Month: October 2021

A drop in cases is especially stark in some Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. But low vaccination rates in some places leave the country vulnerable. View original article Contributor: Adeel Hassan

Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, said Tuesday he is stepping down, capping a career in which he directed crucial research into the human genome and the fight against serious diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and COVID-19. Collins said he was “grateful and proud of the NIH … Read more

About two years ago, as Samantha Plevney was dealing with a major Crohn’s disease flare-up, she decided to tell her gastroenterologist how it was affecting her emotional health. “I told him that I’m alive but I’m not living,” she recalls. “Not being able to see my friends because of the uncertainty of my health situation … Read more

The independent inquiry, kept private until now, says agency leaders feared that addressing accusations of misconduct by a pediatrician would be ‘awkward.’ View original article Contributor: Mark Walker

A new study shows just how lifesaving home monitoring of oxygen levels can be. View original article Contributor: Tara Parker-Pope

The agency’s director under three presidents said he was planning to shift his focus back to the lab, and that he hoped his replacement would be a woman. View original article Contributor: Noah Weiland and Gina Kolata

As vaccination spread and cases fell, people suffered fewer symptoms than in late 2020, but anxiety and depression were still far more prevalent than before pandemic. View original article Contributor: Benjamin Mueller