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/PRNewswire/ -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to establish a...

/PRNewswire/ -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to establish a...

Event Description With the state budget behind us, lawmakers are set to act on their remaining priorities for the legislative session. These regional forums offer a chance to hear from legislators on their top policy priorities. We’ll touch on topics such as the ongoing response to COVID-19, curbing high prescription drug costs, retirement security, long term care reform, ways to make housing more affordable for an older population, and other pressing topics. Speakers New York...

Event Description New Yorks growing older adult population is facing unprecedented barriers accessing meals, groceries, medicine, and support services, and new levels of social isolation brought on by the novel coronavirus. This virtual forum offers a chance to ask questions about your representatives’ legislative and policy priorities. Now, more than ever, it is important for you to be able to hear directly from your legislators. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity! Connect with u...

- Rockefeller University - $9 million Columbia Universitys Therapeutic Validation Center will accelerate early-stage research into new start-ups. They will also create next generational medicines. Einstein-Montefiore Biotechnology Accelerated Research Center will establish a biomanufacturing operation focused on cell, gene, and antibody therapy production. They will also provide scientific facilities to early-stage and established companies. New York Stem Cell Foundations Research Institute wil...

Some COVID-19 patients develop severe mental problems. Most had no history of mental illness and became psychotic weeks after contracting the virus. Cases are expected to remain rare but are being reported worldwide.

A form of inflammatory cell death called panoptosis triggers the storm of cytokines, or inflammatory proteins, that causes critical illness in COVID-19, researchers say. "During inflammatory cell death, cells spew out their contents instead of neatly packaging them away" as happens during routine cell death, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti of St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital told Reuters. "Neighboring cells see the cytokines released and the other unexpected debris as a sign of danger, and they c...

29 Dec 2020, 10:34 Updated: 29 Dec 2020, 10:40 CORONAVIRUS patients are developing "severe psychotic symptoms", despite having never experienced mental health issues, doctors have warned. Patients who have survived the virus are now battling with hallucinations and delusional thinking just weeks after overcoming the deadly bug. 2 Coronavirus patients are now being faced with debilitating mental health issues Credit: Getty Images - Getty One doctor in New York said one of his patients kept seein...

»A Voice Told Me to Kill My Kids: A Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms 8-MIN READ A Voice Told Me to Kill My Kids: A Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms From left: Drs. Jonathan Komisar, Brian Kincaid and Colin Smith of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., Nov. 27, 2020. They treated a psychotic patient who had never experienced mental health problems before contracting the coronavirus. (Jeremy M. Lange/The New York Times) A...

Report details cases of severe psychosis in Covid patients in the UK and the US Psychotic symptoms are being seen in people with no prior psychiatric history One UK woman saw hospital staff as devils and washed her phone in the sink  Another US woman began carrying a knife and put hand sanitiser in her food Australian experts have estimated psychosis affects up to 4% of Covid patients