public health, Science, Science / 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…
public health, Science, Science / Health Even Mild Brain Injuries Raise the Risk of Dementia You don’t have to be a professional football player to get a solid conk on the head. By one estimate…
public health, Science, Science / Health As Coronavirus Variants Spread, the US Struggles to Keep Up It’s not a unique quirk, but like many other Covid-19 tests, Helix’s hunts for three snippets of the virus’s genome….
public health, Science, Science / Health Vaping Doesn’t Keep Young People From Smoking Cigarettes Later In the 1970s, a company called Swedish Match started advertising snus to Swedish men. Snus wasn’t a new product; the…
public health, Science, Science / Health Iowa’s Covid Wave and the Limits of Personal Responsibility “That’s the major problem here,” says Perencenevich. “Clearly, so much of containing this virus comes down to personal responsibility, but…
public health, Science, Science / Health Covid Winter is Coming. Could Humidifiers Help? Compelling as the Mayo nursery school study was, says Shaman, it’s difficult to make the leap from that one limited…
public health, Science, Science / Health Confused About Covid Brain Fog? Doctors Have Questions, Too When Aluko Hope, a critical care specialist at Montefiore Hospital in New York City, first meets patients in the Covid-19…
public health, Science, Science / Health Winning Trust for a Vaccine Means Confronting Medical Racism Moving too fast and not paying attention to a minority group’s history with the government is causing problems for reaching…
public health, Science, Science / Health The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic A massive new accounting of the health of humans on Earth, collating and inferring stats on hundreds of diseases and…
public health, Science, Science / Health New York Is Trying Targeted Lockdowns. Will It Curb Covid? New York—unlike Meyers’ home state, she notes, and most of the US—is currently in the stage of containing flare-ups, and…