Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), better known as chronic fatigue syndrome, is a complex chronic disease affecting some 600,000 Canadians and up
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Loss of smell is an earlier COVID-19 symptom than fever—a sniff test for screening is in the works
Many of us have encountered new pandemic-related checkpoints as we’ve tried to enter a workplace or medical office. There’s no
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NIH Begins Large Clinical Trial to Test Immune Modulators for Treatment of COVID-19
October 16, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health has launched an adaptive Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the
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Scientists develop extremely rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19
Scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Physics have developed an extremely rapid diagnostic test that detects and identifies viruses in
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Bedside COVID-19 Test Faster Than Standard PCR Test
TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 — Bedside tests for COVID-19 may speed results and improve infection control, making them better than
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Urine-based liquid biopsy test outperforms urine cytology in detecting bladder cancer
Analysis of DNA copy number variants (CNVs) in the cells exfoliated in urine showed better sensitivity and similar specificity in
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A tool that automatically scores dream reports used to test the ‘continuity hypothesis’
A team of researchers from Università degli studi di Roma Tre and Nokia Bell Laboratories has developed a tool that
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Rapid $5 coronavirus test doesn’t need specialty equipment
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn’t need any special computer equipment
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Blood test may determine coronavirus patients' severity of illness, risk of death: study
One blood type may provide some coronavirus protection, study suggests Preliminary results from an ongoing study suggest that those with
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Is it ethical to infect volunteers with Covid-19 to test a vaccine?
The terrible dilemma our scientists face… do you risk the lives of a few by injecting them with Covid-19 to
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