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Manish Rajput/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The world may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths by a staggering margin, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The actual count may actually be 6.9 million deaths, more than double official tolls. The United States alone is estimated to have had 905,000 Covid-19 fatalities, vastly more than the 579,000 deaths officially reported, and more than any other country. The calculation is based on modeling of excess mortality that ha...

Inhaled Therapy Disrupts Excess Mucus Production in Allergic Asthma Model Source: Sasha_Suzi/Getty Images January 13, 2021 Share Nature Communications, the scientists explained how they created an inhaled treatment that disrupted the production of excess mucus by reducing disulfide bonds in mice and opening up their airways. The same treatment had similar impacts on human mucus samples. “Current asthma treatments have minimal effects on mucus, and the lack of therapeutic options stems from a poor understanding of mucus function and dysfunction at a molecular level and in vivo. Biophysical ...

Excess mucus in the lungs can be fatal for asthma patients, but scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have broken up those secretions at the molecular level and reversed their often deadly impacts.

Researchers disrupt molecule that causes excess mucus in lungs, may prompt new treatments for pulmonary disease Excess mucus in the lungs can be fatal...