Liz Szabo
Breakthrough or boondoggle? Should the government fund development of medications for small fraction of the population resistant to antibiotics?
With time running out in the 2022 congressional session, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and infectious disease specialists is scrambling ...
More than 5,000 US children recovered from COVID — then the virus roared back at life-threatening levels. Here’s what we know
Like most other kids with covid, Dante and Michael DeMaino seemed to have no serious symptoms. Infected in mid-February, both ...
Why are more kids being infected by — and some dying from — the Delta COVID variant?
Eighteen months into the covid-19 pandemic, with the delta variant fueling a massive resurgence of disease, many hospitals are hitting ...
Why is the Delta variant so much more transmissible than past COVID mutants?
Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look that worrisome. For starters, delta has ...
How COVID-19 deranges our immune systems
Scientists say unprepared immune cells appear to be responding to the coronavirus with a devastating release of chemicals, inflicting damage ...
Anti-vaccine activists ‘fabricating deaths’ linked to COVID shots to promote conspiracy agendas
Anti-vaccine groups have falsely claimed for decades that childhood vaccines cause autism, weaving fantastic conspiracy theories involving government, Big Business ...
Prepare for some unpleasant side effects from COVID-19 shots
Data from early trials of several COVID-19 vaccines suggests that consumers will need to be prepared for side effects that, ...
‘Like a fire alarm and a sprinkler system all in one’: Immune proteins keep some COVID patients from getting seriously ill
Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about COVID-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency ...
US appears ill-prepared to support COVID vaccine rollout
In a four-page memo this summer, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told health departments across the country to draft ...
‘Overwhelmingly positive’: Fauci says ‘independent board’ has authority to end vaccine trials early and roll out immunizations
Although two ongoing clinical trials of 30,000 volunteers are expected to conclude by the end of the year, [Anthony] Fauci ...
Unproven stem cell treatments gain popularity boost from Max Scherzer, Tiger Woods, other pro athletes
Stem cells and related therapies, such as platelet injections, have been used for the past decade by top athletes: golfer ...
Viewpoint: Precision medicine promises a lot, but has delivered little
Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the patients they’ve saved with precision medicine, and reporters love to write about ...
Breakthrough Novartis ‘living cell’ leukemia drug to debut but at $650,000 per treatment
When doctors talk about a new leukemia drug from Novartis, they ooze enthusiasm, using words like “breakthrough,” “revolutionary” and “a watershed ...
