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Here’s when and how the biotechnology revolution first got lift off
Early in the morning of Tuesday, October 14, 1980, the phone rang at Paul Berg’s house in Stanford, Cal. The ...
Corvids are more brainiac than birdbrain: Crows may be able to reflect and ponder their own mind
Research unveiled on [September 24] in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why excluding pregnant women from COVID vaccine efficacy and safety trials is misguided
To date, more than 140 drug treatments and numerous vaccines are being evaluated to treat and prevent Covid-19 infection. Vaccines ...
The crisis facing Black women giving birth
From the rich and famous to the less well-to-do, Black mothers are often not listened to when they report signs ...
US and China buck WHO-backed global effort to expand access to COVID vaccine
Countries representing about 64% of the world population have signed up to expand global access to Covid-19 vaccines by funding ...
Drugs tailored to your personal genomics: New partnership between 23andMe and GlaxoSmithKline
The California-based [23andMe] is now focused on a partnership with pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline to discover new drugs using data culled ...
Assessing Operation Warp Speed: What’s working, what’s not
Is [Operation Warp Speed] working? Roughly five months after top U.S. health officials coalesced around the idea of a public-private ...
For untreatable diseases, should you consider unapproved stem cell therapy?
Regenerative medicine is a controversial field, still in its infancy. There are academic researchers and major biotech companies testing key ...
Life with the pandemic: 4 ways our bodies might respond to new COVID waves
[Coronavirus researcher Vineet] Menachery laid out four possible scenarios for how humans might interact with SARS-2 over time — in ...
ALS may soon be treatable with new drug combo dreamed up by a college student
Patients who took [an experimental medication for ALS] — initially dreamed up over beers and obsessive internet searching in a Brown ...
What’s it like when mental effects of COVID-19 fester?
Even people who were never sick enough to go to a hospital, much less lie in an ICU bed with ...
What can be done – short of another lockdown – to corral COVID?
The virus suppression gains earned through the painful societal shutdowns of March, April, and May — the flattened epidemiological curves ...
Federal government systematically shortchanging Black communities in distributing COVID aid
[A] study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that… funding inequities resulted from a formula that allocated large chunks of a ...
Headspace for work app: Mindfulness science or scam?
Demand for the mindfulness and meditation app has skyrocketed since the Covid-19 pandemic and its ripple effects began taking a ...
$10 COVID saliva test with results in three hours approved for rollout
[A] new test, which is called SalivaDirect and was developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health, allows ...
How we are developing a coronavirus vaccine so quickly
Just six months ago, when the death toll from the coronavirus stood at one and neither it nor the disease it caused had ...
Meet STACI: STAT’s fascinating interactive guide to AI in healthcare
The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the importance of the technology in medicine: In the last few months, hospitals have used AI ...
‘A huge amount of wasted effort’: Most COVID-19 studies too small to yield real results
1,200 clinical trials aimed at testing treatment and prevention strategies against Covid-19 [have been designed] since the start of January ...
COVID-19 undercount: CDC now says as many as 24 times more people in the US infected
[A] study, published [July 21] in JAMA Internal Medicine [determined that the true number of U.S. coronavirus cases could be ...
Artificial consent: Unproven AI making key decisions about patients health care without their knowledge
At a growing number of prominent hospitals and clinics around the country, clinicians are turning to AI-powered decision support tools ...
Structural discrimination: COVID-19 illuminates healthcare inequalities for blacks
The disparities have long been documented. Black people are more likely than white people to die from cancer. They are ...
Knocking out cholesterol genes could offer ‘one-and-done’ CRISPR cure for heart disease
When CRISPR “base editing” was used to knock out two cholesterol-associated genes in monkeys, the animals’ blood levels of heart-disease-causing ...
American teens lose access to mental health care at 18 – with disastrous results
Age 18 is a particularly difficult time for a person to drop out of — or lose access to — ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vax extremists bully public health officials. We can’t let them win
Since mid-April, 27 state and local health leaders across 13 states have resigned, retired, or been fired, some citing threats ...
‘Serious side effects’: FDA revokes emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment
The Food and Drug Administration on [June 15] said it had withdrawn an emergency approval for use of the malaria ...
COVID-19 vaccines unlikely to be ‘cure-alls’. That might not be such a bad thing
With a little luck and a lot of science, the world might in the not-too-distant future get vaccines against Covid-19 ...
Lancet medical journal retracts much-questioned COVID-19 ‘observational study’ that raised safety alarms about hydroxychloroquine
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on [June 4] retracted an influential study that raised alarms about ...
Viewpoint: At-home test detects cervical cancer early. It should be available to all women
I’m a public health nurse who has spent a career studying ways to better test women for the human papillomavirus ...
