March 21, 2022 Once Again, America Is in Denial About Signs of a Fresh COVID Wave Eric Topol The Guardian In the past couple of weeks, UK, Germany, France and others are experiencing a new wave. The US should get ready
March 14, 2022 NIH Launches Clinical Trial of Three mRNA HIV Vaccines National Institutes of Health Phase 1 study is among first to examine mRNA technology for HIV.
December 19, 2021 America Is Not Ready for Omicron Ed Yong The Atlantic 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.
November 1, 2021 Tuberculosis, Like Covid, Spreads by Breathing, Scientists Report Apoorva Mandavilli The New York Times The finding upends conventional wisdom regarding coughing, long thought to be the main route of transmission.
October 24, 2021 How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall Ed Yong The Atlantic The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
October 11, 2021 Why Easing Covid Restrictions Could Prompt a Fierce Flu Rebound Nicola Jones Nature As pandemic restrictions ease, other respiratory viruses are returning in unexpected ways.
October 10, 2021 Colonial Panic Over Syphilis in Uganda Joanna Naylor Lady Science The campaigns aimed to create feelings of guilt amongst those believed to be suffering with STDs, particularly syphilis.
September 12, 2021 Failure to Protect? Charles Piller Science A study of asthmatic children, most of them Black, shows how a common clinical trial design can expose vulnerable participants to serious risks
August 15, 2021 Little Kids Burn So Much Energy, They’re Like a Different Species Ann Gibbons Science But children also burn out fast. Their high metabolisms make them particularly vulnerable to stunted growth and disease if they don’t get the calories they need.
August 1, 2021 Diagnosis as Detective Work: Lisa Sanders and the Art of Not Knowing Katy Dycus Lady Science "Do you have any idea what this is?" That’s a question Lisa Sanders thinks doctors should be asking their patients more often.
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