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One of the more puzzling aspects of COVID-19 has been the seemingly vast range of symptoms.For thousands of people around the world, the virus has been deadly. But for an unquantified group of individuals (at least so far), the illness...

Maybe we should all wear masks in public, 261 million of us are asked to stay home, and cars line up for miles at a food bank. Here’s the latest on the virus, at home and around the world: There...

What your doctor is reading on Medscape.com: MARCH 27, 2020 -- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a statement advising that patients continue treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), despite widely circulated reports that the...

What your doctor is reading on Medscape.com: MARCH 27, 2020 -- This week, mainstream news reported that coronavirus was detected on a cruise ship 17 days after passengers with the virus left the ship, a man who breached quarantine was...

What your doctor is reading on Medscape.com: MARCH 27, 2020 -- Trending Clinical Topic: Social Distancing This week, attention turned to an important strategy to "flatten the curve" of serious COVID-19 cases, making social distancing the top trending clinical topic. Efforts...

What your doctor is reading on Medscape.com: MARCH 27, 2020 -- As most 2020 medical conferences have, one by one, been canceled or rescheduled as virtual meetings in the time of a pandemic, some physicians and other healthcare professionals are wondering...

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) What your doctor is reading on Medscape.com: MARCH 27, 2020 -- The guidelines on policy for face masks and respirators during the COVID-19 public health emergency were released in March 2020 by the US Food...

Mar. 31, 2020 -- The fatality rate from COVID-19 is not as high as experts have reported, according to a new analysis published Monday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. But the infection is still much deadlier than the 2009 H1N1...

By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Cara Anthony Monday, March 30, 2020 (Kaiser News) -- The Trump administration cleared the way Monday to immediately use outpatient surgery centers, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, hotels and even dormitories as makeshift hospitals, health...