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FRIDAY, May 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) — They’re small spiny mammals that look like anteaters with scales. And pangolins — which some credit with playing a role in the emergence of the new coronavirus — might hold clues to fighting COVID-19. Genetic research into the new coronavirus has suggested thatContinue Reading

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FRIDAY, May 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 has directly claimed tens of thousands of U.S. lives, but conditions stemming from the novel coronavirus — rampant unemployment, isolation and an uncertain future — could lead to 75,000 deaths from drug or alcohol abuse and suicide, new research suggests. Deaths fromContinue Reading

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THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — In the scramble to find medicines that beat back COVID-19, researchers from Italy report encouraging results from a small study on a rheumatoid arthritis drug already in use. The drug, anakinra, may help quiet the runaway immune response known as a “cytokine storm,”Continue Reading

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WEDNESDAY, May 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Adults who had rough childhoods have higher odds for heart disease. That’s the conclusion from a look at more than 3,600 people who were followed from the mid-1980s through 2018. Researchers found that those who experienced the most trauma, abuse, neglect and familyContinue Reading