Month: January 2023

The WHO put out a second alert against cough syrups from India, after numerous deaths have been linked to the medicines in Gambia and Uzbekistan. View original article Contributor: Karishma Mehrotra

New data underscores concern that parental resistance to childhood immunizations may fuel a resurgence of the disease in the United States. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun

Covid is spreading rapidly across China as hundreds of millions of people make plans to celebrate the start of the new lunar year. Is the surge past its peak or is more to come? View original article Contributor: Lily Kuo

The WHO put out a second alert against cough syrups from India, after numerous deaths have been linked to the medicines in Gambia and Uzbekistan. View original article Contributor: Karishma Mehrotra

“I’m so sorry that you’re still in the emergency room,” one doctor told a stroke patient who was waiting for days. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun

The XBB.1.5 subvariant is quickly rising in the northeast United States. View original article Contributor: Carl Zimmer

An M.R.I. ruled out the most common cause of sciatica. Then her rheumatologist asked about her asthma. View original article Contributor: Lisa Sanders, M.D.

How long does Long COVID last? There’s no single answer, but for most people who get the condition, post-COVID symptoms like fatigue, cognitive impairment, and pain linger at least several months. For others, they last much longer. A new study published in The BMJ may help narrow down the window. Among people who developed Long … Read more

In a perspective published Jan. 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine, vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit says it’s time to rethink booster recommendations. In the third year of the pandemic, the population’s immune situation is vastly different from what it was in 2019 when SARS-CoV-2 emerged. Now, most people have been vaccinated against … Read more