The prevalence of symptoms of depression more than tripled in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic than before it, a study has found, highlighting the extent to which the health crisis could have a toll on mental health. The survey study published in JAMA Network Open, an open-access medical journal published by the American […]
ISLAMABAD: The number of global under-five deaths dropped to the lowest point on record in 2019 — down to 5.2 million from 12.5m in 1990, according to new mortality estimates released by the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) on Wednesday. Surveys by Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that the Covid-19 pandemic […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dr. Janice Bacon was exactly the person Kay McField hoped to talk to when she found herself spending most of her days in bed, feeling too depressed to get up as the coronavirus pandemic threatened those around her. As she watched those closest to her test positive for the virus — […]
The Aga Khan University’s (AKU) researchers have discovered in a study that 95 percent of those who had tested positive for Covid-19 through blood tests, which register the presence of antibodies to fight the disease, were asymptomatic. The study saw AKU faculty investigate virus prevalence in parts of the city – which has reported the […]
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with corona-virus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for […]
