Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How to prepare your child for a COVID test

We've been urged to get COVID tested even if we have mild symptoms. Or perhaps we don't have symptoms but are a close or casual contact of a known case. This includes children.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Psst! Have you heard that gossip isn't all bad?

Gossip is often considered socially taboo and dismissed for its negative tone, but a Dartmouth study illustrates some of its merits. Gossip facilitates social connection and enables learning about the world indirectly through ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy's Lombardy

As Italy prepares to emerge from the West's first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe's hardest-hit country.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Virus fuels dread and angst even as China sees signs of hope

The number of new virus cases in China dropped to its lowest level in six weeks Monday and hundreds of patients at the outbreak's epicenter were being released, while a grimmer reality set in elsewhere, with swelling infection ...

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