What It Feels Like to Live With Parkinson’s
Two art directors explore how a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease has changed their worlds.
Heart Problems After Vaccination Are Very Rare, Federal Researchers Say
The coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna may have caused heart problems in more than 1,200 Americans, including about 500 who were younger than age 30, according to data reported on Wednesday by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Still, the benefits of immunization greatly outweighed the risks, and advisers to…
Scientist Finds Early Coronavirus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted
“These additional data will play a big role in that effort,” Dr. Worobey said. It’s not clear why this valuable information went missing in the first place. Scientists can request that files be deleted by sending an email to the managers of the Sequence Read Archive. The National Library of Medicine, which manages the archive,…
Musical Chairs? Why Swapping Seats Could Reduce Orchestra Aerosols.
If musical instruments were people, trumpets would be super spreaders. When a trumpeter blows into the mouthpiece, tiny respiratory droplets, known as aerosols, travel out of the musician’s mouth, whiz through the brass tubing and spray into the air. During a deadly pandemic, when a musician might unwittingly be exhaling an infectious virus, that poses…
C.D.C. Advisers to Discuss Rare Heart Problems in Vaccinated Youth
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled to meet on Wednesday to address reports of rare heart problems in young people immunized with the coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. The reports involve conditions called myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle; and pericarditis, inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart.…
There’s a ‘Severe Blood Shortage’ in the U.S., Red Cross Says
As many Americans return to prepandemic lifestyles, hospitals are facing a new issue: a desperate need for blood. Over the past few months, hospitals have seen a rise in trauma cases, organ transplants and elective surgeries, prompting a national blood shortage, the American Red Cross said last week. The lack of blood is so great…
Turn Tech to Your Advantage in the New Hybrid Workplace
With people splitting work hours between office and home, it can be a challenge to figure out what tools to use in which situation.
How to Exercise in the Summer Heat
Aim for Acclimitization We also should accustom ourselves, slowly, to unfamiliar swelter, Dr. Gibson says, a process known to exercise scientists as acclimatizing, which involves working out sometimes, by choice, when the day is warmest. This approach helps to condition our bodies to better cope with the heat. Once acclimatized, we will sweat earlier and…
New class of compounds found to block coronavirus reproduction
A human genetic mechanism hijacked by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, to help it spread also makes it vulnerable to a new class of drug candidates, a new study finds. Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, a research team showed that coronavirus reproduction in infected human cells requires chemical changes…
Cooperative Extension grant aims to vaccinate NYS’ vulnerable
ITHACA, N.Y. – COVID-19 infection rates in New York state have plummeted in recent months, thanks in large part to the development and deployment of several safe and effective vaccines. But reaching population-wide protection from the virus means getting the vaccine into the arms of as many people as possible – including farmworkers and other…