Vaccine hesitancy’s roots in deeply religious and technophobic Amish community

Vaccine hesitancy’s roots in deeply religious and technophobic Amish community

John Seewer | 
The vaccination drive is lagging far behind in many Amish communities across the U.S. following a wave of virus outbreaks ...
Rapidly-spreading COVID-19 variant currently ravaging India makes first appearance in the US — in children with no recent travel history

Rapidly-spreading COVID-19 variant currently ravaging India makes first appearance in the US — in children with no recent travel history

Jennifer Prohov | 
Scientists [at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found] two cases of the variant first detected in India using ...
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As independent scientists’ do-it-yourself-COVID-vaccines proliferate, bioethicists counter with warnings

Sony Salzman | 
"It's actually simpler than most recipes in home cookbooks," said Preston Estep, chief scientist and co-founder of a DIY [COVID ...
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Systemic racial disparity among lung cancer diagnoses has nearly vanished, study finds

Molly Stout | 
Because of deeply-rooted systemic problems, Black Americans tend to experience disproportionate rates of many common illnesses. However, a recent study ...
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Gene therapy for hemophilia delayed until 2022 after FDA rejects one-time treatment, shocking doctors and scientists

Linda Johnson, Ricki Lewis | 
U.S. regulators rejected [Biomarin’s] potentially game-changing hemophilia A gene therapy over concerns it might not really be a one-and-done lifetime ...
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Coronavirus heart threat: 10-to-30 percent of those hospitalized end up with ‘molecular damage’

Jay Bhatt, Jessica Johnson | 
More than six months into the global pandemic, studies have shown that COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, ...
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