Biomedicine & Disease
Long COVID complications spark quest to better understand long-term consequences of other viruses
Several months into the pandemic, a new aspect of COVID-19 started gaining attention from scientists, journalists, and health-care professionals. Instead ...
Multiple sclerosis may be partially caused by a virus. Could a vaccine be the solution?
Why people develop multiple sclerosis (MS) has been a long-standing question. Studies have pointed to certain gene variations and environmental ...
Killer herbal remedy: White mulberry leaf herbal treatment marketed for diabetes and weight loss blamed for death of US Rep. Tom McClintock’s wife Lori
The wife of a Northern California congressman died late last year after ingesting a plant that is generally considered safe ...
Targeting 2024: The quest to create a universal COVID vaccine
Jonathan Heeney and colleagues face a challenge that has long proved insurmountable for scientists: to develop vaccines that can not ...
Mutiny: Here’s how glioblastoma uses the brain against itself to spread cancer and resist treatment
New research this week suggests that an aggressive brain cancer can hijack the brain’s own circuitry to further spread and ...
All the science you need to know about COVID-19
If there's one thing we've learned since March 2020, it's that pandemics are all about hard decisions. It's hard to keep track ...
Moving from off-the-shelf cancer vaccines to shots personalized to your genetic makeup
In recent years, we have seen great advances in disease diagnosis through biomarkers and, increasingly, gene sequencing ...
Shadow of the AIDS crisis hangs over emerging monkeypox threat
As cases of monkeypox surge around the globe, four pioneers of the AIDS activist movement watch in awe and with ...
Polio was found in New York City wastewater. Should we brace for another epidemic?
It’s easy to feel a bit of panic in the air. A young man was paralyzed in the New York ...
People with darker complexions are less likely to get skin cancer, but have higher mortality rates. Why?
Historically, Black people and those with dark skin have been left out of efforts to combat skin cancer. Long neglected ...
Repeating AIDS mistakes: Framing monkeypox as a ‘LGBTQ-only virus’ could lead to a wider spread of the disease
As HIV/AIDS surged in previous decades, the government scrambled to address the strange illness that seemed to afflict mostly men ...
There’s still a lot of confusion about how monkeypox spreads. Here is what we know so far
Monkeypox has spent most of its evolutionary history living inside Central and Western Africa’s small mammals — squirrels, rats, mice, ...
Safety of muscular dystrophy gene therapy in spotlight after two deaths connected to Novartis Zolgensma treatments
Novartis has recorded two deaths after treatment with its spinal muscular atrophy gene therapy Zolgensma, once again bringing gene therapy’s ...
Are monkeypox vaccines easy to get? Debunking 11 common myths
To help provide accurate information about monkeypox, Healthline spoke with medical experts to debunk 11 troubling myths currently circulating about ...
What the latest highly-contagious omicron variant signals about COVID evolution in the months and years ahead
What is driving the evolution of omicron sublineages? The answer to that is a well-known process called natural selection ...
Can we learn? How Israel — a world leader in handling COVID — is ramping up to deal with monkeypox
Despite having recorded only 125 cases of the disease, Israeli health authorities have taken the unusual approach of securing 10,000 ...
Why the new malaria vaccine is just a first step in fighting this deadly scourge
With the Covid pandemic now in its third year, it is perhaps hard for the media and the public to ...
Podcast: CRISPR can cause cancer? Vitamin B6 may fight depression; COVID ‘groupthink’
CRISPR gene editing has already proved to be a useful biomedical tool, but a recent study indicates it may damage ...
In the wake of Biden’s COVID-19 infections, here’s what regulators should do to limit Paxlovid rebound
When he headed the Food & Drug Administration, Dr. Frank Young used to admonish his minions that sometimes regulations need ...
Can the viral spread of monkeypox be stopped in the US?
The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said July 28, despite rising case numbers and so ...
With global smallpox vaccine supplies in short supply, monkeypox may no longer be containable
It has been a mere nine weeks since the United Kingdom announced it had detected four cases of monkeypox, a ...
CRISPR may not always be safe: Study finds gene editing can damage genome and in extreme cases cause cancer
Scientists at Tel Aviv University (TAU) warn that while the CRISPR genome-editing method is very effective, it is not always safe and ...
As COVID pandemic drags on, focus turns to quest for universal coronavirus vaccine
Could a so-called “pan-coronavirus” vaccine be the long-awaited silver bullet that ends the COVID pandemic—and the next one, too? Answer: ...
Why the US is ill prepared if monkeypox escalates into a pandemic
As if dealing with continued waves of Covid-19 isn’t enough, the U.S. is facing a new outbreak — monkeypox — ...
‘25 million infants missing vaccines’: COVID disruptions cause plunge in global childhood vaccination rates
The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded in official data published July 15 ...
Podcast: Pesticides cancel benefits of fruits and veggies? Drought-tolerant wheat coming soon? Do DNA diets work?
Do pesticide residues on food counteract the benefits of consuming fruits and vegetables? The FDA recently approved a genetically engineered ...
‘It’s a slog’: Cure or treatment for Alzheimer’s proving elusive, and we don’t know why
We see headlines that declare a “Cure Breakthrough” and “Reversing Dementia in Mice,” but still, if you get sick, there ...
