Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How COVID-19 makes us behave … or not

The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a global health crisis, it's also a social and political one: the fight against the virus affects how people conduct their daily lives, respond to government policy and plan for their future ...

Vaccination

China prepares large-scale rollout of coronavirus vaccines

Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country's 1.4 billion people.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Review uncovers fatal flaws in long-term care infection control

A review into 53 deaths at Nova Scotia's largest long-term care facility highlights critical staff shortages, problems isolating residents infected with SARS-CoV-2, and difficulty accessing infection control specialists during ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New site helps data tell COVID-19 story in real time

There were rich sources of information on COVID-19 out there. But while all that data had plenty to say about the times we are living in, it still took Grace Yi and her colleagues to help tell its story.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Research on Spanish Flu teaches lessons about pandemics

Saskatchewan is wisely learning from its past by insisting on social distancing as it slowly re-opens its business activities amid the COVID-19 pandemic, say University of Saskatchewan researchers.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China to ease travel curbs within locked-down province

Hard-hit Hubei, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China, will relax travel restrictions to allow healthy people to move within the province, officials said Tuesday.

Genetics

China's second gene-edited foetus is 12-14 weeks old: scientist

The second woman carrying a gene-edited foetus in China could now be 12 to 14 weeks into her pregnancy, according to a US physician in close contact with the researcher who claimed to have created the world's first genetically-modified ...

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