public health

Variant Hunters Race to Find New Strains Where Testing Lags

In the past year, emerging variants have changed the calculus of the pandemic, forcing countries back into lockdowns and to…

You don’t have to be a professional football player to get a solid conk on the head. By one estimate…

It’s not a unique quirk, but like many other Covid-19 tests, Helix’s hunts for three snippets of the virus’s genome….

In the 1970s, a company called Swedish Match started advertising snus to Swedish men. Snus wasn’t a new product; the…

“That’s the major problem here,” says Perencenevich. “Clearly, so much of containing this virus comes down to personal responsibility, but…

Compelling as the Mayo nursery school study was, says Shaman, it’s difficult to make the leap from that one limited…

When Aluko Hope, a critical care specialist at Montefiore Hospital in New York City, first meets patients in the Covid-19…

Moving too fast and not paying attention to a minority group’s history with the government is causing problems for reaching…

A massive new accounting of the health of humans on Earth, collating and inferring stats on hundreds of diseases and…

New York—unlike Meyers’ home state, she notes, and most of the US—is currently in the stage of containing flare-ups, and…