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Vaccine hesitancy plagues war-torn Syria
Idlib is one of the most vulnerable places in the world for infection: an impoverished rebel-controlled province in northwestern Syria ...
Chronic fatigue syndrome treatment breakthrough? Research on long COVID may unlock hidden clues
Now that vaccines and therapeutics have lessened the chance of severe illness and death and people are eager to return ...
Viewpoint: Should the US resume ‘risky virus research’?
Called the “DEEP VZN” project, USAID will partner with a consortium of universities and public health organizations, led by Washington ...
A magic hour to go to sleep? Hitting the pillow between 10 and 11pm might lower risk of heart disease
Scientists in Europe have said that research into the links between sleep and heart health often relies on foggy recollections ...
Pfizer makes experimental COVID pill Paxlovid available to developing countries as a low-priced generic drug
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to a license-sharing deal that would allow its experimental covid-19 drug to be manufactured ...
How should schools accommodate students with long COVID?
As the delta variant continues to run rampant, officials are managing contact tracing, quarantines and mask policies, sometimes while facing ...
From mixing urine in wine to peeing on barley: A history of pregnancy tests
Trying to figure out if you’re pregnant is probably as old as humanity itself. People had some pretty weird methods, ...
‘Human skulls line his shelves’: 21-year old TikTok star JonesBones stirs ethical debate over selling human remains
Jon Pichaya Ferry, known on TikTok as JonsBones, is a 21-year-old bone salesman. Ferry’s account, where he has garnered nearly ...
Chronic pain relief: Insights into how the brain works fuels dramatic treatment improvements
The view that chronic pain originates in the brain — that it’s fundamentally a psychological phenomenon, and can be eliminated ...
Living longer: Genes set limits, but diet and exercise can extend lifespans
Death comes for us all. But recent research points to interventions in diet, exercise and mental outlook that could slow ...
Mix and match COVID booster shots have been approved. Should you switch? Here’s a guide
The Food and Drug Administration on [October 20] authorized “mix-and-match” booster shots to increase antibodies to fight the coronavirus. Under ...
Meet Kernza, the climate change-fighting seed: Wheatgrass perfect for baking that sustainably grows back year after year
Most commercial crops are annual. They provide only one harvest and must be replanted every year. Growing these foods on ...
How ‘race norming’ prevented NFL players with concussion-related symptoms from dementia diagnoses — and blocked many from getting health benefits
It has been more than a year since Black former players seeking payments from the landmark NFL concussion settlement first ...
Viewpoint: ‘The vaccine is more harmful than the coronavirus itself’ — How one floundering Ohio lawyer played the right wing circuit and turned disinformation into a lucrative business
In one of dozens of recent media appearances, Ohio attorney Thomas Renz was claiming that coronavirus vaccines were more harmful ...
YouTube bans Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Mercola and other anti-vaccine activists from spreading COVID disinformation
YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...
Facebook allowed COVID conspiracies to circulate unchecked, more evidence shows
Facebook earlier this year faced a torrent of criticism from President Biden and others who have alleged that the company ...
Wide disagreement among religious groups about vaccine mandates
Since the start of the pandemic, there has been a standoff between personal freedoms and bodily integrity on one side ...
Viewpoint: Ivermectin dewormer folly — How the right fell in love with the latest bogus COVID cure
For much of the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump and his allies pushed an unproven drug, ...
Inside the quest to develop second-generation vaccines, variant-proof boosters and a shot that works against future pandemics
Even as vaccine supplies outstrip demand in the United States, the scientific quest for coronavirus shots has scarcely eased. In ...
And the death count keeps growing: At least four vaccine-bashing conservative talk show hosts have died of COVID complications
[Marc] Bernier was at least the fourth talk-radio host who had espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask sentiments to succumb to the ...
Will you come to regret not getting your child vaccinated? Ben Franklin did — his son died of smallpox
Five weeks had passed since the death of Benjamin Franklin’s son, and rumors were swirling. Four-year-old Francis “Franky” Franklin had ...
Is a Texas Republican politician’s vaccine denialism responsible for his own death? Here’s how the left and right fueled a partisan firestorm
When H. Scott Apley died at 45 of covid-19, he became a face of vaccine refusal by the political right ...
What’s next as FDA moves to grant full approval of COVID shots: Changing vaccine hesitant minds or more employee mandates?
The Food and Drug Administration on [August 23] offered its first full authorization for a coronavirus vaccine — the Pfizer-BioNTech ...
Far right targets recruits to government conspiracy theories from vaccine skeptics
Far-right groups across the nation have aligned themselves with those opposed to masks and vaccines, seeking new allies around the ...
‘I am sorry for the pain this caused Black former NFL players and families’: How ‘race-norming’ brain injuries cost players tens of millions of dollars
When the settlement in the landmark NFL class-action concussion litigation was finalized in 2017, and the league agreed to pay ...
Delta strain prompts NFL players to recommend tighter coronavirus restrictions
The NFL Players Association told its membership [August 4] that it will propose re-tightening the sport’s coronavirus protocols and testing ...
COVID vaccine mandates at public universities legally challenged after George Mason professor files suit
A law-school professor filed a lawsuit [August 4] challenging George Mason University’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, arguing it is unnecessarily coercive ...
‘Covid exposed so much that was broken’: How can we remake our post-pandemic food system?
The United States spends $1.1 trillion a year on food. But when the impacts of the food system on different ...
