Weekly Health Quiz: Breakthrough Covid, Cholesterol and Safer Driving
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F.D.A. Authorizes Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Booster Shots
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration authorized booster shots on Wednesday for tens of millions of recipients of Moderna’s two-dose coronavirus vaccine and Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose shot, significantly expanding efforts to bolster protection for vulnerable Americans. The agency also authorized medical providers to give people a booster shot of a different Covid-19 vaccine,…
Pain Doctor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Patients Faces New Federal Charges
The federal investigation in the case is still in progress, and officials urged anyone who might have been a victim of Mr. Cruciani’s to contact the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. The 16-page federal indictment describes in detail how the former physician, who provided treatments for intractable pain conditions, developed…
Brazil Senate’s Pandemic Panel, in Last-Minute Shift, Softened Criminal Recommendations on Bolsonaro
BRASÍLIA, Brazil — On Tuesday night, a Brazilian congressional panel was hours away from revealing on national television its recommendation that President Jair Bolsonaro should face homicide and genocide charges for his mishandling of the pandemic, which has killed 600,000 Brazilians. Then a few senators had second thoughts. Even though they opposed Mr. Bolsonaro and…
Sales of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Drug Fall Short of Expectations
The drug maker Biogen reported on Wednesday that Aduhelm, its new Alzheimer’s drug, brought in $300,000 in revenue from July to September, far short of the company’s goals and Wall Street expectations. The sales figures, which Biogen disclosed in its financial report for the third quarter, the drug’s first full period of availability, represented a…
Gates Foundation Pledges $120 Million to Help Get Merck Covid Pills to Poor Countries
The first easy-to-use Covid-19 treatment could be available in the United States by the end of this year, but it is unlikely to reach developing countries, where hundreds of millions of people remain without access to vaccines, until at least the middle of 2022, according to public health officials. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation…
The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone
Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee.
Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethics Guidelines for Their Work
The authors of the new paper intentionally chose to invite only active practitioners of ancient DNA research, according to Kendra Sirak, a paleogeneticist at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors. They also emphasize that these guidelines come from a particular group of scholars in the ancient DNA community. “We realized that what’s lacking…
How Chemours and DuPont Avoid Paying for PFAS Pollution
A Blame-Shifting Exercise The transactions that created Chemours and reinvented DuPont laid the groundwork for a blame-shifting exercise that has made it difficult for regulators and others to hold anyone accountable for decades of contamination in North Carolina and elsewhere. State attorneys general in Ohio, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York each sued…
Nadia Chaudhri, Scientist With an End-of-Life Mission, Dies at 43
Nadia Chaudhri, a neuroscientist with terminal ovarian cancer who used her final months to raise money for graduate students of diverse backgrounds and to educate the public about her disease through a widely followed social media chronicle, died on Oct. 5 at a hospital in Montreal. She was 43. Her husband, Moni Orife, confirmed her…