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Household Cleaning Product Use May Raise Childhood Asthma Risk

With growing awareness on personal and household hygiene against infections, the increased use of cleaning products may ring an alarm. A Canadian longitudinal study revealed that frequent use of cleaning products in homes of infants may increase the...

Apr 15, 2020
Associations of Meat, Poultry or Fish Intake with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality

The associations between 4 types of food, including processed meat, unprocessed red meat, poultry and fish, and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality were recently reported. The diet data from 1985 to 2002 of a pooled cohort ...

Apr 8, 2020
Clinical Trial of Antiviral for Novel Coronavirus Kick-started in China

In order to combat the current outbreak of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus (nCoV) reported in Wuhan, China, Chinese scientists select 30 medications including traditional Chinese medicines as candidates against nCoV 1 . In particular, an ant...

Apr 1, 2020
Early Estimation of Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19 in China

The outbreak of atypical pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China is still ongoing and has spread to other regions in China and overseas. It has been reported that the estimated basic reproductive number (Ro) of COVID-19 repo...

Mar 25, 2020
Report on the Estimation of Basic Reproduction Number of Novel Coronavirus in China

The outbreak of atypical pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China is still ongoing. As of 19-March, 2020, there have been more than 80,928 confirmed cases of infections and 3,245 deaths in mainland China. Besides, there are 7...

Mar 20, 2020