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Hormone Highs and Lows Follow a Seasonal Pattern
Wed, 26 May 2021 17:30:00 GMT
A newly discovered internal body clock creates annual peaks and valleys
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Why Scientists Tweak Lab Viruses to Make Them More Contagious
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:45:00 GMT
Some “gain of function” studies explore how a dangerous pathogen might cross species barriers to start an outbreak
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Coronavirus News Roundup: May 22-June 4
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:00:00 GMT
Pandemic highlights for the past two weeks
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A Tool Doctors Use Every Day Can Perpetuate Medical Racism
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:00:00 GMT
It’s called the “history of present illness,” or HPI, and it often includes a patient’s race—which is more likely to detract from care than to improve it
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Decoded: What Are Neurons?
Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:00:00 GMT
You have 86 billion of them inside you, but do you understand how hard it was for us to learn that?
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New Technique Grows Realistic Bone in a Dish
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:45:00 GMT
It’s one of the most challenging organs to re-create
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A New Mental Health Crisis Is Raging in Gaza
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:00:00 GMT
Recent bombings by Israel have caused more than just physical trauma
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 8: The Pandemic's True Death Toll and the Big Lab-Leak Debate
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:30:00 GMT
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh...
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We're Overlooking a Major Culprit in the Opioid Crisis
Fri, 28 May 2021 12:00:00 GMT
Pharmaceutical companies and drug dealers have been part of the problem—but so have policy makers
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Why We Don't Know the Animal Origins of the Coronavirus
Wed, 09 Jun 2021 16:00:00 GMT
Viruses that “spill over” to people do not stick around in animals, so finding true sources takes years of careful work, an expert says
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Divisive COVID 'Lab Leak' Debate Prompts Dire Warnings from Researchers
Thu, 27 May 2021 16:00:00 GMT
Allegations that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab make it harder for nations to collaborate on ending the pandemic—and fuel online bullying—some scientists say
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Fixing Medical Devices That Are Biased against Race or Gender
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:00:00 GMT
Designers should show how well instruments perform across different populations
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A 'Universal' Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Wed, 09 Jun 2021 13:00:00 GMT
A pan-coronavirus vaccine could be “one vaccine to rule them all,” and so far it has shown strong results in mice, hamsters, monkeys, horses and even sharks.
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Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:00:00 GMT
Israel continues to deny Palestinians essential care and resources
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How Dangerous Are New, Fast-Spreading Coronavirus Variants?
Wed, 26 May 2021 15:30:00 GMT
Key questions remain about how quickly B.1.617 variants can spread, their potential to evade immunity and how they might affect the course of the pandemic
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Excess Deaths Reveal the Pandemic's Hidden Toll in Some U.S. Counties
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:45:00 GMT
A detailed analysis suggests that COVID deaths and other pandemic-related mortality may have been significantly undercounted in the rural South and West
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Some Pandemic Health Habits Deserve to Stay
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:00:00 GMT
We need a public health culture change informed by lessons from COVID
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Landmark Alzheimer's Drug Approval Confounds Research Community
Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:30:00 GMT
Many scientists say there is not enough evidence that Biogen’s aducanumab is an effective therapy for the disease
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Why Deadly 'Black Fungus' Is Ravaging COVID Patients in India
Fri, 28 May 2021 11:30:00 GMT
Standard treatments such as steroids, as well as illnesses such as diabetes, make the fungal infection worse
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As the Pandemic Wanes, Sexually Transmitted Infections Are Likely to Rise
Mon, 31 May 2021 14:00:00 GMT
We created new vaccines. Now how about creating better protection against STIs?
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Covid, Quickly: A Pop-Up Podcast
Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:00:00 GMT
Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to...
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The COVID Lab-Leak Hypothesis: What Scientists Do and Do Not Know
Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:30:00 GMT
An examination of the arguments that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China and the science behind them
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Why India's Second COVID Surge Is So Much Worse Than the First
Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:00:00 GMT
Large gatherings and much more lenient restrictions have allowed the virus to spread at devastating levels
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Biomedical Research Falls Short at Factoring in Sex and Gender
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 06:00:00 GMT
Despite policies that endorse more inclusiveness, incentives work against including female subjects in experiments
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See People's Emotions as They Get Their COVID Vaccinations
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:00:00 GMT
At a mass vaccination site in New Jersey, people got a shot of hope
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