Genetic and hormonal factors may explain why COVID deaths are more common among men

Genetic and hormonal factors may explain why COVID deaths are more common among men

Ezekiel Emanuel | New York Times | 
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in the United States, women account for 45.6 percent ...
How climate change is impacting the future of coffee

How climate change is impacting the future of coffee

Tatiana Schlossberg | New York Times | 
According to a 2014 study, under modest declines of greenhouse gas emissions, about 50 percent of the land with conditions ...
US COVID deaths are increasingly concentrated in Republican-voting regions

US COVID deaths are increasingly concentrated in Republican-voting regions

David Leonhardt | New York Times | 
There simply was not a strong partisan pattern to Covid during the first year that it was circulating in the ...
Recent flip-flop on aspirin recommendations for heart disease is a sign of good science at work. Here’s why

Recent flip-flop on aspirin recommendations for heart disease is a sign of good science at work. Here’s why

Tara Parker-Pope | New York Times | 
When it comes to preventive health, few tenets are as entrenched as daily aspirin. For more than 30 years, many ...
Regenerative agriculture catching on in Sonoma wine country

Regenerative agriculture catching on in Sonoma wine country

Amy Tara Koch | New York Times | 
To Lauren and Alex Benward, sixth-generation owners of the Beltane Ranch vineyard in Glen Ellen, Calif., the word “sustainability” does ...
Race for biosupremacy? China aggressively expanding efforts in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors and genetic data collection

Race for biosupremacy? China aggressively expanding efforts in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors and genetic data collection

Julian Barnes | New York Times | 
Chinese firms are collecting genetic data from around the world, part of an effort by the Chinese government and companies ...
'Viral evolution is a long game.’ Here’s where scientists think COVID might be headed

‘Viral evolution is a long game.’ Here’s where scientists think COVID might be headed

Emily Anthes | New York Times | 
Even for a virus, evolution is a long game, and our relationship with SARS-CoV-2 is still in its infancy. We ...
First pig-grown kidney transplant successfully trialed in humans

First pig-grown kidney transplant successfully trialed in humans

Roni Caryn Rabin | New York Times | 
Researchers have long sought to grow organs in pigs that are suitable for transplantation into humans. Technologies like cloning and ...
Do we need COVID booster shots? Hesitancy emerges among key Biden Administration health officials

Do we need COVID booster shots? Hesitancy emerges among key Biden Administration health officials

Apoorva Mandavilli | New York Times | 
Following a series of endorsements over the last month by scientific panels advising federal agencies, tens of millions of Americans ...
Treating cancer without chemotherapy? Oncologists say it’s possible

Treating cancer without chemotherapy? Oncologists say it’s possible

Gina Kolata | New York Times | 
Chemotherapy for decades was considered “the rule, the dogma,” for treating breast cancer and other cancers, said Dr. Gabriel Hortobagyi, ...
Facebook remains popular destination for people discussing how to acquire and use parasitic worm-treating drug ivermectin

Facebook remains popular destination for people discussing how to acquire and use parasitic worm-treating drug ivermectin

Davey Alba | New York Times | 
Facebook has become more aggressive at enforcing its coronavirus misinformation policies in the past year. But the platform remains a ...
Vaccines and the founding of the United States: The American Revolution succeeded thanks in part to an immunization mandate

Vaccines and the founding of the United States: The American Revolution succeeded thanks in part to an immunization mandate

David Leonhardt | New York Times | 
The United States owes its existence as a nation partly to an immunization mandate. In 1777, smallpox was a big ...
A larger share of Hispanic American adults have gotten at least one COVID vaccine dose compared to White Americans

A larger share of Hispanic American adults have gotten at least one COVID vaccine dose compared to White Americans

Eduardo Medina | New York Times | 
The share of Hispanic adults in the U.S. who say they have received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine ...
Why don’t humans have tails like other hominids? It could be an accident of evolutionary history

Why don’t humans have tails like other hominids? It could be an accident of evolutionary history

Carl Zimmer | New York Times | 
For half a billion years or so, our ancestors sprouted tails. As fish, they used their tails to swim through ...
Pudendum ‘shame’ controversy: When medical terms promote sexist stereotypes

Pudendum ‘shame’ controversy: When medical terms promote sexist stereotypes

Rachel Gross | New York Times | 
Allison Draper loved anatomy class. As a first-year medical student at the University of Miami, she found the language clear, ...
How accurate are at-home COVID tests?

