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Some COVID-19 survivors may never regain taste or smell, doctors say
Clinicians racing to understand the novel disease are starting to discern an unusual trend: one common symptom—the loss of smell ...
Infographic: Racing to create affordable at-home test for COVID-19
To stretch beyond the lab, test developers are racing to produce next-stage technologies that could allow for rapid widespread testing ...
Viewpoint: Only a tiny percentage of children face threat of severe coronavirus complications. That risk isn’t high enough to justify lockdowns
Horrific stories are emerging of children developing rashes, cardiac abnormalities and other inflammatory symptoms that are linked to the novel ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
Secretive coalition of scientists, billionaires pushing Manhattan Project-inspired coronavirus solution
A dozen of America’s top scientists and a collection of billionaires and industry titans say they have the answer to ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
Skin patch with 400 needles: Another potential coronavirus vaccine ready for human testing
Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine at a University of Pittsburgh lab. The deadly disease that crippled infants disappeared almost ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Would price controls hamper research on gene therapy and other innovative treatments?
Over the next decade, it is a near certainty that we will have gene-therapy cures for deadly inherited disorders such ...
Viewpoint: Experimental gene therapy saved my sons’ eyesight
Not long after we brought my newborn son, Anthony, home from the hospital, we noticed his eyes kept darting to ...
Staving off dementia through lifestyle changes, including exercise, weight loss
When it comes to battling dementia, the unfortunate news is this: Medications have proven ineffective at curing or stopping the ...
Gender nonconforming Americans can now choose neither male nor female on their licenses in many states
A growing number of states and companies are allowing people to designate their gender as “X” instead of male or ...
Long-term antidepressant use linked to higher risk of heart attack, stroke and death
More Americans are taking antidepressant medications like Prozac and Zoloft for extended periods of time: One-quarter of people on the ...
FamilyTreeDNA shares customers’ genetic data with FBI. Founder calls it ‘the right decision’
Millions of consumers use genetic data to gain insight into family roots or learn about health risks. The boom has ...
Anger, aches and pains: Anxiety manifests differently in men
Anxiety problems can look different in men. When people think of anxiety, they may picture the excessive worry and avoidance ...
