Do you need to be vaccinated or have a negative Covid-19 test for your next trip? Check this guide before traveling domestically or abroad. View original article Contributor: Concepción de León
Monday’s announcement gave hope to a community desperate for it. For the first time in nearly two decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drug, aducanumab, to treat … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
Plus, mammoths in Vegas, watermelon snow, Miami’s looming sea wall and more in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter. View original article Contributor: Alan Burdick
More than half of the cases were reported in people ages 12 to 24. Not all are likely to be verified or related to vaccines, and experts believe the benefits of immunization far outweigh the risk of these complications. View original article Contributor: Apoorva Mandavilli
Flush the taps, focus on indoor air quality and consider getting creative about staff schedules. View original article Contributor: Emily Anthes
Humanity has planted flags on the moon, yet a moonshot for brain cancer has yet to be realized. View original article Contributor: Abdul-Kareem Ahmed, M.D.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been exhausting for the world’s health care workers, who have spent the last year-plus putting their lives on the line to keep the rest of us safe and healthy. Now, their tireless efforts are inspiring a new generation to join their ranks: applications to U.S. medical schools shot up nearly 20% … Read more
While most eyes were on COVID-19, researchers have also made groundbreaking advancements in other fields. Here’s a look. The other big vaccine news Public-health officials have long sought a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 600 million people a year and kills 400,000, mostly children. This year, there was dramatic progress toward that goal. In … Read more
Americans are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic like survivors of a wildfire surveying an unfamiliar landscape. As we take stock of what’s left, we are forced to rebuild, but we need not simply restore what was taken in a hollow echo of what we knew before. We can make health care and the infrastructure that … Read more
In the early 20th century, Scottish physician John Scott Haldane figured out why coal miners were suffocating on the job. Haldane undertook a series of experiments where he, himself, breathed several types of poison gas, and concluded that carbon monoxide was the culprit. He devised an early detection system whereby coal miners brought small animals—mice … Read more