The new study, undertaken by top Singaporean infectious disease experts, suggests hospitals could discharge patients much faster than they are – with positive tests often only picking up non-contagious fragments of the bug Coronavirus patients no longer pose a threat…
Uruguayan Guadalupe Videla, 29, smashed her skull on the ground after plunging around five feet and missing a safety mat by inches. She was rushed to hospital but died hours later Trapeze artist Guadalupe Videla died after hitting her head…
Several young adults are now in hospital in New York City and San Diego with a life-threatening Kawasaki-like inflammatory condition, believed to be linked to Covid-19 A severe Kawasaki-like illness which has affected children during the coronavirus pandemic is now…
In this special episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we focus on a serious topic that everybody is talking about: SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Every day at Live Science, our reporters and editors track the latest coronavirus developments…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several state health departments have been reporting COVID-19 diagnostic tests and antibody tests as one grand tally, rather than keeping their results separate, The Atlantic reported. Reporting these numbers as…
A mysterious inflammatory syndrome tied to COVID-19 that has been reported in children is now also turning up in young adults in their early 20s, according to news reports. Doctors have now diagnosed the syndrome in a 20-year-old in San…
Juan Manuel Paredes Torres was shot near the hospital called Essalud in Lima, Peru, allegedly by a man who had just got off a motorbike (Image: CEN/@aliada) A doctor was shot in the stomach as he walked to work to…
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at dreams that terrify: nightmares. What causes nightmares, and does everybody have them? What can you do to prevent nightmares? And if you’re caught in the middle of…
This is how the ancient humans may have discovered the elephant’s carcass on a lake shore at what is now Schöningen, Germany. Archaeologists have discovered the nearly complete skeleton of an enormous, now-extinct elephant that lived about 300,000 years ago…
The biotech company Moderna announced Monday (May 18) that their experimental coronavirus vaccine showed promising results in an early trial, known as a phase I study. After receiving a single dose of the vaccine, called mRNA-1273, all 45 of the…