Month: January 2022

The Abbott BinaxNOW, a rapid antigen test, identified 95 percent of people carrying high levels of the virus, researchers found. View original article Contributor: Emily Anthes

Out of more than 52,000 patients infected with Omicron, not one went on a ventilator, the study found. View original article Contributor: Carl Zimmer

Officials of the federal health insurance program are expected to finalize their decision in the spring, after a 30-day comment period. View original article Contributor: Pam Belluck

The “vampire hormone” can act like a dose of sunset, tricking your body into feeling like it’s time to sleep. View original article Contributor: Amelia Nierenberg

The agency cautioned against treating the virus like the seasonal flu, since much remains unknown, particularly regarding the severity in areas with lower vaccination rates. View original article Contributor: Marc Santora

U.S. service members and veterans have long insisted that the military’s garbage-disposal fires in war zones made them ill. Why were their claims stonewalled for so long? View original article Contributor: Megan K. Stack

A former Africa correspondent, who covered the height of the AIDS epidemic there 15 years ago, finds lessons in the remarkable progress against that virus for our current fight. View original article Contributor: Stephanie Nolen

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. While it’s too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the … Read more

It’s not easy being a superhero: They have enemies. They have monumental tasks to accomplish. They’re constantly battered. Beyond those dangers, however, they also practice several healthy behaviors that could carry them well into old age. That’s what a team of Australian researchers recently discovered, as published in the light-hearted Christmas 2021 issue of the … Read more

(ROME) — Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a “moral obligation” and denounced how people had been swayed by “baseless information” to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives during the pandemic. Francis used some of his strongest words yet calling for people to get vaccinated in … Read more