Does a high dose of vitamin D reduce the number of days spent in hospital by patients with moderate to severe COVID-19? As previous studies have indicated, vitamin D can improve an individual’s immune response and insufficiencies of the vitamin could be a potential risk factor for respiratory tract infections. High serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin […]
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Giorgio Companies site in Blandon, PA where the CATE Mobile Vaccination Unit was onsite to administer Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines to workers, April 14, 2021. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Reading Eagle via Getty Images Moderna started a clinical trial to study the […]
An abstract representation of the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox is a virus within the Poxviridae family. Monkeypox has clinical presentations similar to smallpox, though usually with a much smaller fatality rate (~10%).1 In 1958, the monkeypox virus was first identified in monkeys transported from Africa to Denmark. The virus has been documented in other mammals, misleading […]
