It's unclear if Community Regional Medical Center will have doctors to provide care for anyone suffering a head injury that requires surgery over the busy Labor Day weekend. What is clear? There's still no agreement between the hospital and its physician provider — Central California Faculty Medical Group — to treat new...
UCSF Aerosol Straitjackets COVID-19, 100% Effective in Lab
UCSF researchers say that they have come up with an aerosol spray that if used once a day could provide reliable protection against COVID-19 until a vaccine is available. The powerful protectant — dubbed AeroNabs — could be inexpensively manufactured, thus widening its appeal. The research team is in discussions with potential...
Fresno County Spending COVID Funds Faster Than City
In the 1985 movie "Brewster's Millions," Richard Pryor's character had a hard time spending $30 million in 30 days. His reward if he did would be $300 million. The city and county of Fresno are taking a slower approach spending $171 million in federal funds from the CARES Act for COVID-19...
Study: Wearing a Mask Protects You From Severe COVID-19 Symptoms
Masks appears to do more than protect others during COVID-19. They protect the mask user, too. That's the finding of a report written by infectious disease experts that'll publish soon in the Journal of Internal Medicine. GV Wire℠received an advance copy of the report from Dr. Monica Gandhi, one of...
Free COVID-19 Testing For Rural Areas, Fresno County Enrolls Patients
UC San Francisco scientists are offering free sample analysis and test results, indefinitely, to all 58 county departments of public health in California. "What it means is that we will probably be able to enroll somewhere between 30 and 50 patients every week into that study, and I really wanted...
Gov. Brown Signs Bill Supporting a Valley Medical School
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Thursday establishing the San Joaquin Valley Regional Medical Education Endowment Fund. The bill's author, Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced), said in a Facebook post that the fund will provide "a dedicated opportunity for the collection of public and private donations to support the construction and operation of...