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Viewpoint: Only a tiny percentage of children face threat of severe coronavirus complications. That risk isn’t high enough to justify lockdowns

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Horrific stories are emerging of children developing rashes, cardiac abnormalities and other inflammatory symptoms that are linked to the novel ...
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First, we need a coronavirus vaccine. Then we need to figure out who gets it first

Several drugmakers that have been building up their capabilities to make coronavirus vaccines, have pledged to deliver millions of doses ...
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Banning Aaron Ginn: Social media sites censoring coronavirus critics who claim lockdown strategy lacks a ‘scientific basis’

Does a pandemic demand the strong medicine of censorship? Social-media companies seem to think so. They’re taking steps to control ...
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‘Fragments of dead virus’ preventing recovered coronavirus patients from donating plasma

Close to four weeks after recovering from a Covid-19 infection, Jennie Novakovic went to her local hospital hoping to donate ...
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Solving coronavirus medical supply and equipment shortages with cryptocurrency technology

Blockchain technology projects are being developed by companies such as International Business Machines Corp. and Ernst & Young LLC to ...
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‘Increasingly confident’: Children less vulnerable to coronavirus, numerous studies say

Doctors are increasingly confident that children are less affected by the new coronavirus than adults, a finding that could aid ...
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Secretive coalition of scientists, billionaires pushing Manhattan Project-inspired coronavirus solution

Rob Copeland | Wall Street Journal |
A dozen of America’s top scientists and a collection of billionaires and industry titans say they have the answer to ...
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Not just the lungs: Coronavirus also wreaks havoc on the brain

As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases worldwide reaches 2 million, clinicians are realizing the disease doesn’t just ravage the ...
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Infographic: From vaccines to drugs, chasing ‘silver bullets’ targeting the fast-moving coronavirus

For drug companies, there is suddenly only one priority: the coronavirus. More than 140 experimental drug treatments and vaccines for ...
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‘Next wave’ of coronavirus tests should reveal scope of the pandemic

Health departments, hospitals and companies around the world are rolling out the next wave in coronavirus tests, which look in ...
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Skin patch with 400 needles: Another potential coronavirus vaccine ready for human testing

Salena Zito | Wall Street Journal |
Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine at a University of Pittsburgh lab. The deadly disease that crippled infants disappeared almost ...
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First wave over? Several European nations set to relax coronavirus lockdowns

Europe is getting ready to reopen, slowly. Italy, Austria and Denmark are among the first countries to plot the gradual ...
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Tackling coronavirus medical supply shortages with 3-D printers

Multinational companies and startups world-wide are reprogramming their cutting-edge 3-D printers to tackle shortages of critical medical equipment caused by ...
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Coronavirus test uncertainty: False negatives could be as high as 30 percent

Health experts say they now believe nearly one in three patients who are infected are nevertheless getting a negative test ...
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Can herd immunity—and coronavirus-immunity registries—help us restart the economy?

Coronavirus spreads rapidly. One person typically infects two or three other people, who then infect two or three others and ...
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Viewpoint: Coronavirus testing, treatment key to ending national lockdowns

First, the bad news: America’s coronavirus epidemic is only beginning, and the suffering will become more searing over the next ...
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Bayer, 6 plaintiffs firms agree on draft settlement terms in Roundup-cancer litigation, but thousands of cases could still go to trial

Bayer has agreed on draft settlement terms with half a dozen law firms representing tens of thousands of plaintiffs alleging ...
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Impossible Foods cuts prices 15% as new competitors enter plant-based meat market

Makers of plant-based meat alternatives are cutting prices, as startups compete with food-industry giants for slices of the rapidly growing ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Anti-insecticide crusade’ threatens food security of 20 million people as locusts swarm across East Africa

Richard Tren | Wall Street Journal |
A plague of locusts has hit Africa. Massive swarms are devouring crops and other vegetation in their path, imperiling millions ...
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When a consumer genetics test pushes your ‘right to know’ against someone else’s ‘right to privacy’

Stephen Wald took a home DNA test in 2018, hoping to explore his family ancestry with his two young children ...
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Bayer and BASF hit with $265 million verdict for damages jury concludes were caused by dicamba weedkiller

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal |
A jury ruled against Bayer and BASF SE in a crop-damage case, awarding $265 million to a Missouri peach farmer ...
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Bayer faces ‘almost impossible’ task of ending glyphosate-cancer litigation while its Roundup herbicide remains in stores

Bayer faces an extraordinary challenge as it tries to settle tens of thousands of claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes ...
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With Enlist, biotech firm Corteva aims to displace Roundup as top-selling herbicide as Bayer fights glyphosate litigation

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal |
Before it was targeted by tens of thousands of plaintiffs in lawsuits, Roundup was the king of the field—the world’s ...
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BRCA nightmare: Genetic testing analysis changes—after preventive surgery

When she was in her early 30s, Katy Mathes decided to check her cancer risk. A genetic test showed a ...
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Would price controls hamper research on gene therapy and other innovative treatments?

Scott Gottlieb | Wall Street Journal |
Over the next decade, it is a near certainty that we will have gene-therapy cures for deadly inherited disorders such ...
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Viewpoint: Experimental gene therapy saved my sons’ eyesight

Kristin Papiro | Wall Street Journal |
Not long after we brought my newborn son, Anthony, home from the hospital, we noticed his eyes kept darting to ...
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US meat industry goes to ‘war’ against Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat

On a rainy September morning, a pair of cattle ranchers browsed the refrigerated meat cases at a Walmart Inc. store ...
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Staving off dementia through lifestyle changes, including exercise, weight loss

Anne Tergesen | Wall Street Journal |
When it comes to battling dementia, the unfortunate news is this: Medications have proven ineffective at curing or stopping the ...