Why Do I Keep Getting COVID-19 but Those Around Me Don’t?
February 8, 2024 5:24 PM ESTCOVID-19 doesn’t always affect people the same way. If someone gets sick, for example, not...
Multivitamins Are Linked to Slower Brain Aging
January 19, 2024 10:39 AM ESTAging is inevitable, but that doesn’t stop us from trying to slow it down. And...
How Pigs Could Help People Who Need Liver Transplants
January 18, 2024 12:08 PM ESTOrgan transplants save lives, but healthy specimens from the right donors are in short supply,...
A New Drug Compound Shows Promise for Schizophrenia
For people with schizophrenia, treatment is an ongoing, life-long process of antipsychotic medications and psychotherapy. Medications are key to controlling...
What Happens When People Stop Taking the Weight Loss Drug Zepbound
December 11, 2023 10:00 AM ESTAs a new generation of highly effective weight loss drugs hits the market, doctors are...
The Updated COVID-19 Shot Works on the Newest Variants
December 7, 2023 9:57 AM ESTEvery COVID-19 vaccine is a step behind the virus. In the time it takes companies...
FDA Approves Zepbound, the Most Potent Weight Loss Drug Yet
Weight loss drugs have dominated the headlines over the past year, and now there’s a new medication that may be...
There’s a Shortage of RSV Treatments. Here’s What Doctors Recommend
A recently approved treatment was supposed to protect babies from RSV, but demand is outpacing the supply of the medication. The...
Weight-Loss Drugs Come With Serious Side Effects, According to a New Study
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Is It Flu, COVID-19, or RSV? How to Navigate the New World of At-Home Testing
Before COVID-19, figuring out whether a sore throat, fever, and runny nose were caused by a cold, flu, or strep...
COVID-19 Is Mutating In Deer. That Could Become a Problem for People
Health officials say that while the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic may be behind us, SARS-CoV-2 is still a threat,...
These Are the Shots You Should Get This Fall and Winter
It used to be relatively easy and straightforward to navigate the fall and winter respiratory disease season in the U.S.—get...
Scientists Have Identified the Lyme Disease Genes Responsible for Severe Symptoms
Lyme disease was first identified in 1975, in Lyme, Conn., but scientists still have more questions than answers about how...
There’s Now an At-Home Menopause Test, But Does Anyone Need It?
COVID-19 changed many things about medicine, not the least of which is how we think about do-it-yourself testing. Before the...
Will the New COVID-19 Vaccine Work Against the BA.2.86 Variant?
COVID-19 isn’t quite done with the world yet. Small surges of cases in the U.S., as well as upticks in...
FDA Approves the First RSV Vaccine for Pregnant Women
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today (Aug. 21) approved the first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for...
‘I’m So Disappointed’ About Abortion Status in the U.S., Says New CDC Director
Dr. Mandy Cohen is the new director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The former health...
How COVID-19 Changes the Immune System
If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players...
Why We’re Hearing More About Lyme Disease This Summer
It's a common ritual of summer: with the warm weather comes more outdoor activities, and more encounters with disease-spreading pathogens....
There’s Now An Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression
Treating depression is complex and time-consuming, since matching patients to the right drug treatment is a matter of trial and...
