Last Thursday (9 April), 40 hospitals under the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) became the first American healthcare institutions to be part of an international treatment trial called REMAP-COVID19 which aimed to find an effective intervention for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On
Charles Darwin regarded facial expressions as the windows to animals’ as well as human’s emotions. However, making sense of what’s written on our faces has never been an easy task. Recently, a group of researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Germany had successfully used a machine
Optical imaging employs light as a medium to non-invasively look into the cellular and molecular functions inside a body. It has significant in vivo applications like assisting in surgeries or examining the brains. A group of researchers at Purdue University is now bringing the technology a step fur
Around 30 researchers from four Finnish institutions (i.e., Aalto University, Finnish Meteorological Institute, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and University of Helsinki) investigated how far aerosol particles are being spread from one’s cough, sneeze and talk into his/her surrounding envi
Although clinical adoption of VR remains slow and minimal, like many technologies out there, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic seems to hasten its use in a way that has never seen before. Some even said that they are beginning to use their VR devices again after leaving them idle for long. VR medical tr
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has not only put a strain on our healthcare systems, but also on the people’s minds. As of now, most of us have to endured prolong social-isolation as an effort to stop the virus from spreading within the community; uncertainties resulted from business closure and the b
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) is a joint research collaboration between Princeton University’s Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and the Columbia Population Research Center. It’s a 15-year-long sociological investigation to shed light on how lives of children born to un
National Health Service (NHS) England introduced a new telephone and online service - NHS 111, some years back allowing individuals to seek medical advice and/or treatment for urgent but non-life-threatening symptoms. The 24/7 hotline and web-based assessments aim to ease the burden shoulder by emer
The outbreak science or “the use of infectious disease modeling to support public health decision making” is not something new, yet it has never been so influential before. For example, Jacco Wallinga, Mathematician and Chief Epidemic Modeler at the Netherland’s National Institute for Public Health