Health & Medicine
Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Flu vaccine makers plan to increase production as they brace for unprecedented winter season
Even though flu season doesn’t begin until the fall, major flu vaccine manufacturers say they plan to boost production by ...
Why sex matters in medicine
The last time I saw Maria-Rosa, she was on a stretcher, surrounded by frantic nurses and interns who were trying, ...
Even with a vaccine, COVID-19 might be here to stay. Here’s what that means for society
It is a daunting proposition — a coronavirus-tinged world without a foreseeable end. But experts in epidemiology, disaster planning and ...
Disturbing hallucinations and psychosis mysteriously plague some coronavirus patients
Nightmarish visions... plagued [Kim] Victory during her hospitalization this spring for severe respiratory failure caused by the coronavirus. They made ...
Asymptomatic COVID-19 infections can still cause lung damage
Modern medicine rightly emphasises the importance of science. The focus, however, too often displaces our attention from the real point ...
Anti-vaxxers don’t want safer vaccines, they want no vaccines
“I try to look and see where the evidence takes me.” Does this statement sound reasonable? If I told you ...
GMO insect-resistant Bt prevents cancer and saves farmers up to $167 million per year, study shows
Previous field studies have reached no collective consensus on whether Bt corn, the most commonly planted transgenic crop worldwide, has ...
The Three Stooges illustrate why coronavirus-fighting ‘antibody cocktails’ could help contain the virus well before a vaccine
“You imbecile!” bellowed Moe Howard as he stuck a finger up the nose of Curly. Moe the bully would often ...
From lung scarring to heart damage, COVID-19 affects the body long after the virus is gone
Because Covid-19 is a new disease, there are no studies about its long-term trajectory for those with more severe symptoms; ...
Why your morning cup of coffee sends you running to the bathroom
Coffee makes you poop. That's a fact, right? It must be, since you can buy t-shirts or mugs with that ...
Mindfulness relieves labor pain, improves postnatal recovery
Research has shown that even under extreme circumstances, like during childbirth, we can (and should) practice mindfulness. Of course, it ...
Infographic: How COVID-19 mutated to infect the world
A change in the virus was appearing again and again. This mutation, associated with outbreaks in Europe and New York, ...
What’s a life worth in dollars and cents? Should that influence who gets treated for expensive disease treatments?
Austin was three years old and Max was a newborn when their mother, Jenn McNary, learned they had a rare ...
Will herd immunity curb COVID-19? Not with rampant spread of ‘anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine’ views
With government support, three coronavirus vaccines are expected to be studied in large-scale clinical trials in the next three months ...
Sports leagues set to resume without knowing COVID-19’s erratic path, randomness and chronic effects
Professional athletes don’t have the luxury of waiting for the outcomes of longitudinal studies of coronavirus patients. Sports are trying ...
Sniff test: How our sense of smell appears to signal whether an unresponsive patient might recover consciousness
Even with more recent technologies, such as brain imaging, the rate of misdiagnosis in DOC [disorders of consciousness] patients could ...
Searching for Parkinson’s game changer: No cure in sight but stem cells, other advances hold promise
A flurry of recent advances offer the promise of new avenues for treating patients with Parkinson’s disease, one of our ...
5 factors explaining vast differences in how each of us responds to dangers posed by COVID-19
From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral ...
If every virus was wiped off the earth, ‘the world will be a wonderful place—for about a day and a half, and then we’d all die’
If given the choice to magically wave a wand and cause all viruses to disappear, most people would probably jump ...
COVID-19 infection undercount: CDC says actual victims likely closer to 20 million Americans and many more deaths
[A new] estimate [suggests that 20 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19,] roughly 10 times as many infections as ...
Prebiotics: How best to protect your skin and why daily showers may not be a good idea
Now couldn’t be a weirder time to question washing. I’ve spent the past three years reporting on how our notions ...
COVID-19 exposes Ukraine’s booming baby-for-sale business
They are the children of foreign couples born to Ukrainian surrogate mothers at the Kyiv-based BioTexCom Centre for Human Reproduction, ...
Insect-resistant GMO corn nutritionally equivalent to conventional counterpart, field study shows
DP23211 maize was genetically modified (GM) to express .... protein for control of corn rootworm. DP23211 maize also expresses ...
GMO rice in development could be the next revolutionary treatment for high blood pressure
In the future, taking your blood pressure medication could be as simple as eating a spoonful of rice. This “treatment” ...
The dangerous spread of coronavirus misinformation and magical thinking
Although credentialed scientists have been very clear that there is currently no cure for coronavirus, magical thinking of the pseudoscience ...
Century-old lung helps scientists trace measles back to now-eradicated cattle virus
For years, the lung sat in the basement of the Berlin Museum of Medical History along with hundreds of other ...
75 reasons why vaccines are needed and deniers are dangerous
If you are reading this, chances are that you repeated an anti-vaccine myth or said you weren't vaccinating your children, ...
