A major Christian group is being sued by former customers in at least three states who claim it sold them an alternative to health insurance that misled them about protections against large medical bills. Numerous insurance regulators, including in New York, are trying to stop the group from offering the plans in their states. The…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA burial at a cemetery in São Paulo, Brazil, in April.Credit…Victor Moriyama for The New York Times 26,000 missing deaths: Tracking the true toll of the crisis. At least 26,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic over the last month than official Covid-19 death counts report, a…
Here’s what you need to know: ImagePresident Trump at the coronavirus briefing in the White House on Monday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times Trump says he will suspend immigration as some governors take first steps to reopen states. President Trump announced a plan to close the United States to people trying to come to the country…
Regular aspirin use has been associated with a reduced risk for colorectal cancer. Now a review of studies has found that it may reduce the risk for several other digestive tract cancers as well. Researchers pooled data from 113 studies and found that daily aspirin use among people aged 40 to 75 was associated with…
ImageCredit…Lilli Carré A new poll conducted by Common Sense Media and Survey Monkey shows, not surprisingly, that most adolescents are worried that the coronavirus will affect their family’s physical or financial health. Further, nearly half of the teenagers surveyed say that they are lonelier than usual, and they fear that they are losing ground academically…
Who would have thought we’d all be living in fear of making a grocery run, picking up a package or accidentally getting closer than six feet to another human? The fear, of course, is that an encounter with the coronavirus will set you on a path that could lead to dying. It’s a path a…
As scientists race to understand the coronavirus, the process of designing experiments, collecting data and submitting studies to journals for expert review is being compressed drastically. What typically takes many months is happening in weeks, even as some journals are receiving double their normal number of submissions. Science, one of the world’s most selective research…
What makes SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, such a threat? A new study, led by Jose Ordovas-Montanes, PhD at Boston Children’s Hospital and Alex K. Shalek, PhD at MIT, pinpoints the likely cell types the virus infects. Unexpectedly, it also shows that one of the body’s main defenses against viral infections may actually help the…
Capping decades of research, a new study may offer a breakthrough in treating dyskeratosis congenita and other so-called telomere diseases, in which cells age prematurely. Using cells donated by patients with the disease, researchers at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center identified several small molecules that appear to reverse this cellular aging process.…
Philadelphia, April 21, 2020 – In parallel to their current work on a potential coronavirus vaccine, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have developed a new vaccine delivery system for vaccines using live or attenuated viral vectors: a finger-tip sized patch that contains 400 tiny needles, each just half of one millimeter.…