Every season, the Drama After Dark team gathers ‘round the conference room table to watch the latest and greatest in British dramas. We’re thrilled to be bringing you coverage of perennial PBS favorite, Call The Midwife. This show has everything: hard-working nurses, sassy nuns, and gut-wrenching emotional trauma that somehow keeps you wanting more. I’m here to recap the season as it happens just in case you, dear reader, miss an episode and haven’t yet been able to catch up on WGBH Passport. Welcome back to Poplar, […]

As hospitals across the country combat the novel coronavirus, UC Davis Health is trying to prevent the spread by warning cancer patients now. Doctors at the UC Davis Cancer Center are starting to send letters to current and former smokers, warning them that smoking may make them more susceptible to COVID-19. The letters say in part:”Smoking doubles the risk of developing respiratory infections. “Smoking can worsen outcomes for COVID-19 with greater likelihoods of needing ICU care, a ventilator, and death. “Vaping can cause lung injury, especially in […]

Don’t get your hopes up that there’s any over-the-counter fix that will leave you unscathed by the new pandemic. Three immunologists —Timothy Craig, a professor of medicine and pediatrics in allergy and immunology at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; Cathryn Nagler, a mucosal immunologist at the University of Chicago and distinguished fellow of the American Association of Immunologists, and John Wherry, director of the Institute of Immunology at Penn Medicine — said there’s no strong evidence that any herb or supplement, including vitamin C, […]

Rogue Valley doctors urge patients to quit smoking during pandemic  Mail Tribune Source link

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