Ebola Is Back—and Vaccines Don’t Work Against It
[ad_1] The candidate that’s farthest along is the single-dose ChAd3 Ebola Sudan vaccine, which is being developed by the Sabin Vaccine Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, DC. By working…
How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation
[ad_1] As unease about Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling grows, along with concerns about the safety of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, officials in Kyiv are distributing iodine pills to help protect…
Why India’s Capital Is Teeming With Mosquitoes
[ad_1] Delhi’s surge of Culex mosquitoes comes at a time when public health officials are declaring notable victories against other kinds of mosquitoes, including the Anopheles genus that transmits malaria.…
Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS
[ad_1] At the end of September, a spot of good news: Relyvrio, a new drug for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—or ALS, a neurological disorder without a cure—was approved in the…
Wildfire Smoke May Carry Deadly Fungi Long Distances
[ad_1] Glowing red skies and bitter ash-laden air are increasingly common across much of the US as the warming climate fuels vast wildfires. For years now, researchers have understood that…
How to Find Your Vaccine History—and Store It Safely
[ad_1] If you want to update an incomplete IIS record, you can request vaccination records from prior health care providers, local (city or regional) health departments, or your state health…
The Fungus That Killed Frogs—and Led to a Surge in Malaria
[ad_1] Though Bd swept through Central America from the 1980s to the 2000s, the analysis that demonstrated its effect on human health could be accomplished only recently, says Michael Springborn,…
Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. There’s No One Reason Why
[ad_1] Add to that: There’s little past experience with the vaccine, known as Jynneos in the US, being used against this disease. It was only approved by the US Food…
Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. No One Knows Why
[ad_1] Add to that: There’s little past experience with the vaccine, known as Jynneos in the US, being used against this disease. It was only approved by the US Food…
The Mystery of Why Some People Don’t Get Covid
[ad_1] We all know a “Covid virgin,” or “Novid,” someone who has defied all logic in dodging the coronavirus. But beyond judicious caution, sheer luck, or a lack of friends,…
16 Best Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear (Updated 2022)
[ad_1] Do you wear a face mask or don’t you? Currently, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) offers guidance that if you live in a community with medium or…
How Does a Variant-Specific Covid Booster Work?
[ad_1] The Covid-19 messenger RNA vaccines are getting an update. The new booster shots rolling out across the US and Europe this week are specifically tailored to currently circulating Omicron…
For Some Patients, Long Covid Symptoms Mask Something Else
[ad_1] It was overuse of acetaminophen that finally led to Nic Petermann’s cancer diagnosis. For months, the then 26-year-old had been contending with exhaustion, night sweats, recurring fevers, and abdominal…
Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened
[ad_1] The discovery that polio has partially paralyzed a young man in a New York suburb feels wearying, yet shocking. Wearying, because it’s the third highly infectious virus to make…
At Some Colleges, the Fall of Roe Will Weaken Student Health Care
[ad_1] What then, is the best recourse for activists and aid organizations? In both access-friendly states and those with bans, campus activists are pressuring university administrators to support students: to…
Three Possible Futures of the Monkeypox Epidemic
[ad_1] Still, that path is made messier by doing nothing for the countries in West and Central Africa, where monkeypox was first identified decades ago and has been spreading since…
What Is Paxlovid? Everything You Need to Know
[ad_1] Hopes that it could be useful for treating people with mild illness have also proved unfounded. In June, a trial of Paxlovid’s effects in standard-risk Covid patients was ended…
The Chaotic Monkeypox Vaccine Pipeline Is Leaving Everyone Short
[ad_1] In a run-of-the-mill business park in Kvistgård, a Danish village about 25 miles north of Copenhagen encircled by forests, lies one of the most crucial solutions for controlling the…
Extreme Heat Is Becoming More Dangerous for Farmworkers
[ad_1] And it’s only going to get worse. In a 2020 paper, University of Washington researchers calculated that the average number of “days spent working in unsafe conditions” due to…
Larry Brilliant Says Covid Rapid Antigen Tests Are Bad for Public Health
[ad_1] You were one of those people with four doses. That’s right, and I was also able to get a prophylactic monoclonal antibody. That’s probably why I think I got…
The Fall of Roe Makes Complex Pregnancies Even Riskier
[ad_1] Doctors who care for pregnant people often have to make time-sensitive decisions when lives are on the line. But in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision,…
Monkeypox Originated in Animals. Could It Spill Back Into Them?
[ad_1] Two months into the international monkeypox epidemic, which so far has caused almost 6,000 infections in the United States and more than 18,000 cases worldwide, it may be old…
There’s a Monkeypox Testing Bottleneck
[ad_1] But while a monkeypox test already existed, it required lab workers to do each step by hand, Morice says. Federal guidelines say testing should be done only by swabbing…
California Wants to Make Cheap Insulin. Here’s How It Could Work
[ad_1] Insulin was first discovered in 1921, and the following year, a 14-year-old boy suffering from diabetes became the first person treated with it. The medical breakthrough won a Nobel…
How Limits on CDC Studies Shaped the New Federal Gun Law
[ad_1] “Yeah, I think that was,” Republican senator Thom Tillis says of Cornyn’s unscientific news clipping. JFK’s Legacy For Tillis, what truly unified the disparate group of progressives and conservatives…