A nurse pushes a patient into surgery (Getty) Doctors warn that many private practices may be forced to close down, which will impact patients' access to care during the pandemic and afterwards. This is as patients opt not to visit doctors for non-emergency care during the outbreak. Ophthalmologists have been the hardest hit, with a…
By Michael Le Page A hazel dormouseAndy Harmer / Alamy Two groups of researchers have independently discovered a “brain switch” that makes starving mice enter a hibernation-like state called torpor to save energy. They hope it may be possible to induce similar states in people. “Suspended animation could transform medicine and open the door to…
The UK may be rethinking its decision to shun Apple and Google’s API for its national coronavirus contacts tracing app, according to the Financial Times, which reported yesterday that the government is paying an IT supplier to investigate whether it can integrate the tech giants’ approach after all. As we’ve reported before coronavirus contacts tracing…
Several states have joined President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts and are taking federal reporting requirements to immigration authorities a step further — by using their public health agencies as arms of enforcement. North Carolina, in late April, became the latest member of a growing group of Republican-led states to require their public health agencies to
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