Patients with rheumatic and inflammatory diseases who develop COVID-19 share risk factors for severe disease with the larger population, including older age, male sex, obesity,…
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The coronavirus pandemic has been a particularly scary time for children with asthma and their parents, but there is growing evidence that as a group…
Children with major birth defects had an elevated risk of cancer that persisted into adulthood, a large retrospective cohort study showed. Overall, 3.5% of 62,295…
New therapies and devices for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were approved in 2020 and researchers continued to explore expanding the definition of disease beyond…
I was on a family holiday in Palma, Mallorca, in July 2001. One weekend we rented a motorboat and went cruising around the coast. I…
Making music Even though it happens in the same space as my Zoom counselling sessions, making music helps me to switch off immediately. I close…
One of the challenges that this series of lockdowns presents is how to keep doing exercise. I have talked at length in this column about…
Enlarge this image The Arecibo Observatory’s mammoth telescope collapsed overnight. It’s seen here in November, after a cable damaged its dish. University of Central Florida…
Enlarge this image News of a good immune response in animals bodes well for testing future COVID-19 vaccines. CMB/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption CMB/Getty…
Tom Farley, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, on Friday detailed his battle with Covid-19 early in the pandemic, telling CNBC “it was…