Medicine
An IVF Embryo Test Aims to Prevent Miscarriages: Is It Worth It?
The test could help ensure a successful pregnancy but still leaves hopeful parents with some difficult decisions
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Medicine
Antifatness in the Surgical Setting
Weight bias compounds health problems, and surgeons need to recognize and stop it
Medicine
Mars Mission Could Bring Health Benefits on Earth
Flying to space takes its toll on the human body, and this has spurred new research on radiation and microgravity, as well as advances in remote medicine and telehealth, all of which have potential benefits for people on Earth...
Medicine
A Deluge of New Drugs for COVID
Two years into the pandemic, the COVID-19 drugs pipeline is primed to pump out novel treatments—and fresh uses for familiar therapies.
Medicine
The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront the Burden of Bias
Research shows that antifat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient’s story
Medicine
Science Still Doesn’t Understand How Our Sex Affects Our Health
Our X and Y chromosomes represent the biggest genetic difference in our species. Medicine routinely ignores their influence. Why?
Medicine
How To Treat COVID at Home
Some over-the-counter medications can help symptoms, and there are ways to ease isolation
Cancer
How to Tell whether a Cancer Is Caused by Plain Bad Luck
A new study offers a possible answer to the question “Why me?”
Medicine
A Simple Solution Would Make COVID Antivirals More Accessible, Pharmacists Say
The Biden administration’s Test to Treat program aims to make the treatments available at pharmacies, yet it requires a medical provider to prescribe the drugs
Medicine
Can Drugs Reduce the Risk of Long COVID? What Scientists Know So Far
Researchers are trying to establish whether existing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments can prevent lasting symptoms
Medicine
Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise
Instructing our cells to make specific proteins could control influenza, autoimmune diseases, even cancer
Pharmaceuticals
Nasal Spray COVID Preventives Are Finally in Development
Different methods of drug delivery give us more tools to fight disease
Medicine
These Eye Drops Could Replace Your Reading Glasses
Solutions to age-related vision problems now come in a bottle. How well do they work?
Medicine
COVID Smell Loss and Long COVID Linked to Inflammation
Hamsters eating Cocoa Krispies reveal inflammation pathways from the olfactory system to the brain
Medicine
How Many COVID Vaccine Boosters Will We Need?
Endless boosting might not be a practical or sustainable strategy, scientists say
Medicine
Why Omicron Is Putting More Kids in the Hospital
The huge jump in cases means more hospitalizations. And children’s small airways can be more easily blocked by infections
Health Care
These Are the Latest COVID Treatments
But shortages mean that new antivirals and other drugs may be hard to come by
Medicine
Some COVID Patients Need Amputations to Survive
Impaired blood flow leads to loss of limbs
Medicine
Genetic Therapies for Brain Diseases
Hopes are high for a class of drug that could treat neurodegenerative conditions—but a recent clinical trial has brought the field up short
