Exclusive: Condition most prevalent among those who had Covid, raising possibility of link with Parkinson’s disease By Linda Geddes Scientists have reported a two- to fourfold increase in the prevalence of dream-enactment disorder – whereby people physically act out...
By Peter Zeihan Several signs point to THE possibility of Chinese officials instituting at least a partial lockdown of the northern port city of Tianjin as early as this weekend. The largest northern Chinese port, Tianjin is also a city of over 12 million people, and...
ATLANTA — The COVID-19 test kit you may have in your home likely contains a toxic chemical. The Georgia Poison Center tells Channel 2 Action News that in recent months, they’ve taken dozens of calls on children and adults accidentally exposed to the...
BY PETER SULLIVAN COVID-19 cases are on the rise, but many Americans are over thinking of the virus as a crisis. Even in blue cities, restaurants are packed with people, and many Americans don’t wear masks even on the subway or on airplanes. ...
David Heymann says experts developing guidance for countries, as New York City resident tests positive for Orthopoxvirus By Edward Helmore A senior adviser for the World Health Organization has said the monkeypox outbreak seems to be spreading through sexual...
BY LUKE MONEY, RONG-GONG LIN II With coronavirus cases on the rise, California finds itself in a familiar, if frustrating, position — with the threat of another wave looming as summer fast approaches. Coronavirus cases are increasing, in many areas at an accelerating...
There is no universal definition of the complex condition, but clues about causes and potential treatments are beginning to emerge. By Knvul Sheikh and Pam Belluck Among the many confounding aspects of the coronavirus is the spectrum of possible symptoms, as well...
A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID. By Ed Yong Yesterday afternoon, I called the UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin to ask about the European outbreak of monkeypox—a rare but potentially severe viral illness with dozens of...
By Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer When my partner’s father died of Covid-19 in April 2020, what I found my thoughts lingering on, in the numb days and weeks that followed, were his text messages. “I have the. Virus” is how we first found out he’d gotten it, a phrase whose...
By Roni Caryn Rabin Just weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a comprehensive internal review with an eye toward restructuring, the agency’s director announced on Friday that the team that coordinated the national response to the...
An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of Covid. By Sharon Lerner IN AN ARTICLE published Thursday, economist...
By Apoorva Mandavilli As the coronavirus morphs into a stubborn and unpredictable facet of everyday life, scientists and federal health officials are converging on a new strategy for immunizing Americans: a vaccination campaign this fall, perhaps with doses that are...
By Adeel Hassan Governments around the world are no better prepared today to address a new global disease threat than they were just before the coronavirus outbreak began in late 2019, a World Health Organization panel concluded in a report released on...
By Pam Belluck More than three-quarters of Americans diagnosed with long Covid were not sick enough to be hospitalized for their initial infection, a new analysis of tens of thousands of private insurance claims reported on Wednesday. The researchers...
By Sharon LaFraniere, Michael D. Shear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg Federal health officials warned on Wednesday that a third of Americans live in areas where the threat of Covid-19 is now so high that they should consider wearing a mask in indoor public...