Tag: medicine
More dengue fever and less malaria – mosquito control strategies may...
Jason Rasgon, Pennsylvania State University
As it becomes too warm for comfort, the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria may lose the battle against climate change...
Live bacteria spray is showing promise in treating childhood eczema
Ian Myles, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Here’s a shorthand way to think of my research: Using bugs as drugs may one day...
CRISPR can help combat the troubling immune response against gene therapy
Samira Kiani, University of Pittsburgh
One of the major challenges facing gene therapy - a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes...
Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how...
William Petri, University of Virginia
As millions of people are recovering from COVID-19, an unanswered question is the extent to which the virus can “hide...
Stella Immanuel’s theories about the relationship between demons, illness and sex...
Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College
President Donald Trump has a new favorite doctor.
On July 27, the president and his son Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted...
Is telehealth as good as in-person care? A telehealth researcher explains...
Jennifer A. Mallow, West Virginia University
COVID-19 has led to a boom in telehealth, with some health care facilities seeing an increase in its use...
How talking about the coronavirus as an enemy combatant can backfire
Tabitha Moses, Wayne State University
Sometimes war involves battling other countries; other times, it’s the metaphorical kind, like our current “war” against the coronavirus.
We see...
How coronavirus contact tracing works in a state Dr. Fauci praised...
Jenny Meredith, University of South Carolina
After weeks of keeping people home to “flatten the curve,” restrictions on U.S. businesses are loosening and the coronavirus...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
