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Here are arguments for and against getting your child immunized against COVID
[Soon,] scientific advisers to the [FDA] will decide whether to endorse two doses of the vaccine for children 6 months ...
10 billion COVID doses: As global vaccine total hits milestone, country-to-country disparities remain
10 billion vaccine doses have been administered globally, a milestone that reflects the astonishing speed with which governments and drug ...
What can be done to overcome vaccine skeptics’ fear and opposition? Here’s how one clinic is meeting that challenge
Vaccine skepticism in Los Angeles County, where 72 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, is bipartisan. Vaccination rates are ...
Active grandparents theory: Has evolution programmed us to remain physically active late in life?
Why is physical activity so good for us as we age? According to a novel new theory about exercise, evolution ...
What are the four factors that increase the chances of long COVID?
It is one of many mysteries about long Covid: Who is more prone to developing it? Are some people more ...
Austria poised to become first country to mandate COVID vaccines for adults, with stiff fines for non compliers
Austria is the first Western democracy to mandate Covid vaccinations for nearly its entire adult population, a once-unthinkable move that ...
Do biobanks that accept anonymous DNA have a responsibility to inform donors when they discover a treatable genetic defect?
What should happen when researchers, while sequencing a participant’s DNA as part of a large study, discover gene variants that ...
Infographics: Vaccinated vs. unvaccinated — Death risk differences are startling
Some of the timeliest data on Covid-19 outcomes by vaccination status comes from New York City and the Seattle area, and ...
Can the Omicron variant still cause long COVID?
It is too early for scientists to know much about the relationship between Omicron, vaccination and long Covid. Research from ...
Viewpoint: Do NIPTs — non-invasive prenatal blood tests to find rare disorders — work? New York Times investigation raises doubts
Silicon Valley technology has made [a wondrous promise] to expectant mothers: that a few vials of their blood, drawn in ...
Second pig-to-human organ transplant: GM kidneys successfully implanted in a patient
Surgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported on [January 20] that they had for the first time successfully ...
Should transgender teenagers be required to undergo psychological assessments before receiving hormones? Debate surges
An upsurge in teenagers requesting hormones or surgeries to better align their bodies with their gender identities has ignited a ...
How our perception of ‘disgust’ shapes our behavior
Disgust shapes our behavior, our technology, our relationships. It is the reason we wear deodorant, use the bathroom in private ...
Omicron appears to be peaking
The number of new Covid-19 cases in New York City rose more than twentyfold in December. In the past few ...
Infographic: When will Omicron peak?
Our models project that the United States is likely to document more Covid-19 cases in January than in any previous ...
GMO heart transplant: In breakthrough, man with terminal disease receives heart from altered pig and is in recovery
A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that ...
Considering Omicron’s milder impact, how should we alter our behavior?
The latest evidence about Covid is largely positive. A few weeks ago, many experts and journalists were warning that the initial ...
Omicron is dominating Delta, but future variants will most likely overtake them both
“Omicron is likely to push Delta out,” said Alex Sigal, a virologist at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, ...
What can we expect from two about-to-be-introduced COVID treatment pills?
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon authorize a pill made by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, called molnupiravir, ...
Why overweight people face increased dangers from COVID
From the start of the pandemic, the coronavirus seemed to target people carrying extra pounds. Patients who were overweight or ...
‘It’s a whole new life’: After first successful stem cell cure, hope is on the horizon for 10 million people suffering from Type 1 diabetes worldwide
Mr. [Brian] Shelton was the first patient. On June 29, he got an infusion of cells, grown from stem cells ...
Previously infected with COVID? That likely won’t protect you from the Omicron variant
Scientists have known since early in the pandemic that the immunity gained from a coronavirus infection is not total, and ...
Programming biology: How gene synthesis will lead to a host of medical and drug innovations
As a customer, you can visit the Twist website, upload a spreadsheet with the DNA sequence that you want, select ...
How did the Delta variant impact vaccine efficacy?
As tens of millions who are eligible in the United States consider signing up for a Covid-19 booster shot, a growing body of ...
What lasting societal changes might COVID spur?
March 2020 to May 2020 almost certainly marked the most significant short-term change ever in worldwide human behavior. Vast sections ...
‘Misinformation kills’: Websites cataloguing unvaccinated people who died from COVID stir controversy
The details of [auto mechanic Nick] Bledsoe’s death and desperation-fueled change of heart stayed largely confined to his Facebook page ...
Omicron contains dozens of new mutations — but that doesn’t mean the variant is more dangerous
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has alarmed many scientists because of the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries ...
As COVID cases slope upwards, Europe takes hard line against the unvaccinated
As temperatures drop and coronavirus infections spike across Europe, some countries are introducing increasingly targeted restrictions against the unvaccinated who ...
