Dr. Stephen Berger on why COVID-19 is different for men than women
GIDEON founder, Dr. Stephen Berger was recently interviewed about gender disparities and COVID-19. Experts have been watching the data in Europe and have found that 68% of the COVID-19 deaths have been among men. And in New York City, men have been dying at twice the rate of women, according to the city’s health department.
Dr. Berger says genetics, preexisting conditions, and bad habits may be to blame.
“Some of the underlying reasons why COVID-19 may be more deadly for men than women may include the fact that heart disease is more common in elderly men than in elderly women,” Dr. Berger told Healthline. “Studies ...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Press Source Type: blogs
Dr. Stephen Berger discusses why COVID-19 is different for men than women in Healthline article
GIDEON founder, Dr. Stephen Berger was recently interviewed about gender disparities and COVID-19. Experts have been watching the data in Europe and have found that 68% of the COVID-19 deaths have been among men. And in New York City, men have been dying at twice the rate of women, according to the city’s health department.
Dr. Berger says genetics, preexisting conditions, and bad habits may be to blame.
“Some of the underlying reasons why COVID-19 may be more deadly for men than women may include the fact that heart disease is more common in elderly men than in elderly women,” Dr. Berger told Healthline. “Studies ...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Press Source Type: blogs
Drugs for COVID-19: A Publishing Epidemic
As of April 9, PubMed listed 2,868 scientific publications which incorporate the word “COVID”. 323 of these (11.3%) were related to drugs under study for treatment of the disease. No fewer than thirty-one such drugs had been proposed since this pandemic first appeared on the planet four months earlier.
Graph 1 depicts the cumulative numbers of COVID-19 infection (per 100,000 global population) and introductions of relevant drugs into the Literature during February 14 to April 3. Note that both increased by a factor of approximately 16-fold during this period.
In a...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Uri Blackman Tags: Epidemiology Graphs Source Type: blogs
Don ’ t panic. Prepare
Dr.Tracey McNamara on West Nile Fever and COVID-19
As interviewed by Edward Borton, GIDEON
What was the experience of discovering a new virus outbreak on your doorstep?
When New York City announced that people were dying of unusual encephalitis, I was struck by the timing and proximity between this event and an outbreak of crow deaths. Upon ruling out all known viruses that cause inflammation of the brain in birds, in the United States: exotic Newcastle, avian influenza, and Eastern Equine encephalitis (EEE), I knew this was something new.
It wasn’t until I picked up the phone and called the U.S. Army and sai...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 8, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology Events Outbreaks Tips Source Type: blogs
Is COVID-19 the new plague?
written by Dr. Stephen A. Berger
A frightening pandemic arises from animals in Asia and spreads westward, killing thousands in Italy, France, Spain, and many other countries. The more severe infections are characterized by cough and fever, leading to progressive pneumonia. There is no specific treatment available, and entire cultures live in fear and uncertainty.
And so, during 541-542 C.E. Yersinia pestis the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, spread out from China into the Byzantine Empire. Few were spared, and an estimated 25 to 100 million Europeans went on to die during repeated waves of infec...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 27, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Events Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Ebola, forgotten but not gone
The recent WHO decision to declare the novel coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), while both appropriate and hardly surprising, offers the opportunity to reflect on the previous PHEIC which was declared, namely the Ebola epidemic in Kivu region, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And you should really say the ongoing Ebola epidemic, as during the time since the declaration in July 2019 through to the present day (March 2020), a total of 3,453 cases have been reported [1].
The nCoV-2019 outbreak is still ballooning; as of today, over 400,000 confirmed cases worldwide with no ...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 25, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
GIDEON API is in beta!
How do you get ‘customer’ data if you are a hospital or a research institute?
You could build a dedicated team for conducting surveys and crawling research papers, even develop your own IT system for storing and accessing this data. How often would you need to revise this data? Monthly? Quarterly? How comprehensive do you think it would be?
If you are one of the many medical professionals pressed for time and/or money, the above may not be an easy solution to maintain, and when people’s lives are at stake there is no room for failure.
Imagine your organization had access to infectious diseases data collected from a...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Update: March 16, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 15 to March 16, 2020
Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (22 updates)
22 DiseasesMap
Infectious Diseases – Diseases (33 updates)
12 Diseases21 Country notesMap
Microbiology – Mycobacteria (1 updates)
1 Mycobacteria
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Source: GIDEON blog - March 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs
Update: March 15, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 14 to March 15, 2020
Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (22 updates)
22 DiseasesMap
Infectious Diseases – Diseases (60 updates)
11 Clinical notes15 Diseases33 Country notes1 New Disease Synonym AddedMap
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Source: GIDEON blog - March 15, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs
Update: March 14, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 13 to March 14, 2020
Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (22 updates)
22 DiseasesMap
Infectious Diseases – Diseases (79 updates)
4 Clinical notes24 Diseases51 Country notesMap
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Source: GIDEON blog - March 14, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs
Update: March 13, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 12 to March 13, 2020
Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (21 updates)
21 DiseasesMap
Infectious Diseases – Diseases (131 updates)
8 Clinical notes49 Diseases74 Country notesMap
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Source: GIDEON blog - March 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs
Death By Corona: What Are the Numbers?
This morning, we learned that actor Tom Hanks and his wife have contracted COVID-19 infection. Indeed, 43 famous persons have already been affected by the disease, including six Iranian leaders and four European soccer players. We might speculate that this reflects a single exposure event in Iran…or the fact that European athletes travel frequently in a high-incidence environment. Perhaps similar reasoning can be used to explain the striking variation in coronavirus death rates between countries.
As of March 12, 126,258 cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide; and 4,368 died of the disease – a case-fatal...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology Events General Source Type: blogs
Update: March 12, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 11 to March 12, 2020
Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (21 updates)
21 DiseasesMap
Infectious Diseases – Diseases (95 updates)
6 Clinical notes32 Diseases57 Country notesMap
Microbiology – Bacteria (1 updates)
1 Bacteria
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Source: GIDEON blog - March 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs
Update: March 11, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 10 to March 11, 2020
Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (21 updates)
21 DiseasesMap
Infectious Diseases – Diseases (40 updates)
6 Clinical notes12 Diseases22 Country notesMap
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Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs
Update: March 10, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 2 to March 10, 2020
Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (21 updates)
21 DiseasesMap
Infectious Diseases – Diseases (68 updates)
4 Clinical notes23 Diseases41 Country notesMap
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Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs
