Month: March 2021

Trials of experimental gene therapy for sickle cell disease were halted when patients developed worrying illnesses. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata

Los hombres y las mujeres suelen responder de forma diferente a muchos tipos de vacunas. Esto se debe probablemente a una mezcla de factores, como las hormonas, los genes y la dosis de las vacunas. View original article Contributor: Melinda Wenner Moyer

In a part of Harlem with low vaccination rates, the Abyssinian Baptist Church is combating an unequal rollout and vaccine wariness through example. View original article Contributor: Liam Stack

For years we’ve been crediting endorphins, but it’s really about the endocannabinoids. View original article Contributor: Gretchen Reynolds

Everyone knows smoking is very bad for physical health. But what about its impact on mental health? Many smokers believe that smoking helps to relieve stress, anxiety and low mood, when in fact the opposite is true. Today, for the first time, the national No Smoking Day campaign will focus on the significant benefits of … Read more

For years we’ve been crediting endorphins, but it’s really about the endocannabinoids. View original article Contributor: Gretchen Reynolds

The U.S. now has three safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines being shipped around the country and making it into people’s arms. All meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s threshold for protecting people from COVID-19 disease. Yet two of them are about 95% efficacious, while another is 66% efficacious, which may make it tempting to … Read more

Here in the U.S., the COVID-19 vaccination picture looks far rosier than it did even a few weeks ago. Nearly one in five Americans have received at least one dose, according to TIME’s vaccine tracker, the authorization of Johnson & Johnson’s shot brings a third vaccine onto the public health battlefield, and President Joe Biden … Read more

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group of 16 physicians and scientists who evaluate preventive tests and medications, said high-risk smokers and ex-smokers should begin getting annual low-dose CT scans at age 50, not 55, the previous age threshold set in 2013. View original article Contributor: Laurie McGinley

One year after the WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic, we take a look at the ways it has changed us all View original article Contributor: Washington Post Staff