Cough, fever, chills — with fall fast on the way, symptoms alone won’t be useful in distinguishing Covid-19 from similar-looking cases of the flu. That means routinely testing for both viruses will be crucial — even, perhaps, after some patients have already died. That will at least be true in New York, where officials recently…
Over the past few weeks, a Harvard scientist has made headlines for a bold idea to curb the spread of the coronavirus: rolling out so-called antigen tests, a decades-old underdog in testing technology, to tens of millions of Americans for near-daily, at-home use. These tests aren’t very good at picking up low-level infections. But they’re…
Patients with autoimmune inflammation of their thyroid may be at greater risk of developing anxiety, according to a study being presented at e-ECE 2020. The study found that people with anxiety may also have inflammation in their thyroid gland that can be reduced by taking the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, ibuprofen. These findings suggest that thyroid function…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageNortheastern University said that all students in a special program for first-year students had been forewarned of the obligation to practice social distancing and wear masks when among others.Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times Northeastern ousts 11 students for violating safety protocols, and keeps their $36,500 tuition. In…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — It’s a question many parents of children with dwarfism have contemplated: If a medication could make them taller, would they give it to them? Now, that possibility is becoming less hypothetical. A study published this weekend in the journal The Lancet found that an experimental drug called vosoritide increased growth in…
BEFORE THE EVER AFTERBy Jacqueline Woodson Zachariah Johnson Jr. (ZJ) is living a 12-year-old boy’s dream: His father is a star professional football player, he lives in a comfortable home in the suburbs with a half basketball court upstairs, he has a trio of friends who always show up at the right times and his…
ImageA volunteer received an injection in July as part of a study of a possible Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.Credit…Hans Pennink/Associated Press A group of drug companies competing with one another to be among the first to develop coronavirus vaccines are planning to pledge early next week that…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA scientist working on the production of a vaccine in Moscow in August.Credit…Russian Direct Investment Fund Russian scientists report modest amount of antibodies in volunteers given the vaccine for the virus. On Friday, a team of Russian scientists published the first report on their controversial Covid-19 vaccine. Writing in…
Twenty-year-old Janan Moein vaped his first pen a year ago. By late fall, he was blowing through several THC-laced cartridges a week — more, he said, than most people can handle. Then in early December, he found himself in the emergency room of Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego with a collapsed lung and a…
On Friday, a team of Russian scientists published the first report on their Covid-19 vaccine, which had been roundly criticized because of President Vladimir Putin’s decision last month to approve it before clinical trials had proved it safe and effective. In a small group of volunteers, the scientists found that the vaccine produced a modest…