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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 ...
How family issues, discrimination, and other social stressors age our immune systems and impact health
Social stress such as discrimination and family problems, along with job and money problems, can contribute to premature aging of ...
Could cultivated, lab-grown meat put a dent in global warming?
What if there was a way to eat meat without farming and killing billions of animals per year, contributing to the climate ...
Is Singapore’s mosquito-borne dengue emergency a harbinger of climate change disruptions ahead?
Singapore says it is facing a dengue “emergency” as it grapples with an outbreak of the seasonal disease that has ...
CRISPR gene editing poised to ‘cure’ progeria and other diseases caused by ‘misspelled’ DNA
When popular YouTube star Adalia Rose died earlier this year, she looked like a diminutive, sickly woman in her 80s ...
Organic fresh strawberries potentially linked to hepatitis outbreak in US and Canada
The US Food and Drug Administration is investigating a potential link between a hepatitis A outbreak and fresh organic strawberries. The FDA ...
There’s a ‘magic number’ of hours for optimal sleep in middle age — and disruptions could be connected to dementia
New research has found that around seven hours of sleep is the ideal night’s rest, with insufficient and excessive sleep ...
COVID infections set off massive inflammation ‘storms’ in the body
From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of Covid-19 – the ones that landed ...
Some people got deliberately sick from COVID for science. Here’s what we learned from them
It takes just a tiny virus-laden droplet – about the width of a human blood cell – to infect someone ...
Looking to reduce pain? Try a dose of nostalgia
The next time you feel aches or soreness, you might consider skipping the pain reliever and reaching instead for an ...
Menopause before 40? It could pose an added risk of dementia
Entering menopause before age 40 is linked to a 35% higher risk of developing dementia later in life, a preliminary ...
Man who received genetically modified pig heart in first-ever surgery dies
A 57-year-old Maryland man who had received a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery has died, the ...
Women who experienced both sexual assault and workplace harassment have 21% increased risk of hypertension, study finds
Women who experience sexual violence, workplace sexual harassment or both have a higher long-term risk of developing high blood pressure ...
Caste discrimination: What is it — and why are universities moving to ban it?
On paper, the change was subtle ― the word "caste" appearing in parentheses after the term "race and ethnicity." But ...
‘For people who continue to hesitate or to choose not to get vaccinated, they are losing privileges’: Quebec to enforce ‘unvaxxed tax’
One day after the Canadian province of Quebec announced it would financially penalize residents who are unvaccinated, the province's health ...
Medical abortion: What does it mean — and why is the US relaxing regulations on it?
The US Food and Drug Administration relaxed certain federal regulations [December 16] on medication abortion, a two-medication process that has ...
This virus expert accurately predicted 800,000 Americans would die of COVID. What does he think the future holds?
Michael Osterholm is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and author ...
Paxlovid vs. Molnupiravir: Comparing the two breakthrough COVID antiviral pills
While Merck was the first to roll out its anti-Covid therapy, called molnupiravir, Pfizer has announced promising results of its ...
Inexpensive SSRI antidepressant fluvoxamine could reduce severe COVID
A cheap, generically available anti-depressant may reduce the risk of severe Covid-19 disease by close to a third in people ...
Minimal role fetal cells play in COVID vaccine development could provide opening for Supreme Court rule on religious exemptions
A group of unvaccinated Maine health care workers are asking the Supreme Court to block a state rule that mandates ...
What’s the most vaccinated place in America? The answer might surprise you
The Caribbean island [of Puerto Rico] — in recent years pummeled by deadly hurricanes, rocked by earthquakes, beset by political ...
Since the start of the pandemic, COVID has killed 5 times as many police officers as gun violence
The coronavirus has become the leading cause of death for officers despite law enforcement being among the first groups eligible ...
Miami private school bars vaccinated students for 30 days, falsely claiming they could be a danger to the unvaccinated
A Miami private school, which previously asked teachers not to get the Covid-19 vaccine or they wouldn't be allowed to ...
COVID pills: Pandemic kick-started long-neglected effort to develop potent antiviral treatments for coronaviruses
Antivirals are already essential treatments for other viral infections, including hepatitis C and HIV. One of the best known is ...
How can we navigate a winter with both COVID and flu threats? Here’s a guide
Many doctors are doubling down on pleas for Americans to get vaccinated — especially as the flu season could lead ...
Who should get a COVID booster shot now?
Who exactly is eligible to get the booster? If you are eligible, should you rush to get inoculated? What should ...
Eating more cheese, milk, butter and other products laden with dairy linked to lowered risk of heart disease, study finds
An international team of scientists studied the dairy fat consumption of 4,150 60-year-olds in Sweden — a country with one ...
Pregnant women should get vaccinated as soon as possible, CDC urges
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an urgent recommendation [September 29] for pregnant women and those who ...
