Month: March 2022

Childhood environments shape people’s navigational skills, researchers reported. The findings one day may lead to better tests for early dementia. View original article Contributor: Benjamin Mueller

In her new book, Jennifer Heisz blends personal experience and the latest science about how exercise can improve your mental well-being. View original article Contributor: Gretchen Reynolds

Two years after the pandemic began, we finally have a good understanding of how COVID-19 is transmitted: some infected people exhale virus in small, invisible particles (aerosols). These do not fall quickly to the ground, but move in the air like cigarette smoke. Other people can get infected when breathing in those aerosols, either in … Read more

U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another COVID-19 booster for people age 50 and older, a step to offer extra protection for the most vulnerable in case the coronavirus rebounds. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision opens a fourth dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines to those people at least four months after their previous … Read more

Two years into a global pandemic whose initial cause remains a subject of debate, Reuters, on March 11, published an especially jarring story: the World Health Organization, according to the news agency, had advised Ukraine to eliminate any high-threat pathogens it had in its biolabs, to reduce (and ideally eliminate) the chances that, were the … Read more

A second booster could help protect people at risk of severe illness from covid-19. View original article Contributor: Carolyn Y. Johnson

It is pushing strategies, such as better air filters in schools and businesses, to help curb the spread of the virus. View original article Contributor: Dan Diamond

Federal officials authorized a second booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines for people 50 and older and immunocompromised people over age 12. Here’s what you need to know. View original article Contributor: Katie Shepherd

A second booster could help protect people at risk of severe illness from covid-19. View original article Contributor: Carolyn Y. Johnson