Brenda Goodman
‘I wish I never touched it’: Downside of weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy
Drug regulators say they have received reports of stomach paralysis among patients taking GLP-1 agonist drugs ...
Is there a simple way to test for signs of Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear?
Doctors’ reliance on symptom-based testing could soon change taking a backseat to biomarkers: telltale signs of the disease ...
Alcohol is good for you, alcohol is bad for you? Here’s yet another study to fuel the debate
Researchers say they may be able to explain how light drinking benefits the heart, and its main effect doesn’t stem ...
Personalized pancreatic cancer vaccine that uses mRNA technology to fight tumors show promise
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies, fatal in 88% of patients. It is also one of the ...
COVID infections set off massive inflammation ‘storms’ in the body
From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of Covid-19 – the ones that landed ...
Some people got deliberately sick from COVID for science. Here’s what we learned from them
It takes just a tiny virus-laden droplet – about the width of a human blood cell – to infect someone ...
Should children get a COVID vaccine?
[W]ith COVID cases plummeting in the United States and children historically seeing far less serious cases than adults, a panel ...
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 ...
The US is experiencing the mildest flu season in memory. Here’s why
The U.S. is seeing historically low levels of influenza this season, which started in September 2020. This time last year, ...
