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Two Alton Memorial EMTS heading to med school
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Brian Fogarty and Ruth Kvistad of the Alton Memorial Hospital EMS team are both heading to medical school later this year.
ALTON Brian Fogarty and Ruth Kvistad of the Alton Memorial Hospital EMS team are both heading to medical school later this year.
Kvistad said she hadn’t planned on more school. An EMT with Alton Memorial Hospital’s EMS team since November 2020, she has even loftier goals. Neither of her parents had college degrees, and her high school wasn’t pushing students to apply.
Then, during her senior year, Kvistad was cleaning out fryers as part of a fundraiser for a local organization. One of her co-volunteers accidentally opened the valve at the bottom of a fryer and a mixture of boiling water, soap and remnant oil gushed onto Kvistad’s foot badly burning her.
COVID-19 Can Kill Heart Cells and Interfere With Contraction
Study reveals details of how coronavirus infects the heart and heart damages cardio myocytes
A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provides evidence that the coronavirus can invade and replicate inside heart muscle cells, causing cell death and interfering with heart muscle contraction. The image of engineered heart tissue shows human heart muscle cells (red) infected with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) (green). Image by Lina Greenberg.
March 12, 2021 Since early in the pandemic, COVID-19 has been associated with heart problems, including reduced ability to pump blood and abnormal heart rhythms. But it has been an open question whether these problems are caused by the virus infecting the heart, or an inflammatory response to viral infection elsewhere in the body. Such details have implications for understanding how best to treat coronavirus infections that affect the heart. A new study from Washing
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Many people who have had COVID-19 struggle for months with heart problems, shortness of breath, fatigue or loss of smell. In this episode of Show Me the Science, we hear about how doctors are trying to help them return to something closer to pre-COVID life. For some, that means trying to retrain their ability to smell by smelling essential oils.
A new episode of our podcast, “Show Me the Science,” has been posted. At present, these podcast episodes are highlighting research and patient care on the Washington University Medical Campus as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic.
Antibody cocktails effective against SARS-CoV-2 variants
Written by Timothy Huzar on March 11, 2021 â Fact checked by Mary Cooke, Ph.D.
Numerous therapeutics have been developed to treat COVID-19.
However, many are based on initial variants of SARS-CoV-2 and may be less effective against recent ones.
In the present study, researchers have identified monoclonal antibody âcocktailsâ that are still effective against recent variants.
All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Some information may be out of date. for the most recent information on the COVID-19 pandemic.
In laboratory tests, a team of researchers has analyzed the efficacy of a range of COVID-19 antibody-based therapeutics against the latest variants of SARS-CoV-2.