Allysia Finley
A blood test test can detect cancers well before symptoms show up. Don’t expect private insurers or the government to cover costs anytime soon
Many companies are developing blood tests that can detect cancer signals before symptoms occur, and Grail’s is the most advanced ...
Viewpoint: Battling RFK, Jr.’s misinformation machine — ‘What good is a fact check from news organizations with a record of promoting ideology over truth?’
Longtime amplifier and propagator of baseless theories, beginning nearly two decades ago with his skepticism: Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...
The science of mental acuity: Why some people defy aging
There’s something to the adage that age is only a number. Scientists increasingly are distinguishing between chronological and biological age ...
Viewpoint: Did health officials bungle by embracing mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s single shot?
How many times have public-health experts told us that Covid isn’t like the flu? Suddenly that’s changed. The Food and ...
Looking past the aducanumab approval fiasco: 70 Alzheimer’s drugs are in the clinical pipeline
Researchers and drug makers have labored fruitlessly for decades to develop treatments that can slow [Alzheimer's] disease’s progression. More than ...
Viewpoint: Linking free markets to innovation is why capitalism is on the verge of defeating COVID
J&J’s road to the vaccine—from failure to life-saving success, from investment write-off to breakthrough—is a little-known story about science, business ...
Early COVID-19 hotspots like New York City and northern Italy may be edging towards herd immunity
There are reasons to think the novel coronavirus began spreading earlier than previously understood, raising the possibility that herd immunity ...
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 ...