Will the number of lives saved as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions be outweighed by the deaths from an economic recession?
May 8, 2020
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Drug development is typically slow: the pipeline from basic research discoveries that provide the basis for a new drug to clinical trials to production of a widely available medicine can take decades. But decades can feel ...
Jun 27, 2024
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One of the conspiracy theories that have plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. But the vast majority of scientists who have studied the ...
Jul 14, 2020
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It's Sunday night, around 8pm, when your ten-year-old tells you she has a sore throat. She doesn't have any other symptoms, and feels OK. You tell her "let's see how you feel in the morning" and she happily goes off to sleep.
Jun 25, 2020
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The symptoms of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, can be as varied as they are confounding.
Mar 16, 2021
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Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have high levels of androgens in their blood, which has been assumed able to affect fetal development during pregnancy. An international team of researchers led from Karolinska ...
Nov 2, 2015
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(HealthDay)—When an unnamed British man recently contracted a form of "super gonorrhea" resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat it, the news spiked concern in doctors and microbiologists worldwide.
Apr 27, 2018
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Efforts to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 may benefit from a new analytical tool developed by a team led by biologists at Boston College, who report their computer simulation of molecular interactions can predict mutations ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Face masks are thought to slow the spread of viruses, including the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but little is known about how well they work.
Jun 16, 2020
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(HealthDay)—New data shows that many of the community outbreaks of coronavirus that have cropped up in the United States this summer have originated in restaurants and bars.
Aug 12, 2020
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