Health

The weight of nations: An estimation of adult human biomass

The world population is over seven billion and all of these people need feeding. However, the energy requirement of a species depends not only on numbers but on its average mass. New research published in BioMed Central's ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

For COVID-19, 'endemic' does not mean 'the end'

The term has been used by public-health experts to describe how the future of COVID-19 will likely go: The disease will become "endemic."

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How and when to end the COVID-19 lockdown: An optimization approach

Countries around the world are in a state of lockdown to help limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2. However, as the number of new daily confirmed cases begins to decrease, governments must decide how to release their populations ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Have you caught a catfish? Online dating can be deceptive

On the internet, you can become anyone you want to – at least for a while. And though deception doesn't fit well with lasting romance, people lie all the time: Fewer than a third of people in one survey claimed they were ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Concerns raised about COVID-19 chronic olfactory dysfunction

(HealthDay)—Chronic olfactory dysfunction (COD) as a symptom of long-term COVID-19 is emerging as a growing public health concern among U.S. individuals, according to a research letter published online Nov. 18 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

By the numbers, COVID-19 was never 'like the flu'

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump announced that Americans need not worry because the new coronavirus was "like a flu."

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

U.S. could reach herd immunity by late spring

The United States could be approaching herd immunity, which occurs when enough people become immune to a disease to make its spread unlikely, according to Suzanne Judd, Ph.D., an epidemiologist in the School of Public Health ...

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