Month: June 2021

Memorial Day kicked off a return to normalcy across the nation as many of the remaining coronavirus restrictions were lifted View original article Contributor: Fenit Nirappil

“Dope Is Death” examines Lincoln Detox, a center founded by a coalition of the Black Panther Party and other groups to fight addictions and deaths in the community. View original article Contributor: Erin Blakemore

If the agency approves it, aducanumab would be the first new Alzheimer’s treatment since 2003. Patients are desperate for new options, but some scientists say there isn’t enough evidence it works. View original article Contributor: Pam Belluck and Rebecca Robbins

The rising use of light-emitting diodes and the popularity of pickups and S.U.V.s have prompted complaints about the glare and intensity of headlights. View original article Contributor: Christopher Mele

Because benevolent bots are suckers. Plus, racism in medical journals, the sperm-count “crisis” and more in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter. View original article Contributor: Alan Burdick

The annual count along the Delaware Bay beaches showed another severe drop in numbers of the shorebird, whose migration is one of the longest avian journeys in the world. View original article Contributor: Jon Hurdle

As the United States seems close to controlling a pandemic that has killed 600,000 Americans, we must recognize that in much of the rest of the world, the pandemic continues to rage. Now, with the U.S. vaccine supply far outstripping our domestic needs, the U.S. is taking action, with President Biden’s announcement of the first … Read more

At the height of the AIDS epidemic, she started God’s Love We Deliver, a charity that brought hot meals to people who were too ill to cook. View original article Contributor: Sam Roberts