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Is It COVID, or Is It Allergies?
Patient history, context and a few symptoms may help distinguish between the conditions
Patient history, context and a few symptoms may help distinguish between the conditions
We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without destroying the environment
A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status.
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
High-quality respirators such as N95s and KN95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren’t more people wearing them?
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
The technology could help patients exert control over their medical data
Analysts explain why some fear that the Russian military will use chemical weapons—and how the world would know if it did
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society
Crowded shelters and destroyed health care facilities will likely exacerbate COVID, TB and other diseases
Saliva PCR tests may detect disease earlier in the course of an infection
How do we live with it?
Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...
Building on lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2, pandemic preparedness has taken on renewed urgency
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world
Health security is as important to a nation as a standing army
Recent findings blow up assumptions about who chooses to get vaccinated against the disease
How to limit your risk of transmitting or getting infected with SARS-CoV-2
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