Here’s what you need to know: ImageFlorida residents waited in their vehicles at a coronavirus testing site at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on Friday. The state hit a daily high for new confirmed cases.Credit…Eve Edelheit for The New York Times The U.S. reports another record number of cases, as hard-hit states retreat from reopening.…
The Affordable Care Act, the landmark health law that has been a subject of caustic debate for more than a decade, is being tested as never before, as millions of Americans lose their jobs and medical coverage in the midst of the nation’s gravest health crisis in a century. The law is offering a vast…
Noile-Immune Biotech Inc., (“Noile-Immune”) and C4U Corporation, (“C4U”) announced that they have entered into an agreement on joint research and commercialization of next-generation allogeneic gene-modified immune cell therapy combining C4U’s CRISPR/Cas3 genome editing technology and Noile-Immune’s PRIME (Proliferation inducing and migration enhancing) technology designed to improve proliferation and trafficking of immune cells into solid tumors.…
At the beginning of the pandemic, the coronavirus looked to be another respiratory illness. But the virus has turned out to affect not just the lungs, but the kidneys, the heart and the circulatory system — even, somehow, our senses of smell and taste. Now researchers have discovered yet another unpleasant surprise. In many patients…
In a study not yet published in a journal, scientists have reported that the new coronavirus was present in wastewater in Barcelona, Spain in March 2019, a finding that, if confirmed, would show that the pathogen had emerged much earlier than previously thought. But independent experts who reviewed the findings said they doubted the claim.…
ImageGetting help to sign up for health care coverage in Dallas in January 2017. To picture Texas without the Affordable Care Act requires no great leap of the imagination.Credit…Mark Graham for The New York Times Texas, in the midst of a surge of coronavirus cases, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the Affordable…
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Kenneth Lewes grew up after World War II in a working-class neighborhood of the northeast Bronx, the son of an immigrant couple who never got beyond grade school. He guessed even before he entered junior…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA National Guard mobile testing team administering coronavirus tests in Houston on Thursday.Credit…Erin Trieb for The New York Times As new cases reach another record in the U.S., some states stall on reopenings. The United States on Thursday reported more than 41,000 new coronavirus cases, a record total for…
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young men. The number of new cases is increasing worldwide. There is a relatively high survival rate, with 95% surviving after 10 years – if detected in time and treated properly. However the standard chemotherapy includes cisplatin which has a wide range of long-term side effects, one…
Patients suffering from severe respiratory symptoms as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection can rapidly generate virus-attacking T cells, and can increase this production over time, suggests a new study of T cells from 10 COVID-19 patients under intensive care treatment. In addition, 2 out of 10 healthy individuals without prior exposure to the virus harbored…