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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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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Connecticut Is Doling Out Vaccines Based Strictly on Age. It’s Simpler, but Is it Fair?
With covid vaccines expected to remain scarce into early spring, Connecticut has scrapped its complicated plans to prioritize immunizations for people under 65 with certain…
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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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Just 10 minutes on the phone can make you feel less lonely, says study
Loneliness can affect anyone, at any age. And the isolating nature of lockdown has meant more and more people are struggling with it. What’s more,…
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Trial finds no overall effect of statins on muscle pain
A trial published by The BMJ today finds no overall effect of statins on the frequency or severity of muscle symptoms compared with placebo in…
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In Texas, COVID vaccines on the go
A park near Houston has been turned into a five-lane, drive-thru vaccination center popular with the elderly in this city hard hit by the pandemic….
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Poor brain cancer survival outcomes on the rise
A first-of-its-kind Australian study has revealed rates of brain lymphoma have quadrupled since the 1980s with only 33% of people surviving five years after receiving…
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Moratoria on utility shutoffs and evictions reduced COVID-19 infection rates
Policies that helped financially struggling Americans stay in their homes and keep access to water and electricity during the COVID-19 pandemic also helped reduce the…
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Anger After North Dakota Governor Asks COVID-Positive Health Staff to Stay on Job
Nurse Leslie McKamey has gotten used to the 16-hour shifts, to skipping lunch, to the nightly ritual of throwing all her clothes in the laundry…
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