Outbreak
Elderly are more affected by COVID brain fog, but ‘cognitive rehab’ could be an effective treatment
Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few ...
Is long COVID likely to be progressive or permanent?
Covid is biologically dangerous long after the initial viral infection. One of the leading hypotheses behind long covid is that ...
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 ...
‘Cognitive evolution’: How our brains learned to quickly adapt to jarring new environments
I am positive that every person reading this is fundamentally different from when the pandemic started. Because that's how our ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Viewpoint: Why the COVID-19 lab leak theory refuses to die
Ever since the coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 was first identified as the cause of an outbreak of a mysterious ...
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 ...
Lax peer review + social media + confusing and misinterpreted data: Why so many COVID-era studies presented incomplete science
The pandemic has upended many practices, among them peer review of technical medical and scientific articles. Lax peer review + ...
Loss of smell is a common symptom of Alzheimer’s, not just COVID. Do these diseases share cognitive symptoms too?
One of the stranger symptoms of Covid — the loss of the sense of smell — is a symptom that, ...
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 ...
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 ...
COVID disruptions and anti-vaccination fervor drops global child vaccination rates to 30-year low
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, global childhood vaccinations have experienced the largest sustained decline in about 30 years, ...
Strange symptoms: Hair and libido loss linked to long COVID
A huge new study has offered the most robust investigation to date into the symptoms and prevalence of long COVID ...
Haven’t had COVID yet? You’re part of an exclusive club — but that doesn’t mean you have ‘super immunity’
There are no winners in a pandemic. That said, if you’ve made it to the summer of 2022 without yet ...
New evidence refutes ‘lab-leak’ theory of COVID-19 origins
Scientists say there is "compelling evidence" that Wuhan's Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the center of the Covid-19 ...
Children aren’t exempt from long COVID risks
Post-COVID-19 conditions (PCCs), aligning with what's come to be known as long COVID, persisted at 3 months for many children ...
Wuhan market COVID-19 origins theory reaffirmed in two new papers; lab leak viewed as ‘possible’ but not ‘plausible’
The coronavirus pandemic began in separate viral spillovers — at least two but perhaps as many as two dozen — ...
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 ...
Health and autonomy: How COVID has challenged already-tenuous balance among public health, religion and personal values
Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. At the time, 118,000 cases and 4,000 deaths ...
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: ...
Viewpoint: Groupthink — How the COVID pandemic made scientists into politicians, with equally loyal followers
Now that we are returning to political and social normalcy, we must recognize how we succumbed to an unseemly creeping ...
Almost 20 million: That’s how many lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines, experts believe
COVID-19 vaccination “fundamentally altered” the pandemic by saving nearly 20 million lives in the first year that vaccines were available, ...
Want to decrease long COVID risks? More vaccine doses seem to work best
Long COVID was less likely to occur in healthcare workers who had received two or three mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses ...
3 long COVID theories: Unraveling the mystery of what causes lasting coronavirus symptoms
Long covid theories ...
