Like many people this past year, teenager Tyona Montgomery began experiencing a sore throat and a loss of sense of smell and taste in November…
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Inside Pregnant Shawn Johnson, Andrew East's Babymoon Ahead of 2nd Child
Beach babymoon! Shawn Johnson East and Andrew East began their oceanside vacation on Wednesday, March 3. “If we’re MIA it’s because of our babymoon,” the…
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Diagnosis of genetic condition could help patients stop smoking and prevent lung disease
New research shows that people diagnosed with a genetic condition, called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), are far more likely to stop smoking and therefore prevent…
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Regular meat consumption linked with a wide range of common diseases
Regular meat consumption is associated with a range of diseases that researchers had not previously considered, according to a large, population-level study conducted by a…
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Race and ethnicity of some U.S. counties may have key impact on cardiovascular death
The association between race and ethnicity and specific characteristics of some U.S. counties may have a significant impact on death rates related to cardiovascular disease,…
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Biden vows enough vaccine for all US adults by end of May
President Joe Biden said Tuesday the U.S. expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccine for all adults by the end of May—two months earlier…
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COVID vaccines: How to make sense of reports on their effectiveness
As a middling but competent clinician-scientist, I feel desperately sorry for the general public trying to make head or tail of some of the scientific…
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Future of immunotherapy could be ‘off-the-shelf’ treatments
In a new commentary for the journal Science, an associate vice president for research at The University of Texas at Arlington argues that emerging protein-based…
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Expert: 40% of people won't be able to conceive on their own by 2050
More than 40% of people will need technological help conceiving children by 2050, expert predicts: Provocative book claims ‘everywhere chemicals’ have driven sperm counts down…
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Even the current low rate of vaccinations is benefiting Western New York, new models show
Western New York is already benefitting from COVID-19 vaccinations, according to new models developed by University at Buffalo data scientists. Distribution problems including weather delays…
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