How accurate are at-home COVID tests?

Emily Anthes | New York Times | 
Rapid at-home [COVID] tests are a good option for people who have been exposed to the virus, who want to ...
Should race be considered when diagnosing kidney disease?

Should race be considered when diagnosing kidney disease?

Roni Caryn Rabin | New York Times | 
A scientific task force on [September 23] called for jettisoning a common measure of kidney function that adjusts results by ...
Although vaccinated people can contract breakthrough infections in rare cases, their chances of getting long COVID are low

Although vaccinated people can contract breakthrough infections in rare cases, their chances of getting long COVID are low

Emily Anthes | New York Times | 
People who experience breakthrough infections of the coronavirus after being fully vaccinated are about 50 percent less likely to experience ...
Breakthrough COVID cases are uncommon — but are they always mild? Health experts say no

Breakthrough COVID cases are uncommon — but are they always mild? Health experts say no

Emma Goldberg | New York Times | 
Public health experts continue to believe that breakthrough infections are relatively uncommon, and rarely result in severe illness or hospitalizations ...
From plant-based fillets to sushi cultivated in a lab, fish-free seafood has arrived

From plant-based fillets to sushi cultivated in a lab, fish-free seafood has arrived

Mike Ives | New York Times | 
Plant-based products have been breaking into the foodie mainstream in the United States, after years in which vegan burgers and ...
Viewpoint: ‘There is no legitimate Christian doctrine-backed case for vaccine mandate exemptions’

Viewpoint: ‘There is no legitimate Christian doctrine-backed case for vaccine mandate exemptions’

Curtis Chang | New York Times | 
According to the Civil Rights Act, [vaccine] exemptions are meant to apply to people with “sincerely held religious beliefs,” and ...
Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots

Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots

Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, ...
If you can't see me you can't bite me: CRISPR experiments target altering mosquitoes to make them blind to humans

If you can’t see me you can’t bite me: CRISPR experiments target altering mosquitoes to make them blind to humans

Sabrina Imbler | New York Times | 
For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing tool Crispr-Cas9 to render humans effectively invisible in the eyes of ...
Delta surge sparks spike in virus disinformation

Delta surge sparks spike in virus disinformation

Davey Alba | New York Times | 
Coronavirus misinformation has spiked online in recent weeks, misinformation experts say, as people who peddle in falsehoods have seized on ...
Viewpoint — This osteopath and natural medicine peddler is the most notorious COVID disinformation spreader: Dr. Joseph Mercola

Viewpoint — This osteopath and natural medicine peddler is the most notorious COVID disinformation spreader: Dr. Joseph Mercola

Sheera Frenkel | New York Times | 
Dr. [Joseph] Mercola, 67, an osteopathic physician in Cape Coral, Fla., has long been a subject of criticism and government ...
Tik Tok and social media influencers join White House campaign to soften vaccine hesitancy

Tik Tok and social media influencers join White House campaign to soften vaccine hesitancy

Taylor Lorenz | New York Times | 
Fewer than half of all Americans age 18 to 39 are fully vaccinated, compared with more than two-thirds of those ...
Brain speak: Electrodes implanted in a paralyzed man’s brain transmit signals to a computer that reads his words

Brain speak: Electrodes implanted in a paralyzed man’s brain transmit signals to a computer that reads his words

Pam Belluck | New York Times | 
He has not been able to speak since 2003, when he was paralyzed at age 20 by a severe stroke ...
Viewpoint: Still believe that GMOs and gene edited crops pose more harm than good? Time for a rethink

Viewpoint: Still believe that GMOs and gene edited crops pose more harm than good? Time for a rethink

Jennifer Kahn | New York Times | 
Since their introduction in the mid-1990s, G.M.O.s have remained wildly unpopular with consumers, who see them as dubious tools of ...
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