problem: The scope of undetected U.S. spread is unknown

Are you immune to the coronavirus after having it?

Common cold coronaviruses, you don't actually have immunity that lasts for very long, and so we don't know the answer with this specific coronavirus. If you recover, are you immune, and if you are immune, how long does that last? And that's actually going to be one of the challenges with designing a vaccine is how do you actually cause the immunity long enough to protect you -- Dr. Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at NYU School of Medicine

What are the symptoms of coronavirus?

The novel coronavirus, a cousin of the sever acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, has symptoms that include a runny nose, cough, sore throat, possibly a headache and maybe a fever, which can last for a couple of days.

For those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there's a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis.

Redesigning opioids may not prevent their fatal side effect

Screening for Lung Cancer — 10 States, 2017

Wash your hands, not your poultry

Good Medical Care Can Suffer Late In The Day

Bebe Rexha Is Proof A Mental Health Condition Doesn't Define You

ADDICTION

Using contributing causes of death improves prediction of opioid involvement in unclassified drug overdoses in US death records

Dems take up new addiction treatment legislation  The House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to consider a package of bills that would significantly overhaul America’s addiction treatment infrastructure. In a hearing this morning, Lev reports, lawmakers will entertain a series of proposals to prevent addiction and improve recovery services. They include: Taxing opioid manufacturers 1 cent per milligram of opioid-based pain drugs they produce Allowing all physicians licensed to prescribe pain drugs to prescribe the opioid addiction treatment buprenorphine (Right now, they have to undergo an eight-hour training to obtain a waiver.) Allow doctors to prescribe patients a three-day supply of opioids not for the purpose of treating pain but to treat withdrawal (Currently, they can prescribe one day at a time, not three.)

Correction: It is Patients for Affordable Drugs NOW, not Patients for Affordable Drugs, that is behind the ad campaign we covered in last week's D.C. Diagnosis. [STAT, DC Diagnosis, March 3, 2020]

Interior Department moves to impose new rules on use of science in decision-making

A single ‘paper mill’ appears to have churned out 400 papers, sleuths find

TEN TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE SCIENCE IN THE 2020S

When new or dangerous infectious diseases strike, public health often trumps personal privacy.

Oil and gas companies invest in legislators that vote against the environment

Trump administration expands reach of EPA secret science proposal

Cheap balloon-borne telescopes aim to rival space observatories

Tens of thousands of communications satellites could spoil view of giant sky telescope

SPACE

This rainy exoplanet could be ripe for life

Telescopes detect 'biggest explosion since Big Bang

Katherine Johnson of Hidden Figures Fame Dies at 101

NASA’S FIGHT TO PROTECT ALIENS FROM NAKED LADIES

ANIMALS

Newts and frogs light up like glow sticks under the right light

Whales strand more on days with higher solar activity

This is the only known animal that doesn’t need oxygen to survive

Trump Has Been Very Bad for Vulnerable Animals. The Administration May Finally Have to Change Its Behavior.

Stella McCartney Makes the Case that Animals Should Be Friends, Not Fashion

MEDICAL RESEARCH

Researchers find new, promising antibiotic with help from AI

Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine


A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century

Jacques Attali

ESTONIA

EBRD supports revitalisation of Tallinn port district