Lila Thulin
The history of vaccine hesitancy, from smallpox to COVID-19
Vaccine policy made national headlines last week when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine guidance committee met and ...
World War I gave us our first personality test—to assess soldiers for risk of shell shock
Shell shock ultimately sent 15 percent of British soldiers home. Their symptoms included uncontrollable weeping, amnesia, tics, paralysis, nightmares, insomnia, heart ...
‘Permanent fix’ for melanoma, blindness, sickle cell? CRISPR gene editing tackles diseases
In the past 12 months, four clinical trials launched in the United States to use CRISPR to treat and potentially cure patients ...