Biomedicine & Disease
Why Paxlovid is far more effective than media coverage and some skeptics suggest
Paxlovid, the most widely prescribed drug to treat symptomatic COVID-19, has lately attracted a number of detractors. However, Paxlovid has ...
Facing human donor organ shortage, US poised to allow pig organ transplant trials
The Food and Drug Administration is devising plans to allow clinical trials testing the transplantation of pig organs into humans, ...
Recipient of gene-edited pig heart transplant survived for just two months. What can we learn from what went wrong?
A human patient with heart disease received a heart from a pig that had been genetically engineered to avoid rejection ...
Vaccinated or already had COVID? You aren’t protected from the latest variants, but symptoms are likely to be mild
Levels of neutralizing antibodies that a previous COVID infection or vaccinations elicit are several times lower against the BA.4 and ...
Women more likely to get long COVID than men
Long COVID remains a puzzle that scientists are trying to piece together through widespread research efforts. There are still many ...
How COVID is upending how we normally experience the common flu
At one point last month, children were admitted to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with a startling range of seven ...
Many parents reluctant to get their young children vaccinated are not Republican anti-vaccine science rejectionists
More than a decade before the coronavirus pandemic, I began researching how parents decide to reject recommended vaccines for their children ...
Where did monkeypox come from? Genetic analysis suggests it’s been ‘silently’ circulating since 2018
When the first monkeypox cases were identified in early May, European health officials were stumped. The virus was not known ...
GLP Podcast: Why non-smokers get cancer; Spotting diseases during pregnancy; Earth-friendly industrialized farming?
Many smokers don't get lung cancer. But why do so many non-smokers end up with the disease? A preliminary study ...
Long COVID’s biological puzzle: Untangling the difference between true disease and pandemic disruptions
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced in 2020, rapidly sending countries around the world into panicked lockdowns, a new specter arose: "Long ...
Is melatonin a safe and risk-free sleep aid — as many doctors contend? Think twice
Melatonin poisoning in kids is on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2012 to ...
Is conventional ‘industrialized’, technology-driven farming ‘destroying biodiversity’ as critics claim — or saving it?
Well over 90% of food, produce and grains in the United States is grown on conventional farms. Critics stigmatize this ...
Viewpoint: ‘Unfettered optimism’? A tiny cancer trial reports a ‘100% cure rate’ with immunotherapy — but are headlines overstating the promise?
When the New York Times tripped off a cascade of upbeat stories this week with its reporting on a 100% ...
How fetal facial scans can help identify serious diseases early
Nizam’s Institute of Medical Science and Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics research on inherited genetic disorders revealed that morphological ...
Suffer from diabetes, stroke or heart attack? Your chances of dementia rise sharply
Having multiple conditions that affect the heart is linked to a greater risk of dementia than having high genetic risk, ...
Gene-editing injections: A new way to tweak epigenetic expression of genes to treat alcohol addiction
While gene editing relies on changing the DNA code itself, epigenetic editing involves dialing the expression of individual genes up ...
How much do our genes drive cancer? Researchers argue for more holistic diagnostic approach
While cancer was long believed to be a genetic disease, scientists found in a new study that the disease may ...
3-D printed ears: First body part made with a person’s own cells
A 20-year-old woman who was born with a small and misshapen right ear has received a 3-D printed ear implant ...
Pancreatic cancer cure? Reprogrammed cells tame disease that’s almost always fatal
In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged ...
Why this is no time to ease up on efforts to contain COVID-19
Many of us in the medical community feel as though we’re having one of those dreams in which we’re shouting ...
Organ transplants from animal donors could be a godsend for many — but they may also provide a breeding ground for novel diseases
Three out of four new diseases are zoonotic, meaning they have evolved to infect new host species. For example, a ...
What’s in our genes that explains why some lifelong smokers never get cancer?
Without a doubt, the safest way to protect yourself against lung cancer is to avoid smoking cigarettes, and yet, at ...
Should you be ‘crazy scared’ about monkeypox? Here’s why scientists say ‘no’
The monkeypox outbreak has captured the attention of an anxious public that’s struggling to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
Why does chronic fatigue appear to be on the rise — and what causes it?
Patients with chronic fatigue experience crippling exhaustion that is not resolved by sleep and rest. A Norwegian study from 2021 showed that ...
GLP Podcast: Once-a-month shot controls opioid addiction; Food waste as energy; Obesity drugs are here
A drug given once monthly as an injection could drastically reduce opioid use in the US. Why is it so ...
Genetic differences key to why sub-Saharan Africans have lower rates of COVID infections and fewer severe cases than other population groups
Why did COVID-19 impact certain populations more than others? That mystery is slowly coming into focus. For the first time, ...
Is monkeypox the next global viral scourge?
Monkeypox, a disease that rarely shows up outside a belt of countries across Central and West Africa, has exploded into ...
