Month: July 2022

The vaccine was authorized as a primary immunization series for adults, rather than a booster, which may limit its market at first. View original article Contributor: Rebecca Robbins and Carl Zimmer

The sheer amount of tech tools and knowledge required to discreetly seek an abortion underlines how wide open we are to surveillance. View original article Contributor: Natasha Singer and Brian X. Chen

What felt like a shove brought her to her knees. It wasn’t until a year later that an ultrasound revealed the cause — and rushed her into surgery. View original article Contributor: Lisa Sanders, M.D.

Temperatures are climbing around the globe. Record heat has been cooking large swaths of the U.S. as well as Europe and China, and the hottest part of summer is still ahead. For most people, that means much more time spent as a sweaty, sticky mess. “We’re seeing the hottest summers in recorded history, multiple years … Read more

For decades, psychedelics have evoked a freewheeling past, calling to mind images of hippie counterculture and swirly neon patterns. Recently, however, psychedelics have become synonymous with serious, forward-looking science. Researchers at renowned institutions are researching the mental-health effects of pairing psychedelics with psychotherapy, and with the promising research has come a surge of investment in … Read more

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses outdated tools to track and analyze how Covid-19 spreads on planes, hindering the agency’s ability to stop outbreaks, a government watchdog agency said. Air travel is a constant concern in public health, since a sick person can board a plane in one country and hours later … Read more

LONDON — British health officials say there have now been 1,735 confirmed cases of monkeypox and that three-quarters of those cases are in London, according to data released on Tuesday. In a review of the outbreak published last week, Britain’s Health Security Agency said there were “no signs of a decline” in the monkeypox epidemic … Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to … Read more

The effort is the latest Biden administration response to Supreme Court ruling last month that overturned Roe v. Wade. View original article Contributor: David Nakamura

‘The tools we have continue to work’ against new variants, says White House coordinator. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun