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What will Covid look like in the years ahead? Young children could be most vulnerable to new variants
Researchers predict SARS-CoV-2 could become endemic and primarily infect children, thereby shifting risk from older people to toddlers too young ...
50% of COVID sufferers report damaged sense of smell 5 months after recovery
More than 50% of healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 report that their sense of smell has not returned to normal ...
Variants on top of variants: COVID continues to mutate in Brazil, posing more perils to country already crushed by the pandemic
The unchecked spread of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variants in Brazil appears to have created even more dangerous versions of ...
Depression and anxiety linked to early onset of Alzheimer’s
Investigators found the age of onset of AD is about 2 years earlier among patients with depression and 3 years ...
Cancer dates back millions of years. Now we are cracking its evolutionary code
Cancer cells are on a continual evolutionary journey of mutation and proliferation, creating a genetically diverse population with a range ...
Can a baby get cancer from a mom’s cervical tumor?
[Japanese] investigators describe lung cancer in two boys that "probably developed" from their respective mothers via vaginal transmission during birth ...
Single-dose COVID vaccine by Johnson & Johnson/Janssen up next for approval
Among the multiple vaccine candidates around the globe, next up in the arsenal against COVID-19 is likely the single-dose Ad26.COV2.S ...
US appears ill-prepared to support COVID vaccine rollout
In a four-page memo this summer, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told health departments across the country to draft ...
90 quack COVID cures and counting: Dr. Joe Mercola added to FDA list of fraudsters promoting bogus cures
[T]he FDA has issued more than 90 warning letters about fraudulent products claiming to prevent or cure the disease. While the bulk ...
‘Really tough decision’: What should doctors do when genetic testing reveals that dad isn’t the child’s biological father?
The child was critically ill. The treating team at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, was stumped and worried that ...
