Month: May 2022

Many U.S. hospitals are postponing scans used to diagnose diseases after a Covid lockdown in China hobbled the main U.S. supplier of an imaging chemical. View original article Contributor: Reed Abelson

Many U.S. hospitals are postponing scans used to diagnose diseases after a Covid lockdown in China hobbled the main U.S. supplier of an imaging chemical. View original article Contributor: Reed Abelson

Older people who received smallpox vaccinations may yet have some immunity, researchers say. Healthy children and adults generally do not become severely ill. View original article Contributor: Apoorva Mandavilli

Swallowing food was strangely difficult, and he was getting weaker by the day. View original article Contributor: Lisa Sanders, M.D.

By now, it’s abundantly clear that COVID-19 is not always an illness that clears quickly and leaves no trace. Millions of people in the U.S., and even more around the world, have Long COVID, the name for symptoms that last months or even years after an infection. Now, a new report from the U.S. Centers … Read more

While the world has been preoccupied with COVID-19, deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to impact poor nations at an alarming rate. Each year around the world, more than 15 million people die from NCDs between the ages of 30 and 69, and 85% of these premature deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. In … Read more

Trained as a nurse, she was named by President Bill Clinton as the country’s first “AIDS czar.” View original article Contributor: Matt Schudel