A New Drug Could Slow Alzheimer’s Disease, Data Show
Over the past few years, Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers have been on a roller-coaster ride full of highs and...
First Real-World Data Show That the Bivalent Booster Is Effective
In a report published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
CRISPR For Cancer Takes a Big Step Forward
Researchers have made an important step forward toward a long-desired goal: using the gene-editing technology CRISPR to treat cancer. In...
Getting COVID-19 Multiple Times Is Risky for Your Health
At this point in the pandemic, it’s easy to think of COVID-19 as something closer to the flu than a...
Why the U.S. Doesn’t Have a Nasal Vaccine for COVID-19
The U.S. led the world in quickly developing COVID-19 vaccines—one of the few bright spots in the country’s otherwise criticized...
What Happens If I Get COVID-19 and the Flu at the Same Time?
So far, COVID-19 has come with one small silver lining for health: cases of influenza have dropped dramatically. During the...
What We Know So Far About BA.2.75.2, the ‘Most Resistant’ Variant to Date
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, health officials have warned that the biggest barrier to controlling the virus would be its...
I’ve Had COVID-19. Do I Still Need the Omicron Booster?
With the highly transmissible versions of Omicron now causing nearly all of the COVID-19 infections in the U.S., most people...
Here’s Why Experts Believe the New Omicron Booster Will Work
A study published Sept. 16 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) makes a strong case for an Omicron-based...
Weight Loss Surgery Is Linked to a Dramatic Drop in Cancer Risk: Study
Obesity is linked to a number of health issues, including Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, liver problems, and joint...
The U.S. Is in a ‘Controlled Pandemic’ Phase of COVID-19. But What Does That Mean?
They were the words everyone has been waiting to hear—that the COVID-19 pandemic is dialing down from the five-alarm fire...
Multi-Strain COVID-19 Vaccines Might Be Coming, After Moderna Reports Promising Study Results
While U.S. health officials are still debating the best way forward when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine boosters, one thing...
The First COVID-19 Breathalyzer Test Is Coming to the U.S.
COVID-19 testing has become more convenient and accessible, but with the pandemic still causing more than 30,000 new infections in...
