After two years of wrangling, the country’s three major drug distributors and a pharmaceutical giant have reached a $26 billion deal with states that would release some of the biggest companies in the industry from all legal liability in the opioid epidemic, a decades-long public health crisis that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.…
More and more hospitals and major health systems are requiring employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, citing rising caseloads fueled by the Delta variant and stubbornly low vaccination rates in their communities and even within their work force. Many hospitals say their efforts to immunize their employees have stalled, in much the same way the…
It would be a lie — or at least an incomplete truth — to deny that some part of me yearned for natural childbirth as a threshold of redemption. I had never fully treated my body as an ally. I had starved myself to whittle it down and spent years drinking myself to blackout and…
Before and after that process, the researchers drew blood, biopsied tissues, centrifuged fluids and microscopically searched for vesicles and other molecular changes in the tissues. They noted plenty. Before their improvised weight training, the rodents’ leg muscles had teemed with a particular snippet of genetic material, known as miR-1, that modulates muscle growth. In normal,…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As I photographed people in Covid-19 intensive care units early this year, I was protected by four sets of plastic: glasses, goggles, face shield and viewfinder. But there is no protection for the pain one…
During menopause, which marks the end of a woman’s menstrual cycles, her ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone, bringing an end to her natural childbearing years. But those hormones also regulate how the brain functions, and the brain governs their release — meaning that menopause is a neurological process as well. “Many of…
IMAGE: The dynamics of EBV viral capsid antigen (VCA) IgM titers, EBV early antigen-diffuse (EA-D) IgG titers, and serum EBV DNA over time after EBV infection or reactivation. view more Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Ting Zou, The University of Hong Kong, SAR, China, as the 2021 recipient of the IADR Toshio Nakao Fellowship. Zou was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the IADR, held in conjunction with the 50th…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Lauren Katz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, as the 2021 recipient of the IADR Osteology Foundation New Investigator Award in Oral Tissue Regeneration. Katz was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Hazem Abbas, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, as the 2021 recipient of the IADR Lion Dental Research Award for Junior Investigators in the Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Category. Abbas was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition…