The task force includes 16 experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine who periodically evaluate screening tests and preventive treatments. Members are appointed by the director of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but the group is independent and its recommendations often help shape U.S. medical practice. The guidelines, which are not yet…
The new committee, known as the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, will differ in several respects from the team that the W.H.O. sent to China. Because that team visited Wuhan, China had considerable influence over its membership. That is not the case for the new committee, a permanent panel that Dr.…
At the very beginning of a relationship, a woman often wears pink glasses. She sees the image of an ideal man in her lover and may miss the alarming “bells” saying that her boyfriend loves to drink or is already suffering from alcohol addiction. How do you recognize the first signs that your new partner…
The German company CureVac announced on Tuesday that it was withdrawing its mRNA vaccine for Covid-19 from the approval process in Europe. The company pulled the plug after determining that it might take until June for regulators to make a ruling about the vaccine. With other mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech already in wide…
Dr. Patrice Harris, the former president of the American Medical Association and the chief executive of eMed, which sells at-home coronavirus tests to travelers and Delta Air Lines, said the “it’s-too-complicated” argument is a poor excuse. “The key is making the right thing to do, the easy thing to do,” she said. Hawaii is the…
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As the virus spread, more mutations sprang up, giving rise to even more transmissible variants. First came Alpha, which was about 50 percent more infectious than the original virus, and soon Delta, which was, in turn, roughly 50 percent more infectious than Alpha. “Now we’re basically in a Delta pandemic,” said Robert Garry, a virologist…
The skeletons move across a barren landscape toward the few helpless and terrified people still living. The scene, imagined in a mid-16th-century painting, “The Triumph of Death” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, illuminated the psychic impact of the bubonic plague. It was a terror that lingered even as the disease receded, historians say. Covid-19’s waves…
When Jonathan Isaac, a prominent basketball player for the Orlando Magic, explained why he chose not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, he tapped into a dispute that has been simmering for months: Do people who have had Covid-19, as Mr. Isaac said he has, really need the vaccine? That question has thrust tortuous immunological…
Cómo la industria de alimentos está haciendo frente a la sal Ya en 1979, un grupo consultivo encargado por la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA, por su sigla en inglés) recomendó que se reconsiderara el estatus de la sal como “generalmente reconocida como segura”. Pero la agencia solo pidió a la industria alimenticia que…