The new variant poses a far graver threat at the collective level than the individual one—the kind of test that the U.S. has repeatedly failed.
The finding upends conventional wisdom regarding coughing, long thought to be the main route of transmission.
World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’ The climate crisis threatens to undo the last fifty years of progress in development, global health, and poverty reduction...
“Stay hydrated” has become a new version of the old salutation, “Stay well.” Here’s how to know when you truly need to hydrate.
A study of asthmatic children, most of them Black, shows how a common clinical trial design can expose vulnerable participants to serious risks
Assessing the Threats Climate Change Poses to Outdoor Workers
In one of the most comprehensive studies of the genetics of obesity to date, a research team has identified rare gene variants that protect lucky carriers from putting on weight.
A few dozen human genes rapidly evolved in ancient East Asia to thwart coronavirus infections, scientists say. Those genes could be crucial to today’s pandemic.
An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever.
That alarms us. Because in medicine, nearly everything we do is based on evidence. And the evidence that is weighed most heavily are the data published in our field’s top journals.
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